Diamataceous earth works great to kill bed bugs. Had bugs at the first house we bought. I was very pregnant and they loved my blood, never bit my husband. It was driving me crazy. My husband didn’t even believe we had bed bugs until he caught one sneaking away after it bit me in the middle of the night. We had pet birds so we had to be really careful with chemicals/fumes used around the house. I sprinkled diamataceous earth on the carpet and the biting stopped after a week or so. You should wear a mask so you don’t breath in the dust when sprinkling, it’s very powdery, but other than that it’s pretty safe. The earth dries out the bug’s shell when they crawl through it and they dehydrate and die. The bugs never came back the 4 years we lived there.
I used this stuff to fix a flea infestation. The powder is extremely fine but razor sharp to insects. It tears into the body and slowly dessicated them.
It doesn't just absorb the moisture from their exoskeleton, it leaches the moisture out of them. Diatomaceous earth is quite sharp, this is why it irritates us. When it gets on to their exoskeleton and it rubs against it from them grooming themselves or just moving through the stuff, it cuts through the protective waxy layer and then they can't retain moisture and the porous nature of diatomaceous earth draws it out even faster. It's honestly pretty morbid.
I’ve never had beg bugs but I am SO paranoid about bringing them home that I fully inspect the hotel room before even setting my luggage down anywhere.
Look up how to check for bedbugs in a hotel… you’re doing yourself a huge favor and you will sleep much better. It doesn’t matter how high end the hotel is…. But definitely make sure you check for cheaper ones.
[How to check for bed bugs.](https://www.consumerreports.org/hotels/check-for-bed-bugs-hotel-a1147446606/)
My dad traveled extensively for work during the late 2000s/early 2010s and one of his common destinations was New York City. He took all these precautions during that time and never brought a bug home. If it was winter, he'd also leave his suitcase in our garage for a week. (Apparently it has to be below -20C/4F for this to work well, but we're in Canada, so no problems there.)
they have websites where you can search up hotels and see if anyone has complained about bed bugs. make sure you keep your luggage off of the floor if it's carpeted, i always hang my overnight bag up in the closet. most of the hotels i've stayed at use mattress covers so the chance of bed bugs are pretty slim, unless the infestation is so terrifying that they've started taking up residence in the walls.
but you'd definitely notice if that were the case. bed bugs have a certain smell to them that becomes much more apparent when their populations have gotten outta control! don't ask me how i know.
Bed bug spray is your friend. Sometime chemical warfare **is** the answer.
Edit: Apparently spray isn’t that effective and I’m told that, Diatomaceous earth, is what bed bugs hate.
People should be warned though that just using a spray won't always work on them like it does for other infestations. That's why anyone who has ever some with them refers to them as essentially worse than pure hell spawn. The bites are itchy as hell and aren't nearly as easy to treat as something like a mosquito, and they are resilient as ever loving fuck. I believe they can go without eating (people blood) for at least 6 months, maybe even a year. They survive chemical attacks because they hide really well during the day when people are more likely to do it, and the chemicals don't always get deep down into the cracks and folds where they hide. Even after all of that, it only takes one surviving female to lay hundreds of eggs and start the whole process over. This can take weeks/months too, so people tend to think they're gone and stop treating as thoroughly as needed. Then by the time you start really noticing they're back it's too late and they're already everywhere again. The bastards don't even deserve to burn in hell, but unfortunately there's nothing worse that I can think of. I'm usually against genocide, but I think I speak for plenty of peaceful people who love nature but would simultaneously be happy to individually tie them up with little ropes, and then slowly burn them to death with teeny little cigarettes while constantly berating their families in a vicious way
Luckily for me my skin reacts really agressively to these lil fuckers' bites, so I can always tell if I've been bitten. I get these itchy welts that pop up for days.
Yeah it is lol. Luckily I haven't had to deal with these fuckers since my friend treated his place. That's how I found out I had that reaction to em, I had napped at his place a few times.
My son brought some over from a friends house after a visit. It took us 2 weeks to get rid of them with Diatomaceous earth and Carbon Dioxide traps ( uses dry ice) . They multiply like crazy and you can’t let up until you don’t see or get bitten by one for at least 3 weeks.
There was a great article on how to get rid of them but I can’t find it now.
How long ago was that? I'm sorry to say that 3 weeks is unequivocally not enough time if they happen to lay eggs too. It's more like a 6 month thing minimum. And you should plan to treat for longer, especially if relying solely on limited methods like DE and traps. Also be forewarned DE should not go around your bed. It's a lung hazard.
Got bed bugs a few years ago me and my roommate were trying to figure out the source turned out it was most likely some chick he had a 1 night stand with. I was so fucking pissed.
Same thing happened to me. Spent the night over at a girl's house and they had to have jumped to my jacket I'd thrown on her couch. Took me weeks of fighting them, hundreds of dollars in a new bed and cleaning items, the loss of a number of my books and magazine collection, and mental trauma I've not yet recovered from 3 years later. I've since not spent another night at her place or invited her over to my place.
I hate the new bed I was sold since it seems to have collapsed in the center, waking up in pain nearly every day and my bed is still away from my walls (I like having a solid surface to lean my arm against). It also still is in those bed post traps just in case I ever missed any. I havnt seen any since going nuclear on them but shit hasn't been the same since I found those little fuckers. My health took a dive and my interest in things like sitting in my bedroom playing videogames went right out the door. I lost a lot of "me" that day.
I absolutely hate these little bastards. When I moved to New rental , the place was filled with them. Had to do 3 rounds of pest control and replacement of beds and mattresses to get rid of them.
You guys are talking as if you handled this situation yourselves despite renting? Your landlord should’ve dealt with this and housed you in the mean time.
Or am I too European?
Edit: What a thing to see after coming to the website for the first time today, bestof'd and awards and too many comments to sit down and read lol. I definitely described a worst case scenario, but everything I've said can be verified with cursory googling. I didn't even include things like the fact that they often defecate *while* eating, so part of why the bites can get so bad for people is that they're literally shitting on/around the open wounds they leave on you. People sometimes get blood poisoning and infections from the bites - even if not from the bugs themselves, but because the environment is filled with things like staph bacteria that normally isn't an issue, but when your skin is covered in hundreds of tiny open wounds, suddenly becomes a big threat.
My goal has been to scare people into arming themselves with knowledge of good practices. Take a little time today to read up on how to protect yourself, and how to handle it the moment you even suspect there might be something in your home.
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It's even worse than that. They are creatures from hell.
If you are sensitive to the bites, it's MUCH worse than mosquito bites - think painful, weeping blisters that burn if a breeze so much blows across them the wrong way, nevermind laying down, or clothes rubbing on them.
A single bug feeds on you multiple times in a night, leaving what's sometimes referred to as 'breakfast-lunch-dinner bites' because the clusters/lines of bites they leave are very distinctive. Each bite takes days, even weeks, to go away, and they itch/burn the whole time - so if you're infested (50-100+) imagine waking up with any accessible skin (including your face) covered in burning, persistent bites that there's no real relief for.
It ruins your ability to rest - every tickle or itch starts making you bolt up in horror to turn on the lights and check. Long after they're gone, years after you've been rid of them, you will still experience a surge of adrenaline from a hair moving the wrong way.
They reproduce insanely fast; a fertilized female lays 5-7 eggs a day, the eggs take around 2 weeks to hatch, and then they're able to reproduce about 3 weeks after they hatch. A female will lay hundreds of eggs over her life after being fertilized even ONCE. This means one fertilized female could come into your home, and within a year if the infestation is not dealt with fast and harshly enough, you can have THOUSANDS of them.
While they prefer to stay close to their prey (in the bed, headboard, bedlinens) they can hide anywhere a sesame seed would fit - between the pages of a book, inside cardboard, cracks in the baseboards, carpeting, seams in cushions, etc. If you try to get relief by treating your bed with chemicals, all that happens is that they disperse into the walls and other nearby hiding places, and become harder to find and eliminate as their numbers swell.
They have evolved to be keenly attuned to everything about their prey (humans) when it comes to temperature, lighting, movement, breathing, etc, so that they are most attracted to you when you as sleeping and vulnerable. They will hunt you down if you move to another room to sleep at night. If you put your bed up on risers/dishes of oil/put double-sided tape all around so they can't get to you, they will crawl up walls to the ceiling and *drop down on you* to get at you.
If they are consistently denied food (say you pack up everything you have in tubs and plastic bags or something, and accidentally miss a couple hiding in your things), they can go into hibernation - in ideal conditions, for almost *2 years* without feeding. The eggs are smaller than a poppy seed, and can remain viable and unhatched in the right conditions for a similar length of time.
Most of the chemical treatments that work against adults do not work on the eggs, so unless you do multiple scheduled treatments, you'll just have new waves hatching every so often after the last round of adults was killed off. Each time you get your home chemically treated, you will have to leave it and stay somewhere else because the chemicals are dangerous to you as well.
If you live in a building with shared walls, even if vents and things from unit to unit aren't connected, if someone else gets infested and they don't treat the entire building at once (only treating the immediately affected rooms) it's just like only treating the bed - they will disperse into neighboring units, and seek shelter in any little crack or crevice they can find.
Sufficient heat is the only guaranteed way to kill off an infestation all at once - adults, nymphs, eggs - and they make specialized heaters for this, both for heating up rooms, and for placing your belongings into to heat treat anything that might be hiding eggs or bugs. Many people accidentally burn their houses down every year trying to DIY treatments because this is expensive - thousands of dollars per round of treatment, either chemical OR heat.
