Bed Bugs High Temperature. Heat treatments work by raising the temperature in your home work space hotel or office to above 120 f. Special equipment and very high temperatures are necessary for successful heat treatment. The room temperature should be 140 f for two hours when bed bugs are exposed to this high temperature they will not survive.
Black plastic bags in the sun might work to kill bed bugs in luggage or small items if the contents become hot enough. Put an infested object such as bedding or pillows in a sealed plastic bag then put it in a freezer at zero degrees fahrenheit for about four days.
Special equipment and very high temperatures are necessary for successful heat treatment.
At this temperature adult bed bugs and. Contact us either online or by phone at 833 401 3569 to find out more about killing bed bugs with industrial heaters. When we talk about high temperatures more than 100 degrees fahrenheit 37 778 c starts to damage bed bugs whereas 113 f 45 c can kill bed bugs in 90 minutes and 118 f 47 778 c can kill them in 20 minutes. A similar process can be used with heat.
