What Are Bedbugs Afraid Of? A Few Effective Ways to Get Rid of Bedbugs

Bedbugs are insects of the family Cimicidae in the order Hemiptera. They live in all kinds of cracks and crevices in homes and beds, hiding by day and coming out at night to feed on blood. They move quickly and are hard to catch. They develop through gradual metamorphosis, and their life cycle has 3 stages: egg, nymph and adult. Both nymphs and adults feed on human blood, posing a fairly serious threat to human health. Let us take a look below at what bedbugs are afraid of!

Eucalyptus scent

Take an appropriate amount each of eucalyptus leaf powder and eucalyptus oil, add an appropriate amount of soapy water, mix evenly with turpentine, and apply it where the bedbugs crawl.

Kerosene scent

Sprinkle kerosene along the edges of the bed; bedbugs die as soon as they smell it, and other insects can be killed too. Be careful not to have any open flame.

Hot boiling water

Pour boiling water over cracks in bed boards, straw mats, bookcases and furniture, and soak clothing and other cotton items in boiling water. This can quickly kill bedbugs at all stages and their eggs.

Insecticide

Buy bedbug-killing pesticide and sprinkle it in the cracks of the bed to kill bedbugs as well.