1Kg Diatomaceous Earth Powder - Ant killer,flea killer, insect killer,bed bug killer,silverfish killer,Pests Control for Crawling Insects,Pest Organic Non-Toxic

I thought bed bugs belonged in the last century and infected poor people living in overcrowded housing………until I was bitten alive one night in my bed and realized I had them. I was mortified - must have brought them home in my suitcase from a hotel I stayed in. There then began extensive research on bed bugs and their elimination and I’m passing on what I learned.Bed bugs crawl, they don’t fly or jump. They are active at night. They range in size from a pinprick, to a midgie to a bug the size of an apple pip. They can double their population every 16 days, so infestation can spread quickly. They usually live within 8 feet of the bed, but can also infest couches if you sleep there. They are attracted by the carbon dioxide we humans give off. They can also live for up to 1 year without feeding, so total elimination can take a long time. Signs of infestation include bug bites on your skin, often more than one in a straight line. Also small brown spots on sheets (poo), squished dead bugs or actual live crawling bugs, eugh!Things you will need for elimination: large dustbin bags, insecticide (I used Zero In bed bug spray from B&Q), mattress encasement cover (not a simple mattress protector), a steam mop (I used a Vax from Argos), pest grade (NOT food grade) diatomaceous powder, a puffer applicator (I used the BITEYI bulb sprayer from Amazon but please note the mask that comes with this is inadequate so use a proper dust mask that pinches over your nose), gloves. You will need them all on the same day and plenty of time (my elimination took 12 hours in total!).1. Bag up all your bedding so as not to infect the rest of the house. Take it to your washing machine and wash it at 60C (not below) for at least an hour, then tumble dry on a high heat setting for at least 30 minutes. If something can’t be washed or dried at these temperatures chuck it out and buy new.2. Hoover your mattress (both sides and round the edges) and bed frame, including underneath. Get in all the nooks and seams with the crevice tool. Be thorough. Now empty your bedside drawers, dresser draws, chest of draws and hoover them before putting your stuff back. Hoover the floor well, going round the skirting boards with the crevice tool. Immediately empty the dust bin bag into the outside bin. Mine is bagless, so I also sprayed the hoover bin with insecticide after emptying.3. I then steam cleaned my mattress, bed frame and floor (I have wooden floorboards). Plus my dog’s bed as he sleeps in my bedroom. High heat kills bed bugs, so do it slowly making sure you heat each area to a good temperature without it becoming too wet.4. Spray your mattress with the insecticide (make sure it’s for use in beds and bedding). Pay particular attention to seems and crevices. Make it damp but not wet. Leave to dry. Luckily my infestation was in my thick mattress topper, which I simply chucked out. If my mattress had been infested I would have chucked it and got a new one, though I know not everyone can afford to do that. I also sprayed all the crevices in my bed frame, particularly where the frame attached to the head and footboards, and the legs of any furniture which touch the floor.5. Enclose your mattress in a bed bug approved mattress encasement cover, which zips all the way round. I also used bed bug approved protectors on my pillows after they’d been washed and dried.6. You now need to isolate your clean bed! Pull it away from the walls and make sure no bedding is touching the floor and nothing else is touching the bed. I was lucky to have a metal bed frame on legs, not a divan. Place all 4 bed legs in a shallow plastic pot (I used some small food containers).7. Put on your mask and gloves. DO NOT breathe in diatomaceous earth powder. Using the puffer, puff in a LIGHT DUSTING of powder into each container. Do not clump or put in large amounts. I also puffed in a light dusting into where my bed frame met the bed heads. It’s important to keep the powder dry at all times or it won’t work.8. Now go round the room and puff in a light dusting of diatomaceous earth powder round the skirting boards. The one thing I will say after the event is that I only needed a small cupfull of DE powder, so should never have bought a 1kg tub.9. Monitor for several months, making sure you hoover well and regularly.10. If this method of elimination fails, you’ll need to call pest control. If you ring your local council you should be able to get Rentokill out at a much reduced rate.

BEWARE - SEE BELOWThe Product itself, as sold by the seller, was great, everything as expected, good delivery. Etc.The effectiveness of the powder to deal with a flea problem was generally about a low-medium, It seems to help reduce but doesn't eliminate them. I saw fleas walking over and around the powder and then still bit me, presumably it takes time to work but it seemed like they were doing fine in its presence.Why is it asking me to review the 'flavour' - do NOT eat this stuff......The one thing I wanted to make a point on here was the fact that this powder is extremely fine, floats in the air when agitated, and I now know to be permanently damaging to human airways. This substance is about 90% silicon, and exposure to this leads to Silicosis. It's basically the brother of asbestos and asbestosis.I unfortunately wasn't aware of this from the get go, and covered the room in it (about 1-2 handfuls of the stuff), in the spots that I experienced fleas: I continued to use the room for about four days as I had taken the non-toxic tagline to heart (presumably this means if ingested, nothing to do with inhaling).I then noticed I was coughing up a lot of mucous, and generally felt unwell and had a weird feeling while breathing, I researched it and lo and behold, the dangers of this are easily found online. If I knew how harmful it was, I would have definitely had a different strategy to this.You need an extremely specific mask to filter particles this small, I'd probably suggest just sticking to sprays and other tactics if you are battling fleas

Used this to kill mites which were overtaking our worm bin.Easy to measure and use and seems to have killed the mites without impacting the worms.Very effective.

Good stuff easy to use don't breath in sprinkle lightly were ant are

It’s a myth. No pest control uses this. Good for gardens and providing silica when mixed with water for plants.

This is one of the best purchases that I had. It literally eliminated all bed bugs at home. We still don’t know where and how it started but we are happy that we managed to eliminate them before they even spread badly. It may have taken a bit longer but it really worked well. Value for money.

We’ve had a problem with ants through summer, possibly due to being end terrace with the end wall facing the sun in the evening so ants love to climb all over it and try to burrow.I put a load of this in some of the existing holes, around the base of the house & sprinkled it on some parts of the wall and the ants haven’t been back since, brill!I do wish it had come with a scoop or something to make spreading easier as I didn’t really want to use an existing tool - it was easy to use though and quite cheap compared to other specific products & the lid is quite secure to avoid small children accidentally getting into itReally pleased with how it’s done the job.