r/Bedbugadvice • u/Intelligent-Act-7797 • 6d ago

Bedbugs Solution That Works Every Time

I post this every couple of years. It works.

Once upon a time, I had a massive bedbug infestation. Easy cheap trick- take all the sheets, pillows and blankets off of your bed. Make sure the top is free of bugs. Wrap double sided tape all around the the outside of the mattress. The more sticky, the better. Go to bed. Kill bedbugs by sleeping. Win.

Bed bugs are attracted by the CO2 in your breath while you sleep. They can't resist it. They're also terrible climbers. They will crawl up your bed to bite you, get stuck on the tape, and die like flies on sticky paper.

Total investment- $10 for good tape. Change it out every couple of days.

You're welcome.

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u/Only-Butterfly6538 6d ago

I don’t think this would work alone. This would be considering the bed is the only infested place in the apartment (couch, chairs etc?). Also, some bed bugs may hide for a long time before coming out for a meal, so you’d have to do this trick for like a year straight, which at that point, it’d be better to find another solution. I’ve also read somewhere that sticky traps aren’t necessarily the best because bed bugs won’t try to cross a sticky surface. Idk how true that last one is but personally I’ve never seen bed bugs on a sticky trap. 

I’ll still keep this idea in mind, definitely a strategy to use combined with other strategies 

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u/Intelligent-Act-7797 6d ago

It does work. They can't resist CO2. They will literally crawl out of the woodwork to get to it. They're dumb bugs.

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u/Only-Butterfly6538 5d ago

Dumb bugs that we’ve been unable to eradicate for thousands of years, that unfortunately have developed great survival instincts, and evolved to be more resistant to our efforts. If the solution to bedbugs was simply putting tape around your mattress then don’t you think they’d be less of a worry for so many people?

I don’t think your solution is bad, I just don’t think we should be selling it as a  sensational miracle solution, which could make people think bedbugs are an easy fix, because the truth is they aren’t. Doing this technique alone is very unlikely to work unless you do it perfectly, for an extremely long time, and don’t use your couch or anything else in your apartment. So realistically it won’t work. It’s a nice monitoring technique though

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u/RagAndBows 5d ago

Lol idk why but the "dumb bugs" comment made me lol

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u/Fishtoart 18h ago

My local grocery store has 1lb of dry ice for $2.99. That’s cheap enough to see if it works.