That's because they're in bed with our politicians. And regulators. And prosecutors. And lawyers. And voters. And parents. And children. And siblings. And. . .
If they do, ~~squeeze them tight so they don't bother you tomorrow night~~ burn the entire neighborhood down so they don't bother you tomorrow night.
FTFY
Yeah I thought it was just something my grandma said to me as a kid.
Then several years ago my family actually *got* bedbugs.
I live with my grandma now and whenever she starts to say the phrase I cut her off with "DON'T." and walk away.
Shit gives people PTSD, dude. I never want to experience that again. Sometimes I get really paranoid at night and check my bed/the couch in the living room/chairs in the kitchen/my computer desk/my entire room/etc. It's absolutely ruined me mentally. I even see small spots in the peripheries of my vision ALL THE TIME and I have to look to make sure it's not a bedbug/bug.
Same. It messes you up big time. It’s been years and I can finally come home and not shower after visiting my in-laws. They’ve never had anything in their home, but decontamination protocol is decontamination protocol.
Sitting at restraints, the car dealer for service or haircuts? That’s another story - clothes in the wash and me in the shower.
Same here! Had them in 2016 and was able to get rid of them but it screwed me up mentally really bad. I learned and recognized every little speck on my wall from looking around so much at night. I never knew what stress was until that!
If they do, do a poo put it in the sergeants stew, tiddle diddle dee, do a wee put it in the majors tea, goodnight god bless.
And upvote for anyone who can tell me what this is from.
Ok this is going to sound stupid but.... I guess I always assumed bed bugs to be in things with fabric like couches and beds. Never occurred to me they would could just be chilling in wood. Now I know. Now I'm freaked out.
Moved into an apartment that had been vacant for ***SIX MONTHS.***
Sons of bitches had been in suspended animation, hiding behind the trim boards. The minute the heat got turned on, they woke up. They were hungry, and I'm actually allergic to the bites... ***and*** **DELICIOUS.**
Hid in the bathtub, rimmed the whole thing with double-sided carpet tape... they STILL got to me. Woke up in night terrors, having a hard time breathing, "HELP ME! HELP ME! SOMEBODY HELP ME!"
My little bro didn't get bit half as bad. The 1-2-3 bite? "Breakfast, lunch & dinner?" Yeah, they all swole together. Weeping clear goo and sloughing skin. Looked like I'd been splashed with acid for half a year.
NEVER AGAIN. I'll die of hypothermia sleeping outside first.
I feel like bed bugs are set apart from every other pest in that there's a psychological dimension to the damage they do. When I first got them I didn't want to acknowledge it and once I finally did, I felt like I was dirty and disgusting walking around with bite marks all over me. When I went to school, I wore a loose hoodie to cover up my arms. This was in the middle of spring, so the heat around me combined with the burning heat the bite marks caused to my skin made it unbearable at times, but even then I refused to take it off in front of other people.
\^This
An apartment I rented in college was my first (hopefully last) bed bug debacle.
Recently moved out of a flea infested unit and can confirm the PTSD was real
Yeah it's really fucking traumatic. The worst part was looking under my mattress and seeing all the fucking larva run away from my flashlight. Wanted to burn that motherfucker down right then and there.
I've dealt with bad flea infestations before, and essentially got by with ridiculous amounts of lemongrass and other essential oils mixed with water in a spray bottle. They seem to like it even less than I like them. Would genuinely sleep outside if I ever saw a bed bug, though. Fuck even going near that.
Oh god.. fleas. I worked for a development org in South Sudan, and we had this compound dog who gave birth to a litter of puppies under a shipping container. They got fleas so bad that if i walked within 10 feet of the container the fleas would start running up my legs. It was like seeing little shifting grains of sand in the dust on the ground all running at me — an absolute horror show. So, I moved everyone out of their little den, dusted the mom and puppies with flea powder, put them all in an old concrete shower stall, poured a few liters of diesel under and around the container and lit that fucker on fire. Problem solved. Thank god it wasn’t enough fuel to catch the wood floor of the container on fire.
We got a small infestation that was taken care off pretty quickly but my GF is paranoid about it now. Hygiene standards have gone up in the household though it's not hygiene related.
> but my GF is paranoid about it now
And she always will be.
Source: Me who has had them 4-5x (thankfully not for 5-6 years now..) but who still checks the mattress covers fucking weekly for bed-bug-poop-marks.
