Harris Bed Bug Killer, Diatomaceous Earth (4lb with Duster Included Inside The Bag)

THIS STUFF WORKS!!!!!!! I GOT RID OF THE BED BUG PROBLEM AND HERE IS HOW I DID IT!!! I got a new bedbug problem because of one of my previous 2 roommates who took over a bedroom in my apartment in quick succession. Soon after, an overnight guest visitor of mine complained promptly of huge rashes. I looked up and sure enough, there were HUGE bed bugs around the mattress. There were smaller bed bugs and almost transparent albino like little bedbugs, which showed they were reproducing. The room was about 9 ft x 12 ft. Before you begin the treatment, always remember to wear work-horse clothes you intend to sully and wash away because small bedbugs or eggs can stick to your clothes and you might unwittingly transport them out of the room to new areas. After every step you might want to head straight to the bathroom, put your clothes in a plastic bag to laundry or put them in scalding hot water for an hour. And then dry them at high temperature to kill any eggs that might have gotten on to your clothes while you were treating the room. 1) I took out the bedsheets and the pillow covers out. I took these pillows and blankets/sheets/bed-covers/pillow covers separately into separate plastic bags outside the house in a shed. They would be put in for washing after 2 weeks. (There is a reason to this - bedbugs start migrating after 5 days of not receiving food and 14 days is enough to starve them for the time being, before taking the bedcovers, sheets, pillow covers and blankets to the laundromat. I will come down to this again later. 2) after a lot of research, I sprayed, using the anti bedbug spray nozzle attached to the gallon, in every single little crevice, in all corners and seams of the mattress and the covers (which I had take over into the plastic cover outside). I also sprayed the bed frame in every little crevice, nook, cranny, joint and fold of the frame. I also sprayed the table and the floors under the bed frame, the walls as well! I left the room as is for the next 2 days. Checked it. Many bedbugs were still alive, but it appeared that they had weakened. 3) REMEMBER THAT THE MATTRESS AND the bed frame must be very dry before you progress to the next step! Now it was time for the diatomaceous earth to do its magic! I took a painstaking 1 whole day, from morning 11am to evening 5pm to work on this treatment. I used the diatomaceous earth GENEROUSLY with the nozzle, to put a huge load of dust into every single seam, corner, above and under the seam, or a fold, around the bed, at the inside above and inside under at the top of perimeter of the mattress and the under perimeter of the mattress. Effectively I had caked every single corner of the seams and folds and crevice of the mattress with the diatomaceous earth. If I found physically big bed bugs, i killed them. I killed every I could get my hands on. Remember every big bug is worth a thousand of the new generation. I used copious amounts of the diatomaceous earth in every book and cranny, crevice and fold of the bed frame, not just the mattress. Same thing for the walls, the study table next to it and even the FLOOR, around the legs, to prevent the bed bugs from migrating and I put huge powder perimeters around the bed and also at the room entrance to stop them from exiting the room and migrating to the living room where we sat for TV... I left the room untouched for about 8-9 days... the results normally say that bedbugs start drying out and dying in just 3 days and most start dying in 5-7 days, the eggs and larvae die out faster when they come in touch with the earth. I treated the room in this procedure with diatomaceous earth for a 2nd time, just in case, and let it alone again for another week. I was nervous if it had worked.... IT HAD WORKED!!!!! I HAD LITERALLY OBLITERATED the whole room with diatomaceous earth everywhere and let it work its magic for 2.5 weeks and now it was a roaring success!! My new flatmate who temporarily stayed in another guest room, upon moving in there, had zero complaints! I looked up the crevices and folds, I could see dead bedbugs dried out and their shells everywhere. This is the second time I have had a great experience with diatomaceous earth. I had done this exact same treatment in the year 2007 and it had worked very well!!!!!!! :) the room is free of bed bugs and i know how to defeat them! I have seen infestations far more serious than mine... I dont know how I'd take care of those. But my current infestation was a new one so it was probably relatively less spread out and easier to defeat. But I've won this battle twice now, once in 2007 and now in 2019! I am a satisfied customer and I know it works! You just have to be really thorough. Going back to the clothes, pillow covers, blankets, sheets, etc, I put them in scalding hot water in a bucket, then took them to the laundry to launder them and dried them at very high heat for 40 minutes. This destroys every bug and egg. The job was well done! My home is still bug free and I didn't sacrifice any furniture or linen or pillows. Good luck!

