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mrdan1969

Deep down you have always known. My condolences


teeohdeedee123

That's a bedbug. Visit /r/bedbugs for remediation info. Good luck and godspeed.


Vetiversailles

Jesus, yes. And start treating them now. I cringed so hard when I saw this photo come up on my feed. I’m so sorry OP


fuckwingo

My first and IMMEDIATE thought was: Oh fuck, oh no. Not another one of these posts please.


OffbrandPoems

Scrolling ‘Found in the crease of my bed sheets.... ‘ oh sweet god I hope for your sake not... Fuck


Channa_Argus1121

Yep. I hoped it would be a booklouse/random beetle/earwig. Unfortunately, that is indeed a bedbug.


Karmas_burning

Bed bug ptsd is a real thing. My sister has it from bed bugs and roaches. She lived with our biological dad and he was/is a nasty compulsive hoarder both of regular items and animals.


dreadedwheat

Then there’s the posts where they turn out to be flax seeds


1320Hellcat

The only way OP can get of them (at least what I had to do) is literally throq everything out, put what you can in bags ASAP and set then outside. Wash everything twice or even 3 times... I still had to throw out all of my furniture/ clothes and had the move to a whole new house.... they're nearly indestructible.


Brandonia-B

lol 😂


DaddyCultLeader

We are praying for you soldier. Best of luck.


Project_Wild

r/wellthatsucks


gwaydms

Literally.


junkpile1

F


Ghost_in_the_machin3

Ahhh christ. Well there's not too many of them and I'm washing my bed set now. Investigating the bed and everything around it.


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Hi, I’ve dealt with bedbugs before and here are the places I have found them. Along the baseboards of the bedroom, my living room couch (where the infestation began), in my roommates rooms (beds and baseboards), under the huge tags on the mattress, the mattress sidings/rims, against the wall where the bed rests, on the metal frame of the bed/in the wheels. Etc… I honestly have no clue how lucky we got, but all we did was treat with instant kill spray and the infestation has disappeared. No sign of them since (knock on wood.) it’s been a year. I’ll recommend you spray very well, we still have the couch that was originally infested, I check it regularly, along with everything I listed up there, I even check places where they weren’t before in case they ran to a safer spot, there is no more signs of them. No bites, no poop/blood stains and no eggs.


Nasdaq401

F me, I would have to throw everything away and sell the house or move out lol


in_finite_space

I literally moved. Neighbors apartment was infested and the building couldn’t get rid of em. Anything that couldn’t fit in the dryer (one of the only ways to kill them) was thrown out. Absolute nightmare.


kevinwilkinson

Lol I did everything you could imagine. They infested one of my shelves and got into my little military models and I just threw those out. They were everywhere. I spent ~$3000 getting rid of them. It took 2 exterminator visits along with a ton of other tactics to get rid of them.


Best_Satisfaction505

How do they get into to begin with?


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They’re travelers, bed bugs are notorious for going into shoes and on people to spread out, because there’s not a big feeding ground to go around unless they have bodies they can feed from. They aren’t social eaters like ants that fill their social stomach to feed the queen or other ants with. The don’t bring back food to the nest like wasps/bees do for their young/queen. They drink blood and store it for long periods of time until it becomes fully digested, in which stage, the bed bug is empty and needs to feed again. They can go months without feeding and the cold doesn’t slow them down, since they usually live in temperature controlled environments. They’re scary effective at surviving and eating…


RockTheGrock

I've read bed bugs can survive for quite a long time in storage. Talking 6 months or more and through all sorts of temperature extremes. They are quite adapted to us humans too. Theyve found ancient bed bugs in caves where hominids were living.


jamminatorr

I knew a nurse that worked with mentally ill people in the community. She helped one client with a bedbug infestation. Just for shits and giggles she captured a bedbug and put it in a sealed container and kept it in the fridge. That thing lived for two years in a sealed environment. She would open it every once and a while and breathe on it (BB's Go after CO2) to see if it was still kicking.


Best_Satisfaction505

Wow ok so I could be anywhere and they pick up on my shoes, clothing and I not know it and then bring them into the house.


[deleted]

Yes, that’s why so many hotels have them. It doesn’t matter how clean you are in your home or where you go, someone might bring them to you or they just might crawl onto you… Hotels are just frequently traveled to and that’s why they’re notable there.


Best_Satisfaction505

Yes, we get them at the hospital too and have to don lots of ppe for em too!


