Killing Bed Bug Eggs With Cold

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Killing bed bug eggs with cold.

Below are the method i recommend to kill the bed bug eggs. Do it yourself freezing may not be a reliable method for bed bug control. Bed bug eggs are always more resilient to both heat and cold treatment. Collect a sample of the pest to show an extension agent exitor other insect expert.

Not exactly the quick kill weapon you were looking for right. Bed bug eggs are transparent in color but their shades may range from transparent to white. Heat treatment. Try the clothes dryer to kill the bed bug eggs but use high heat about 39 o c to 51 o c for over 30 minutes.

This reduces the number of bed bugs. This is why 118 f 47 77 c for 20 minutes kills only adults. Fresh bed bug eggs appear shiny due to a sticky substance that is secreted with the eggs. Try a closed car under scotching sun but enclose the clothes in a plastic bags black in color.

Bed bug eggs are about 1 millimeter long. You may have to follow these steps more than once to kill all the bugs and their eggs. Eggs are most commonly found sticking to wooden or fabric surfaces and less commonly on plastic or metallic ones. As far as freezing is concerned 46 3 f 43 5 c should be enough for bed bug eggs as long as you give it.

It takes 30 to 60 days of exposure to freezing cold to kill the eggs of bed bugs. If you want to kill both bed bug eggs and adults conducting the treatment for 90 minutes at the aforementioned temperature is recommended. Kill the bed bugs. As with other parasites bed bug eggs are generally more resilient than their adult counterparts.

That is why if you are killing the bed bugs with a chemical spray be sure to find one that specifically states that it is effective against bed bug eggs. Research conducted during the 1990s found that bed bug eggs may resist the cold even better than the adults. Fortunately the removal of bed bug eggs can be done similarly to that of the removal of live bed bugs such as the use of a steamer to apply extreme heat or the use of freezing temperatures.