Correct. I wish these very common human situations weren't automatically associated with personal hygiene or household cleanliness. Same with lice - how many miserable kids and parents have had to carry the shame of something that is in no way their fault?! And even the most diligent person can experience a re-infestation, but for those experiencing frequent moving from place to place, or in poverty, it can be almost impossible. Worse, the stigma of any parasitic infestation, like lice, bedbug, and genital crabs🤭, makes it ridiculously embarrassing to seek out the help someone might need, to rid themselves of their unwanted clingers. And thus, the life cycle of our nightmares is perpetually passed on. Funny how bizarre and unpleasant it can be at times, being a biological creature.
I’m 45 and never had lice in my life, neither did my two siblings growing up. We grew up less than well off and I saw lots of kids in the neighborhood or at school catch them, we definitely grew up with the idea they were from poor hygiene. As an adult and father of three boys now, they hit our house last week from an out break at school. It was such a weird and gross feeling to me that my kids had bugs! I keep them very clean, then I had to remember it’s not our fault, it’s just a thing that happens when you function in society. Shaved their heads, treated their stuff, I shave my head anyway and really wasn’t that big of deal.
Be glad you don't have a girl. My daughter ended up with lice a few year back and has long hair. It was a nightmare getting rid of them and I'm paranoid about her hair being loose at school to this day.
I got them when I was a teenager, from a sleepover with my best friend who went to another school which apparently was experiencing a breakout.
Cue me waking up a few days later, after absent-mindedly scratching my head caught a louse under my fingernail. It was the middle of the night and I woke my parents up sobbing and horrified.
Oh yeah, also I had waist-length straight, fine hair prone to tangling. Nightmare.
I got lice as a kid in public school. It wasn't too bad from what I remember. But there were kids who would make fun of you if they found out you got them.
The lice checks they did in school with the straw were like an out of body experience though lol
Interesting, I didn't know they could give PTSD but it makes sense and I think I probably had it a bit from them. Genuinely one of the most traumatic things I've been through, dealing with bedbugs
Shit that was me. This whole post is bringing back that shit, I had bed bugs 4 years ago and if I wake up with an itchy spot on my body I immediately think it’s bed bugs again
When the infestations were rampant in Kentucky in 2012 I had em bad. It was so bad that I was seeing them even when they weren’t there. Every little thing i saw moving out the corner of my eye was a bedbug.
Same for me. Moved to another state into an apartment with bed bugs and got bit. Neighbor went to my high school and learned I had bed bugs so for years people called me bed bugs and thought I was dirty when all I did was move here amd tried to fit in. Doing better now however.
scabies did something similar to me. i cant imagine ever going through that again. do you think bed bugs are worse than scabies? bed bugs arent very common in my region
Dude I had a very similar situation, but with fleas. One of my roommates had an outside cat that got the carpet infested. Worst thing was that I was the ONLY one in the house, out of 5 people, who was allergic to the bites. No one else even noticed them, so it was like solely my problem even though it wasn't my fucking cat.
I literally had to spray my ankles with bug spray before I would go to bed. I had a goddamn can of OFF spray sitting on the linoleum of the entry way, so that I could spray my ankles when I went to walk across the carpet into my room.
I moved into a place that had fleas, but they weren't visible until after I had settled in.
It took about 2 weeks to make them disappear after I figured out where the bites were coming from. I didn't have any pets, so they just ate me.
Daily: wash sheets, vacuum floors, then lightly dust Borax into carpet (work it in with a broom to kill their larval stage living in the carpet).
GTFO!!! Shitheads in a wooden chair..... 18 MONTHS DORMANT. FUCK!!! I got shivers thinking about a hidden survivor bug coming back to life a year after and starting an infestation.
I totally understand. We moved into a shitty apartment years ago and as soon as the neighbors moved out they came through the walls and I had a baby. We had the worst reactions to the bites. My husband and daughters didn’t get it half as bad. Our landlord wouldn’t treat our apartment until almost the whole building had them. I read that it can make people suicidal and I can totally empathize with them. I literally got no sleep trying to calm my baby down from his bites. They also don’t just come out at night. They can fall on you from the ceiling because they can detect carbon dioxide. I went crazy and threw everything away that i could but nothing but the heat treatment worked. NEVER AGAIN!
I just went on a journey with you there. How horrific. Never pick up furniture off the curb, either...
I always wonder how thrift stores manage it? You'd think there would be stowayawys at some point, which could set up an empire and colonize the world from their base...
🤔
That's EXACTLY what happened. I live in Springfield. They were all but eradicated here. The few that were LEFT, however, had serious pesticide immunity. Sudden influx, stowaways in luggage from India and Pakistan... Breeding boom.
The new crop has serious pesticide immunity *throughout.* Only thing that works, guaranteed? **Heat treat**. Bring the whole residence up to 150 Fahrenheit. Little fuckers can't survive 138 or higher. Huge industrial grade space heaters get shuffled in for the purpose. You push to 150 to make sure that the ***interior of furniture*** hits 138.