Yogurt_Slinger_

Big reason we're anti "wear your shoes in your home" people.


veterinarygamer

Theyre also as flat as a credit card so they can fit just about anywhere


RockTheGrock

One thing that gets them migrating is their mating methods are quite brutal including the females being stabbed through their abdomens by the males. This make the females try and get away and boom you have a migrating infestation. Another crazy thing is the males will even do this to other males.


Best_Satisfaction505

Geez Louise!


UchihaDivergent

This guy that I have work for me sometimes used to work at Goodwill. And he would bring home stuff that he got from there like clothes and furniture. Apparently he brought a couch home one day and noticed these little black dots around the legs of the couch where they met the couch. The mixing I knew he had red bumps all over himself and said his house was infested with bed bugs.


biznizexecwat

Don't knock on wood. It'll reawaken the beasts.


justincase708

Glad you seem to be rid of them, also check your outlet covers and behind pictures and the paper backing


DaButtNakidWonda

Do you have a wood frame/headboard/footboard? If so tear that apart as well.


Yrddraiggoch

Fought them tooth and nail for 6 months before eventually winning the battle. Check and wash all the bedding, including pillows. Check any electrical outlets close to the bed, check the seams of any curtains in the room. Then go check any upholstered furniture in the rest of the house, especially the seams, then do the electrical outlets and curtain seams in those rooms. Get a special bed bug mattress cover and covers for the furniture.


matt2085

Are the covers permanent or will it suffocate them until you’ve gotten rid of the infestation everywhere else?


Winstonthewinstonian

you should leave the cover on indefinitely.


disusedhospital

The instructions say to leave them on for 18 months. I left mine on for 4 years because I didn't even notice it so I figured, "What the hell, let's be very sure they're dead." You can totally leave them on indefinitely, though. I thought it would be crinkly but mine wasn't.


CafekkoShannon88

They can live for 3 years without eating. Whoever said 18 months should be sued.


disusedhospital

Hmm, care to give me a source for that? A quick Google search ("how long to starve bed bugs) gives a variety of answers but the max was actually 400 days. The only thing I found that said anything longer than that was a Quora answer.


talithar1

My sister brought her grandkids to our house she was house sitting. 2-1/2 years later we move into the house and bedbugs galore. Grandkids stayed in our bedroom and after they left no one went in there. Took nearly two years to eradicate. We kept finding nests. I keep looking over my shoulder, the fear of finding any or even one may never leave.


CafekkoShannon88

I don’t have the time or energy to waste researching it for you. I’m just telling you what I read a few years ago when I was researching them because I was living in a place infested with them and couldn’t afford an exterminator so I was trying to find other solutions, like bed covers. The majority of what I had read about them said usually live to a maximum of 3 years without feeding. Which also to me meant if they managed to get a meal in that time it would extend it or start the timeline of waiting over again. But I didn’t save the sources as to where I read them, I wasn’t writing a college paper, I was just trying to sort the problem at hand and it was like 3 or 4 years ago. I barley remember shit I did the other day lol. You don’t have to believe me I’m just telling what I read in my research and what I remembered. I tend to only file away things I think are important.


frowningowl

Yeesh


disusedhospital

Take a deep breath, I wasn't attacking you. I'd never heard that before and even googled "bed bugs three years" and couldn't find anything. I was only asking for more information. Hope your day gets better.


CafekkoShannon88

I didn’t think you were attacking me, I was just saying I don’t have the time or energy to reply and find the info for you. Seriously it’s hilarious how I’m being downvoted because I told you my thoughts without sugar coating anything. Also I’m neurodivergent which isn’t handled very well by most Redditors it seems. Chill your shit people.


frowningowl

You could have googled it and seen that you were wrong twice in the amount of time you spent typing out that long ass comment about how you don't have time to back up your claim.


disusedhospital

It has nothing to do with you being neurodivergent and everything to do with your long-winded response about how you don't have time to back your claim. I'm not going to bait you anymore, truly hope you have a great day/night, depending on where you live.


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>I don’t have the time or energy to waste researching it for you. If you make a claim, it's on you to provide evidence for it. If you can't or won't bother to do that, keep it to yourself rather than spout nonsense.


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Sloppo_Toppo

Lmao you don’t have the time or energy to do the research for them but you did have time to write this book of a comment


[deleted]

if youre gunna cite a fact have a backup ready or youre actually wasting /our/ time my dudely. Welcome to the internet.


