Harris Bed Bug Killer, Diatomaceous Earth (4lb with Duster Included Inside The Bag)

THIS STUFF WORKS!!!!!!! I GOT RID OF THE BED BUG PROBLEM AND HERE IS HOW I DID IT!!! I got a new bedbug problem because of one of my previous 2 roommates who took over a bedroom in my apartment in quick succession. Soon after, an overnight guest visitor of mine complained promptly of huge rashes. I looked up and sure enough, there were HUGE bed bugs around the mattress. There were smaller bed bugs and almost transparent albino like little bedbugs, which showed they were reproducing. The room was about 9 ft x 12 ft. Before you begin the treatment, always remember to wear work-horse clothes you intend to sully and wash away because small bedbugs or eggs can stick to your clothes and you might unwittingly transport them out of the room to new areas. After every step you might want to head straight to the bathroom, put your clothes in a plastic bag to laundry or put them in scalding hot water for an hour. And then dry them at high temperature to kill any eggs that might have gotten on to your clothes while you were treating the room. 1) I took out the bedsheets and the pillow covers out. I took these pillows and blankets/sheets/bed-covers/pillow covers separately into separate plastic bags outside the house in a shed. They would be put in for washing after 2 weeks. (There is a reason to this - bedbugs start migrating after 5 days of not receiving food and 14 days is enough to starve them for the time being, before taking the bedcovers, sheets, pillow covers and blankets to the laundromat. I will come down to this again later. 2) after a lot of research, I sprayed, using the anti bedbug spray nozzle attached to the gallon, in every single little crevice, in all corners and seams of the mattress and the covers (which I had take over into the plastic cover outside). I also sprayed the bed frame in every little crevice, nook, cranny, joint and fold of the frame. I also sprayed the table and the floors under the bed frame, the walls as well! I left the room as is for the next 2 days. Checked it. Many bedbugs were still alive, but it appeared that they had weakened. 3) REMEMBER THAT THE MATTRESS AND the bed frame must be very dry before you progress to the next step! Now it was time for the diatomaceous earth to do its magic! I took a painstaking 1 whole day, from morning 11am to evening 5pm to work on this treatment. I used the diatomaceous earth GENEROUSLY with the nozzle, to put a huge load of dust into every single seam, corner, above and under the seam, or a fold, around the bed, at the inside above and inside under at the top of perimeter of the mattress and the under perimeter of the mattress. Effectively I had caked every single corner of the seams and folds and crevice of the mattress with the diatomaceous earth. If I found physically big bed bugs, i killed them. I killed every I could get my hands on. Remember every big bug is worth a thousand of the new generation. I used copious amounts of the diatomaceous earth in every book and cranny, crevice and fold of the bed frame, not just the mattress. Same thing for the walls, the study table next to it and even the FLOOR, around the legs, to prevent the bed bugs from migrating and I put huge powder perimeters around the bed and also at the room entrance to stop them from exiting the room and migrating to the living room where we sat for TV... I left the room untouched for about 8-9 days... the results normally say that bedbugs start drying out and dying in just 3 days and most start dying in 5-7 days, the eggs and larvae die out faster when they come in touch with the earth. I treated the room in this procedure with diatomaceous earth for a 2nd time, just in case, and let it alone again for another week. I was nervous if it had worked.... IT HAD WORKED!!!!! I HAD LITERALLY OBLITERATED the whole room with diatomaceous earth everywhere and let it work its magic for 2.5 weeks and now it was a roaring success!! My new flatmate who temporarily stayed in another guest room, upon moving in there, had zero complaints! I looked up the crevices and folds, I could see dead bedbugs dried out and their shells everywhere. This is the second time I have had a great experience with diatomaceous earth. I had done this exact same treatment in the year 2007 and it had worked very well!!!!!!! :) the room is free of bed bugs and i know how to defeat them! I have seen infestations far more serious than mine... I dont know how I'd take care of those. But my current infestation was a new one so it was probably relatively less spread out and easier to defeat. But I've won this battle twice now, once in 2007 and now in 2019! I am a satisfied customer and I know it works! You just have to be really thorough. Going back to the clothes, pillow covers, blankets, sheets, etc, I put them in scalding hot water in a bucket, then took them to the laundry to launder them and dried them at very high heat for 40 minutes. This destroys every bug and egg. The job was well done! My home is still bug free and I didn't sacrifice any furniture or linen or pillows. Good luck!