So far, so good! I dusted this powder in every nook and cranny of the bedroom, furniture, floor, molding, etc. I had already sprayed the black label Harris bed bug spray for stubborn bugs and eggs. It's been four days with no bites, which is a HUGE deal. Planning on re-attacking every week just in case. The pros: 1. Easy! I just used a plastic spoon to scoop the powder into the included squeezable duster. I also used a smaller brush duster to make sure it got into all the areas of my bedroom furniture. 2. Value! The product covers a huge area- I did the math and bought the big bag, and I will have enough to do the house at least two more times. 3. Works! So far the product is working! *bonus- it's taking care of the spiders and Japanese beetles too! 4. Odorless! I'm super sensitive to odors, and after the dust settled, I didn't notice any strange smell in the house. The cons- not horrible, but prepare for it: 1. Powder has a tendency to go everywhere- wear a nose/mouth mask and eye gear if you're clumsy, messy, and impatient like me. I ended up making the whole bedroom snowy white. Pretty sure that it was due to the fine powder and the duster clogged up at times (again, I'm impatient, so if you're meticulous and patient, you shouldn't have this problem!). Background- I tried EVERYTHING in the store, broke my old washing machine/dryer from hot washing/drying so much, spent tons on doctors trying to figure out where these blisters on my arms and hands were coming from, and started sleeping in head to toe clothes (socks on hands included)- horrible in the hot South. This has saved my sanity, though I was extremely skeptical it would kill anything. I was wrong. Bite check every morning reveals no new bites! If this keeps on the way it has started, I will name my next child Harris! (just kidding no more babies, but I might name my next fuzzy baby Harris).

This was my first time dealing with bed bugs. It was an immensely unpleasant experience that I had no idea how to deal with. My problem started when my mom bought a livingroom chair infested with the critters from a homeless guy. They were everywhere! I was going to hire an exterminator, but the price was just too much. Note: If one can afford an exterminator, I'd advise one to do so. It's going to take considerable work on one's part to do things correctly in order to rid one's home of these things. I eventually came upon some videos about bug behavior and some of the best ways to rid my home of them. Most advised the use of products containing diatomaceous earth as part of the process. Here are the steps I followed: 1. Carefully remove all bedding and place into plastic bags. 2. Pour copious amounts of liquid bed bug killer into bag and wash in hot cycle 3. Carefully remove the woodwork and apply Harris Bed Bug Killer with included duster then put woodwork back in place. 4. Use the duster to also apply product to undersides of mattresses, chairs, and sofas (Note: One does not have to remove the woodwork; however, it was FAR easier to ensure the powder remained undisturbed using this method versus just applying it around the borders of the rooms.) I additionally took caps from Gatorade bottles, sprinkled some powder into them and placed bed, chair, and sofa legs into them as an additional measure. I don't have pets, so this wasn't an issue for me. If one has pets, take the care necessary to protect them. The problem did not end overnight, but within a few weeks after application the bed bugs were completely gone! As of this writing, 13 November 2022, I have had ZERO problems with bed bugs since using this product. Note that the powder applied under the woodwork is still there to this day and likely works as a deterrent against further infestation. That's about as close to set it and forget it as something can be. If one has bed bug problems, this is not a suggestion, one MUST get this product as part of ridding one's home of these terrible creatures.

