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  1 0 Hard cover books have that enticing little gap between the binding and the spine, and there's delicious glue in there. I don't think bedbugs eat glue if there's no blood to be had, but plenty of other bugs do, including the dreaded bookworm (a real worm, not just a term for a heavy reader). Fnarf answered in House & Home over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Books can be treated with fumigants and in oxygen deprivation chambers and heat chambers. TheBedBugDude answered in House & Home over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Geni, I share my bedroom with tens of thousands of LPs, whose jackets offer bedbugs enticing hiding places while they wait for me to fall asleep so they can make their midnight creep 'n' feast. Crawling deep inside the sleeves shielded them from at least some of the toxins (natural and otherwise) with which I had my place treated more times than I care to remember (and yes, I tried diatomaceous earth too), and I never went more than a few weeks without finding new evidence of their sharing my bed with me without my permission, even though the treatments would temporarily seem to solve/minimize the problem. I assure you that I stand no financial gain in recommending the product that, thus far, after five months, seems like it may well have killed them (and their young'uns) off. Ready? It's called Best Yet! and information about it is at cedarcidestore.com. As the name suggests, its active ingredient (10% of its makeup) is cedar oil. It's chemical-free, plant-based, and non-toxic, doesn't require evacuation of the premises (including by pets), and shows great promise as a means of complete eradication. I took all the albums out of all the wooden shelves and then sprayed all surfaces of the storage areas, with particular concentration on the 90-degree angles where the planes joined, as well as on the front of the entire shelving units and the point at which the bottom of the shelves met the floor. In other words, I made sure there was no way the bastards could crawl out of the album covers and onto the bed (or onto the floor and then the bed) without crossing at least one of these junctures, and it's the contact, not the odor (strong at first, but not at all objectionable) that kills them. The Web site is far from slick and looks too hokey to be the path to something real, but I'm tellin' ya, after two years of trying everything else out there applied by professionals, only to see my mortal enemies reappear shortly thereafter, I got far more effective, and (knocks wood) permanent results from something I applied myself for a fraction of the cost and that doesn't hurt the planet, my kitty, me ... or the records (or their covers)! I'm sure it'd be the same for books: Despite the "oil" in "cedar oil," there's no oily residue left on the album covers, just bedbug corpses everywhere you look at first, and then, nothing, glorious, thought-you'd-never-experience-it-again NOTHING. I don't know why word's not out there about this stuff; I heard about it from a friend who heard Randi Rhodes advertise it on Air America, a fact that gave it all the cred I needed to give it a shot, and I'm hella glad I did. David davybaby answered in House & Home 9 months ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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