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Bed Bugs at University of Nebraska

An outbreak of bed bugs in campus housing at the University of Nebraska has students fuming about the Bed-bug gate scandal.  Bed bugs were first detected in early January and it took two weeks for the university housing staffers to take action.  During this time bed bugs spread to over 20 locations across campus.  Now the University of Nebraska [...]

Bed Bug Spray

Over the past few years several companies have come out with bed bug sprays.  A lot of you are wondering which sprays are effective and how to use them. It is important to remember that, like everything else, sprays are just one of many tools that you will need to get rid of bed bugs in [...]

Recommended Bins & Technique

When you go through the process of sealing all of your personal belongings, you are probably going to need large plastic bins for organization and storage.  There are a few points you need to be aware of when selecting bins. Selecting the Proper Storage Bin First of all, it is important that your personal belongings are always sealed [...]

How To Wash Clothing with Bed Bugs

After the last post on how to pack-up a dresser, we decided to add one more video on how to properly wash clothing that may have bed bugs.  This new video also supports Step 2 of the 8-Step Approach to get rid of bed bugs.  It’s important to follow proper protocol when you wash your clothes to [...]

How To Pack-Up a Dresser

Alright, this is out final video in the series supporting Step 2 of the 8-Step Approach to get rid of bed bugs.  Again, it is critical that you place all of your personal belongings in sealed, plastic bags.  You need to treat everything in your home as if it is infested with bed bugs.  If [...]

How To Pack-Up a Closet

Another video in our series showing detailed techniques and protocols you will need to follow in your fight to get rid of bed bugs.  This video covers how to pack-up a closet.  Step 2 of the 8-Step Approach to get rid of bed bugs requires that you bag up all personal belongings in sealed, plastic bags.  That means that [...]

How To Pack-Up a Bookshelf

Step 2 of the 8-Step Approach to get rid of bed bugs requires that you pack up all of your personal belongings into sealed, plastic bags.  We realized that this might seem intimidating for some of you so we made a few videos demonstrating the steps involved. This video shows how to pack-up a bookshelf.  Yes, you [...]

Ziploc Bags for Storage

We here at ZappBug recommend using Ziploc bags to store your personal belongings while you are trying to get rid of bed bugs. Ziploc bags are great because they provide easy access to items that you use every day. For example, Andrew kept a fresh change of bed bug free clothes in a Ziploc bag [...]

Bed Bugs on The Economist

Recently, The Economist published an article about a new type of bed bug trap developed by James Logan and Emma Weeks of the London School of Hygiene. This new trap uses chemicals synthesized from those found in bed bug fecal matter. According to the article, bed bugs use chemicals like these as a sort of  breadcrumb trail to [...]

Bed Bugs & Inbreeding

Apparently,  bed bugs reproduce by inbreeding. A recent study released by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene shows that bed bugs are able to reproduce with their kin, without genetic deterioration.  This has a couple implications to those of us facing the bed bugs epidemic. First, this means that it only takes a few bed bugs to infest [...]