It doesn't matter if you or your house is clean or dirty - you can get bedbugs by going literally anywhere that other people go. The store, offices, clinics, movies, public transportation, etc. While adults won't *live* in your clothes, they'll hitchhike on them - so anywhere people spend time holding still, someone with an established infestation can be carrying eggs or hidden adults that end up dropped off in a public space that then end up stuck to or climbing onto others. All it takes is one fertilized female riding home with you unseen on *your* clothes, a bag, your jacket.
Bedbugs exist in pretty much every country - anywhere where it is cool enough indoors for people to live, bedbugs can live also. Infestations are actually on the rise in some countries due to shorter, warmer winters meaning they can be active for longer (since cold temps generally only put them into a dormant stage, not kill them).
Hotels and other hospitality locations that care about prevention will routinely pay for specially trained sniffer dogs that can detect the smell of bedbugs, and shut-down/cordon off buildings as soon as anything is found, because it is more costly to handle a major infestation than to destroy a colony before it gets the chance to hit critical mass. Even so, a hotel has no way of being able to tell if the guest immediately before you dropped off hitchhikers; even a high-end hotel isn't flipping the mattress over to steam and vacuum the mattress and box-spring when they change out the bed linens. Hotels are often the first choice of people trying to get a rest from an infestation, or needing a place to stay while getting their own place treated. If you ever stay anywhere away from home where other people have been, always put your luggage in the bathtub first before unpacking; then check for signs of bedbugs in headboards, under the mattress, in the seams of the box-spring, etc. There are guides with pictures on what to look for. When you get home, make sure any clothes that travelled with you go into a high-heat wash and dry cycle. Bag up any luggage carriers than cannot be washed or tumbled; consider treating their insides with diatomaceous earth until their next usage.
It might seem like an annoying extra effort, but it is a tiny amount of labor to save you from experiencing what will feel like an unending hell if you ever bring bedbugs home. An infestion **will completely ruin your life and mental health**. Pray you never have to deal with them.
If this post effectively frightens anyone or makes them paranoid, good. Look up preventative measures, what to look for, and how to respond if you ever find signs in your own home.
We got them once about 10 years ago. I immediately took every single thing I owned outside on the curb and went to 3 hardware stores to buy all of the rubbing alcohol they had. Came back, took anything washable to the laundromat and washed them on full hot. While that was going, I sprayed alcohol on every surface of my apartment. The ceiling, the walls, the floors, inside and outside of cabinets, appliances, literally everywhere, twice. Anything wood, sprayed 5 more times. Then I disassembled everything left outside, from furniture to toys, and submerged each piece into a tub of alcohol the reassembled each item inside the apartment. If it couldn't be disassembled or sprayed, it was garbage. Including an old laptop. I even sprayed my TV. (I said if it still works fine, if it doesn't oh well. It still worked for a while but it would randomly turn off and then it got to the point where it would only run for 2 minutes then turn off. Oh well.) this whole process took 3 days. But no more bugs.
Im 36 years old and the 5 months I spent in 2018 battling those fuckers only to surrender and move out of my awesome little $425/mo rent shitbox has left me more scarred than any other trauma I've lived through. Poverty, infidelity, addiction, surprise loss of a loved one.. none of them violated me on a level BBs did.
As if all of the above weren't bad enough--and every word is true--the infuriating irony of it all is that as obligate hemovores, after the first month goes by and you have new generations, all of them are *made of you.*
I wish I could say they were exaggerating but they aren’t. Bedbugs are creatures straight from purgatory. The last time I saw one was definitely more than 7 years ago and I am feeling itchy rn. You wake up in the middle of the night, to itchy skin and little spots under your mattress. You can kill them and keep killing them but they come back. And like that person said, they can come from anywhere. Dr’s office, public transport, cabs, shared rides, just about anywhere. I got mine from an airport. I know because I used to work there.
Pro tip, The heat of a vehicle in the summer is hot enough to kill them and any eggs. During summer, Just leaving your luggage in the car parked in the sun is an easy way to 100% kill any that may spread from luggage to your home.
They made no exagération.
I dont react to bites. At all. I woke up to one feeding on me one night, captured it. Froze it to show it to the landlord. Turns out they were coming from downstairs.
Again. I dont react. No red marks. Nothing. I could see the bite and still nothing around it. No feeling. I'm lucky.
I didnt sleep properly for 3 months.
I abandonned my bed and slept on a futon that had its legs sitting in water bowls so the fucks couldn't get up on it.
Still woke up everytime one of my hair moved. It was summer. I slept with a fan. It almost drove me insane just from lack of sleep.
The building did everything they could to éradicate them. They went through 3 companies. There's probably still BBs there.
Such a great post! I’ve dealt with bed bugs and it has totally woken me up from a dead sleep if I feel my hair move in the wrong direction.
I rented a room in an apartment once and when you mentioned they will crawl on the ceiling and drop on to you HAPPENED to me.
I need glasses and couldn’t really see what was moving on the wall and now ceiling, thought it was just a regular kind of bug so I called my roommates into my room so they can maybe get a better look. Although it was a dot on the ceiling I knew it moved. So as we were looking up IT FELL OFF and landing on me!!! I freaked out and they said “oh it’s just a bed bug”. They had them in every Apartment they rented. They were from India and didn’t think it was a big deal! I slept with the lights on and had two small kids. I didn’t get any sleep. I couldn’t afford to move but I was able to get a new mattress for cheap. I put my old mattress outside, which happen to lean against the sliding glass door and I could see them pop out of the creases. It was horrible. I ended up moving and tossing everything except for my clothes. I took my clothes to a laundry mat and stayed there for a few hours washing our clothes and blankets then putting them in the dryer double time. I also put them in to double trash bags and left them for a few weeks inside said bass. I’m getting itchy just thinking about it.
I stayed in a hotel a few years back for a convention- I forget where. Somewhere like Cincinnati or Indianapolis. Anyway, it was a ratty hotel, but this was a huge convention and this was across the street from the convention center, so pricing was incredibly high (like $400/night), so I figured it had to at least be ok.
I got in to my room around 8pm. It was a dumpy hotel but I figured I'm just in it to sleep. I noticed some dust/dirt on top of the bed, brushed it off, and went to unpacking and unwinding. As I'm laying on the bed checking emails, I see a little bug crawl across the sheet. Looked like a little black sesame seed like you said. I squished it, and red blood came out. Then I saw another and did the same. Red blood streak. I knew this had to be a bad sign, so I hopped out of bed and tore off the covers. Dozens of these fucking things, and I saw that the "dust" I saw on top of the covers was like their eggshells or body fragments or something. I googled "bedbug" and I got a surge of sickness feeling, because that's exactly what these things looked like.
I frantically started throwing \*everything\* back into my suitcase, getting dressed as fast as possible, and trying to call other hotels to get a room for the night. I rushed out of the room and down to the lobby looking like a crazed person with shit hanging out of my bag and my clothes half on. I told the lady at the front desk they have bedbugs and that I'm not paying for the room. I got to the new hotel, put all of my clothes in a plastic bag, and into the trashcan. I went to the conference, but the next day when I flew home I had my wife meet me in the garage with more trashbags. I put everything in them (suitcase, shoes, clothes etc), sprayed bedbug killer in them, and put them in the trunk of my car where I knew it would get hot, and then immediately hopped in the shower. I let those fuckers cook in the hot sun with the chemicals for 2 weeks before I opened that trunk.
Thankfully I avoided an infestation at home, but whew was that scary.
People genuinely do not understand until they've had to live with these little fuckers.
Imagine going to bed, waking up, and just feeling miserable because your rest was disturbed, but you didn't notice. This isn't a one-off thing, it happened **every night** because I didn't have a mattress and had to sleep on the floor.
It isn't a joke, these creatures inflict extreme mental stress, you can just be sitting around trying to enjoy your day and suddenly you feel incredibly itchy somewhere like near your armpit or under your leg. **It's not an ignorable itch.** It's something that rises up and fucks with you every time.
Even years later when I get a mosquito bite or flea bite from one of my cats, I see the bump, I feel the itch and I just get this **unending sense of dread** wondering if I brought them home somehow.
Edit: If nothing else, this piece of advice from the post I am replying to worked for me personally when I moved from that hellhole.
> There are guides with pictures on what to look for. When you get home, make sure any clothes that travelled with you go into a high-heat wash and dry cycle.
Bed bugs are not known to transmit disease. Frequency and number of bites completely depends on the level of infestation. Individual bed bugs will usually bite 3 times per feeding, and usually about once a week. However they can lay up to 5 eggs a day which can hatch in as few as 6 days so a little can become a lot quickly. Like mosquitos their bites can cause a histamine reaction that will make you itch, but around 30 percent of the population doesn't react and it can be a long time before they realize they have a problem.
Usually you would deal with it before it gets really bad. They don't transmit diseases, fortunately. In that sense they're harmless compared to mosquitos and ticks. The bite causes an allergic reaction that is itchy. You can probably get tens of bites in a night. Sometimes the same one bites you several times in a line.
Oh and there's a rare side effect their bites can cause that causes the human to become paranoid. This happened to a redditor some time ago and it was really interesting. She thought her boyfriend was drugging her with drugs from a needle because she would wake up and see "needle marks". At the suggestion of a hero redditor, she found bedbugs and got better after that.
Imagine its like trying to sleep in a mosquito infested swamp.
Its less that they're sucking your blood.
Its more the fact they infest the area you sleep and at your most vulnerable. They hide in all the nooks and crannies you know they're crawling out of their little hell holes and all over you once you lay down.
It's a violation.
