3 Essential Steps for Killing Bed Bugs

1. Make a Barrier
2. Sleep in Your Bed!
3. Treat Once-a-Week for 4-6 weeks

1. Make a Barrier

• Bed bugs are a crawling insect, meaning they can not jump or fly.
• RESULTS is a contact killer, meaning if a bed bug touches the powder it will eventually die. (They typically die in hiding, so it's normal not to find any dead bed bugs in the powder).
• Bed bugs feed exclusively on blood.

With these three facts in mind, all you have to do to be successful in treating any bed bug infestation with RESULTS is:

• Make a barrier of powder between the bed bugs and their food source. You must ensure that in order for them to crawl to you they must touch/crawl over the powder at some point! (Remember, they may be hiding on the mattress or bed frame itself as well as around the room).
• By saying “make a barrier” we mean apply a thin uniform layer anywhere and everywhere the bed bug might need to crawl over in order to make it to you while you sleep. This can include the mattress, the carpet leading up to the bed, the bed frame, the bottom of the box spring, or in-between the box spring and the mattress, and even the outsides of the blankets. Keep in mind, the bed bugs are going to try to find a way around this product, the goal is to make it so they have to cross over a treated area in order for them to reach you while you sleep. If you can accomplish this you will be successful, we guarantee it!


• Treat the bed: RESULTS is one of the only registered products that you can use on the mattress itself! The label even states, "Treat....both sides of the mattress." Also treat around the room in places bed bugs like to hide.


• Helpful hint: If you can fit the edge of a credit card into a crack or crevice, bed bugs can fit in too!
• Maintain the Barrier! The barrier has to be constant for the entire treatment period. Even a day lapse could set you back by weeks.
• Keep the powder down for 7 days at a time. At the end of the 7 day period, vacuum up the powder and reapply a new layer. If you prefer, there is a cleaner, slightly less effective apporach. Vacuum up the powder 1 hour after applying. Follow the rest of the steps as usual.

2. Sleep in Your Bed!

It is very important that you continue your regular sleeping habits during the course of this treatment. The reason is when starved, bed bugs will typically do one of two things:

• Leave the room where you used to sleep, looking for a blood meal. They have been known to travel up to 100 yards to other bedrooms or even adjoining apartments. (In short, you will spread the infestation).



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• Enter into a hibernation type state allowing them to survive for up to 7 months without a blood meal. They will wait in this state until they sense the carbon dioxide and heat released by someone returning to sleep in the room.

3. Treat Once-a-Week for 4-6 Weeks

1 lb of RESULTS will effectively treat a 1,000 square foot area. Most bedrooms are around 250 square feet so 1 bottle should be enough for about 3-4 weeks worth of treatment to a single room (a very fine and uniform dusting is very important, clumps of powder will create area’s the bed bugs avoid. We recommend gently spreading the powder after applying with a small broom or brush.). Just about any effective means of bed bug eradication is going to take several weeks to fully work. Here are some bed bug facts to consider:

• Bed bug eggs are virtually impervious to most insecticides. They hatch every 8-10 days.
• Female bed bugs lay approximately 5 eggs a day.
• A newly hatched bed bug must eat at least 5 times before they can reproduce.
• Bed bugs eat, on average, once every 4-5 days.
• Studies have shown a 100% kill rate with even a small amount of RESULTS, but it could take up to 3 full days (72 hours) for the bed bug to die once contact is made. This is perfect for treatment since they only eat (bite you) once every 4-5 days and they are incapable of cleaning the powder off once it is on them. This also means they take the product back to their nest killing more bed bugs.

Here is what you can expect when applying RESULTS on a weekly basis:

• Week 1: All adults are killed - However, for up to 5 days after your initial treatment eggs were being actively laid (5 a day each) by the females that fed the night before your first treatment.
• Week 2: Eggs from right before the initial treatment are hatching this week and they are hungry. Remember, they might bite you the first time, but it takes 5 feedings in order for them to start reproducing. As long as they come in contact with RESULTS before that 5th time they will die and they will never have a chance to lay more eggs.
• Week 3: The few eggs that were laid 5 days after the first treatment are now hatching. Keep up the barrier! You're almost done!
• Week 4: All the eggs should have hatched by now, and no new eggs were laid that would be hatching this week. This is the mop-up week where you will be killing the few bed bugs that managed to survive until now.
• Week 5: Mostly precautionary, you just went through 4 weeks of treatment, let's make sure they are gone for good!

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