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How to quickly get fleas or other bugs out of items you can't wash in hot water: leave them in the back seat of your car in 90° weather for the day. Fleas don't like that much more than dogs or babies (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by agertudici@lemmy.ml to c/lifeprotips@lemmy.ml
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Anyway my patient had bedbugs how'd y'all's weekend go?

(Works best for fleas since they're usually a summer pest, when that 90° weather is avaliable, but works for other things if the opportunity arises.

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[-] charonn0@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

Bedbugs can handle 90°F just fine. You need to sustain at least 125°F for at least four hours to really desiccate them.

[-] agertudici@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

90 degrees outside the car? The inside of that car is gonna BAKE. And 2 hours before and after high noon ain't shit. cook those hoes.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

125°F for four hours is needed to kill the eggs too.

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