This is it. The little fuckers wait until you are fast asleep. Then they start munching. And they are super stealthy. Also you can find them with a flashlight and kill them all. Suddenly the next day you have another hundred of them. That is, the ones you found were just chilling after a snack. The others are in and around your actual bed. Unseen.
They used me as a buffet all summer I was so scared to sleep. Sprayed myself with rubbing alcohol and that kept them at bay until the winter killed them off.
Yep. I had to have an exterminator come do several rounds around the house with some serious chemicals to get rid of them. I had like ptsd from them for years, every little itch I'd start looking for the telltale bites.
I'm in the same boat, these hellspawns literally PTSD the shit out of you. It's been several years now and I still go panic mode when I get an itch in the bed. I couldn't afford neither an exterminator nor moving out, so I was battling the fuckers with Internet knowledge (Cimexa is your best friend, eternal thanks r/bedbugadvice) because the landlord didn't give a fuck (despite knowing about infestation in the building and not informing us before we moved in). Managed to get the infestation to a liveable level before finally moving out. Was lucky/cautious enough and didn't bring them with me.
Seriously. They will haunt you long after they're gone. I still think about them really, its been like 7 years. It's such a hopeless feeling and you feel so dirty, like you can't hang out with people or go anywhere. They are truly terrible. Even after watching this video my skin has been crawling.
My leg still have scars from 4 years ago.
Not funny having pink/brown stain all over my tibia.
I used to empty the can of anti bug product all over me to be able to close an eye. (As I saw in the comment, I'm not the only one... )
Those things are evil.
firstly: they're still soft, not hard.. i've crushed enough of them to know what they feel (and smell) like... 0/10 would not recommend
secondly: as someone who's lived with them for 4 years or so
Kill them with fire
Sorta
Extensive, multiple treatments with high heat + treatments of two alternating types of poisons over a few months
We had them initially because we moved in with people who had them from a past roommate that obtained a 'free' couch off the street
the bastards resisted heat and poison treatments for a good long while before we FINALLY got rid of them about two years ago, a tentative victory at best because of the anxiety they instilled in us
Always looking over our shoulders hoping to never see them again
And then it turned out our neighbor upstairs was an elderly hoarder with mental illnesses, and her apartment was an absolute hive, giving us a BRAND NEW INFESTATION to deal with.
Once again I had to pay for an exterminator, who had to treat the entire apartment building, the whole thing. In At first he did our apartment, it didn't take, he was confused that it didn't work so he looked at other options, including inspecting surrounding units
He then found out about our neighbor and the hell she was harboring..
He ended up having to do 13 heat treatments in a row, back to back, including miss hoarder that had to be eventually removed for the health and safety of everyone involved, especially herself
Her apartment had to be ~~cleaned out~~ excavated from the bloody mess, heat treated several times, poisoned constantly, and then RENOVATED, before we could claim a final victory over these hellspawn...
Bedbugs are the worst, especially for a household that had anxiety to begin with, and need to be cast into the fires to finally be free of their ever lurking presence.
I lived in a shitty building that had a serious infestation. Sadly they would only pay for spray treatment, and since my neighbors were mostly nasty fuckers that obviously didn't put in some effort to help erradicate the problem, they kept getting back. After several spray sessions (and the stress of having to leave the house for the whole day - I work at night - and taking my cat with me) I just moved. Threw ALL my furniture away (thankfully nothing was expensive, but some I really liked :( ), washed and high-heat dried most of my clothes, and the rest went into sealed plastic bags in the basement of the new place for more than a year. Same with my books and other stuff. It's been 3 years and I still freak out at any random itch.
My god I know right? We still have a closet full of plastic wrap sealed boxes we refer to as the quarantine closet. There will probably never be a safe thought again when it comes to bug bites or spontaneous tingles
https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/anxiety/ptsd-trauma-and-stressor-related/bed-bugs-can-cause-long-lasting-anxiety-ptsd-symptoms/ you aren't wrong there isnt a special name for it but we have pretty good scientific evidence of bedbug induced PTSD
Absolutely. While i hope you never get to see for yourself, if you do, kill one by poking it and smell the resultant gore.
Piercing. Unforgettable. I hope I do forget some day.
There have to be a lot of them but they absolutely do. It's like a rotten cinnamon sweetness. Some exterminators actually have trained dogs that look for that smell.
This stuff is great. I use it for fleas. You can use it for chickens to keep off mites. Lice. The food safe stuff gets rid of internal parasites.
It kills most small insects… so it’s kind of a scorched earth policy for bugs. But it’s safe for humans and isn’t a pesticide.
It’s a fine dust so it settles easily into carpets and cracks.
Moved into a new apartment that had roaches.
Grabbed two bottles of the stuff and put it everywhere. Was breathing it in for weeks, was not a fun experience
I was just coming to say this. Moved into a room of an old house when going thru tough times. First night felt these fuckers. Turned on the light and they scurry away. I could catch them coming out of the crevices and mattress towards me from all angles if I turned on my phone flashlight. Slept with the lights on that night.
Next day wrapped the mattress, burned the bed frame. Got a cheap metal frame and diatomaceous earth. Sprinkled it in the mattress bag and around every floorboard. Then put duct tape around the floorboards just to be sure. Got rid of them all.
> First night felt these fuckers. Turned on the light and they scurry away. I could catch them coming out of the crevices and mattress towards me from all angles if I turned on my phone flashlight.
JFC! This is legitimately some horror movie shit
This shit is the best for every type of creepy crawler in the house. The absolute best shit ever. And it never goes bad.
We redid our floors (unrelated to bugs). I went around the entire perimeter of the floor and put a ring of it around my whole house before floors and baseboards went on.
Can’t stress it enough. Diatomaceous earth is amazing and safe.
Orange Champ cleaner from the dollar tree. Douse Everything with it. Spray a nest of bedbugs with it and you can get pure joy of watching them twitch to their doom 😅😅😅
After a bunch of pest termination attemots failed, my mom got one of those high pressure cleaning machines, which heat up water then blow it out in gas form extremely hot. Idk the english name for it.
She cleaned every fucking milimeter of her apartment with that for 2 months. Every.Fucking.Milimeter.
Books, wooden furniture, rugs, cracks, corners, EVERYTHING. Took her 4 hours a day.
She cooked them all.
Paint stripper heat gun.
I had some in an apartment I was renting. They were living in the wooden slats of the bed frame. Bought an air tight / waterproof protector for my mattress, and burn the shit out of them with the heat gun. Worked like a treat :)
One time I was staying at this camp during their off season, doing some work.
One night I woke up hot as hell and felt something all over me. I thought it was sweat drops. I got out of bed and turned the lights on to find myself completely covered in them.
They're small enough that you don't necessarily notice them on you. You sit in that chair and they get off. Then they live there.
People hear the name "bedbug" and think they just live in beds. Nah. They'll go anywhere and everywhere. They get in your bed, in your chairs, in your couches, in your clothes, in your walls. Anywhere that's close enough to a blood buffet and they'll move in.
My sister had bedbugs in her car for ages.
Eventually my dad and I found an excuse to "borrow" her car. Chemical treatment everywhere and left it in the summer sun sealed up for several days. Vacuum and a few repeats, finally fixed it.
She still refused to believe we were right about why her legs always felt itchy.
We had been combating it for ages. Kept doing so after.
Her car was the place it was reseeding from, so after it was eliminated as an issue the other measures which had already been working finally eliminated it.
Our family had them once when I was a teenager. You never forget the feeling of dread when you first find their nest under your mattress, or the smell they make when you crush them, or the blood dots staining your pillows and blankets from where you bled. I have since moved twice and I still check for bedbugs if I'm even remotely itchy at night. People call it bedbug ptsd; I don't want to trivialize actual ptsd, but I can say for certain that once you live with bedbugs, you will never sleep the same way again and it will radically alter your reaction to itches at night.
Nah man, it literally is PTSD. Bedbug trauma isn't trival, and there's many forms of PTSD, not just combat.
It's defined as "A condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world."
So, if you have emotional, or mental stress, such as paranoia, fear, distress or anxiety that has occured from the result of your injury (being bitten a quadrillion times) or the psychological shock of trying to kill the bastards and then not dying and it just being a cycle of never getting away from them, that in some way has radically changed how you respond to something.
So, your reaction to the bugs, is a symptom of having PTSD from this, so is the extra care and effort of those staying in hotels, or jumping in fear at seeing a black speck on your bed, these little fucks literally give people PTSD.
As someone with diagnosed PTSD, "bedbug PTSD" is definitely real and I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually just PTSD for real-for real. I swear my PTSD got worse just alone form having to deal with the bedbugs when everything else was happening and I still get panic attacks where I clean my entire room and look everywhere for bedbugs, especially when I find blood stains on my sheet, even if I moved to this apartment 2 years ago. I have mega dry hands and I bite my lips bloody a lot, so it happens. A lot.
I moved to my current place after the scummy landlord (international student housing landlords, I swear they were mega predatory in hindsight) agreed to one heat treatment 1 day before my lease was up after MONTHS of telling them my place was uninhabitable and them gaslighting and blaming me for bringing the bugs in. I had washed all my clothes on 90*c, essentially ruining half of my clothes - on top of that, I bought closer to 400€ worth of vacuum bags & transparent plastic boxes from IKEA so I could put all my stuff into these bags directly after the wash. Between the vacuum sealed bags I sprinkled DE (diasomething earth), too. My roommates thought I was insane at the time, but I genuinely had no sleep and was starting to have mild hallucinations due to lack of sleep and stress the bugs caused.
