Most of the stuff you find on store shelves will not help against bed bugs due to the way they hide. I called Orkin and they wanted $1,000 a room to clear the bedbugs (and there is no guarantee they will be cleared). It was insane. I moved to a new house and they moved with me despite all the care I took to get rid of them. The first few days was bliss because I was not bit (I appear to have a more severe allergic reaction to their saliva causing me extreme itchiness and pain) but then I started getting bit. So I knew only a couple of them made the trip. Luckily at this time I read a forum post where somebody said use Diatomaceous Soil. It’s pretty much just crushed fossil algae.

Anyway, I read that this stuff was basically razor blades to insects. As they walk across it they will be cut and bleed out and die. It was only 10 bucks off of Amazon so I thought I would give it a try. I spread it around everywhere I may sleep (it’s white power so it will look awful and gets into everything) which included around my bed legs, in my bed cover, under my sheets, the lining around my walls and I even blew some underneath outlet covers (not into the socket naturally). After a few days the bite stopped.

A week later I got one single bite. Two weeks later I had been bite free for a week. A month later 0 bites. Making yourself a honeypot and putting Diatomaceous soil everywhere a bedbug would need to walk to get to you guarantees that they will die.

So yeah, 10 bucks and living with white powder everywhere fixed everything for me. I have been bed bug free for over a year now.

Hope this helps anybody who reads it as I was once helped by a random forum post found via google after months of searching.