"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Heat is your best option..."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">what i take from this: KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!<br></span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Ceren Ercen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ceren@ercen.com">ceren@ercen.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
FWIW, I will put $100 down as a bet that we have at least bedbug eggs<br>
in the couches. It's statistically nearly impossible for this to not<br>
be the case, especially being in the middle of high-density housing.<br>
Those little fuckers can and will travel 100m a night to nibble on<br>
delicious bloods, and they literally can survive a year without<br>
eating. They follow CO2 exhalations and heat.<br>
<br>
For anyone that's concerned, just get used to dealing with bedbug<br>
mitigation/prevention like one would ants/termites/fleas. Really, you<br>
californians are so spoiled with your lack of bi-montly fire-anthill<br>
poisonings, annual termite inspections, flea-killing diatomaceous<br>
earth yard-dustings. (oh god I do NOT miss florida)<br>
<br>
<a href="http://imgur.com/6CYcZ.jpg" target="_blank">http://imgur.com/6CYcZ.jpg</a> <- bedbug on mattress fibres.<br>
<br>
Bedbugs, as adults, look like a very flat, small lentil. completely<br>
visible to the naked eye, except when they crawl between the fibres of<br>
a mattress - and they can, because they're so flat.<br>
<br>
Your best bet is to occasionally check your mattresses' seams for tiny<br>
little blood poo spots, and surprise them with evening inspections.<br>
<br>
Taking a steam iron, HOT, around the edges of the mattresses is a very<br>
effective to kill both them and their eggs. Heat is your best option,<br>
both in washing your clothing, and treating un-washable items like<br>
furniture.<br>
<br>
Five star hotels have to deal with this stuff, so do we. And this is<br>
better handled as a practical matter, and not one of "oh god oh god<br>
don't tell me". Sorta like STDs.<br>
<br>
Anyone have a hand-held draperies-style steam iron? I don't know if<br>
the heat guns would melt the polyester. it wouldn't hurt to give the<br>
couch and cushions a going-over with a heat blast, I'd be happy to do<br>
or help in the off-hours.<br>
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