This stuff is messy. It gets everywhere! Think about cooking flour, every time you use it you have it all over the place but you can very easily vacuum it up where you don't want it. But the best part is, it works. Put on a face mask and rubber gloves, fill up the lil puffer cup, put the top on and squeeze it wherever you want it. Now the thing about this stuff is it doesn't kill bed bugs (or any other crawling bugs) on contact. It covers them when they crawl through it, then it drys them out and they die. You can cover your bed (not where you sleep because it will dry you out too!!) where it meets the boxspring, under your bed, around your bed, along the wall by your bed, around your nightstand and your dresser or you can just lay down a carpet of the stuff in your room and vacuum a pathway for you to walk. Now remember bed bugs lay a LOT of eggs so you might think you got them all after a week or two. Vacuum up the older powder and lay down some new powder to get the eggs that have just hatched. I would say keep this up for at least one year. I have been doing this since January and I would say I'm bed bug free. I will still continue until I hit next January. I still keep a can of spray handy for when I see one crawling around but haven't seen one or gotten a bite in a very long time. I also got a boxspring cover a put a LOT of this powder in and zipped it up. If you do use a spray to kill bed bugs do not spray the powder as it will not work. Make sure to keep it dry. So using it in the bathroom isn't a very good idea. I do have pets, one small dog and two cats and this doesn't seem to bother them. They don't like it when I put the powder down so they stay away and I just shut my bedroom door until the powder settles. In the war against bed bugs i would say this is one of the best things you could have.

I sadly to say have had to use this now a second time . it works good . do not expect instant results . I moved into a home that the room next to me was infested. bad the guy to say is a disgusting excuse for a human .I know filth has nothing to do with it but clutter . well the Pro came said the rest house was bad but not infested to point it all had to go his room . total . well I am next to it after a pro spray look for them to run and boy they did I showed with 4 live ones that night . any way I ripped some ply wood made 2 inch high walls because a dog in my room boxed every thing I could powdered it all the base dead dead dead bugs in days but still they keep coming so pro is coming back . I am in my wood shop out back on a cot with my little dog they say the powder can hurt the pads so safe then sorrow . the house is old do for a renovation so discussions with land gutting the walls doing lower 4 feet then dumping this powder into the walls before we seal the top 1/2 other wise the home is unsalable since any buyer today be stupid not to get a inspection for a bug infestation weather bed bugs or roaches since it can easily run 5000 and up in conclusion it works but not for a whole house infestation nothing but a gutting and professional will

This stuff works, large quantities for your money,

My boyfriend moved out of his apartment into my apartment because his apartment was infested by bed bugs. Needless to say, even though we heated dry all closes, steamed all shoes and bags and washed everything we had, I saw a bed bug crawling in the morning on my bed and a big bump on my forearm. I did a lot of research until I discovered diatomaceous earth. I have a one bedroom 750 sqft apartment and I lined all baseboards all over the apartment with this powder very generously. Then I pumped it inside the electric outlets in the whole apartment. Then I pumped it in the cracks of our bed frame and between all slats. It's been 8 months now that I have not seen any sign of a bed bug (blood stains or dropping on sheets, or shed skins ets.)... I know those signs because my boyfriend's apartment had them all over. He used to get bit on the back of his neck in his apartment and would react with big red itchy bumps Now his neck is healed and immaculate. This thing works, however I do not believe when people say you have to just sprinkle a little bit of it on the floor. A little bit does not work. These bugs needs to walk on lots of dust, so don't be afraid to be generous! One thing though is that the power is still there after 8 months. I don't want to clean it up because I am afraid they might come back again (either from a next door apartment or from one of our vacations). So we do not have a fan in the bedroom because we do not want the dust to get raised up in the air. I do have an air purifier that points the fan at the middle of the living room where there is no dust.

