Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

READ THIS FIRST if you have Bed Bugs. It is from the National Center for Healthy Housing's document on What's Working for Bed Bug Control in Mutifamily Housing, it details every possible tip or trick that people use to get rid of bed bugs and peer reviews each method, it's the most comprehensive source I could find and took many hours of research before I came across it:: http://www.nchh.org/Portals/0/Contents/NCHH_Bed_Bug_Control_2-12-10.pdf If you don't want to click on a PDF, go here and scroll to the bottom: http://www.nchh.org/Program/HealthyHomesTrainingCenter/IntegratedPestManagement.aspx I moved into a place, luckily with hardwood floors, but unknown to me, there was already a presence living there. I started getting what looked like flea bites on my shin. I figured the place had fleas because the other tenants in this house split in two had dogs and the construction is a bit shoddy. It eventually stopped after a few days... so I thought no big deal. Then one day I saw a little tiny red thing running around my leg. I thought it was a red spider mite and didn't think much about it. A few days later, I saw a blood stain on my bedsheet. I thought What the HELL? I looked over my body and couldn't find a scratch? A few days later I woke up to find this bug on my arm running back and fourth panicking because I had just woken up. I squashed it and it oozed blood. So I freaked out. A few days later, I found one under my comforter in a fold where it probably crawled to hide but didn't get back "home". I identified it... IT WAS A FREAKING BED BUG! So, in a panic, I researched. For hours. Seeing how they've developed a resistance to just about everything with most sites saying, if you got them, you may never get rid of them. I was horrified. So I bought a can of regular Bedlam and a can of Bedlam Plus... one has some different ingredients, so I wanted to make sure to nuke them. I also bought Diatomaceous Earth, which as a fine powder, acts like sandpaper in insect's joints causing scarring which leads them to dehydrate. So I sprayed my mattress cover and bedframe until they were foamy soaky. I sprayed around the floor where my bed was and along the cracks in the walls where they had to be hiding. Then I filled every ledge of baseboard, every ledge of my bedframe and every nook and cranny with diatomaceous earth. Over the next few days, I found a few bedbugs slowly crawling around the area dying. GREAT! So I waited about another 10 days and redid the whole thing. Sprayed everywhere, powdered everywhere. So if you have a bug infestation of any kind in an area where it's really, really important that you get rid of them, don't screw around with RAID or any other OTC consumer product, your best bet is to get a can or two of this stuff (make sure you buy a little extra in case the first application doesn't completely solve your problem). For bugs that are DDT resistant and can survive a holocaust, you don't want to mess around. Grab some Diatomaceous Earth and some of this stuff, and you can't go wrong.