Bedbugs in the Vanagon?

[Gnarlodious]

Terry Kay:
Please edit your post where you liken bedbugs to Jews in the gas chamber and change it to something less offensive.

Please do not give credit for Auschwitz to the Polish, they were not responsible for inventing the gas chambers.

If you feel the need to talk this way I suggest stormfront.com as your next hangout.

Back on topic, I went to a garden store today and got a bag of “diatomaceous earth”, a natural killer for all sorts of crawling bugs. It works by sticking inside the microscopic cracks in the bug’s exoskeleton and causing them to be unable to motate. Locks up their ratchet, so to speak. I figure I will keep some in a tough ziplock and use it proactively. Totally harmless to higher animals, of which I am one.
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Vanagon ’83 diesel AAZ w/Giles injection, 5spd 4.57R&P+TBD and a '78 diesel Rabbit

[jerrydog411]

[S4VAGE]

[Steve M.]

[Gnarlodious]

[Terry Kay]

Then give the critters the exhaust.
One time & done, and you don't have the chance of breathing it, after the smoke has cleared.

X-out their oxygen for 2 hours and they will be dust.
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T.K.

[morymob]

Dont know about bedbugs but all others u can sit vehicle out in hot sun.With everything inside opened sit a larger flat baking pan in floor with about 1 in of ammonia in it, keep all windows/doors closed, usually 1. Day is enuf if in doubr do 2.

[levi]

[jimf909]

It's always good to see some of TK's posts from a different time and place come back to the front page.

I never worry about bedbugs until I read about them and then I worry a lot.

I recall someone having access to a drive in freezer and they planned to leave the van in it for a weekend to zap the critters.
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- Jim

[mikemtnbike]

Bedbug story: a local substance use treatment facility I was working next door to had a bedbug infestation had to spend hundreds of thousands (really!) in both immediate mitigation and extensive remodeling to prevent in the future (like sealing each room like shower stall). Work crew is finishing up job and tells management well we’re about done here but have to tell you going to keep having problems because we’re watching some of the folks coming in and you know what is a favorite bedbug nesting site? Dreadlocks.

Eww. Merry Christmas!
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1991 Vanagon GL 2.1 AT Westfauxlia. "Frankie" Totaled https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=764510&highlight=carnage
1995 Eurovan Camper "Marzivan"
2020 GTI SE manual

[vanatic]

I believe that heat is the only way to kill all of the life cycles. We had some in the apartments above our bike shop. Find a professional that guarantees their work. The one we used brought several industrial heaters and cook the whole building for almost an entire day. They followed up with a chemical treatment as well. The technician told me that bed bugs had all but been eradicated in the USA. New regulations came about and the chemical they were using was banned.

[sciroccojim]