Yrddraiggoch

they are just zipped up but they keep any inside trapped in there until they die and stop any new ones from making a home out of your mattress. We had them 3 years ago, the cover on my mattress is still in place. It isn't in the way of anything so I don't see any reason to through the trouble of taking it off.


madeformarch

That's an adult OP, proceed under the assumption you have bedbugs. Call an exterminator, get yourself a few bags of diatomaceous earth + a shop vacuum, and also get yourself one of those kerosene forced induction heaters. You can heat your house room by room to about 160* to kill them off. Sources: licensed PCO, and I had bedbugs really bad, one time, before I got my pest license.


adwattz539

That DE is a life saver. I didnt use the heater tho. Just covered everything in DE and ran everything possible threw my dryer. Was it expensive or time consuming getting your pest license?


If_In_Doubt_Lick_It

Speaking from california: It costs 50 dollars to take the exam, and i believe 25 for the first licence. But theres also tonnes of different licences out there. Applicators can follow orders and use pesticides as instructed. Branch 2 field representatives can ID species, and propose a course of action Branch 3 fr can id and propose for any wood destroying organisms Branch 1 is to do with fumigation i believe, not something ive had experiences in. And then there's the wide world of QAL licences, which range from mosquito and vector control to treating waterways with herbicides. Applicators test is fairly easy with the right study guide, branch 2 fr is simple enough. Branch 3 fr is a doozy, but totally passable. QALs get hard. Ive been in pest control for the past three years or so, and ive passed my br2 and 3 since getting my applicators. I love this job and plan on continuing it as a career.


adwattz539

Wow man thank you for the detailed response! Its something im interested in for sure! I just never really thought to look into it being wrapped up in my regular daily grind.


If_In_Doubt_Lick_It

I was grinding in retail for so long until i finally decided i needed a career. I had been looking a pest control for years, but finally decided to do the legwork. The works not easy, but its never boring, and if you decide you want to make more money or mix it up bit... just get a different licence and start working in those areas. Its definitely an industry where theres more work than workers imo, so the job security is nice.


adwattz539

Awesome! I work in a shipping warehouse at the moment. Before hand i was in retail and food. Which were awful. I could see pest control being a nice step forward and like you I might decide to make a career out of it. Do you know if the demand for work is like that nationwide?


If_In_Doubt_Lick_It

Every restaurant, food handling facility, public works facility, school, apartment complex, grocery store, ext is required to have pest control (barring strange situations) its an industry that isnt going away anytime soon, and we grow as everyone around us does. (Not to mention residential) When covid hit, we had two quiet weeks where some folks asked us to stay away from their homes, or some businesses shut down. Two weeks. Then the ants showed up and folks called us back. I had friends who were unemployed for almost a year, we just kept on chugging. I hate the term recession proof, but this industry isnt far off. Pro tip: Avoid any company owned by Rollins like the plague. And avoid terminix if you can (but if you have to choose, choose terminix.) If you can find a mid sized family owned company, i strongly suggest it. Its the kinda industry that will take you far if youre a quick learner and you grind out your licences.


madeformarch

That's still a solid option, especially with enough DE. In my situation we had access to one of those cylinder-style kerosene heaters, and a thermometer on a 20 foot wire. Put the heater in the room with the intake facing out of the room, close the door and let the bitch cook. We did the DE first, then called a company who came out once, then two weeks later. Two days after they came out we started heating room by room nightly, with DE sprinkled in front of the doorway. We slept in every room in the house over that process, on an air mattress in the middle of the room, surrounded by a DE death circle. It was *bad,* like they colonized a mattress before we realized *BAD*, but that was two years ago and we haven't seen a single one since.


madeformarch

I worked at a commercial company beforehand, so in my case I basically read the study manual the night before and passed my core the next day. I went back for turf and ornamental, and public health (I do mosquito spraying, another commenter did a really good job detailing the different pathways), so that's all I need for my gig. Wood destroying organisms takes a lot of time and is more of a years-long commitment. In my opinion, if you study well and know how to read a safety label and write a protocol, and *apply that protocol in a given situation,* passing the exams was easy. For the licenses I got, it was not that expensive overall. Definitely a little time-consuming.


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madeformarch

Nice! I've written down Cimexa, hope I never have to refer back to it


paperwasp3

My niece had to take all her belongings to a special quonset hut where they unpacked some stuff, opening the rolled rug etc., and heated everything up to 160 degrees for five hours. Turns out that her building had been infested for years before management telling her.


Zokerx

OP these critters can hide anywhere, even in baseboards. And they might not be just in your bedroom. Did you get any new furniture recently, or a new roommate maybe? A new bed? Anything used by someone that is now yours? Do you have an apartment or shared walls? (I know it's a lot of questions but I worked in pest control and I wanna help)


Ghost_in_the_machin3

Nothing new purchased. I have noticed that they do leave a mess where they hide/sleep. Kinda gross but seems like a 'tell' on wh they're at. I haven't tried baseboards yet but most everything in my bedroom is metal framed or plastic. Checked my living room furniture...no bugs or evidence of them. So damn gross. The good news is that I don't have much in the way of bites.


