Skip to content

This Homemade Bed Bug Trap Really Works... Simple and Cheap

E
Elias Yoder

3 Views • Jul 16, 2026

Description

🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach:
https://eliasyoder.com
You wake up Tuesday morning and find them — three small red bites on your arm, in a neat little row. You did not feel anything in the night. You did not see anything. But the bites are there. You pull back the mattress at the corner, and there in the seam is a small dark dot, then two more, then a few flecks of dried blood. And then you see one — a flat brown apple-seed-sized creature that scuttles into the seam when the light hits it. Bed bugs.
The exterminator charges fifteen hundred dollars, two thousand dollars, sometimes three thousand dollars to deal with a serious infestation. Heat treatments, repeated chemical sprays, professional equipment, multiple visits.
There is a trap you can build tonight, with three dollars of pantry ingredients, that catches bed bugs by the carbon dioxide they hunt for. The university entomologists who study bed bugs ran a peer-reviewed study comparing this exact home trap to the expensive industrial CO₂ traps the pest control companies use — and the trap with yeast, sugar, and warm water caught just as many bed bugs as the expensive industrial traps. Re