Safer Brand 51702 Diatomaceous Earth Ant and Crawling Insect Killer, 4-Pound Bag

...if you can wait for the products to get to you from Amazon, you can do just as good a job defeating bed bugs as the professionals will - probably better, because you have a more personal interest. First of all, never buy pillows or mattresses without buying bed bug-proof pillow and mattress covers from Target (they might be available elsewhere, but I found them at Target). If you don't use these covers and you get bed bugs, your mattresses and pillows are pretty well shot. We didn't and we learned the hard way. When we got bed bugs, we had to throw them in the dumpster and buy news ones. Covers are critical. Don't spend big $$$ on mattresses and pillows without buying protective covers for them. If you do get bed bugs, three products will wipe them out. Put Climbup Insect Interceptors under each bed post. If you have supports under your mattress, put one under each support, too. The Interceptors come in different sizes. Fill the trough of the Interceptors with Diatomaceous Earth. Diatomaceous Earth is harmless to humans, but rips bed bugs and other insects to shreds. Also, make sure your bed is not touching the wall. Sprayaway Bed Bugs is very effective for spraying around your house or apartment. You can use it to spray the perimeter and anywhere else - it doesn't stain or harm walls, woodwork, carpeting, furniture, etc. Once I used these products, it not only killed the bed bugs, it killed the eggs and hatching bed bugs. Bed bugs are masters at hiding, so you have to seek them out. Spray anywhere there are cracks and other hiding places, including any spaces where your bed parts fit together - you might have to take your bed apart to get to these areas. Bed bugs like to hide behind pictures on the wall, too. If there's any space between your bathroom mirror and the wall, they'll hide in there, too, and lay eggs. I sprayed the entire apartment - anywhere there could be bed bugs hiding, then vacuumed everywhere about a week later - especially between the carpet and woodwork. Then I sprayed everything again. That did the job. Bed bugs are nasty. They suck your blood at night and then s*** your blood all over the place. If you see black spots all over your mattress, bed lines, curtains, windows, etc, that's a sure sign you've got bed bugs. I don't have sensitive skin, but my wife does. They left red welts all over her neck and body. We don't know where they came from, but they can come into your place lots of ways - luggage, parcels, groceries, and other stuff that you buy. We live near the bed bug capital of the U.S. - Cincinnati, Ohio. Bed bugs are a big problem in movie theatres, college campuses, stores - you name it. It's something you think will never happen to you until you discover your house or apartment has been infested. Then you have to go to war with them. You can call the professionals or fight them yourself with these products. We did both. Between that and all the stuff we had to throw out, bed bugs must have cost me about $4,000.00 - but it would have been much less if we had known about the mattress and pillow covers.

I have now effectively rid my apartment of bed bugs twice with product. Once is 2012 and now again in 2015. Get mattress and box spring encasements (zip shut), pillow encasements (zip shut), and a simple metal bed frame. Pull your bed away from the wall. Make sure your covers don't hang off the bed at night and touch the floor. The only thing that should be touching your bed and the floor are the bed posts lifting your bed off the floor. No walls, no cords, nothing else touching it. Then get some sort of durable bowls, fill it up with this DE product and put a bowl under each bed post. Now that you have the encasements - bed bugs can't nest in your mattress, box spring, or pillows. They don't want to nest or hide on metal bed frames with no seams or small holes they can hide in. Since your bed isn't touch walls or cord and no covers touching the floor, the only way for them to get to you is to climb up and down the bed posts. They will have to get in the bowls you filled with this DE product to climb them. 1-2 days later they will dehydrate and die. I would leave the product down for at least a month to make sure you get even the most resilient bed bugs but sure enough, this product does the trick. You don't even have to change it out. One bag is enough to treat at least 10 beds.Within a week you'll notice much less bites by the end of 4 weeks, you'll be bite free. Then you can bring back out your fancy bed frames but do not take off your mattress/box spring/pillow encasements! Some research says they can live up to a year without feeding which I have no idea if is true, but I recommend you leave them on at least that long.By the time you buy this product ($10), some durable bowls ($5), a simple metal bed frame ($50), Box spring encasement WITH ZIPPER ($50), Matress encasement WITH ZIPPER ($50), Pillow encasement WITH ZIPPER ($20) - You're looking at less than $200 which is AT LEAST what 1 treatment for an exterminator will cost you. AND most of this stuff you can store away when you are done and use again should they make their way home again. This product truly is a God send and from reading other reviews, if apparently very effective with other pests too, and appears to be pretty safe in comparison to other pesticides.

I hope it works, it’s kinda hard to say. You really can’t tell right away!

This product did not work at all to get rid of the ants. I was very disappointed, and as far as value, not applicable. Did not work was in, and I would not purchase again in the future.