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Is that true? My first guess would have been that size more or less directly reflects age.
That's not how it works with other species like humans :)
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I’ve had to kill a couple particularly nasty ones. In particular I’ve found a wolf spider in my living room and a black widow in my garage. If they have no danger to me, which is most of them, they are happy to continue coexisting with me and eating bugs in my house
What's particularly nasty about a wolf spider?
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Bedbugs are my valued business partners and I feel it's only right I should give back sometimes. I do a quick bedbug check (headboard, nightstand, boxspring) in hotels I visit and mostly don't worry about it.
Have you ever found any by doing that?
Heat treatment is the only sure way to eradicate bedbugs. A neighbor fumigated five times and they still remained…until heat treatment. Diatomaceous earth just scatters them, compounding the problem.
> Diatomaceous earth just scatters them I'm pretty sure that's not all it does to them. When I had bedbugs in an apartment I was renting, I caulked up all the spaces by the baseboards where they could get in, inspected the bed and wrapped it in a bedbug-proof liner, washed and thoroughly dryered all the linens and pillows, and then spread DE all over. I put lids under the bedposts with DE in them. And I moved the bed…
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> Diatomaceous earth just scatters them I'm pretty sure that's not all it does to them. When I had bedbugs in an apartment I was renting, I caulked up all the spaces by the baseboards where they could get in, inspected the bed and wrapped it in a bedbug-proof liner, washed and thoroughly dryered all the linens and pillows, and then spread DE all over. I put lids under the bedposts with DE in them. And I moved the bed…
How long has it been since then?
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TBH I'm skeptical. Everyone talks about the 99.999th percentile case but does it work in practice..?
They can survive 6 months without eating, but they'll also feed off of each other last-man-standing style, which is why you have to go a whole lot longer.
If you ever have bed bugs, do yourself a favor and buy water vapor gun, with a large tank. Adults and larvae die at 60 degrees so vapor is like the nuclear option to them. Also it's non-toxic to you, it doesn't stain and the vapor can penetrate anything anywhere. For example : https://www.kaercher.com/fr/home-garden/nettoyeurs-vapeur/sc...
Do you mean steam? The link is to a steam cleaner. That’s a cool idea.
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Bedbugs are my valued business partners and I feel it's only right I should give back sometimes. I do a quick bedbug check (headboard, nightstand, boxspring) in hotels I visit and mostly don't worry about it.
Have you ever found any by doing that?