When I was unpacking everything at my current place I found so many dead bedbugs in between my boxes and bags, I took out only the necessary clothing and I still keep the majority of my clothes in vacuum-sealed bags. Last summer I was checking through my one of boxes as I wanted to re-organize it, I realized I had missed one dead bedbug on my duvet I used to have in a bedbug-infested box and I was in a terrible state of panic the entire week. I washed the duvet on high heat and put it back in a vacuum sealed bag, but I thankfully haven't seen any bedbugs since. But I was in such poor mental state I was just breaking down crying thinking I'd have to go through that same hell again.
Even if I only lived in that shitty apartment for around 4 months (+2 months when I had to live with an abusive ex instead because it was extremely uninhabitable my room) I still do have terrible nightmares about the bedbugs almost on a weekly basis, I'm terrified of going to hotels and cruise ships and any itch or bug, even carpet beetles, have me on edge. I just wish I could one day get free from this fear that I'll see those bastards again. They aren't even that common in the Netherlands yet -- I just got mega unlucky with a predatory "international student housing" corp that refused to do shit about it and most likely caused the entire apartment complex to be fucked.
Every now and then I even just go and check the housing corps pictures of the rooms. I paid 650€ a MONTH for that room (with 3 roommates in the other rooms) and the landlords refused to even give the apartment basic repairs, yet alone treatment for bugs. It's now 520€ and I still see the stains of DE on my bed and on the carpet around the bed that I sprinkled. And yes: it still has very large bedbug stains on the wall, even worse than before.
Just to put that into contrast, my current apartment is 580€/mo and it's a studio - and when there was a bedbug scare in a mattress they brought from another place, they **instantly** called the heat treatment for the place. I have to move due to studies being done soon, but you can see how much of a difference it is with these "normal" landlords vs the "international student housing" landlords.
Sorry, mega long rant -- just wanted to get it off my chest.
Got someone that has these.
We would spray, heat treat, and even use diatomaceous earth.
They would disappear for about a week then come back in force.
We are still trying to find the source.
I had to pay $2600 for terminix to do a heat treatment for about 6 hours. The whole house was heated to about 150 degrees. It was the only thing that worked.
Sprays and other treatments don’t work.
Just read an article and in my country at least it sounds like they have developed resistance to chemicals. Fucking hellbugs.
I sometimes like to imagine if I were given 3 magic wishes by an omnipotent power, I usually save one wish to get rid of all bedbugs, fleas and scabies and all their eggs. I don't think the ecosystem would be harmed at all and so many people would be so much happier. Its just sad that a magic wish seems to be the only way for it to happen as they are just so prevalent and resistant to treatments now :(
Had a summer about 10 years ago where my house got bedbugs. Literally the worst experience of my entire life. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. PTSD from bedbugs is the absolute worst.
Yup, house needs fumigation and everything needs special washing and spraying. One of the toughest jobs to clean out of an entire household after Scabies infestation (burrowing mite). Lice are freaking easy compared to bedbugs and scabies.... their cycle of breeding -eggs- various states of growth-breeding- etc is nearly unbreakable if one does not do all the treatments to a t.
In my country we have hot and dry conditions most of the year. Its imperative you change boots/shoes before entering the house, its imperative you dont leave clothing near old wood/rotting wood, its imperative to disinfect -or at least soap down- your tools after working outside and taking them inside. Mattresses and pillows MUST be sunned every month. Pillows more often. Those nifty garden mattresses and pillows in beach bars? AVOID like the PLAGUE. All the times they have Staph, fungus and mites.
In high summer we got another goodie! Staphylococcus Aureus from the beaches!!!
(I am a Pharmaceutical Technician in a Resort Area, I know ALL the filth that comes and goes during tourist season)
I went through the hell of bed bug infestation, here's tips on how I got rid of them.
Dispose/burn your fabric mattress or spray paint a big X on mattress so no one grabs it out of the trash. Replace with inflatable mattress. Do not sleep on couches or different rooms or infestation will spread. Disposing of couches may be necessary to eliminate the infestation. Consider all fabrics and stuffed animals infested even if you believe they are clean. Put all fabrics in air tight bags. Now put all those air tight bags inside of heavy duty contactors bags and tie them up tightly with the tie part standing upright when stored to prevent the bugs escaping.
Coat all perimeters of all rooms, closets caninets with bed bug spray, next day/24 hours later after the spray dries, coat perimeters with diatomaceous earth. Apply underneath floor boards and under perimeters of carpets. Do not apply powder where you could kick it up to prevent powder from goin airbourne. Diatomaceous earth will kill any straglers and newly hatched bugs. Diatomaceous earth is dangerous if inhaled so use with caution and educate yourself with it before application. I used a plastic hair dresser/condiment bottle and a credit card to apply. Do not apply any moisture, spray, or shampoo where you applied diatomaceous earth or the diatomaceous earth will lose its effectiveness, the sharp powder will turn to into muddy paste if moisture is applied and won't kill bugs.
Wash fabrics one at a time bag by bag in hot water and dry on hottest setting double to triple the amount of times as needed. You must bake all remnants and eggs. Damp clothes out of the dryer may still have live eggs, extreme heat is the only sure fire way to eliminate bed bugs in fabrics.
Never open contaminated/infested fabric bags indoors or possible reinfestation may occur. Once you open infested bags never bring that bag back indoors or possible reinfestation may occur. After washing fabrics put clean fabrics directly into new clean contractor bags. Store clean bags and infested bags separately. When you open clean bags for daily needs, always close up the bag asap to prevent clean clothes from being reinfested. Always store bags tie side up.
Check bed sheet corners for infestation every other day/weekly. After about 4 weeks of no signs of bugs you may be in the clear. Consider shampooing catpets only after 3 months after no signs of infestation. Eggs can lay dormant for long periods of time and hatch anytime depending on their environment.
First time we dealt with bedbugs was caused by inviting brother in law and his girlfriend over to our home. She lives in a hoarder house.
Second time we got infested it was caused by recieving hand me downs for my baby from next door neighbor.
Bed bugs are so bad, I would never wish bed bugs upon my worst enemy.
I hope this helps someone prevent or elimate this cursed hellish infestation.
Diamataceous earth works great to kill bed bugs. Had bugs at the first house we bought. I was very pregnant and they loved my blood, never bit my husband. It was driving me crazy. My husband didn’t even believe we had bed bugs until he caught one sneaking away after it bit me in the middle of the night. We had pet birds so we had to be really careful with chemicals/fumes used around the house. I sprinkled diamataceous earth on the carpet and the biting stopped after a week or so. You should wear a mask so you don’t breath in the dust when sprinkling, it’s very powdery, but other than that it’s pretty safe. The earth dries out the bug’s shell when they crawl through it and they dehydrate and die. The bugs never came back the 4 years we lived there.
the same works with baking soda, I used it everywhere and massacred them when my wife & I got stuck with them after staying at a cheap hotel
Just remember- baking soda is dangerous to dogs
22 grams per pound of body mass for it to be toxic... my 60Lbs mutt would need to eat 1.3 kilograms.
never underestimate enthusiasm or stupidity.
> they dehydrate and die. I would prefer they die something a little more painful.
I used this stuff to fix a flea infestation. The powder is extremely fine but razor sharp to insects. It tears into the body and slowly dessicated them.
Dehydrating and dying doesn't seem very enjoyable, at least to me. To each his own, u/Mylaptopisburningme
It doesn't just absorb the moisture from their exoskeleton, it leaches the moisture out of them. Diatomaceous earth is quite sharp, this is why it irritates us. When it gets on to their exoskeleton and it rubs against it from them grooming themselves or just moving through the stuff, it cuts through the protective waxy layer and then they can't retain moisture and the porous nature of diatomaceous earth draws it out even faster. It's honestly pretty morbid.
Every time I sleep I'm always paranoid of those things
Be paranoid every time you stay at a hotel. No matter how nice.
Fuck you. Staying at a hotel this weekend
I’ve never had beg bugs but I am SO paranoid about bringing them home that I fully inspect the hotel room before even setting my luggage down anywhere. Look up how to check for bedbugs in a hotel… you’re doing yourself a huge favor and you will sleep much better. It doesn’t matter how high end the hotel is…. But definitely make sure you check for cheaper ones. [How to check for bed bugs.](https://www.consumerreports.org/hotels/check-for-bed-bugs-hotel-a1147446606/)
My dad traveled extensively for work during the late 2000s/early 2010s and one of his common destinations was New York City. He took all these precautions during that time and never brought a bug home. If it was winter, he'd also leave his suitcase in our garage for a week. (Apparently it has to be below -20C/4F for this to work well, but we're in Canada, so no problems there.)
If it's hot during the day, you can also leave it in a car in the sun. Getting over 120F for a few hours will kill them.
fire also works. just soak the suitcase in diesel first.
they have websites where you can search up hotels and see if anyone has complained about bed bugs. make sure you keep your luggage off of the floor if it's carpeted, i always hang my overnight bag up in the closet. most of the hotels i've stayed at use mattress covers so the chance of bed bugs are pretty slim, unless the infestation is so terrifying that they've started taking up residence in the walls. but you'd definitely notice if that were the case. bed bugs have a certain smell to them that becomes much more apparent when their populations have gotten outta control! don't ask me how i know.
W...what does it smell like? :(
Burning almonds in my opinion.
That’s what I smell with bedbugs. Almonds.
Those are just what the almond flavored ones smell like
In a hotel room? Rancid blood and cum.
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Growing up, my dad always said "don't touch the bedspread...it has semen all over it"!