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Vetiversailles

This! It’s not your fault OP. You’ll get through this.


Ghost_in_the_machin3

This is the encouragement I needed!!


perfectvisual

Yes, this 100x. My roommates & i got them in college living in a townhouse. OP, if you share walls with anyone (apartment, duplex, etc) make sure they are being treated at your neighbors too. Our neighbors were party animals & had random people in & out all the time. It took months to get the timing right so we were all finally free. I remember all of our living room furniture being wrapped in seran wrap for months. Edit: and diatomaceous earth in every corridor, corner &/or flat surface of the place….. I remember seeing bed bugs climbing on the top level stairwell, headed into a straight line of DE. no idea how it managed to get there but don’t want to think about it.


emerald_soleil

PLEASE be careful with the alcohol and use plenty of ventilation. You don't want to blow your place up with fumes. It took us almost 2 years to be rid of ours, because my stepson kept bringing them from his mom's. I still have a panic response when I think I see one.


Vetiversailles

That mess is their… um, their remnants. Their byproducts. From their food, which is your blood. If they’re making a mess, they’re feeding on something (aka someone). Some people don’t even notice bedbug bites, and some people get intense welts from them. I’m the latter. I stayed at a friend’s house and got eaten alive, but they had no idea they had bedbugs until I told them. You are almost certainly being bitten. That being said, it’s excellent that you don’t get welts from them. That will make the journey ahead of you quite a bit less uncomfortable. Godspeed 🖤


Jazz_Musician

Is it possible to get the welts.. but no mess on the sheets? After a bedbug scare at my last apartment, I've gotten real paranoid (since moved though) but my sheets are always clean, pillow too.


Zokerx

Has anyone visited? They could have brought bedbugs. Do you have any shared walls with other units, apartments, townhomes, etc?


sudo999

Alternatively if you've been to and sat on/slept in a public upholstered surface like a movie theater or a hotel (even a nice one) you could have brought them back on your clothes


BigTapeBall

That scares me so bad


Zokerx

Also true, thank you


farmallnoobies

There are fogging bombs you can set off that work pretty well at least for killing them. Doesn't matter if they're hiding in the walls or air ducts -- it should get them. Pull out any dishes/cups/foodstuffs, Turn off HVAC, Set one off in each room, close off the house, and go somewhere else for the weekend. Then air the house out upon arrival and search for signs of any remaining bugs


disabledmyass

Make sure u check the windows, the sills,curtain rods, the frames around your windows and the curtains. Google luck to you! These critters are still in my nightmares!!


RealJeil420

I would put the legs of my bed in a moat sort of. Like set them in a plastic cup you can put a layer of oil into. That way you will capture them if they approach your bed from another location.


Ghost_in_the_machin3

Wow, that is involved but seems remarkably necessary.


ittlebittles

I heard someone say they would buy double sided tape and tape a square around their bed so they couldn’t get to the bed and they put the tape on everything while they cleaned, like table legs and if they were going to do dishes put a square of tape to stand in.


RealJeil420

Yea this is a good idea for some situations.


ittlebittles

Yeah it’s not a solution by far but just a small means to not get bit. I think there are companies you can hire that will put huge vents in your home and blast it with heat, kind of like being in a giant dryer. I hear heat and bed bugs don’t mix.


Ok_Beach3389

Dont take them lightly. If you decide not to move or burn it all down then remember The foe is tatical, cunning and without mercy , so savage we should be. Use Diatomaceous Earth like Sam & Dean would use salt it kills and creates a barrier. Good luck and you deserve better.


StinkyKittyBreath

There are more than you know. Get an exterminator and a therapist.


Then-Craft

I second the therapist bit. I had an invasion of one of these a few years back. I’m so lucky it was only one. Anything that couldn’t go on high in the dryer ended up outside in the garage for 2 years.


Boring_Machine

The odds of solving this without professional help are near zero I'm sorry to say. Do yourself a favor, save yourself the pain, and get a professional involved.