So Harris put the spray bottle in a plastic bag and buried it in the big bag of dust. I thought the spray was missing at first, but then I felt something hard in the bag of dust. I suggest you not reach in with your bare hand to pull it out, like I did, because even though this is advertised as safe to touch, I found my skin reacted by becoming really dry and my fingers felt chalky for hours, even though I must have washed my hands with soap at least four times after exposing them. As for whether they kill bed bugs, I will have to write an update. I have just spread it under my bed posts, and in between the mattress and bed frame. I also sprayed a little artificial barrier in the doorway of each room, to prevent any bedbugs from traveling - we just have to be careful to step over the dust. I didn't experience any smell, so that's good. I don't want to sleep on this though - as I said, it may be safe but my skin did not like the stuff. I also tried to make a little bedbug lure by putting a little heat-generating hand warmer on the floor and surrounding this with dust. Hopefully any bugs will be attracted to the heat and wade through this dust. My online research has lead me to sites where people experimenting have claimed that it takes up to 7 days for the bugs to die after they're injured by the dust, but my hope is that the bugs are sufficiently injured to be unable to bite me while they're dying. I just discovered my infestation about 10 days ago - have suffered three spots of bites over that time, and am doing everything I can to eradicate the problem before it grows. So, three stars for now, but as I said, I will update. Update - 1 day later. I have not seen any dead bugs yet. Also, I regret buying this over other brands, now that I've seen an nih study showing that bed bugs avoid crawling on the dust. I will say that I intend to go home tonight and spread the dust out much more thinly, to encourage them to crawl over it. Dusting tutorials I've found seem to all advise that more is not better when it comes to dusting with this stuff. Update 1 week later. Still no dead bed bugs found although there was a dead spider. On the other hand I have not been bitten in the last few days. I sprayed everything with a bed bug killer spray from Harris too, prior to applying the dust everywhere once the spray had dried. Hopefully the joint attack worked. I still haven’t vacuumed up the dust as I want to be well and truly sure of the death of every last bug first. 3 weeks later - bite free! I think I had a mild infestation and caught it early. I only ever saw four actual bedbugs, all in the bathroom, and had a handful of bites. I never did seal up my mattress or launder all my clothes, but I did spray the mattress with the egg killer spray and dust all corners and around the bed with this dust. It seems to have worked for me. 4 weeks later. Saw another bed bug and killed it manually. I redusted more heavily. Maybe it only created a barrier to the bed and now the bugs have found a dust free path. I'm going to reapply the spray too. It does seem that bed bugs require several treatments.. April 2019 - after 4 months of no bugs, I got another bite on April 4, about 3 days after I returned from a long vacation. I think that with my being away and not spraying the hallway outside my door for over 3 weeks, some of the neighbor's bedbugs made their way into my apartment. I sprayed inside my bedroom again and seem to have killed them again, but the problem is that these bed bugs seem to have made it through the DE dust I laid down by my doorway, at least once. Which means it's not enough of a protective barrier by itself. I'm switching to Tempo Dust, which appears to be much more lethal than this DE (kills 100% of bedbugs in 24 hours, rather than this which kills around 90% in 10 days...also probably more toxic but I'm willing to take that risk by now).

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This is not food grade therefore it is dangerous to breathe. How do you not breathe it when the applicator poofs out a cloud of the dust. You don’t even realize the dust is in the air so too late, you’ve already breathed the dust in. Unfortunately I read this information too late as I used it already. Hopefully this helps others before it’s too late