I know this is effective on bedbugs, but I never laid it down and used it, because I'm afraid to handle it. This powder is billions of little 'razors' that attach to the bugs, and cut them up under their sides if they walk on it, automatically killing them dead within 48 hours. None of the bugs can escape this death sentence, because they get on every bug that comes in contact with this stuff. There's big warnings about how to get it into cracks and crevices of your furniture, like a bed, sofa, or recliner, where they reside. It comes with a closed cup with stem to fill up the product, and 'poof' them into those small spaces necessary to reach them. Problem is, using that cup tool, when you squeeze it out, it 'poofs', creating small clouds of product in the air and on your furniture and clothes, not to mention your eyes, nose, mouth, face, and skin in general.It is messy to apply it to your stuff without breathing it in or worse. Remember, this granule powder can cause great spread of danger to you, your family and pets. It's easy to get it into anything, especially trying to vacuum up the residue left from applying it to anything. After reading the danger warnings for this stuff, it encourages the use of masks, glasses, clothing choices, etc. I don't want that stuff all over my home and clothes and hair after creating clouds of it in the air every time you 'poof' it into tight spaces where they live. It's too bad too, because I know it would rid me of all the bedbugs in a few days, when they come in contact with it. They can't survive once touched by this stuff, automatically and systematically killing every one of them, if you disperse the powder around your house and furniture. You'd have to wash 'everything' after putting this stuff in your home. I just won't risk it... one thing I'm mad about is the bag it comes in. You have to cut the bag open wide to fill up the tube, but when you're done, there's no way to close the bag, except to roll it over loosely, with no plastic closing mechanism for the bag! So you're stuck with what's left over, and no way to close it! I couldn't even give this stuff to my friends, they wanted nothing to do with it after they found out it's powdered razors. I don't recommend this product for the simple reason for what it is, and the warnings associated with using it on your personal stuff in your house. It will definitely kill 100% of the bedbugs within 48 hours of contact. It's just too messy and airborne when applying it.

So Harris put the spray bottle in a plastic bag and buried it in the big bag of dust. I thought the spray was missing at first, but then I felt something hard in the bag of dust. I suggest you not reach in with your bare hand to pull it out, like I did, because even though this is advertised as safe to touch, I found my skin reacted by becoming really dry and my fingers felt chalky for hours, even though I must have washed my hands with soap at least four times after exposing them. As for whether they kill bed bugs, I will have to write an update. I have just spread it under my bed posts, and in between the mattress and bed frame. I also sprayed a little artificial barrier in the doorway of each room, to prevent any bedbugs from traveling - we just have to be careful to step over the dust. I didn't experience any smell, so that's good. I don't want to sleep on this though - as I said, it may be safe but my skin did not like the stuff. I also tried to make a little bedbug lure by putting a little heat-generating hand warmer on the floor and surrounding this with dust. Hopefully any bugs will be attracted to the heat and wade through this dust. My online research has lead me to sites where people experimenting have claimed that it takes up to 7 days for the bugs to die after they're injured by the dust, but my hope is that the bugs are sufficiently injured to be unable to bite me while they're dying. I just discovered my infestation about 10 days ago - have suffered three spots of bites over that time, and am doing everything I can to eradicate the problem before it grows. So, three stars for now, but as I said, I will update. Update - 1 day later. I have not seen any dead bugs yet. Also, I regret buying this over other brands, now that I've seen an nih study showing that bed bugs avoid crawling on the dust. I will say that I intend to go home tonight and spread the dust out much more thinly, to encourage them to crawl over it. Dusting tutorials I've found seem to all advise that more is not better when it comes to dusting with this stuff. Update 1 week later. Still no dead bed bugs found although there was a dead spider. On the other hand I have not been bitten in the last few days. I sprayed everything with a bed bug killer spray from Harris too, prior to applying the dust everywhere once the spray had dried. Hopefully the joint attack worked. I still haven’t vacuumed up the dust as I want to be well and truly sure of the death of every last bug first. 3 weeks later - bite free! I think I had a mild infestation and caught it early. I only ever saw four actual bedbugs, all in the bathroom, and had a handful of bites. I never did seal up my mattress or launder all my clothes, but I did spray the mattress with the egg killer spray and dust all corners and around the bed with this dust. It seems to have worked for me. 4 weeks later. Saw another bed bug and killed it manually. I redusted more heavily. Maybe it only created a barrier to the bed and now the bugs have found a dust free path. I'm going to reapply the spray too. It does seem that bed bugs require several treatments.. April 2019 - after 4 months of no bugs, I got another bite on April 4, about 3 days after I returned from a long vacation. I think that with my being away and not spraying the hallway outside my door for over 3 weeks, some of the neighbor's bedbugs made their way into my apartment. I sprayed inside my bedroom again and seem to have killed them again, but the problem is that these bed bugs seem to have made it through the DE dust I laid down by my doorway, at least once. Which means it's not enough of a protective barrier by itself. I'm switching to Tempo Dust, which appears to be much more lethal than this DE (kills 100% of bedbugs in 24 hours, rather than this which kills around 90% in 10 days...also probably more toxic but I'm willing to take that risk by now).

