Intuit wrote:Fancy that, borax works on bedbugs, too. Very efficient, it gets rid of them as fast as they can hatch.
Sorry, but you're wrong on this one. Borax has to be ingested, to go after that aforementioned gut bacteria.
Pesticides marketed for ants and roaches are made to be consumed, while the stuff for fleas and ticks is made to affect a bug that's in close contact for a while. Neither hurts bedbugs a bit--they're strict bloodsuckers and they eat and run too quickly to be affected by contact pesticides. Also unscathed by foggers, as they bed down behind baseboards and the like, out of reach.
Evil!
I suspect you're thinking of diatomaceous earth, which looks similar to boric acid but only requires an insect to walk through it. Food grade DE is safe for us and is used sometimes in food storage (if you've had flour, you've eaten DE), but it's microscopically sharp and slices up a bug's exoskeleton--can't get resistant to that no matter how evil you are.