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Vacuum with UV light said to kill Bedbugs, all stages
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sluggums
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Wed Mar 16 2011 20:57:23
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Just saw this, it's new. Think it'll help? I guess if the eggs are right in front of you, you can get them in many other proven ways. Does UV light really prevent eggs from hatching?
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/garden/17cleaning.html?ref=garden
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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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Wed Mar 16 2011 21:23:33
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The picture on the nytimes page looks to me as though it would have little chance of getting the light where it needs to be. It shows a flat base, the sort of thing you would use to vacuum the carpet, with a blue light on the bottom. To vacuum crevices where eggs would be, you need to use the crevice tool. So if your bedbugs are obliging enough to lay their eggs on the carpet out in the open, they've earned their Darwin Award.
It sounds like a fine thing for hospitals and nursing homes, though, where you want to avoid having antibiotic-resistant germs in the carpet without exposing patients to unnecessary chemicals.
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Wed Mar 16 2011 22:26:29
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A quick check found it has been around before in other forms...could be scary for the user...awkward to use to say the least...earlier versions as a 'wand' at least could be directed with accuracy!
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Wed Mar 16 2011 23:58:18
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Quote from the article:
“It uses UV light, which is a germicidal,” said Ryan Douglas, chief executive officer of Verilux. “What’s most exciting is that it is killing bedbugs; nymphs, which are the babies, and bedbug eggs.”
Hasn’t this vac-attack thing been tried before?
“Some people have tried to kill germs with vacs,” Mr. Douglas said. “But UV-C is a tricky wavelength of light, it’s hard to harness. What we are able to do is intensify and focus it at the surface so it can be very effective as a sanitizer. With the tests we’ve done on bedbug eggs, none of them hatched.”
That gives us the feeling that some tough adults survived. “A tough adult bedbug is going to survive DDT, just about everything,” he said. “It’s important to be preventative.”
And then the manufacturer recommends emptying the bagless canister into a sealed bag and disposing of it right away.
If the device killed all bed bugs it came across, one would think this would not be necessary.
If you still have to treat your vacuumed-up contents like hazardous waste, because live bed bugs could be in it, then it does not seem worth buying a new $400 vac.
And as Super noted, the bed bug eggs are not likely to all be in the center of your floor. Does the vacuum's wand attachment also have UV light? Or does that feature only work on the flat floor (as the photo implies)?
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Thu Mar 17 2011 5:58:59
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A fine product to bring that high gloss shine to your snake collection.
It may be a quantum leap forward in cleaner technology but it has 0 benefit with regards bedbugs over a normal cleaner.
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Thu Mar 17 2011 11:05:53
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Oh no! My bed bugs have a tan!
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cilecto
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Thu Mar 17 2011 11:54:51
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This item does not yet appear on Verilux's site, but they do have a hand held model that claims to "eliminate" BB and eggs "on surfaces". It's notable in that it does not delineate if this is thanks to the vacuum (which you can do with any vac) or the UV. It's also silent on what if anything it does to the BB that are not on the surface.
People who peddle gadgets like this piss me off.
- it's getting people to spend money that they can apply better elsewhere
- a false and temporary sense of having accomplished something
- more misinformation to confuse people who are scared and trying to confront BB -
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Thu Mar 17 2011 14:47:15
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I had a feeling this was bullsh*t. Why don't the make something realistic instead of trying to just cash in by selling to people who don't know any better? I had to laugh reading the threads from a few years ago re UV light. sigh. The part where they say to empty your vacuum canister like it contained radioactive pellets is too much!! Shouldn't the BBs be dead already? Sort of gave themselves away...nice catch, Nobugsonme.
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cilecto
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Thu Mar 17 2011 15:14:04
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"Eliminate" does not necessarily mean "kill".
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sluggums
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Thu Mar 17 2011 17:09:08
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cilecto - 1 hour ago »
"Eliminate" does not necessarily mean "kill".Apparently it means "vacuum up"?
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Thu Mar 17 2011 17:14:51
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cilecto - 5 hours ago »
People who peddle gadgets like this piss me off.
With the aid of the urban dictionary you too can fight back.
Go on add a word you know you want to, in fact may I suggest "wiffle wand". I have already added "wiffle bags" and "mattress encosments".
and fear not Mr James I have developed a special brown zinc oxide coating to protect your BB's from getting a sun tan.
David
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Thu Mar 17 2011 17:27:17
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Oh, and this:
“A tough adult bedbug is going to survive DDT, just about everything,” he said. “It’s important to be preventative.”
Sorry, that's BS. Prevention is not enough, and you can kill bed bugs. They can probably survive DDT just fine, due to resistance.
But adult bed bugs are not The Terminator. They are completely kill-able.
You can use heat, poison gas, residual sprays, contact sprays (right on target), or your hand or shoe.
The last thing we need is the media spreading the misinformation that "bed bugs are impossible to kill."
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Thu Mar 17 2011 17:28:09
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Although giving them all a really bad sunburn is an attractive idea, it might take a long time to kill them that way.
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Thu Mar 17 2011 18:01:24
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