Well, HARD lesson learned for me. We bought a used bunk bed for my son off of FB marketplace. We have generally always bought our furniture used through marketplace or at a used furniture store, so it never crossed my mind this would happen to us, but it did. My son started getting bit within DAYS of getting this bunk bed. I thought it was the new detergent at first, but then he found a bug! I was so extremely upset. I started researching and found this. Now, the first bug I found I immediately put in a ziploc bag and sealed the bag. I closed my sons door and wouldn’t let him back in for over 30 days. That first bug just in a ziploc bag took about two weeks to die! Two weeks sealed in a ziploc bag!! I bought a spray that I found on Amazon (Ecoraider bed bug killer). That killed them instantly. And then I proceeded to follow up with this miraculous stuff! After spraying the entire bunk bed, I powdered every inch of his mattress, wrapped it in plastic and put the bed bug cover on. I also sprinkled this miraculous powder in every crevice of his bed. I bought those discs for the legs of his bed and put this powder in there as well. I put it around all the baseboards too! It is important to note this does not kill them instantly, but I did put a bug in a ziploc bag with some powder and it gets stuck to them and debilitates them. That blood sucker didn’t live more than 24 hours. So it’s more of a maintenance thing. I would put this all over the mattress as well as the baseboards of your room. The puffer thing didn’t work that well for me so I ended up just using a measuring cup. Lol. Good luck!!

powder goes everywhere

We made a mistake. A little over a year ago we dropped my daughter off for sleepaway camp and, on our way home, stopped at a cute little second hand store. While there, we fell in love with this antique sleigh bed and thought, "Wow! how awesome would it be to get this for her and surprise her with it for her birthday!" That's how the nightmare began. We'd never seen a bed bug before. So when my son, who slept across the house from her room, started bringing us these bug carcasses he'd squished, we had no idea at first what we were looking at. It took us weeks to realize we had bed bugs. Longer still to locate the source of the infestation. In some ways, it's hard to believe it's been just a year. We'd been able to keep on top of the bug problem until I was hospitalized, and then keeping me alive became the family priority, and the bugs did what they do best--they multiplied, spreading from two bedrooms to the rest of the bedrooms, then to the living room. We've lost furniture to the fight, furniture I loved, but that we ultimately couldn't save. We've faced embarrassment, terrified that we'd be discovered as 'that' family with the dreaded bed bug problem. We have fought them, at times when it seemed like a hopeless battle. At times when it seemed like giving up our home was the easier way to go. Because where we live hiring an exterminator isn't as easy as it sounds, or, for our family, cost effective. We've done bug bombs, alcohol, spraying poisons, etc. Washing and drying and vacuuming and everything the internet tells us to try. And still we'd wake up with bites all over. Still those nasty little monsters kept outpacing us. I can't sit in my living room. I go to bed only because I have no choice, and it's become so stressful to do so that my insomnia has returned full force. And then we found diatomaceous earth (DE). We found this product, specifically. My husband first put down a layer in our bedroom about three weeks ago. I've stopped getting bitten! My older daughter reports she hasn't been bitten (after we treated her room). I've come to order more because it seems to be working. We've finally got a weapon in our arsenal that is giving us the upper hand. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because we've only used it once. I may edit this review in future.