Dust bunnies are breeding out of control under my bed...

Factual Questions
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What I would like to know is:

(1) What the hell are dust bunnies made of? Hair I could understand, but where is all that fluff from? I don’t have fluffy clothes or a fluffy pet or fluffy anything.

(2) Why are they all under my bed and not in other parts of my flat?

(3) How can I permanently prevent them?

2

I don’t have a cite, but I remember reading somewhere that a very large percentage of your household “dirt” is composed of flaked off YOU. Skin, hair, aside from crud you pick up on your shoes.

3

istara, I hope you find a good answer here. I have the same problem. Where they come from I have no idea.

I live in a loft style condo with all wood floors. No carpeting to catch all the dust bunnies, so they just gather under beds and behind bookcases and stuff. I vaccume up large amounts of them every week.

They aren’t made of just hair. They also cannot be mostly dead skin, because they aren’t really dust. I think they must be formed from lint of clothes, or sheets maybe?

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Looks like some sites address this issue:

http://www.aerias.org/kview.asp?DocId=35&spaceid=1&subid=8

The site above advises to “Maintain humidity levels around 40-60%.”

But now I’m concerned about dust in my PC:

http://www.casejunkiez.com/articles/dust/dust.shtml

5

What do you expect of bunnies? They breed like rabbits :slight_smile:

Seriously, you, your clothes etc are shedding all the time. What do you think it is in the dryer lint screen? it’s your clothes.

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Where do dust bunnies come from?

istara:
(1) What the hell are dust bunnies made of? Hair I could understand, but where is all that fluff from? I don’t have fluffy clothes or a fluffy pet or fluffy anything.

Cecil:
(1) Dust bunnies consist of any number of things, including pet and human hairs, pillow feathers, insect parts, clothing bits and other fibers, soil, mold spores, meteor dust, pollen, yeast, and God knows what else.

istara:
(2) Why are they all under my bed and not in other parts of my flat?

Cecil:
(2) They form under your bed because that’s where they find “still air pockets,” where they can grow unmolested. You want to get rid of them, get rid of the air pockets–e.g., plop ze mattress on ze floor.

istara:
(3) How can I permanently prevent them?

… Oh, no (3). Cecil answered it with his (2). Well, it was as custom-made as you can get. :smiley:
But I’m sure there had been a (3) if he had taken the matter more seriously.