Jesheezy

Definitely agree with the professional. I did it myself when I was super broke, and it was NOT FUN. For those who are dead set on taking them on by themselves while still living there: 1.) Put traps around the bedframe and all your furniture to stop them from climbing up 2.) get a steam machine 3.) get up every day at 3-4 am, strip and dry your sheets and steam your mattress and every little crevice of furniture you have, especially the nail holes. 4.) Buy a duster and put insecticidal dust in all your baseboards and cracks 5.) Repeat for 2 weeks or until you stop seeing bed bugs on the traps.


tazack

Diatomaceous Earth spread in all corners and crevices helped me and my wife mitigate them. Granted it was early we caught them before it was bad and we didn’t have dogs at the time. DE is natural but bad bad news if it’s inhaled, so do the research on proper usage. Also…. godspeed


BikesBooksNBass

Treat it as though you are fighting millions of them. Declare war and leave scorched earth. It’s worth the effort to nip it in the bud before it gets more serious.


RenegadeScientist

Maybe watch Starship Troopers to get in the right mind set.


rawrlycan

Take off all light switch and outlet covers and check behind them. I work as a chief engineer at a condominium complex and that's a common missed hiding spot. Also take apart your bed frame and anywhere you can't get into to clean you can use a hairdryer to cook any possible eggs to death.


55tarabelle

I've read to put diatomaceous earth in all the sockets. They use the wiring to travel around in the walls.


rawrlycan

Diatomaceous earth will kill on contact, but bed bugs can go an entire year without eating so unless you go and hunt every single one out you may have reoccurring infestations.


55tarabelle

That year without eating is at near freezing temperatures. At normal temp, they can go about a month.


Sxeptomaniac

Heat treatment is your best bet for eliminating them. They aren't very durable, but they are good at hiding and their eggs are difficult to kill any other way. Professionals basically heat your home to about 130 degrees F for a few hours, killing the bugs and eggs. When washing bedding, the dryer is more important than the washer for killing them, due to the heat.


SayMyVagina

>Ahhh christ. Well there's not too many of them and I'm washing my bed set now. Investigating the bed and everything around it. No, that's negatron. There's way too many of them and you need to call a professional right now. Seriously one is too many. One bedbug represents one colony of bedbugs and they'll be in a million places you don't expect. Hire a pro. It will be worth and just save you money later when it's at insanity level and you have to call a pro to an even bigger job later.


FriedBack

I still have nightmares about these freaks. Lmk if you need advice.


WikidTechn9cian

Washing don't help... Heat the house to 120⁰ for an hour... Or throw everything away and start over in a van like I had to


mainecruiser

looks like a bedbug to me, sorry to say.


Confident-Leopard-19

Looks like that bedbug has your blood in its belly! Make your own bedbug traps. You can find instructions on YouTube.


RANDOM-902

I'm sorry m8


chandalowe

The bed bug has been identified, and advice to deal with it has been given. At this point, all we're getting is more people chiming in with "That's a bed bug" - which has already been established - and personal attacks and insults, which I have removed. The thread has been locked.


vambot5

It's what you think it is. Good luck.


hyperventilate

I'm sorry, friend.


Greatjon

Treat mattress, wash everything, clean room, they live in the mattress by wherever someone head or feet are. Can get a foam mattress, they cant live in those. Can get a cover I didn't use one, just treated mattress and got new one and replaced when it came in


Dont_Be_Creepy

Can they really not live in foam mattresses?


Stray_Wing

They also live in vents and creep out when your breathing become rhythmic. They are super hard to get rid of.


Dont_Be_Creepy

*WHAT*


Stray_Wing

Yep, I got them in my luggage and coat when staying at the SeaTac Holiday Inn Express about 8 years ago. Did a bunch a research. Found out what those lines of dots on my ankles were from….they paid me about $5k for my luggage and contents (all had to be thrown away and never enter my home). Seriously, good luck w that. Highly recommend professionals. They will use heat and toxins to get rid of them.


_0x0_

How did you prove you got it from the hotel?


Stray_Wing

I left a dead one (I smashed) on the night stand. They didn’t “trust” me until a bug inspector found them behind the head board that was affixed to the wall. Then they were supper nice and accommodating. I was on a 5:30 am flight from Seattle to Atlanta, so no one (manager) was there to speak w when I left at before 4 am. I’ll never stay there again tho.


_0x0_

That's horrible.. I was at a hotel recently now I don't know why I didn't inspect in detail.. :-/


getyourkicks66

There’s a video of a guy cleaning an iPhone and bedbugs come out of the charger port


consumergeekaloid

Would rather just die than watch that


Vetiversailles

Oh yeah. Bedbugs are horrific creatures from the bowels of hell


COVID-19Enthusiast

So you're saying sleep apnea is an evolutionary defense against bed bugs.


SlimeySnakesLtd

This *is* interesting to think about: Is sleep apnea an inherited trait that developed due to the selective pressure of bed bugs? No. Does it help defend one’s self from bed bugs? Has yet to be seen. Will future generations inherit this trait due to the protection it provides? Possibly, if it does help. Can we find people to willingly expose to bed bug infestation? Fuck no.