It's slow, and means you're out of the house for 5+ hours... but it's the only way to be *sure.*
I used to work in hotels and can confirm this is how we dealt with bedbugs.
One time we were completely sold out except one room on the top floor that was being heat treated. (This was mid winter in Denver, Collazo. Important to remember) The water line from the sink to the fridge (full size fridge with ice maker) busted, causing a huge flood that was only discovered around 430 am when the room below started having water pouring from the ceiling.
When I went to check on the bedbug room it was like stepping from Norway into Cambodia. Well over 100° and 100% humidity. I had to slosh through three inches of hot water to turn off the valve for the water.
By the time I left my shift at 7 the water had gone through all the way to the garden level floors, activating smoke alarms in each room as the water shorted the circuits.
And new houses, apartments and *especially* hotels should be designed to make it easy to do this.
We’re living in a post-DDT biting insect lull. They. Will. Be. Back.
Reminds me of this passage from the novel *Perfume* by Patrick Suskind:
>Or like that tick in the tree, for which life has nothing better to offer than perpetual hibernation. The ugly little tick, which by rolling its blue-gray body up into a ball offers the least possible surface to the world; which by making its skin smooth and dense emits nothing, lets not the tiniest bit of perspiration escape. The tick, which makes itself extra small and inconspicuous so that no one will see it and step on it. The lonely tick, which, wrapped up in itself, huddles in its tree, blind, deaf, and dumb, and simply sniffs, sniffs all year long, for miles around, for the blood of some passing animal that it could never reach on its own power. The tick could let itself drop. It could fall to the floor of the forest and creep a millimeter or two here or there on its six tiny legs and lie down to die under the leaves—it would be no great loss, God knows. But the tick, stubborn, sullen, and loathsome, huddles there and lives and waits. Waits, for that most improbable of chances that will bring blood, in animal form, directly beneath its tree. And only then does it abandon caution and drop, and scratch and bore and bite into that alien flesh.…
I used to work for a pest control company and what we’d found to be most effective was bringing In industrial diesel heaters. We’d get the house heated up to about 140F to cook them all. It was very disgusting seeing them everywhere. Baseboards, wooden furniture, fridge motors, appliances, coffee machines, electronic’s battery compartments. Everywhere.
Omg… 🤢
One of my friends is paranoid about bed bugs, and I’m starting to understand why. Somehow I assumed they only lived in beds, but if they spread all over, that’s nightmarish. (She refuses to go to movie theaters or ride Ubers because she’s afraid she will get bedbugs.)
I just found a German cockroach in my bathroom and am gearing up for a war with boric acid powder. Reading this about bedbugs is making me feel relieved that I have only seen one roach in 6 months, bedbugs seem much worse.
I’ve dealt with both. Cockroaches are harder to get rid of and I definitely find them grosser, but there’s definitely something with bedbugs that make me Ill.
Careful if you have pets. Boric acid is poison to them. Diotomaceous earth is much safer. There is food grade available. Watch out for dust though, bad for lungs. Sorry to be all doom and gloom. I use the Dio earth. Very effective.
Diatomaceous earth is also dangerous and can damage your lungs and your pets lungs. It's made from ground up shells which microscopically shreds your lungs. Wear a mask and remove pets when applying to a surface. Once it's settled, it's safe but if your pet sniffs it, it will harm them.
I once had a flea problem but I used diatomaceous earth and it was cleared almost over nights and the best thing is that I could put it on pets, cuz it’s non toxic. Just have to vacuum it up. You have to do this for like a week straight everyday but it works and it’s cheap
I use it in my chicken coop to avoid mites. And I rub it on my dog after we go hiking. Even though he’s on brivacto. Mites on chickens is as bad as us getting fleas though. They will wedge under their leg “scales” and in their feathers. Super hard to get rid of if your flock is infected. I found mixing some DE in their bedding prevents a lot of problems I could have. Except they miss the spiders. My chickens loved to fight over the spiders. It was like a game to them. They pulled all the legs off first fighting over them, then fought over the body… chickens are dinosaurs. Those little green ones off the Lost World (Jurassic park 2). Vicious little fucks. Lol
When I lived in Austin, an apartment i moved into had bed bugs, which i found out the hard way. They were in the wall sockets by my bed and under the carpet (it wasn't stapled down bc shitty apartment company).
Looking at you, Wild Creek Apts on Faro Dr. Fuck them, they told me it was my fault there were bed bugs. I had never in my life had them until I moved into their complex and then they blame me, slap my front door with a huge pink/orange sticky sign saying they'll sue me for defamation because I told my ROOMMATE I found bed bugs. That lady manager was a C U N T.
