How about wrapping carpet tape around the legs of the bed, would that do as well as putting the legs in containers of mineral oil? I have hardwood floors and very little bedding and make sure it doesn’t touch the floor, but I do have to walk across that floor to get into my bed - sometimes I spray the bottoms of my feet with rubbing alcohol if I remember. I even took down my curtains all over the house, plan to wash them in hot water/dry in a hot dryer, and clean them much more frequently in the future.
Is your bed up against a wall? If so, you might want to put a tape barrier on the wall itself. If you use carpet tape, put some wide painters tape on the wall first, this will keep the carpet tape from damaging the paint.
Interesting about the bugs avoiding the carpet tape, davidm - that explains a lot.
Because the residents that tried it never caught bugs either, but they stopped getting bit. The tape can also be used around doorways for containment - you have to put in on the floor though so it might get stepped on.
But if you have a closet that you’ve verified as bug-free, you can use the tape to keep the bugs out.
I’d guess that they evolved the avoidance behavior when people tried using sticky tape as a trap rather than as a total barrier.
I suppose they’ll eventually evolve a solution; maybe dropping down from the ceiling, some sort of non-stick surface on their feet, or the ability to jump several inches; but at least for now it seems like a solution.
So I have these things all over my bathroom. Came here to ask what they were. Seemed to fit in the bedbug thread. (Hoping they are not bed bugs).
Ideas?
People have tested whether bedbugs will drop from the ceiling. No. Bedbugs on a wall always move upward, even if it’s a “bad idea”, presumably to avoid falling. Of course, a bedbug could accidentally fall, but I don’t think they can climb on a ceiling anyway.
Bedbugs are ultimate survival machines, and try hard to conserve energy. Many of their tactics (hiding out nearby, but not too close, and only coming out at night) are a smart survival strategy, but of course they always do so, whether it’s really smart or not.
Because they’re lazy, they don’t clean themselves. This makes it harder to kill them with poison. If a cockroach walks over sticky poison, it will use its mouthparts to clean that stuff up, and even if the cockroach doesn’t deliberately eat the stuff, some will get into its system. Bedbugs will just crawl a bit more slowly.
Bedbugs even resist the poor breeding that results from their very slow movement (they can’t travel far to find better genetic matches), but of course if people transport them around the world, they don’t mind.
I have little experience with carpet tape. I have some really sticky tape for bugs, but I find that it gets less sticky over time. Maybe I just bought cheap tape, though. For me, the mineral oil was easy, since it’s cheap and idiot-proof 
Bed bugs won’t hang onto your feet.
Not bed bugs. Carpet beetles?