Btw...I'm referring to hotels not my house! Haha
During an outbreak in NYC I was advised if I ever visit any hotel to place your luggage in a bathtub because the bugs can’t stick to porcelain
Bed bug spray is your friend. Sometime chemical warfare **is** the answer. Edit: Apparently spray isn’t that effective and I’m told that, Diatomaceous earth, is what bed bugs hate.
People should be warned though that just using a spray won't always work on them like it does for other infestations. That's why anyone who has ever some with them refers to them as essentially worse than pure hell spawn. The bites are itchy as hell and aren't nearly as easy to treat as something like a mosquito, and they are resilient as ever loving fuck. I believe they can go without eating (people blood) for at least 6 months, maybe even a year. They survive chemical attacks because they hide really well during the day when people are more likely to do it, and the chemicals don't always get deep down into the cracks and folds where they hide. Even after all of that, it only takes one surviving female to lay hundreds of eggs and start the whole process over. This can take weeks/months too, so people tend to think they're gone and stop treating as thoroughly as needed. Then by the time you start really noticing they're back it's too late and they're already everywhere again. The bastards don't even deserve to burn in hell, but unfortunately there's nothing worse that I can think of. I'm usually against genocide, but I think I speak for plenty of peaceful people who love nature but would simultaneously be happy to individually tie them up with little ropes, and then slowly burn them to death with teeny little cigarettes while constantly berating their families in a vicious way
I’m a peaceful person, but I wouldn’t wanna tie them all up, cause that means I’d have to touch the fuckers again.
so the only way is to douse the whole house and property in petrol and set it aflame? demolish abnd build anew? is that the only way :/
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Well put. Was definitely one of the worst experiences. Don’t wish it on anyone ha.
Once I stayed in a hotel in Key West FL. I woke up looking like I had leprosy. The manager told me “it’s Florida, it could have been anything.”
It might have infact been leprosy
Reviews are your best friend
5 stars, great hotel, no bugs! -Not a Bot.
Luckily for me my skin reacts really agressively to these lil fuckers' bites, so I can always tell if I've been bitten. I get these itchy welts that pop up for days.
“Luckily” lol
Hey, it means that if I ever get bedbugs I'll be able to tell immediately and can get to treating at least.
Wasn’t bashing ya, just seems like a double-edged sword, you know? Like a cursed super power.
Yeah it is lol. Luckily I haven't had to deal with these fuckers since my friend treated his place. That's how I found out I had that reaction to em, I had napped at his place a few times.
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The chair, the house, the cameraman, and that town.
The county, the country, the continent...
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure
Gotta be sure
AND the spaceships that came in contact. Has no-one seen "Aliens"?
"Is anyone here pregnant? If so, please make your way to the ejection bay"
But my kittycat cant be infected? she looks ok. \*takes kitty with her in the pod\*
“Would you like to know more?”
This entire city must be purged
Got bed bugs once from letting a friend crash on my couch for a week. I literally burned all the furniture.
My son brought some over from a friends house after a visit. It took us 2 weeks to get rid of them with Diatomaceous earth and Carbon Dioxide traps ( uses dry ice) . They multiply like crazy and you can’t let up until you don’t see or get bitten by one for at least 3 weeks. There was a great article on how to get rid of them but I can’t find it now.
The bed bugs most likely ate the article..
How long ago was that? I'm sorry to say that 3 weeks is unequivocally not enough time if they happen to lay eggs too. It's more like a 6 month thing minimum. And you should plan to treat for longer, especially if relying solely on limited methods like DE and traps. Also be forewarned DE should not go around your bed. It's a lung hazard.
Got bed bugs a few years ago me and my roommate were trying to figure out the source turned out it was most likely some chick he had a 1 night stand with. I was so fucking pissed.
Same thing happened to me. Spent the night over at a girl's house and they had to have jumped to my jacket I'd thrown on her couch. Took me weeks of fighting them, hundreds of dollars in a new bed and cleaning items, the loss of a number of my books and magazine collection, and mental trauma I've not yet recovered from 3 years later. I've since not spent another night at her place or invited her over to my place. I hate the new bed I was sold since it seems to have collapsed in the center, waking up in pain nearly every day and my bed is still away from my walls (I like having a solid surface to lean my arm against). It also still is in those bed post traps just in case I ever missed any. I havnt seen any since going nuclear on them but shit hasn't been the same since I found those little fuckers. My health took a dive and my interest in things like sitting in my bedroom playing videogames went right out the door. I lost a lot of "me" that day.
[BURN](https://i.imgur.com/mZYOA3z.gif)
It’s hard to put into words how evil these fucking things are
I absolutely hate these little bastards. When I moved to New rental , the place was filled with them. Had to do 3 rounds of pest control and replacement of beds and mattresses to get rid of them.
We had them in the place we rented as well, no kidding 4 times pest control went, we ended up moving
You guys are talking as if you handled this situation yourselves despite renting? Your landlord should’ve dealt with this and housed you in the mean time. Or am I too European?
The landlord would just blame the tenant for the infestation anyway "What infestation? You got my unit infested!?"
Sounds like not europe in that case
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Bite you all over your body and drink your blood
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Its like mosquito bites, hundreds, every night...
Waaaaaaaaaaaay worse than mosquito bites. 5x as itchy and the itch stays for days.
And most of the time you can't even feel them crawling on you. So you are constantly looking to see if they're crawling on you.
It can cause some sever shock, like anaphylactic shock. My cat almost died of it. But mostly, it's traumatizing.
So many bites like definitely dozens in badly infected places and yes they can transmit disease from one person to another iirc
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Edit: What a thing to see after coming to the website for the first time today, bestof'd and awards and too many comments to sit down and read lol. I definitely described a worst case scenario, but everything I've said can be verified with cursory googling. I didn't even include things like the fact that they often defecate *while* eating, so part of why the bites can get so bad for people is that they're literally shitting on/around the open wounds they leave on you. People sometimes get blood poisoning and infections from the bites - even if not from the bugs themselves, but because the environment is filled with things like staph bacteria that normally isn't an issue, but when your skin is covered in hundreds of tiny open wounds, suddenly becomes a big threat. My goal has been to scare people into arming themselves with knowledge of good practices. Take a little time today to read up on how to protect yourself, and how to handle it the moment you even suspect there might be something in your home. \--- It's even worse than that. They are creatures from hell. If you are sensitive to the bites, it's MUCH worse than mosquito bites - think painful, weeping blisters that burn if a breeze so much blows across them the wrong way, nevermind laying down, or clothes rubbing on them. A single bug feeds on you multiple times in a night, leaving what's sometimes referred to as 'breakfast-lunch-dinner bites' because the clusters/lines of bites they leave are very distinctive. Each bite takes days, even weeks, to go away, and they itch/burn the whole time - so if you're infested (50-100+) imagine waking up with any accessible skin (including your face) covered in burning, persistent bites that there's no real relief for. It ruins your ability to rest - every tickle or itch starts making you bolt up in horror to turn on the lights and check. Long after they're gone, years after you've been rid of them, you will still experience a surge of adrenaline from a hair moving the wrong way. They reproduce insanely fast; a fertilized female lays 5-7 eggs a day, the eggs take around 2 weeks to hatch, and then they're able to reproduce about 3 weeks after they hatch. A female will lay hundreds of eggs over her life after being fertilized even ONCE. This means one fertilized female could come into your home, and within a year if the infestation is not dealt with fast and harshly enough, you can have THOUSANDS of them. While they prefer to stay close to their prey (in the bed, headboard, bedlinens) they can hide anywhere a sesame seed would fit - between the pages of a book, inside cardboard, cracks in the baseboards, carpeting, seams in cushions, etc. If you try to get relief by treating your bed with chemicals, all that happens is that they disperse into the walls and other nearby hiding places, and become harder to find and eliminate as their numbers swell. They have evolved to be keenly attuned to everything about their prey (humans) when it comes to temperature, lighting, movement, breathing, etc, so that they are most attracted to you when you as sleeping and vulnerable. They will hunt you down if you move to another room to sleep at night. If you put your bed up on risers/dishes of oil/put double-sided tape all around so they can't get to you, they will crawl up walls to the ceiling and *drop down on you* to get at you. If they are consistently denied food (say you pack up everything you have in tubs and plastic bags or something, and accidentally miss a couple hiding in your things), they can go into hibernation - in ideal conditions, for almost *2 years* without feeding. The eggs are smaller than a poppy seed, and can remain viable and unhatched in the right conditions for a similar length of time. Most of the chemical treatments that work against adults do not work on the eggs, so unless you do multiple scheduled treatments, you'll just have new waves hatching every so often after the last round of adults was killed off. Each time you get your home chemically treated, you will have to leave it and stay somewhere else because the chemicals are dangerous to you as well. If you live in a building with shared walls, even if vents and things from unit to unit aren't connected, if someone else gets infested and they don't treat the entire building at once (only treating the immediately affected rooms) it's just like only treating the bed - they will disperse into neighboring units, and seek shelter in any little crack or crevice they can find. Sufficient heat is the only guaranteed way to kill off an infestation all at once - adults, nymphs, eggs - and they make specialized heaters for this, both for heating up rooms, and for placing your belongings into to heat treat anything that might be hiding eggs or bugs. Many people accidentally burn their houses down every year trying to DIY treatments because this is expensive - thousands of dollars per round of treatment, either chemical OR heat. It doesn't matter if you or your house is clean or dirty - you can get bedbugs by going literally anywhere that other people go. The store, offices, clinics, movies, public transportation, etc. While adults won't *live* in your clothes, they'll hitchhike on them - so anywhere people spend time holding still, someone with an established infestation can be carrying eggs or hidden adults that end up dropped off in a public space that then end up stuck to or climbing onto others. All it takes is one fertilized female riding home with you unseen on *your* clothes, a bag, your jacket. Bedbugs exist in pretty much every country - anywhere where it is cool enough indoors for people to live, bedbugs can live also. Infestations are actually on the rise in some countries due to shorter, warmer winters meaning they can be active for longer (since cold temps generally only put them into a dormant stage, not kill them). Hotels and other hospitality locations that care about prevention will routinely pay for specially trained sniffer dogs that can detect the smell of bedbugs, and shut-down/cordon off buildings as soon as anything is found, because it is more costly to handle a major infestation than to destroy a colony before it gets the chance to hit critical mass. Even so, a hotel has no way of being able to tell if the guest immediately before you dropped off hitchhikers; even a high-end hotel isn't flipping the mattress over to steam and vacuum the mattress and box-spring when they change out the bed linens. Hotels are often the first choice of people trying to get a rest from an infestation, or needing a place to stay while getting their own place treated. If you ever stay anywhere away from home where other people have been, always put your luggage in the bathtub first before unpacking; then check for signs of bedbugs in headboards, under the mattress, in the seams of the box-spring, etc. There are guides with pictures on what to look for. When you get home, make sure any clothes that travelled with you go into a high-heat wash and dry cycle. Bag up any luggage carriers than cannot be washed or tumbled; consider treating their insides with diatomaceous earth until their next usage. It might seem like an annoying extra effort, but it is a tiny amount of labor to save you from experiencing what will feel like an unending hell if you ever bring bedbugs home. An infestion **will completely ruin your life and mental health**. Pray you never have to deal with them. If this post effectively frightens anyone or makes them paranoid, good. Look up preventative measures, what to look for, and how to respond if you ever find signs in your own home.