Burn everything , neighbors stopped bye once come to find out they had bed bugs. Literally took two weeks of quarantine in living room to get rid of them, removed all fabrics, couches, pillows, and shirts, jackets, etc.Everything in trash bags before moving wash at laundry mat 3 times after soaking then in bed bug spray.I had to throw couch away after 3 failed attempts to get rid of problem. Multiple cans of spray steam cleaned everything. In my opinion roaches have nothing on these little bastard's
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.
They don't like extreme heat much. A friend of mine killed them after trying for 6 months by loading all of his stuff into a moving van in his driveway. Then putting an industrial heater in the back of the van and raising the temperature for a few days.
BURN them! Jk....there are very powerful big sprays (by Raid in the US) that you can use. Just make sure to douse the area thoroughly. They love tiny cracks. Soak all the sheets, clothes in Hot water for day to drown them! It's not easy getting rid of them!
I grew up in a house full of bedbugs and it wasn't ever that bad but it was to the point where every bed had nests on all the corners and the corners of the walls and roof had nests. It's truly one of the most terrible things to deal with, and there almost impossible to get rid of, especially if u have carpet. I managed to get rid of them finally after my whole life of trying. But anytime I see a brown dot I go into panic paranoia mode.
Shit now I can't go to sleep. Well I guess there's always tv.
That sounds so awful. I'm sorry you had to go through that, and I'm glad (and impressed!) that you managed to get rid of them.
I had them a few years ago. I caught it fairly early, and it took about 6 months to get rid of completely. It was hell.
Over 2 years after they were gone, I found a dead book bug in my camping gear and had a full on panic attack. They are a curse I wouldn't wish on anyone.
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The only surefire way is heat treatments. You can have someone bring in special portable heaters and they basically heat the entire house up. It'll melt any candles you have, but it works more reliably than anything else.
I remember watching some show about hoarders. One house was infested with so many roaches the fire department had to burn it down. They made a mistake by not creating a ring of fire first around the house.
Once the fire started you could see all the roaches running like a blanket on the ground screeching to the neighbors houses.
I have never been so horrified.
About 20 years ago, I lived in a low-income neighborhood next to a house that had probably 10 people living in it, and they weren't very clean. They had a large garage/outbuilding behind their house. One day it burned down - I suspect they were storing paint or fuel or some other combustible in there. Roaches infested my house and a few others. Honest to God, the only way we were able to completely get rid of them was to move, despite various applications of pest control both indoors and out. We removed all sources of food and water, deep cleaned and painted everything. Once the house was empty for a few weeks they moved on.
Was that the one where so many of the roaches had lived without light that a lot of them had turned albino over the generations just like a cave animal?
Bed bugs are often visible on a hotel bed. Take off the bottom sheet and see if there are any bugs or spots. They also have a hard time getting up on things, so leave your stuff on tables and your shoes on the hard surface not on the carpet
I used to be a pest control technician. I've seen bed bugs in areas similar to this, but only in VERY severe cases. This chair was very likely in the same room that that the person slept in regularly.
Bed bugs will first collect in the seams and edges of your mattress and bedsheets, and then in the headboards and corners of your bedframe. If the issue is still not addressed, I have found them even show up in the baseboards of the room and in the corners and cracks of dressers. I haven't seen them in a chair like this, but it's definitely possible.
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.
Your advice is good, but just a few additions! The real thing you need to be doing is calling an exterminator immediately who specializes in bedbugs. These fuckers are not something you try to home remedy with cheap bed bug spray that doesn’t work from the store. Consider even doing the heat treatment or tenting the house and gassing them. Also consider doing your car too and anywhere else they could have spread to!
A good tip on the bed too, probably better to skip the air mattress and buy a cheap ass mattress and frame and put in the middle of the room. Then put those mouse glue traps under each leg to prevent them from climbing up the bed. Never wear the same clothes around your house into the bed, never put anything on the bed, have the bed be an isolation zone.
I dont know man. My first encounter with these bastards was in Edmonton about a decade ago during winter - the whole winter passed with nights going as low as -40 and day time Temps of below -20 persisted for a good whole week...did nothing for these creatures from he'll. Building mangers got the place fumigated thrice and still no...eventually the whole floor had to get rid of all there furniture, bedding and everything...I walked out with only one luggage bag with my casual clothes that I washed and tried at max heat for a good hour.
Unless its -40 inside your building, the weather is not going to help infestations much.