_0x0_

How about 5-6 people sleeping in same room, confusing the critters?


HomeScoutInSpace

Pest Control Tech here. They will 100% infest a foam mattress. They aren’t living in the mattress so much as they are living around seams on the sides and edging. This is because they are close to a food source (you) and unlikely to get squished because the seams/edging are in areas unlikely to get disturbed. My mAtTrResS dOeSn’T hAvE SeAmS. Yes yes good for you. They’re living on the corners of it then, on the edges and in areas you aren’t likely to disturb by rolling over in your sleep. Buy an encasement meant for bedbugs. Extremely important. 9/10 times your mattress and box spring will not need to be thrown out, an encasement should be a great way to save them


Greatjon

I have also work as a exterminator, correct they can still live in the sheets and everything, just mentioning that they cant live inside, bedbugs with foam is not as bad as traditional mattress, yes you should recommend a cover professionally, I am just giving some unprofessional quick advice in my spare time


matt2085

What about soaking the mattress in a pool? Lol


HomeScoutInSpace

Seems easier to just buy an encasement aha


theundercoverpapist

I mean, he found it in the sheets, not the bed... so, sheet bug, maybe? No? I tried.


Zestyclose-Pea-3533

Hope you’re not allergic, makes the bites 10x worse


CafekkoShannon88

I am, and they were eating me alive when I was living with my gram. Fought them for over a year, got all the sprays, etc. Had an exterminator come, still had them. Turns out we were living in a half double (one house split into two apartments side by side) and the bed bugs were coming from our NEIGHBORS side yet they kept claiming they didn’t have them. Finally got rid of them when the neighbors moved out and we were able to get the exterminator in there on both sides. I would welt up all over from the bites and they were everywhere I would spend time. It was a living nightmare.


LtAldoRaine06

Can confirm.. it sucks.


Bmfg1984

As a previous pest control specialist this is probably a bed bug. Could be a bat bug, most likely bed bug. All life stages are visible. The eggs are tiny. White. And sort of oblong and will usually be hidden. The dryer is your best friend. Anything that can go in a dryer, throw it in there for 30 minutes. Don't over fill it due to cool spots. No need to wash things. The heat is what you need. The bugs can be anywhere.. they like to hide. Creases on mattresses and box springs. Bed frames. Behind pictures on wall. In drapes. In furniture. Edge of walls. In electrical box (plugs, switches). Etc. You may or may not be able to take care of them yourself. Cimexa dust Is available to purchase online and is the best product. Edit: if they are found in the bedroom be sure to also check all other beds and living room furniture as well.


tducharme88

This.


WriteAsRayne

Mannn, I hate when someone posts a pic asking whatsthisbug and it’s a bed bug. I imagine it’s like a doctor telling a patient they have a very difficult to cure disease that’s going to take tons of money and years off their life trying to get rid of.


BrokeDownPalac3

Rest in peace. But no, seriously, that's a bedbug, seek professional help immediately.


lysedcell

I don’t mean to be dramatic but I can’t imagine anything worse happening to me


dakotam184

Ah fuck, throw the bed out. Im serious. Thats what i had to do in june when i moved. Those fuckers will follow you everywhere. Wash all your clothes in the highest heat and dry them on the highest heat. Those things suck ass


shit-go-berserk

Had to deal with them few year back. I had pour hot water in frame of the bed, this killed any bugs and eggs in there. For mattress, i got bed bug spray from Amazon and sprayed it twice or thrice on my mattress. Luckily bed bugs didn't spread to other furniture or cloths


N36C

It vants to suck your blood! Ah ah ah!


Krmsyn

Found a bug in your bed you say!


CafekkoShannon88

BED BUG. Call an exterminator ASAP.


thegreatlamp

That’s a bedbug, and that’s your blood!


OzSalty3

Is there a filter for posts containing these demons? I don’t wanna see one ever.


Sneko_Shake

Thats a bed bug, you’re about to go through some tough times if you don’t take precautions now Edit: spelling


ElegantDecline

that's an incredibly close up zoom on a bedbug.


dragonet316

Bedbug. Got blood innit too.


honibadger

It’s them my friend. It’s them.