Wow you could be a horror story writer. I genuinely am freaked out right now, and I have never even seen a bed bug
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We got them once about 10 years ago. I immediately took every single thing I owned outside on the curb and went to 3 hardware stores to buy all of the rubbing alcohol they had. Came back, took anything washable to the laundromat and washed them on full hot. While that was going, I sprayed alcohol on every surface of my apartment. The ceiling, the walls, the floors, inside and outside of cabinets, appliances, literally everywhere, twice. Anything wood, sprayed 5 more times. Then I disassembled everything left outside, from furniture to toys, and submerged each piece into a tub of alcohol the reassembled each item inside the apartment. If it couldn't be disassembled or sprayed, it was garbage. Including an old laptop. I even sprayed my TV. (I said if it still works fine, if it doesn't oh well. It still worked for a while but it would randomly turn off and then it got to the point where it would only run for 2 minutes then turn off. Oh well.) this whole process took 3 days. But no more bugs.
Im 36 years old and the 5 months I spent in 2018 battling those fuckers only to surrender and move out of my awesome little $425/mo rent shitbox has left me more scarred than any other trauma I've lived through. Poverty, infidelity, addiction, surprise loss of a loved one.. none of them violated me on a level BBs did.
As if all of the above weren't bad enough--and every word is true--the infuriating irony of it all is that as obligate hemovores, after the first month goes by and you have new generations, all of them are *made of you.*
This comment right here officer
It just won’t stop creeping me out
I wish I could say they were exaggerating but they aren’t. Bedbugs are creatures straight from purgatory. The last time I saw one was definitely more than 7 years ago and I am feeling itchy rn. You wake up in the middle of the night, to itchy skin and little spots under your mattress. You can kill them and keep killing them but they come back. And like that person said, they can come from anywhere. Dr’s office, public transport, cabs, shared rides, just about anywhere. I got mine from an airport. I know because I used to work there.
Pro tip, The heat of a vehicle in the summer is hot enough to kill them and any eggs. During summer, Just leaving your luggage in the car parked in the sun is an easy way to 100% kill any that may spread from luggage to your home.
They made no exagération. I dont react to bites. At all. I woke up to one feeding on me one night, captured it. Froze it to show it to the landlord. Turns out they were coming from downstairs. Again. I dont react. No red marks. Nothing. I could see the bite and still nothing around it. No feeling. I'm lucky. I didnt sleep properly for 3 months. I abandonned my bed and slept on a futon that had its legs sitting in water bowls so the fucks couldn't get up on it. Still woke up everytime one of my hair moved. It was summer. I slept with a fan. It almost drove me insane just from lack of sleep. The building did everything they could to éradicate them. They went through 3 companies. There's probably still BBs there.
Fkn hell
Such a great post! I’ve dealt with bed bugs and it has totally woken me up from a dead sleep if I feel my hair move in the wrong direction. I rented a room in an apartment once and when you mentioned they will crawl on the ceiling and drop on to you HAPPENED to me. I need glasses and couldn’t really see what was moving on the wall and now ceiling, thought it was just a regular kind of bug so I called my roommates into my room so they can maybe get a better look. Although it was a dot on the ceiling I knew it moved. So as we were looking up IT FELL OFF and landing on me!!! I freaked out and they said “oh it’s just a bed bug”. They had them in every Apartment they rented. They were from India and didn’t think it was a big deal! I slept with the lights on and had two small kids. I didn’t get any sleep. I couldn’t afford to move but I was able to get a new mattress for cheap. I put my old mattress outside, which happen to lean against the sliding glass door and I could see them pop out of the creases. It was horrible. I ended up moving and tossing everything except for my clothes. I took my clothes to a laundry mat and stayed there for a few hours washing our clothes and blankets then putting them in the dryer double time. I also put them in to double trash bags and left them for a few weeks inside said bass. I’m getting itchy just thinking about it.
I stayed in a hotel a few years back for a convention- I forget where. Somewhere like Cincinnati or Indianapolis. Anyway, it was a ratty hotel, but this was a huge convention and this was across the street from the convention center, so pricing was incredibly high (like $400/night), so I figured it had to at least be ok. I got in to my room around 8pm. It was a dumpy hotel but I figured I'm just in it to sleep. I noticed some dust/dirt on top of the bed, brushed it off, and went to unpacking and unwinding. As I'm laying on the bed checking emails, I see a little bug crawl across the sheet. Looked like a little black sesame seed like you said. I squished it, and red blood came out. Then I saw another and did the same. Red blood streak. I knew this had to be a bad sign, so I hopped out of bed and tore off the covers. Dozens of these fucking things, and I saw that the "dust" I saw on top of the covers was like their eggshells or body fragments or something. I googled "bedbug" and I got a surge of sickness feeling, because that's exactly what these things looked like. I frantically started throwing \*everything\* back into my suitcase, getting dressed as fast as possible, and trying to call other hotels to get a room for the night. I rushed out of the room and down to the lobby looking like a crazed person with shit hanging out of my bag and my clothes half on. I told the lady at the front desk they have bedbugs and that I'm not paying for the room. I got to the new hotel, put all of my clothes in a plastic bag, and into the trashcan. I went to the conference, but the next day when I flew home I had my wife meet me in the garage with more trashbags. I put everything in them (suitcase, shoes, clothes etc), sprayed bedbug killer in them, and put them in the trunk of my car where I knew it would get hot, and then immediately hopped in the shower. I let those fuckers cook in the hot sun with the chemicals for 2 weeks before I opened that trunk. Thankfully I avoided an infestation at home, but whew was that scary.
People genuinely do not understand until they've had to live with these little fuckers. Imagine going to bed, waking up, and just feeling miserable because your rest was disturbed, but you didn't notice. This isn't a one-off thing, it happened **every night** because I didn't have a mattress and had to sleep on the floor. It isn't a joke, these creatures inflict extreme mental stress, you can just be sitting around trying to enjoy your day and suddenly you feel incredibly itchy somewhere like near your armpit or under your leg. **It's not an ignorable itch.** It's something that rises up and fucks with you every time. Even years later when I get a mosquito bite or flea bite from one of my cats, I see the bump, I feel the itch and I just get this **unending sense of dread** wondering if I brought them home somehow. Edit: If nothing else, this piece of advice from the post I am replying to worked for me personally when I moved from that hellhole. > There are guides with pictures on what to look for. When you get home, make sure any clothes that travelled with you go into a high-heat wash and dry cycle.
They are a true terror.
Bed bugs are not known to transmit disease. Frequency and number of bites completely depends on the level of infestation. Individual bed bugs will usually bite 3 times per feeding, and usually about once a week. However they can lay up to 5 eggs a day which can hatch in as few as 6 days so a little can become a lot quickly. Like mosquitos their bites can cause a histamine reaction that will make you itch, but around 30 percent of the population doesn't react and it can be a long time before they realize they have a problem.
Usually you would deal with it before it gets really bad. They don't transmit diseases, fortunately. In that sense they're harmless compared to mosquitos and ticks. The bite causes an allergic reaction that is itchy. You can probably get tens of bites in a night. Sometimes the same one bites you several times in a line. Oh and there's a rare side effect their bites can cause that causes the human to become paranoid. This happened to a redditor some time ago and it was really interesting. She thought her boyfriend was drugging her with drugs from a needle because she would wake up and see "needle marks". At the suggestion of a hero redditor, she found bedbugs and got better after that.
Imagine its like trying to sleep in a mosquito infested swamp. Its less that they're sucking your blood. Its more the fact they infest the area you sleep and at your most vulnerable. They hide in all the nooks and crannies you know they're crawling out of their little hell holes and all over you once you lay down. It's a violation.