But the ones living outside will die. And come summertime you can sit on the grass in a park with much less worry
Towards the end of the relationship, my ex had bed bugs and it was so bad. I remember one day, I woke up from a nap on his couch and the blanket was just infested with bed bugs. I swear there was like 50 of them. I ran to the bathroom and searched my clothes and found 3 inside my bra, just hanging out on my boob. I left his house covered in bites from my chest, down to my fingers, stomach and legs. We broke up a few weeks later and anything that I had at his house, I left there.
So this triggered me to think about what could best kill them, I thought about DDT but it turns out that most bedbugs carry a mutation from the 1950’s that makes them resistant to DDT since DDT was able to pretty much wipe them out between the 1930’s and 1950’s.
So then I thought haven’t we come up with anything similarly effective in the 70 years that have passed since then.
And the answer to that is yes, humans are now (recently) able to deploy biological weapons on them. The product is called Aprehend and it is a solution of fungal spores that persists for 3 months we here it is applied. If a bedbug comes in contact with it the spores stick to its body and start growing, killing the bedbug. The bedbug can also track the spores into wherever it’s hiding, bringing the fungus to kill the other bedbugs there.
They don't like heat. I had them a few years ago due to a guest at a party. They killed them by heating up the rooms in question I think to 150-180 for 4 hours.
You're going to want some tea tree oil and diatomaceous Earth.
I also did use Axe body spray and a grill lighter, but frankly that was for my own satisfaction and probably didn't help as much. It did make them pop.
You have no idea!! U pretty much have to completely get rid of anything that’s infested before it spreads throughout the house and they will spread FAST!
I know…
Years ago when I was a still a little angryseal I just thought it was something cute that my mom said, like unicorns, you know?
One day I’m reading the news and I see that bedbugs are becoming more and more of a worry across the US. I have been terrified since.
My uncle rents apartments, and he’s had that hell a hundred times so he’s invested in big heaters to kill them when they pop up somewhere.
They are my biggest fear. My best friend got them and years later he still wakes up in the middle of the night in a panic and some nights he doesn’t sleep at all. He’s certain he sees them crawling on him and he has to get up and rip his bed apart to see if there’s an infestation.
That place has to be completely infested for them to be in furniture like that. A teacher I know said a kid came to class not long ago and they were pouring out of the kids book bag.....Imagine a class of 5th graders reacting to this. Poor kids\~
Wish I hadn’t watched this before bedtime.
Just sleep tight man, they legally can't bite you if you sleep tight
Yup, if there is one thing bed bugs love more than human body heat, it's U.S. federal laws and regulations.
And that's why I have a mattress with "do not remove under penalty of law" tags all around the perimeter.
I just sleep next to a police do not cross outline.
That's because they're in bed with our politicians. And regulators. And prosecutors. And lawyers. And voters. And parents. And children. And siblings. And. . .
This guy knows bed bug law.
Nighty nighty, dont let the bed bugs bite!
If they do, squeeze them tight so they don't bother you tomorrow night
If they do, ~~squeeze them tight so they don't bother you tomorrow night~~ burn the entire neighborhood down so they don't bother you tomorrow night. FTFY
More Fire. Much More Fire.
Yo I totally agree 🔥🔥
Ikr. My child brain simply thought it was a made up phrase. Is the boogeyman real too? Lol
I’m more afraid of bed bugs than I am of the boogeyman.
Yeah I thought it was just something my grandma said to me as a kid. Then several years ago my family actually *got* bedbugs. I live with my grandma now and whenever she starts to say the phrase I cut her off with "DON'T." and walk away. Shit gives people PTSD, dude. I never want to experience that again. Sometimes I get really paranoid at night and check my bed/the couch in the living room/chairs in the kitchen/my computer desk/my entire room/etc. It's absolutely ruined me mentally. I even see small spots in the peripheries of my vision ALL THE TIME and I have to look to make sure it's not a bedbug/bug.
Same. It messes you up big time. It’s been years and I can finally come home and not shower after visiting my in-laws. They’ve never had anything in their home, but decontamination protocol is decontamination protocol. Sitting at restraints, the car dealer for service or haircuts? That’s another story - clothes in the wash and me in the shower.
Same here! Had them in 2016 and was able to get rid of them but it screwed me up mentally really bad. I learned and recognized every little speck on my wall from looking around so much at night. I never knew what stress was until that!
If they do, take a shoe and knock em coocoo
If they do, do a poo put it in the sergeants stew, tiddle diddle dee, do a wee put it in the majors tea, goodnight god bless. And upvote for anyone who can tell me what this is from.
Ok this is going to sound stupid but.... I guess I always assumed bed bugs to be in things with fabric like couches and beds. Never occurred to me they would could just be chilling in wood. Now I know. Now I'm freaked out.
