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How To Deal With Bed Bugs: A source of the night terrors! (How to...) Kindle Edition
Bed bugs have been making a valiant comeback in the West since the end of the Second World War, and are now firmly entrenched in our cities. So much so, that every Western hotel has to take special precautions costing an aggregated sum of billions of dollars a year, which is passed on to us, the paying guest.
It is long past the time when everyone should take this subject seriously, so, in that vein, I hope that you will find the information below helpful, useful and profitable.
Bed bugs are a major concern for many people, especially those living in densely populated areas. These tiny pests can wreak havoc on your home and your peace of mind, making it difficult to get a good night's sleep. In recent years, the problem of bed bugs has become more prevalent, and many people are looking for effective ways to deal with them.
This book is a comprehensive guide on how to deal with bed bugs, from prevention to elimination. It covers everything you need to know about bed bugs, including their behaviour, habits, and the signs of an infestation. The book offers practical tips and advice on how to prevent bed bugs from entering your home, as well as how to get rid of them if they do.
The book is organized into easy-to-follow sections, beginning with an overview of bed bugs, their life cycle, and habits. The subsequent sections cover a range of topics, such as how to identify bed bugs, common hiding places, and methods for eliminating them.
In addition, the book provides advice on how to handle bed bug bites, as well as how to clean and disinfect your home after an infestation. It also discusses the importance of working with professionals to ensure that the problem is effectively resolved.
Overall, this book is an essential resource for anyone dealing with a bed bug infestation, whether at home or in a commercial setting. It provides clear, concise guidance on how to prevent, identify, and eliminate bed bugs, as well as tips for ensuring that they don't return.
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- ASIN : B004ZUWS88
- Publisher : Megan Publishing Services; 3rd edition (September 22, 2013)
- Publication date : September 22, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 1530 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 67 pages
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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis. After university, in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup, when he was accused of being a mercenary. Later, while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail, from Barry to Gibraltar on a home-made concrete yacht during Desert Storm. En voyage, the yacht was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker, and an American aircraft carrier - The Atlantic Challenger. Since 2004, he has lived mainly in the UK, Spain and Thailand. He now leads a somewhat quieter life in his wife's remote, northern farming village writing, editing and increasing the number of translations, and narrations of his novels.
As he says: ”Born in the Land of Song, living in the Land of Smiles”.
A Proud Celt
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of seventeen years.
Early Career
In 2004, he started his first novel, Daddy's Hobby (from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya'), but he didn't finish it until 2012. However, his largest collection is 'The Psychic Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. However, since 2012, he has written fifty-odd novels and novelettes, including the military drama Dead Centre; the spy novel Andropov's Cuckoo; a fantasy Fate Twister; a philosophical vampire comedy The Disallowed; a whodunnit Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and Spiritualist drama, A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Not only that, but many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2017This book is about the history of bed bugs ,how to know if you have bed bugs,How to treat bed bugs with natural remedies,what are bed bugs,how to treat bed bugs with pesticides,what do bed bug bites look like,how we get infested with bed bugs,and bed bug behavior.The history of bed bugs.Have you ever heard the saying sleep tight and do not let the bed bug bites this is not just a rhyme but a true statement of what was having in peoples everyday lives.Up until the 1940"s or 1950"s when they used DDT pesticide to eliminate bed bugs in Europe and the United States.Depending on where your family lived,bed bugs were extremely common.Practically every street had them and because the houses were not sealed off from each other and because people were in and out of each others homes more often,bed bugs were spread.Bed bugs do not care if you have a clean or dirty house.However bed bugs like untidiness because it provides them more hiding places.If you have had books,magazines or clothes lying in the same place for weeks,move them to see if bed bugs come out.If you are in rented accommodations,get in contact with your landlord.If you own your own home,you have a big problem.The first step should be to check with your local health authorities for phone numbers of a decent,skilled professional pest controller.While you are waiting for them to call, tidy away all your clutter,and strip your beds.Bed bugs in all their forms are killed by temperatures above 120 f,so either put your clothes on a boil wash or put them in a tumble dryer on a hot temperature. A good pest controller will check your property meticulously and give you a detailed report and a price tag.The report will include an action plan of how to prepare for treatment and prevent further infestation.The price of the clean-up should be based on this report;it should not be a flat fee.Bed bugs like loose skirting and architraves,damaged plaster and wall paper,ripped mattresses and slack joints in furniture.They will even hole up,quite literally,in a sunken-screw hole-the countersink.Bed bugs are resistant to chemicals because they have a thick waxy coat which stops the chemicals from attacking the insect.If you have a lot of clutter in your accommodations like piles of newspapers,piles of clothes,move them and look for the insects running for cover.Look in your bed sheets.look for flecks of blood-your blood-and