I will never have bed bugs!

[ticklechin]

Since my house is full of chin dust, no bed bugs for me!:rofl:


http://eradicatebedbugs.blogspot.com/2009/09/chinchilla-dust-does-not-work.html

 

[Brittany_Lynn]

Is this legit??

 

[mommyslittlechins2010]

Since my house is full of chin dust, no bed bugs for me!:rofl:


http://eradicatebedbugs.blogspot.com/2009/09/chinchilla-dust-does-not-work.html

are you serious??? cause i'm asking if you are ... lol lol lol .. i know it may sound lame

 

[ticklechin]

Its true, people are using it instead of diatomaceous earth. The dust sucks the waxy lipids out of a bedbug's exoskeleton, turning all that human blood in its guts into a scab and causing it to die of dehydration. So no bed bugs for me!

 

[AZChins]

This begs the question. Even without the dust would you have the bedbugs? I never had them before the chins.

 

[ticklechin]

HAHAHAHAHAHA, on the news they say the USA is having a epidemic of them!

 

[SmileX3]

I'm confused! I thought she was being funny but as I read on? I know its an epidemic in some places. I was curious what you meant, Susan, when you said you never had them before the chins. Are you saying chns bring (or can bring) bedbugs??? I watch to much Dr. Oz and get freaked out but now, on CNH! Yikes! I'm worried so please do explain if there's a connection of chins and ANYTHING like bugs or what not! I let these babies romp my furniture every night!!!

 

[ticklechin]

If you have chins you have a less chance of getting bed bugs because of the dust, people are sprinkling the dust all over the house to get rid of them safely! Let them dust and romp, they are spreading the dust for you!

 

[tunes]

Makes you wonder if this is why nobody here (on forum) has ever reported a case of fleas on chins. He says to sprinkle it in the carpet to get rid of fleas, etc.

 

[AZChins]

I've never had bedbugs at all...I was just joking! Bugs freak me out. If I saw bedbugs, I would probably get rid of my bed and get a new one. Actually, if anything has bugs, it gets thrown out immediately and then I spend the rest of the night cleaning everything to eradicate them.

With the one exception of someone trying to bring a bag of supplement with bugs in it into my house (never made it in), the chins have never brought in any type of pests. Not in their hay, their food or their dust (hehehe, now we know why).

They're very clean animals from the standpoint that they normally will not have anything that can make people sick in any way...they do throw poos and hay around, but that's a CLEAN mess. I haven't had any problems with ants trying to get into their cages or really anything that I can think of at all. I've heard of cages getting maggots in them, but, let's just face it, if you have that happening you aren't getting your cages cleaned up nearly enough...

I'm not sure if having the chin dust everywhere is worth just not getting bedbugs. Now, if only chin fuzz that attaches to everything would combat disease and pests, we would be all set!!

An epidemic of bedbugs? Oh dear...that makes me feel itchy to think about it. I do have a foam mattress...so I don't know if that helps... LOL

 

[addictedtochins]

The dust sucks the waxy lipids out of a bedbug's exoskeleton, turning all that human blood in its guts into a scab and causing it to die of dehydration. So no bed bugs for me!

Ok, I get it...you and I may never have bugs, but we may die an early death found in our beds looking like a mummy. Cool

 

[aznmexaggie]

I think I am going to test this in the lab. I handle the bed bug colony maintenance and research at work and am interested... although I don't think it is a realistic solution... same with DE. We've done DE studies on lots of arthropod species and it isn't very effective in a field situation, in my opinion. It would only work in a lab setting if the bug is confined to an area with the DE for days on end, with no escape... So you would need a layer of DE/dust on every single square inch of every item in your house, including cracks and crevices...

Just my opinion! Those little buggers are what I study and they are not easy to eradicate!

 

[AZChins]

I don't know how you can work with them! That would freak me out so much...I'd probably scream constantly.

So, if people have bedbugs, they really would have to throw out their beds, right? Do the bedbugs live in everything or just beds and linens? Where do they normally come from and how would they get into the house? ....okay, I am looking this up...I am a little frightened.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/bedbugs/

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

 

[Jazicat]

I've used DE on my carpets when fleas got bad a few years back and it worked well. We also have used it, with expert advice, to remove mites from a pigeon. Not only did it work quickly they never spread because we were lightly cover when we were done too. If Blue Cloud works the same way I guess that's an advantage to it getting every where.

 

[aznmexaggie]

DE works well against larval fleas because they thrive on a high humidity environment and cannot travel very far or move very fast. Larval fleas look like little transparent worms... DE could effectively break the cycle of fleas in the carpet by dessicating eggs and preventing larvae from pupating into adults.

However, bedbugs can climb on walls, headboards, luggage, dressers, mattress seams, folds in your sheets... they're perfectly capable of walking or climbing on anything that isn't slick... so they could get away from an application of DE/dust in the carpet. Bedbugs also don't have a larval stage. They hatch as nymphs (just smaller versions of the adult) and probably wouldn't be as susceptible as an arthropod that has a larval stage would.

I still want to test this in the lab though and see how it would work in a laboratory situation with constant exposure. There are a lot of products that claim to work against bed bugs and aren't regulated by the EPA but when we test them in the lab, they don't hold up to those claims...

 

[Lynn & The Chins]

GREAT!!! Now I have ANOTHER excuse for not cleaning my house and spending more time on CnH!!! :thumbsup:

 

[Twilight Chinchillas]

GREAT!!! Now I have ANOTHER excuse for not cleaning my house and spending more time on CnH!!! :thumbsup:

If CnH had a "like" button similar to Facebook I'd totally click like! Great excuse for me too!

 

[Brittany_Lynn]

DE works well against larval fleas because they thrive on a high humidity environment and cannot travel very far or move very fast. Larval fleas look like little transparent worms... DE could effectively break the cycle of fleas in the carpet by dessicating eggs and preventing larvae from pupating into adults.

However, bedbugs can climb on walls, headboards, luggage, dressers, mattress seams, folds in your sheets... they're perfectly capable of walking or climbing on anything that isn't slick... so they could get away from an application of DE/dust in the carpet. Bedbugs also don't have a larval stage. They hatch as nymphs (just smaller versions of the adult) and probably wouldn't be as susceptible as an arthropod that has a larval stage would.

I still want to test this in the lab though and see how it would work in a laboratory situation with constant exposure. There are a lot of products that claim to work against bed bugs and aren't regulated by the EPA but when we test them in the lab, they don't hold up to those claims...

If you happen to do so, would you PM me the results of your study? I'd be very interested in the results

 

[greychins]

I'd also like to know the results.

 

[Riven]

The OP on the linky, said he has one living in a bag of chin dust with no ill affects.

DE and most dusts are not the same, I'm not sure what the different properties are because I've never deal with DE.

Let us know how it goes Sumiko!