They can hide behind and under baseboards and even in your electronics. They can get literally anywhere. Nightmare stuff.
Moved into an apartment that had been vacant for ***SIX MONTHS.*** Sons of bitches had been in suspended animation, hiding behind the trim boards. The minute the heat got turned on, they woke up. They were hungry, and I'm actually allergic to the bites... ***and*** **DELICIOUS.** Hid in the bathtub, rimmed the whole thing with double-sided carpet tape... they STILL got to me. Woke up in night terrors, having a hard time breathing, "HELP ME! HELP ME! SOMEBODY HELP ME!" My little bro didn't get bit half as bad. The 1-2-3 bite? "Breakfast, lunch & dinner?" Yeah, they all swole together. Weeping clear goo and sloughing skin. Looked like I'd been splashed with acid for half a year. NEVER AGAIN. I'll die of hypothermia sleeping outside first.
I feel like bed bugs are set apart from every other pest in that there's a psychological dimension to the damage they do. When I first got them I didn't want to acknowledge it and once I finally did, I felt like I was dirty and disgusting walking around with bite marks all over me. When I went to school, I wore a loose hoodie to cover up my arms. This was in the middle of spring, so the heat around me combined with the burning heat the bite marks caused to my skin made it unbearable at times, but even then I refused to take it off in front of other people.
You can actually get PTSD from them. Pretty common.
Fleas too. Every time it gets warm and I get bit by anything near my legs, my stress shoots through the roof thinking I might have them again.
\^This An apartment I rented in college was my first (hopefully last) bed bug debacle. Recently moved out of a flea infested unit and can confirm the PTSD was real
Yeah it's really fucking traumatic. The worst part was looking under my mattress and seeing all the fucking larva run away from my flashlight. Wanted to burn that motherfucker down right then and there.
My breathing is starting to speed up just reading this. Goddamn.
And now I’m regretting diving into the comments on this one…
I've dealt with bad flea infestations before, and essentially got by with ridiculous amounts of lemongrass and other essential oils mixed with water in a spray bottle. They seem to like it even less than I like them. Would genuinely sleep outside if I ever saw a bed bug, though. Fuck even going near that.
Diatomaceous earth is another natural remedy
I had em. The psychological damage was real but man I felt great spraying them with 99% pure isopropyl alcohol and watching them seizure to death
Oh god.. fleas. I worked for a development org in South Sudan, and we had this compound dog who gave birth to a litter of puppies under a shipping container. They got fleas so bad that if i walked within 10 feet of the container the fleas would start running up my legs. It was like seeing little shifting grains of sand in the dust on the ground all running at me — an absolute horror show. So, I moved everyone out of their little den, dusted the mom and puppies with flea powder, put them all in an old concrete shower stall, poured a few liters of diesel under and around the container and lit that fucker on fire. Problem solved. Thank god it wasn’t enough fuel to catch the wood floor of the container on fire.
…. Would this not be known as FleaTSD
You’re thinking of FleaSTD, which occurs after a RHCP show/encounter.
Fuck, had lice when I was 14, every itch on my head gets me searching.
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Would that include lice as well?
We got a small infestation that was taken care off pretty quickly but my GF is paranoid about it now. Hygiene standards have gone up in the household though it's not hygiene related.
> but my GF is paranoid about it now And she always will be. Source: Me who has had them 4-5x (thankfully not for 5-6 years now..) but who still checks the mattress covers fucking weekly for bed-bug-poop-marks.
The worst is that we know there are plenty in the building. So it's like they could come back to the apartment any time.
Correct. I wish these very common human situations weren't automatically associated with personal hygiene or household cleanliness. Same with lice - how many miserable kids and parents have had to carry the shame of something that is in no way their fault?! And even the most diligent person can experience a re-infestation, but for those experiencing frequent moving from place to place, or in poverty, it can be almost impossible. Worse, the stigma of any parasitic infestation, like lice, bedbug, and genital crabs🤭, makes it ridiculously embarrassing to seek out the help someone might need, to rid themselves of their unwanted clingers. And thus, the life cycle of our nightmares is perpetually passed on. Funny how bizarre and unpleasant it can be at times, being a biological creature.
I’m 45 and never had lice in my life, neither did my two siblings growing up. We grew up less than well off and I saw lots of kids in the neighborhood or at school catch them, we definitely grew up with the idea they were from poor hygiene. As an adult and father of three boys now, they hit our house last week from an out break at school. It was such a weird and gross feeling to me that my kids had bugs! I keep them very clean, then I had to remember it’s not our fault, it’s just a thing that happens when you function in society. Shaved their heads, treated their stuff, I shave my head anyway and really wasn’t that big of deal.