excrement of bed bugs-the bed bug excrement ,which look like brown smears.You might also see shed skin.The shed skin of bed bugs have shed because of there growing process.These skins look like bed bugs except with nothing inside.Bed bug droppings are brown they often resemble brown streaks on sheets.Bed bugs live in beds,clutter,clothing,cracks,ripped wallpaper,broken plaster,under carpets and anywhere it is small and safe.They like to hide behind skirting boards,so sealing these up with mastic is a good practice.A bed bug can be picked up from anywhere people gather together,because bed bugs move around by hitching a lift on a human carrier.A lot of old terraced homes are not sealed off from one another enabling bed bugs to move and establish colonies in another uninfested home.Native solutions for bed bugs:Many permethrin used to kill bed bugs where derived from home remedies or historical remedies.Old home remedies frequently require constant use to become effective,whereas chemical insecticides are far more powerful.If you could wash or scrape this wax off,your problem is a lot easier.Diatomaceous earth or rough sand will do this,if the bugs are made to crawl through it to squeeze into there dwellings.These course substances will scratch the wax off over time-a few days a week-so that natural insect control agents like chrysanthemum,neem,thyme and some other oils can get them to work.Pine oil ,cedar oil,and teak oil are other natural substances derived from trees that deter or kill insects.Bed bugs are quite small but are very fast moving,they are members of the spider family.Bed bug bites can look like an ant bite,or mosquito bite or a rash.Because of the saliva they put in the bite people itch some people have no reaction because they have a strong immune system other people have a reaction and start itching the bite.Bed bugs usually like to live in cracks and holes such as behind skirting boards.How to get rid of bed bugs? vacuum your house ,launder your bedding and clothes weekly.Why bed bugs are so hard to kill the natural toughness of the wax coating that protect there body from surface pesticides,this as a lot to do with there resistant to chemical pesticides.Use dusts,contact pesticides,insect growth regulator,concentrate pesticides you mix in 1 gallon sprayer,aerosol pesticides.Some people use steam cleaners to kill bed bugs.Hire a experienced exterminator that has a lot of experience killing bed bugs.This is the best but pricey way to get rid of bed bugs but at least you know your bed bug problem will be solved.Bed bugs are notoriously difficult to get rid of and notoriously easy to acquire.Bed bugs are impervious to most insect killers because they have a heavy waxy coat which is meant to stop them dehydrating,but it is also very good at defending them against insecticides.The best way to kill these particular insects is with steam.So if you have an infestation of bed bugs in your home,you have two alternatives.By far the best choice is to call a professional to clean them out for you;otherwise you will have to hire a steam cleaner.Clearing your place of bed bugs is not a easy job at all.However if you want to go this route,the first thing is to clean up.Make certain you reduce the number of places for them to conceal themselves under.Things like piles of clothes you need ironed,books and newspaper must all be put away or thrown away out.Next,you should wash all your clothes and bedding in the hottest water they can stand,dry and iron them and then seal them in plastic bags.Block up all holes in your walls especially where the pipes come through.They are bug"s super-highways from one dwelling to another.Strip off all your wall paper and plug any holes or cracks in the wall or ceiling beneath them.Take up and inspect the flooring beneath them.Seal all the architraves and skirting boards in your home with silicone or mastic.Bed bugs love hiding behind these lengths of wood.Now you are ready for the steam cleaner.Steam the whole house from top to bottom.steam your curtains,bed,mattress and furniture too and inside your cupboards and shelves.You can also purchase a water proof mattress pad to retain any bed bugs in the mattress.Now you can relax and hope for the best.Wait a week and keep your eyes peeled.If you do not see one,you can redecorate and get on with your life.One method of testing for bed bugs is to sit a bar of soap in half an inch of water for half an hour while you lay on the bed reading a magazine.Then,get up and fetch the soap.They will be drawn by your body heat,but you will have to be quick,because they are very swift when they have eaten.If you are in a hotel you will have evidence for the property manager.So if your house has a infestation and you want to give your house a clean sweep.Maybe the best place to begin is your bed.Is the mattress damaged?If it is ripped sew it up tight or get a new one.Change your sheets at least once a week.Next check your skirtings.Are they loose,ill fitting or even rotten?If so,have them fixed or renewed.While the skirtings are off, drench the brickwork or plaster behind there with a powerful insecticide,and then nail the skirtings back tight.If you are still concerned,seal them from top and bottom with silicone.The next step is to spray the floors and carpets,the whole floor area with permethrin.Permethrin will kill fleas,ticks,woodlice,bed bugs and spiders for up to six months and it will resist washing as well.If you are in rented accommodations ask your neighbor if they have the same problem be diplomatic.If you want to try chemical insecticides ,then there are three basic kinds.The first type attempts to mimic the effects of diatomaceous earth.It is a spray that contains pulverized glass or silica mixed with a contact pesticide.Contact insecticides have limited effect,partly due to the waxy layer,but also because to be effective they have to be strong and this makes them a repellent,which means the bed bugs will just keep away from it if they can.Insect growth regulators are effective at killing the young,which is great,but the adults can live for up to a year so that is not so good.Professionals usually use steam these days,no bed bug stages can survive 120 f or above.You could rent a steamer for wallpaper or a hot air paint stripper for the weekend and going over your walls and woodwork.When you travel you could spray or dust your suitcases with pesticides.