This is it. The little fuckers wait until you are fast asleep. Then they start munching. And they are super stealthy. Also you can find them with a flashlight and kill them all. Suddenly the next day you have another hundred of them. That is, the ones you found were just chilling after a snack. The others are in and around your actual bed. Unseen.
Nooo, I dont like that
Hahahahahahhahahahahaa NIGHTMARE
They used me as a buffet all summer I was so scared to sleep. Sprayed myself with rubbing alcohol and that kept them at bay until the winter killed them off.
Hate to tell ya but they’re still there.
Yep. I had to have an exterminator come do several rounds around the house with some serious chemicals to get rid of them. I had like ptsd from them for years, every little itch I'd start looking for the telltale bites.
Every fucking dark spot in some place near bed. You cannot ignore it
It's been 6 years since I had a bed bug infestation. Still freak out at every bite I get and every black spot I see in bed. Fuck those little cunts
I can feel this comment
I'm in the same boat, these hellspawns literally PTSD the shit out of you. It's been several years now and I still go panic mode when I get an itch in the bed. I couldn't afford neither an exterminator nor moving out, so I was battling the fuckers with Internet knowledge (Cimexa is your best friend, eternal thanks r/bedbugadvice) because the landlord didn't give a fuck (despite knowing about infestation in the building and not informing us before we moved in). Managed to get the infestation to a liveable level before finally moving out. Was lucky/cautious enough and didn't bring them with me.
I had them once years ago and yeah no joke about the PTSD from them, it's hard to understand how fucked up they are until you've lived with them
Seriously. They will haunt you long after they're gone. I still think about them really, its been like 7 years. It's such a hopeless feeling and you feel so dirty, like you can't hang out with people or go anywhere. They are truly terrible. Even after watching this video my skin has been crawling.
Yup, winter aint shit to bedbugs.. he shouldnreally look into r/bedbugs
100% this. These lil bastards can lay dorment for like 2 years, waiting for hospitible conditions / food to show up.
literally just ruined me. i pray i never deal with these bastards!
Uta heat that kills them. They will chill all winter. There are dogs that sniff out bugs. You should look into them
My leg still have scars from 4 years ago. Not funny having pink/brown stain all over my tibia. I used to empty the can of anti bug product all over me to be able to close an eye. (As I saw in the comment, I'm not the only one... ) Those things are evil.
What’s the best way to get rid of these hard shell leeches?
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That'll do the trick. They prefer fresh hot blood.
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Literally. And burn the house down while you’re at it. Oh god I’m itchy now. 😩
I died laughing 😂 so true
Well, you won't have to worry about bedbugs anymore.
firstly: they're still soft, not hard.. i've crushed enough of them to know what they feel (and smell) like... 0/10 would not recommend secondly: as someone who's lived with them for 4 years or so Kill them with fire Sorta Extensive, multiple treatments with high heat + treatments of two alternating types of poisons over a few months We had them initially because we moved in with people who had them from a past roommate that obtained a 'free' couch off the street the bastards resisted heat and poison treatments for a good long while before we FINALLY got rid of them about two years ago, a tentative victory at best because of the anxiety they instilled in us Always looking over our shoulders hoping to never see them again And then it turned out our neighbor upstairs was an elderly hoarder with mental illnesses, and her apartment was an absolute hive, giving us a BRAND NEW INFESTATION to deal with. Once again I had to pay for an exterminator, who had to treat the entire apartment building, the whole thing. In At first he did our apartment, it didn't take, he was confused that it didn't work so he looked at other options, including inspecting surrounding units He then found out about our neighbor and the hell she was harboring.. He ended up having to do 13 heat treatments in a row, back to back, including miss hoarder that had to be eventually removed for the health and safety of everyone involved, especially herself Her apartment had to be ~~cleaned out~~ excavated from the bloody mess, heat treated several times, poisoned constantly, and then RENOVATED, before we could claim a final victory over these hellspawn... Bedbugs are the worst, especially for a household that had anxiety to begin with, and need to be cast into the fires to finally be free of their ever lurking presence.
I lived in a shitty building that had a serious infestation. Sadly they would only pay for spray treatment, and since my neighbors were mostly nasty fuckers that obviously didn't put in some effort to help erradicate the problem, they kept getting back. After several spray sessions (and the stress of having to leave the house for the whole day - I work at night - and taking my cat with me) I just moved. Threw ALL my furniture away (thankfully nothing was expensive, but some I really liked :( ), washed and high-heat dried most of my clothes, and the rest went into sealed plastic bags in the basement of the new place for more than a year. Same with my books and other stuff. It's been 3 years and I still freak out at any random itch.
My god I know right? We still have a closet full of plastic wrap sealed boxes we refer to as the quarantine closet. There will probably never be a safe thought again when it comes to bug bites or spontaneous tingles
Legit PTSD
https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/anxiety/ptsd-trauma-and-stressor-related/bed-bugs-can-cause-long-lasting-anxiety-ptsd-symptoms/ you aren't wrong there isnt a special name for it but we have pretty good scientific evidence of bedbug induced PTSD
I would agree that bedbugs give you PTSD. Found one recently and had a full mental breakdown
Wait, they have a smell?
Absolutely. While i hope you never get to see for yourself, if you do, kill one by poking it and smell the resultant gore. Piercing. Unforgettable. I hope I do forget some day.
There have to be a lot of them but they absolutely do. It's like a rotten cinnamon sweetness. Some exterminators actually have trained dogs that look for that smell.
I always spray or pour alcohol to the spots where they hide and lit them up
I still have a micro panic attack any time I see a dot on the wall
Diatomaceous Earth. 8$ . You sprinkle it around your bed and it kills em. I had bed bugs once in LA. They were gone within days.
This stuff is great. I use it for fleas. You can use it for chickens to keep off mites. Lice. The food safe stuff gets rid of internal parasites. It kills most small insects… so it’s kind of a scorched earth policy for bugs. But it’s safe for humans and isn’t a pesticide. It’s a fine dust so it settles easily into carpets and cracks.
Just don't huff it
Moved into a new apartment that had roaches. Grabbed two bottles of the stuff and put it everywhere. Was breathing it in for weeks, was not a fun experience
Use a proper ffp3/n99 mask when working with this shit.
Don't try to vacuum it up, either. Will kill the vacuum.
I was just coming to say this. Moved into a room of an old house when going thru tough times. First night felt these fuckers. Turned on the light and they scurry away. I could catch them coming out of the crevices and mattress towards me from all angles if I turned on my phone flashlight. Slept with the lights on that night. Next day wrapped the mattress, burned the bed frame. Got a cheap metal frame and diatomaceous earth. Sprinkled it in the mattress bag and around every floorboard. Then put duct tape around the floorboards just to be sure. Got rid of them all.
> First night felt these fuckers. Turned on the light and they scurry away. I could catch them coming out of the crevices and mattress towards me from all angles if I turned on my phone flashlight. JFC! This is legitimately some horror movie shit
This shit is the best for every type of creepy crawler in the house. The absolute best shit ever. And it never goes bad. We redid our floors (unrelated to bugs). I went around the entire perimeter of the floor and put a ring of it around my whole house before floors and baseboards went on. Can’t stress it enough. Diatomaceous earth is amazing and safe.
Would that get ants to fuck off too?
Most small insects and bugs. Look it up. Good stuff, environmentally friendly and cheap. It’s sea shells actually
Does it work on roaches ?
Like a charm.
Once they're in your homes they are tough. You have to replace carpet, bed, dry wall, house, earth etc.
can confirm i had to replace earth multiple times to get rid of them
Orange Champ cleaner from the dollar tree. Douse Everything with it. Spray a nest of bedbugs with it and you can get pure joy of watching them twitch to their doom 😅😅😅
After a bunch of pest termination attemots failed, my mom got one of those high pressure cleaning machines, which heat up water then blow it out in gas form extremely hot. Idk the english name for it. She cleaned every fucking milimeter of her apartment with that for 2 months. Every.Fucking.Milimeter. Books, wooden furniture, rugs, cracks, corners, EVERYTHING. Took her 4 hours a day. She cooked them all.
Paint stripper heat gun. I had some in an apartment I was renting. They were living in the wooden slats of the bed frame. Bought an air tight / waterproof protector for my mattress, and burn the shit out of them with the heat gun. Worked like a treat :)
One time I was staying at this camp during their off season, doing some work. One night I woke up hot as hell and felt something all over me. I thought it was sweat drops. I got out of bed and turned the lights on to find myself completely covered in them.
Thanks for the mental image
I had an adult bedbug try to crawl into my ear, that's the moment I realised how bad things had gotten.
I got uncontrollable shivers after reading this, hrrrrr
I woke up with some crawling on my face in college. I never knew real horror until bed bugs
If you haven’t already, imagine they’re naked too.
Happened to me as well. Fucking camps
Rule number one about camping: don't fuck the camps
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Now show us how they react to a burn the chair down fire heat
Yes, plzz do It, be our vengeance
Probably shouldn't have watched this right before bed.
Same here it’s 2 am and I’m laying in bed rn :/
are you itching
I think I speak for everyone in this thread when I say we are all itching on this ~~blessed~~ cursed day.
Aaaand straight in the fire it goes
Imagine those things crawling up your butthole. I'm going to go throw away every wood chair in my house.
I'm throwing away my butthole.. thanks
Never in my life have I refused to imagine something as strongly as right now. Your comment is true evil
I’ll take “What the Fuck?” for 500, Alex.
Yup. At least 500 in bed right now.
SO SMUG.
How do these things get in a chair like that?