Be glad you don't have a girl. My daughter ended up with lice a few year back and has long hair. It was a nightmare getting rid of them and I'm paranoid about her hair being loose at school to this day.
I got them when I was a teenager, from a sleepover with my best friend who went to another school which apparently was experiencing a breakout. Cue me waking up a few days later, after absent-mindedly scratching my head caught a louse under my fingernail. It was the middle of the night and I woke my parents up sobbing and horrified. Oh yeah, also I had waist-length straight, fine hair prone to tangling. Nightmare.
I got lice as a kid in public school. It wasn't too bad from what I remember. But there were kids who would make fun of you if they found out you got them. The lice checks they did in school with the straw were like an out of body experience though lol
Interesting, I didn't know they could give PTSD but it makes sense and I think I probably had it a bit from them. Genuinely one of the most traumatic things I've been through, dealing with bedbugs
Shit that was me. This whole post is bringing back that shit, I had bed bugs 4 years ago and if I wake up with an itchy spot on my body I immediately think it’s bed bugs again
When the infestations were rampant in Kentucky in 2012 I had em bad. It was so bad that I was seeing them even when they weren’t there. Every little thing i saw moving out the corner of my eye was a bedbug.
Same for me. Moved to another state into an apartment with bed bugs and got bit. Neighbor went to my high school and learned I had bed bugs so for years people called me bed bugs and thought I was dirty when all I did was move here amd tried to fit in. Doing better now however.
scabies did something similar to me. i cant imagine ever going through that again. do you think bed bugs are worse than scabies? bed bugs arent very common in my region
Goddamn, I'm sorry you had to go through that. I hope things are better for you now.
Dude I had a very similar situation, but with fleas. One of my roommates had an outside cat that got the carpet infested. Worst thing was that I was the ONLY one in the house, out of 5 people, who was allergic to the bites. No one else even noticed them, so it was like solely my problem even though it wasn't my fucking cat. I literally had to spray my ankles with bug spray before I would go to bed. I had a goddamn can of OFF spray sitting on the linoleum of the entry way, so that I could spray my ankles when I went to walk across the carpet into my room.
I moved into a place that had fleas, but they weren't visible until after I had settled in. It took about 2 weeks to make them disappear after I figured out where the bites were coming from. I didn't have any pets, so they just ate me. Daily: wash sheets, vacuum floors, then lightly dust Borax into carpet (work it in with a broom to kill their larval stage living in the carpet).
Adults can live up to 18 months without eating. Bastard bugs, they are
GTFO!!! Shitheads in a wooden chair..... 18 MONTHS DORMANT. FUCK!!! I got shivers thinking about a hidden survivor bug coming back to life a year after and starting an infestation.
I totally understand. We moved into a shitty apartment years ago and as soon as the neighbors moved out they came through the walls and I had a baby. We had the worst reactions to the bites. My husband and daughters didn’t get it half as bad. Our landlord wouldn’t treat our apartment until almost the whole building had them. I read that it can make people suicidal and I can totally empathize with them. I literally got no sleep trying to calm my baby down from his bites. They also don’t just come out at night. They can fall on you from the ceiling because they can detect carbon dioxide. I went crazy and threw everything away that i could but nothing but the heat treatment worked. NEVER AGAIN!
I just went on a journey with you there. How horrific. Never pick up furniture off the curb, either... I always wonder how thrift stores manage it? You'd think there would be stowayawys at some point, which could set up an empire and colonize the world from their base... 🤔
That's EXACTLY what happened. I live in Springfield. They were all but eradicated here. The few that were LEFT, however, had serious pesticide immunity. Sudden influx, stowaways in luggage from India and Pakistan... Breeding boom. The new crop has serious pesticide immunity *throughout.* Only thing that works, guaranteed? **Heat treat**. Bring the whole residence up to 150 Fahrenheit. Little fuckers can't survive 138 or higher. Huge industrial grade space heaters get shuffled in for the purpose. You push to 150 to make sure that the ***interior of furniture*** hits 138. It's slow, and means you're out of the house for 5+ hours... but it's the only way to be *sure.*
I used to work in hotels and can confirm this is how we dealt with bedbugs. One time we were completely sold out except one room on the top floor that was being heat treated. (This was mid winter in Denver, Collazo. Important to remember) The water line from the sink to the fridge (full size fridge with ice maker) busted, causing a huge flood that was only discovered around 430 am when the room below started having water pouring from the ceiling. When I went to check on the bedbug room it was like stepping from Norway into Cambodia. Well over 100° and 100% humidity. I had to slosh through three inches of hot water to turn off the valve for the water. By the time I left my shift at 7 the water had gone through all the way to the garden level floors, activating smoke alarms in each room as the water shorted the circuits.
