Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This spray is truly all you need to buy to get rid of bed bugs. You don't need to bother with mattress/box spring/pillow covers or even diatomaceous earth. And you definitely do not need to pay an expensive exterminator. DO NOT THROW AWAY FURNITURE - this is vastly unnecessary and only spreads the bugs all over the place. It is unlikely you will find them anywhere other than your bed, at least initially. They are super slow and lazy and they just want to nibble on you while you sleep so, they don't really branch out until you start treating them. You will also want to buy the 1 gallon jug (both together) because this spray bottle won't be enough, but the gallon jug needs a spray bottle to apply it. It is a thick, very strong spray. You might try buying a spray bottle from the store... I just like the way this applies it in a fine mist... I still recommend buying both. We have a fairly large house. Discovered them in the guest bedroom. We had at least a 2 month old infestation and they hadn't even really made it to the other furniture in the bedroom or the wall. I suppose because it was a guest bedroom, with people sleeping in it only intermittently, is why it didn't spread more. It was still a decently large infestation mostly in the box spring and metal bed frame - quite a mess. There is a trick to doing this - you have to think about what you want to accomplish. If you just go around spraying everywhere, and you don't spray every place that they are, they will just leave the room for a better place that doesn't smell so strong - which means another bedroom or the couch. If you are carrying out your bedding/clothes to wash there is a good chance some will drop out and then you've got bugs in new places you don't want them. Also, they come out and look for you at the smell of your CO2 breath - all things to think about. You will need large trash bags, a sweeper with a detachable bag, freezer space, a washer/dryer, and this bug spray. You also might want to have some plastic condiments cups and lids on hand to trap strays as you find them - and you will. I was sitting on the couch reading and found one crawling up my belly. But we never had to treat the couch so it must have been a hitch hiker. I would wake up in the morning and find them crawling across the bathroom floor. Most likely fell out of my pjs. The bugs are very visible - you will see light tan exoskeletons all over the place, poop stains - almost like fly poop stains, blood trails on your sheets, adults are very easy to see, babies not so much, eggs are small and white like larvae, smaller than fly larvae. Look up photos on the internet and check for similar looking things in your bed. I didn't really find them in the mattress or pillows at all. This spray kills on contact. It takes a couple seconds. You will know the bug is dead because his back end lifts up. When you start using the spray they might try to find some other place to hide to get away from the fumes, so then you might find them in odd places in your room... but only then. First you are going to want to take off all your bedding and remove all your clothes and wash them, highest temperature wash and dry the longest you can at the highest temp. This may sound overly cautious but I suggest you bag it up in your trash bags and carry it to the laundry in the bags. Next you are going to want to sweep everywhere in the bed and on the floor where you see evidence of bugs. You might also want to sweep empty drawers where your clothes were, especially if you keep your pjs in a drawer (do not spray yet, the spray will put them on the move, you want to get what is visible first) You will find they are pretty lazy and don't move fast - also, they have no traction on their feet, hence they can't climb anything slippery, but they do have little claws that catch fabric and wood grain quite nicely) Do NOT use a bag less vacuum as you will have bugs and eggs in your vacuum and they will make their way out. The main places I found them were in the plastic corner pieces of the box spring, and in between the batting stapled to the wood, and all over the metal frame. So first sweep up all the eggs and bugs you find in the box spring, then go for the metal frame - and sweep up everywhere, paying special attention to where there are screws. We saw a lot of tiny white eggs in the screw holes. Then you will want to sweep on the floor underneath the bed and along the wall. Once you have swept everything that is visible. Immediately take out the bag, put it in a trash bag and put it into your freezer. You are going to do more sweeping, once a week for at least 3 weeks and you will want to use that bag again. At the end of treatment you can freeze the bag one more time, then throw it out after a week in the freezer. Next you are going to spray anything that got left behind. Spray the floor at the exit to your door so the bugs have to walk through it to leave your room. Spray everywhere you saw bugs and eggs in the mattress, the box spring, the metal frame - spray the trim along the wall, spray the floor under the bed. The great thing about this spray is it doesn't stain and it is safe to use on wood surfaces and has this most excellent cedar chest smell. It is a bit strong to sleep with, but sorry, it is worth it to know you aren't going to get bit up while you sleep. It takes about a week for eggs to hatch - you will probably find new bugs about a week later, do the same thing, wash everything, sweep, spray. Then repeat again one more time a week later for good measure for a total of 3 treatments. About the second week you might start finding evidence of these bugs in other rooms. Be vigilant - as you start to treat them, they will scatter and look for new places. We had 3 bedrooms in the house. 2 at one end of the house (the original guest bedroom was one of these two) and 1 at the opposite side of the house next to the laundry room. A week after we treated the first room we found evidence of bugs in the other two rooms at both ends of the house, but not before. Then we found stragglers all over the house, lone rangers. In the kitchen, the restrooms, the couch. But those never turned into anything. After 3-4 weeks of treatment our whole house is bug free! It's a scary thing at first, but actually surprisingly easy to get rid of. Good luck!