While the manufacturer has not provided a level for humidity, applications with Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate would be recommended indoors at room temperature or between 55 to 85 degrees inside the home.
Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate is only labeled for bed bugs and would not be effective against mites.
Since there are hundreds of different species of mites, we recommend having a positive id of the specific mite you are treating for by a local pest control company or by the Entomologist with your County Extension Office before purchasing products.
Per the manufacturer, Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate should be applied every 30 days for preventative treatments.
For active bed bug infestations, it is necessary to retreat every 7-10 days with Crossfire along with an insecticide dust such as Cimexa Dust to reach further back into cracks and crevices where bed bugs hide. This process needs to be reapplied every 7-10 days until you go 30 full days without seeing any signs of beds.
After the application of Crossfire has dried, dust along baseboards, in corners, around window/door trims, undersides of boxsprings, between the mattress and box springs, inside hollow furniture legs, etc.
Please view our Bed Bug Treatment Guide for more information on a full treatment program
If treating for active bed bugs, Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate should be reapplied every 7-10 days until you can go a full 30 days without seeing any signs of bed bugs. This product should not be used alone to treat for active bed bugs and best used along with Cimexa Dust to dust the cracks and crevices along baseboards, around window/door trim, between mattresses and boxsprings, behind picture frames, etc.
For preventative applications, Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate will provide up to a 30 day residual. View the full product label for more information.
No, we recommend cleaning prior to the Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate application instead so that none of the residual is removed from the areas treated.
Per the product label, in the home, all food/feed processing surfaces and utensils should be covered during treatment, or thoroughly washed before use. Cover or remove exposed food/feed
We do not recommend overlapping products such as DE over Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate as we do not know how they may react. You may put products near each other but do not overlap.
Yes, you will need a designated sprayer for the application of the Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate. It is applied at 13 oz to 115 oz of water.
We strongly recommend that you refer to our 4-Step Bed Bug Treatment Guide before using Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate for detailed information on how to prepare a room for a bed bug treatment, how to treat a room for bed bugs, how to treat a mattress for bed bugs, how to kill live and active bed bugs and the importance of repeat bed bug treatments. Pets should be removed from the area you are treating, and can return to the area once the application has completely dried.
No, Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate is not able to be applied using any type of fogging equipment and should be applied using a handpump sprayer like one of the Chapin Hand Pump Sprayers.
Any mixed solution of Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate should be used within 24 hours of mixing as it the active ingredient will start to breakdown and separate. The residual is different then how long the solution stays suspended in water. Applications of Crossfire should be reapplied every 30 days for active bed bug infestations even though Crossfire has shown to leave a residual on surfaces for a few after the initial application.
The shelf life of Crossfire in it's original concentrate form in the original container is 3-5 years from the manufacturered date.
Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate will only work in the rooms that it is sprayed. Unfortunately any other tenants dealing with bed bugs will continue to have them if they do not treat as it only kills those that contact a treated area.
Unfortunately there is no way for us to know why manufacturers do not test products such as Crossfire Bed Bug Concentrate to be fogged. Any time that you go off label, it will not give you the same results as if you've used it per the label. Keep in mind that manufacturers spend a lot of time & money to come up with rates/usage to give you the best perfomance from a product. Going against that will give you potential ineffective results