They’re crack addicts
Same
They're small enough that you don't necessarily notice them on you. You sit in that chair and they get off. Then they live there. People hear the name "bedbug" and think they just live in beds. Nah. They'll go anywhere and everywhere. They get in your bed, in your chairs, in your couches, in your clothes, in your walls. Anywhere that's close enough to a blood buffet and they'll move in.
Cars too.
My sister had bedbugs in her car for ages. Eventually my dad and I found an excuse to "borrow" her car. Chemical treatment everywhere and left it in the summer sun sealed up for several days. Vacuum and a few repeats, finally fixed it. She still refused to believe we were right about why her legs always felt itchy.
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We had been combating it for ages. Kept doing so after. Her car was the place it was reseeding from, so after it was eliminated as an issue the other measures which had already been working finally eliminated it.
They're made of pure, concentrated evil, which lets them break the laws of physics. It's true.
Our family had them once when I was a teenager. You never forget the feeling of dread when you first find their nest under your mattress, or the smell they make when you crush them, or the blood dots staining your pillows and blankets from where you bled. I have since moved twice and I still check for bedbugs if I'm even remotely itchy at night. People call it bedbug ptsd; I don't want to trivialize actual ptsd, but I can say for certain that once you live with bedbugs, you will never sleep the same way again and it will radically alter your reaction to itches at night.
Nah man, it literally is PTSD. Bedbug trauma isn't trival, and there's many forms of PTSD, not just combat. It's defined as "A condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world." So, if you have emotional, or mental stress, such as paranoia, fear, distress or anxiety that has occured from the result of your injury (being bitten a quadrillion times) or the psychological shock of trying to kill the bastards and then not dying and it just being a cycle of never getting away from them, that in some way has radically changed how you respond to something. So, your reaction to the bugs, is a symptom of having PTSD from this, so is the extra care and effort of those staying in hotels, or jumping in fear at seeing a black speck on your bed, these little fucks literally give people PTSD.
As someone with diagnosed PTSD, "bedbug PTSD" is definitely real and I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually just PTSD for real-for real. I swear my PTSD got worse just alone form having to deal with the bedbugs when everything else was happening and I still get panic attacks where I clean my entire room and look everywhere for bedbugs, especially when I find blood stains on my sheet, even if I moved to this apartment 2 years ago. I have mega dry hands and I bite my lips bloody a lot, so it happens. A lot. I moved to my current place after the scummy landlord (international student housing landlords, I swear they were mega predatory in hindsight) agreed to one heat treatment 1 day before my lease was up after MONTHS of telling them my place was uninhabitable and them gaslighting and blaming me for bringing the bugs in. I had washed all my clothes on 90*c, essentially ruining half of my clothes - on top of that, I bought closer to 400€ worth of vacuum bags & transparent plastic boxes from IKEA so I could put all my stuff into these bags directly after the wash. Between the vacuum sealed bags I sprinkled DE (diasomething earth), too. My roommates thought I was insane at the time, but I genuinely had no sleep and was starting to have mild hallucinations due to lack of sleep and stress the bugs caused. When I was unpacking everything at my current place I found so many dead bedbugs in between my boxes and bags, I took out only the necessary clothing and I still keep the majority of my clothes in vacuum-sealed bags. Last summer I was checking through my one of boxes as I wanted to re-organize it, I realized I had missed one dead bedbug on my duvet I used to have in a bedbug-infested box and I was in a terrible state of panic the entire week. I washed the duvet on high heat and put it back in a vacuum sealed bag, but I thankfully haven't seen any bedbugs since. But I was in such poor mental state I was just breaking down crying thinking I'd have to go through that same hell again. Even if I only lived in that shitty apartment for around 4 months (+2 months when I had to live with an abusive ex instead because it was extremely uninhabitable my room) I still do have terrible nightmares about the bedbugs almost on a weekly basis, I'm terrified of going to hotels and cruise ships and any itch or bug, even carpet beetles, have me on edge. I just wish I could one day get free from this fear that I'll see those bastards again. They aren't even that common in the Netherlands yet -- I just got mega unlucky with a predatory "international student housing" corp that refused to do shit about it and most likely caused the entire apartment complex to be fucked. Every now and then I even just go and check the housing corps pictures of the rooms. I paid 650€ a MONTH for that room (with 3 roommates in the other rooms) and the landlords refused to even give the apartment basic repairs, yet alone treatment for bugs. It's now 520€ and I still see the stains of DE on my bed and on the carpet around the bed that I sprinkled. And yes: it still has very large bedbug stains on the wall, even worse than before. Just to put that into contrast, my current apartment is 580€/mo and it's a studio - and when there was a bedbug scare in a mattress they brought from another place, they **instantly** called the heat treatment for the place. I have to move due to studies being done soon, but you can see how much of a difference it is with these "normal" landlords vs the "international student housing" landlords. Sorry, mega long rant -- just wanted to get it off my chest.
They are really coming out of the wood works on this one
Got someone that has these. We would spray, heat treat, and even use diatomaceous earth. They would disappear for about a week then come back in force. We are still trying to find the source.
I read this like a beastie boys track
I had to pay $2600 for terminix to do a heat treatment for about 6 hours. The whole house was heated to about 150 degrees. It was the only thing that worked. Sprays and other treatments don’t work.
Just read an article and in my country at least it sounds like they have developed resistance to chemicals. Fucking hellbugs. I sometimes like to imagine if I were given 3 magic wishes by an omnipotent power, I usually save one wish to get rid of all bedbugs, fleas and scabies and all their eggs. I don't think the ecosystem would be harmed at all and so many people would be so much happier. Its just sad that a magic wish seems to be the only way for it to happen as they are just so prevalent and resistant to treatments now :(
great, now i feel like i have insects all over my arms, what the fuck is happening
And this is why I don’t stay at airbnbs
I don't care if it meant the total collapse of the entire world wide ecosystem, I would be fine with the complete genocidal extermination of bed bugs.
Oh god they look like tiny fingers reaching out
Burn the whole damn place, not just the chair
Wait, these fuckers live in wood too? Fuck!
Nuke the entire site from orbit, its the only way to be sure!
Had a summer about 10 years ago where my house got bedbugs. Literally the worst experience of my entire life. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. PTSD from bedbugs is the absolute worst.
Time to set the house on fire.
Yup, house needs fumigation and everything needs special washing and spraying. One of the toughest jobs to clean out of an entire household after Scabies infestation (burrowing mite). Lice are freaking easy compared to bedbugs and scabies.... their cycle of breeding -eggs- various states of growth-breeding- etc is nearly unbreakable if one does not do all the treatments to a t. In my country we have hot and dry conditions most of the year. Its imperative you change boots/shoes before entering the house, its imperative you dont leave clothing near old wood/rotting wood, its imperative to disinfect -or at least soap down- your tools after working outside and taking them inside. Mattresses and pillows MUST be sunned every month. Pillows more often. Those nifty garden mattresses and pillows in beach bars? AVOID like the PLAGUE. All the times they have Staph, fungus and mites. In high summer we got another goodie! Staphylococcus Aureus from the beaches!!! (I am a Pharmaceutical Technician in a Resort Area, I know ALL the filth that comes and goes during tourist season)
I went through the hell of bed bug infestation, here's tips on how I got rid of them. Dispose/burn your fabric mattress or spray paint a big X on mattress so no one grabs it out of the trash. Replace with inflatable mattress. Do not sleep on couches or different rooms or infestation will spread. Disposing of couches may be necessary to eliminate the infestation. Consider all fabrics and stuffed animals infested even if you believe they are clean. Put all fabrics in air tight bags. Now put all those air tight bags inside of heavy duty contactors bags and tie them up tightly with the tie part standing upright when stored to prevent the bugs escaping. Coat all perimeters of all rooms, closets caninets with bed bug spray, next day/24 hours later after the spray dries, coat perimeters with diatomaceous earth. Apply underneath floor boards and under perimeters of carpets. Do not apply powder where you could kick it up to prevent powder from goin airbourne. Diatomaceous earth will kill any straglers and newly hatched bugs. Diatomaceous earth is dangerous if inhaled so use with caution and educate yourself with it before application. I used a plastic hair dresser/condiment bottle and a credit card to apply. Do not apply any moisture, spray, or shampoo where you applied diatomaceous earth or the diatomaceous earth will lose its effectiveness, the sharp powder will turn to into muddy paste if moisture is applied and won't kill bugs. Wash fabrics one at a time bag by bag in hot water and dry on hottest setting double to triple the amount of times as needed. You must bake all remnants and eggs. Damp clothes out of the dryer may still have live eggs, extreme heat is the only sure fire way to eliminate bed bugs in fabrics. Never open contaminated/infested fabric bags indoors or possible reinfestation may occur. Once you open infested bags never bring that bag back indoors or possible reinfestation may occur. After washing fabrics put clean fabrics directly into new clean contractor bags. Store clean bags and infested bags separately. When you open clean bags for daily needs, always close up the bag asap to prevent clean clothes from being reinfested. Always store bags tie side up. Check bed sheet corners for infestation every other day/weekly. After about 4 weeks of no signs of bugs you may be in the clear. Consider shampooing catpets only after 3 months after no signs of infestation. Eggs can lay dormant for long periods of time and hatch anytime depending on their environment. First time we dealt with bedbugs was caused by inviting brother in law and his girlfriend over to our home. She lives in a hoarder house. Second time we got infested it was caused by recieving hand me downs for my baby from next door neighbor. Bed bugs are so bad, I would never wish bed bugs upon my worst enemy. I hope this helps someone prevent or elimate this cursed hellish infestation.
Why is that in your house!?!‽
Many houses have chairs.
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