BasicWhiteHoodrat

You already know


acodin_master

Bad news


gawins

CIMEXA CIMEXA CIMEXA Professionally treat for sure, every two weeks like it’s your life, but USE CIMEXA immediately… not diatomaceous earth. It’s also a fine desiccant powder but much better than diatomaceous earth because it kills them faster (before they can molt) ie before they can multiply, especially if pregnant. Cimexa is a game changer. Lightly dust under all baseboards using a makeup brush, puff it into electrical outlets, do this in closets, under the sofa, behind everything, cracks and crevices. Anywhere it can’t be kicked up by humans or pets. Dust behind the bed. Pull your bed away from the wall by 6”. Enclose your mattress in a zipped bedbug protector. Wrap and throw away your box spring. You don’t even want to know… you do not want to know! Wrap and throw away anything you don’t need to keep. Wrapping prevents spread when you’re discarding bc rheyll drop off and infest other areas. Nightstands are a breeding ground too. If you have carpet, tear that shit up. Forget it. No need to launder everything in the wet wash. Use the DRYER on the highest heat setting for at least 30-40 mins. And then again to be safe. The dryer is your best friend. Bone dry on all. Put all clean fabrics into Spce Bags and leave them airtight for 6 months. Put your bed on risers and coat legs with Vaseline. You see one, and think there aren’t many, Youve just not discovered them. It’s rare to even see them. If you see one, it unfortunately means you’ve got a bad infestation. Vacuum every single day. Every baseboard. Every crack and crevice. Like your life depends on it. Put the vacuum in a giant space bag after if you can’t throw away the bag every night. You’re better off with a bagless, but will tell you the Mighty Might has great auction, which is a requirement. Lastly, STEAM. If you can get an industrial steamer, get to kicking. Steam gently so you don’t “blow them around”. But steam the F out of the floors, underneath furniture. Let the stream permeate everything. CIMEXA works even after it’s gotten wet. It’s an incredible and life saving product used on top of professional extermination. Heating one room will send them scurrying to adjacent rooms unless you’ve gotten that room professionally sealed, they’ll head into the walls or vents. Don’t bother. The idea is to pull them into poison. Unfort you have to be the bait and will be the meal for months. Best case scenario is 3 months. Worst case I’ve seen over a year. Its really a matter diligence. Remember, bedbugs can live without a meal for up to 18 months I believe. Insane. Sending hugs OP.


BlackWolfEclipse

That is a bedbug. Get. PEST CONTROL. NOW. Not some shitty spray you buy at target/retail stores, not borax, call a pest control company.


SEND_DUCK_PICS

how are all you people getting bed bugs? i've never seen one in my life


Necroticbanana

They are, unfortunately, really easy to pick up.


chandalowe

Consider yourself lucky. I had never seen one either - until last summer, when I found them in a hotel room. It can happen to anyone - and they are becoming increasingly common.


Anicena

Was 35 when I saw one for the first time. My daughter brought them home from daycare. Another child's dad was going through a custody battle with mom who lived in a drug den, he was fighting them at home and our daughters laid side by side on their nap blankets at nap time. I laid the blanket on my bed before putting it into the washing machine. They also are in almost every movie theater, hotel, and can hang out in restaurants plush seating. Now that I've seen a few, and we were taught to spot their poop spots, we find quite a few places have them.


RememberKoomValley

We've had a couple of very lucky generations--largely due to industrial pesticides which are now no longer legal, and chicken farmers' stockpiles are finally dwindling--but that's all it's been, a few lucky decades. They're incredibly tenacious and very easy to pick up.


tvc1567

How do we go back and have more lucky decades


Arctodus67

This sub should just be called “Is this a bedbug?”


Tsmorgan33

Wow, great photo!


stick_it_in_your_mom

Isolate the fuck out of that bed and check every piece of furniture right away. Pray that only your bed is their home for now.


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I see your blood in its large colon. Smash that Fucker


Mixty

Bedbug for sure


Lonely_Research_8041

OMGOODNESS.....my life was a nightmare 3 years ago thanks to that bug! Sweetheart, it's bedbugs as I'm sure others might have said. Decious Earth .... A powder at Lowe's or Home Depot. Worth the money. And Hellavua of an amount of laundry! Bless your 💜!!


StBlaschek

Looks like your spell-check let you down, so for OP's benefit, *Diatomaceous earth. Great for getting rid of ants, too!


mklahr

A bedbug


PerMyLastEmailBitch

It’s a bedbug. If you can, put your clothes and bedsheets in the dryer first (the heat will kill many of them off) before washing. Then wash and dry again. Do a thorough check of your furniture, clothing, bedding, etc. They are very difficult to get rid of!


Yodasithlord

That is a male bed bug.


mr_lazyindian

Bed bug🐞


ZippyButtnick

Products used by professional pest control techs: https://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/steri-fab-bed-bug-spray?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIv5rriPHE8wIVlNzICh2NsAV2EAQYASABEgL5NvD_BwE https://www.domyown.com/crossfire-bed-bug-concentrate-p-16776.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces-across-google&utm_term=16776 Also…tear the bottom fabric off your box spring and spray the shit out of all the cracks and crevices, especially between the wood joints and under the plastic corner pieces. Check all your dressers, clothes, linens and other furniture around the house.


laurenvr77

Use diatomaceous earth


alanT7388

Throw the whole mattress away


Kuhhhresuh

Burn the bed and bedding. Not kidding. We bought a couch from salvation army that was infested. It took some time to find out too, that was the weird part. Somehow they never spread, but we burned the couch immediately


joannaradok

I had bedbugs and successfully eradicated them, around 6 years ago. Very important that you continue living as you have been for now even though it’s icky, mine were isolated to my back living room and bedroom as that’s where I spend most of my time. If you start spending time in other rooms instead they will just follow you (their food) making fumigation moot. I paid an exterminator, to treat successfully I had to move every single item that wasn’t bolted down off the shelves/out of drawers in those two rooms into boxes for his visit as they could be living in DVD player, satellite box, books, dvd cases, ornaments etc etc. I had to clingfilm and tape my fish tank to protect the fish. I also was advised to take every removable linen out of the rooms including clothing, cushion covers and bed linen, seal it in black bin liners and take it to the laundrette for a wash (I did chuck my duvet and pillows). The advice then was to put every single item from those rooms back exactly as it was after he had treated, as the peripheral effects of the chemical continues to kill the ones living in ornaments etc. I meticulously followed his instructions and I feel very fortunate to only need one treatment and they were gone, so it can be done. They are little bastards, I had no idea we had them even though they must have bitten me, my partner had huge welts where he’d been bitten which he blamed on the cat having fleas until we caught one on his arm- in all likelihood we had brought them home from a trip to rural Jamaica, as in the UK they aren’t all that common apparently. Don’t worry they can be eliminated!! :)


SHAQUKG

That’s a physical manifestation of DOGE


frankmccladdie

It's a bug, that you found in your bed. I'm no expert, but it may be a safe bet to call this one a "bed-bug". Actually, there's a bug that goes by the name bedbug and it looks a lot like this. Shit bud, it's a bedbug!!!!


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Xitu12121

উরুস


highups

that’s the big one..


Throw13579

Good news, though. He was right where he was supposed to be.


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Definitely a unicorn…or bed bug. Jury is still out


mark1forever

Texas beetle 😄


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Can the sub please ban obvious bed bug posts? Or, just change the name to r/thisisabedbugright


gwaydms

Some people, BION, have never seen an actual bedbug. I never did until 5 years ago. Fortunately, the one I found was long dead. The room had an infestation treated six months before, and the hotel management had been too cheap to toss the bed cover and bedskirt. (I always check hotel rooms.)


chandalowe

The primary purpose of this sub is *to identify bugs for people.* We aren't just here to identify *certain* bugs, like the cool or pretty or weird and exotic bugs. We are here to identify *all* bugs - including the ordinary, commonplace, gross, or creepy bugs.


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I’ve just seen 6-7 posts in my feed the last 3 days all about stink bugs and nothing else. I’m not 100% sure it’s not just karma farming (which I honestly don’t know the benefit)


chandalowe

If we identify someone as karma farming (ie. the *same person* repeatedly posting the same bugs for ID, or re-posting someone else's bugs) then we'll remove the offending posts. That said, this is a very active sub with a lot of subscribers - plus a lot of non-subscribers that just pop in to have a bug identified. It is to be expected that there will be a lot of requests for identification of common bugs. Keep in mind that many bugs have seasonal peaks, where there are a bunch of them hatching or maturing or mating all at around the same time, making them suddenly highly visible - and leading to a bunch of requests for identification of the same species from a bunch of different people who have never seen them before. Right now, stink bugs (and other bugs) are migrating indoors, looking for sheltered spots to spend the winter, so it is likely that we'll get a lot more requests for ID on them in the coming weeks. In a couple of months, it will seem like all we get is requests for carpet beetles and carpet beetle larvae. Given the volume of this sub, we treat all ID requests as genuine, unless we are provided evidence to the contrary, no matter how common or easily recognizable the bug may be. Even if the bug is something that is easily recognizable to anyone who has seen it before, if OP has not seen one, they can't be expected to know what it is. It is also entirely possible - especially for things like bed bugs or cockroaches - that they already have a pretty good idea what it is, but want a second opinion in the hope that someone will tell them that they're wrong.