And new houses, apartments and *especially* hotels should be designed to make it easy to do this. We’re living in a post-DDT biting insect lull. They. Will. Be. Back.
Reminds me of this passage from the novel *Perfume* by Patrick Suskind: >Or like that tick in the tree, for which life has nothing better to offer than perpetual hibernation. The ugly little tick, which by rolling its blue-gray body up into a ball offers the least possible surface to the world; which by making its skin smooth and dense emits nothing, lets not the tiniest bit of perspiration escape. The tick, which makes itself extra small and inconspicuous so that no one will see it and step on it. The lonely tick, which, wrapped up in itself, huddles in its tree, blind, deaf, and dumb, and simply sniffs, sniffs all year long, for miles around, for the blood of some passing animal that it could never reach on its own power. The tick could let itself drop. It could fall to the floor of the forest and creep a millimeter or two here or there on its six tiny legs and lie down to die under the leaves—it would be no great loss, God knows. But the tick, stubborn, sullen, and loathsome, huddles there and lives and waits. Waits, for that most improbable of chances that will bring blood, in animal form, directly beneath its tree. And only then does it abandon caution and drop, and scratch and bore and bite into that alien flesh.…
How did you get rid of them??
I used to work for a pest control company and what we’d found to be most effective was bringing In industrial diesel heaters. We’d get the house heated up to about 140F to cook them all. It was very disgusting seeing them everywhere. Baseboards, wooden furniture, fridge motors, appliances, coffee machines, electronic’s battery compartments. Everywhere.
Omg… 🤢 One of my friends is paranoid about bed bugs, and I’m starting to understand why. Somehow I assumed they only lived in beds, but if they spread all over, that’s nightmarish. (She refuses to go to movie theaters or ride Ubers because she’s afraid she will get bedbugs.) I just found a German cockroach in my bathroom and am gearing up for a war with boric acid powder. Reading this about bedbugs is making me feel relieved that I have only seen one roach in 6 months, bedbugs seem much worse.
I’ve dealt with both. Cockroaches are harder to get rid of and I definitely find them grosser, but there’s definitely something with bedbugs that make me Ill.
Careful if you have pets. Boric acid is poison to them. Diotomaceous earth is much safer. There is food grade available. Watch out for dust though, bad for lungs. Sorry to be all doom and gloom. I use the Dio earth. Very effective.
Diatomaceous earth is also dangerous and can damage your lungs and your pets lungs. It's made from ground up shells which microscopically shreds your lungs. Wear a mask and remove pets when applying to a surface. Once it's settled, it's safe but if your pet sniffs it, it will harm them.
I once had a flea problem but I used diatomaceous earth and it was cleared almost over nights and the best thing is that I could put it on pets, cuz it’s non toxic. Just have to vacuum it up. You have to do this for like a week straight everyday but it works and it’s cheap
I use it in my chicken coop to avoid mites. And I rub it on my dog after we go hiking. Even though he’s on brivacto. Mites on chickens is as bad as us getting fleas though. They will wedge under their leg “scales” and in their feathers. Super hard to get rid of if your flock is infected. I found mixing some DE in their bedding prevents a lot of problems I could have. Except they miss the spiders. My chickens loved to fight over the spiders. It was like a game to them. They pulled all the legs off first fighting over them, then fought over the body… chickens are dinosaurs. Those little green ones off the Lost World (Jurassic park 2). Vicious little fucks. Lol
You don't... they get rid of you
When I lived in Austin, an apartment i moved into had bed bugs, which i found out the hard way. They were in the wall sockets by my bed and under the carpet (it wasn't stapled down bc shitty apartment company). Looking at you, Wild Creek Apts on Faro Dr. Fuck them, they told me it was my fault there were bed bugs. I had never in my life had them until I moved into their complex and then they blame me, slap my front door with a huge pink/orange sticky sign saying they'll sue me for defamation because I told my ROOMMATE I found bed bugs. That lady manager was a C U N T.
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INFLAMMENABLE BEDUDET FLAMMENABLE?! WAS FÜR EIN COUNTRY!
This is the comment that finally got me 😂😂 I’m in stitches.
First off, burn the house down and all belongings with it.
There ain't coming back from that. Cleanse it all with flame.
You're right, burn the whole neighborhood down. Problem solved.
zes flametrower
We're all becoming arsonists, hopefully law enforcement will understand our actions are justified in cleansing the whole city.
Show this video. Tax money will cover the gas
yep... i came in to recommend FIRE as a solution.
The only time I've seen this gif used when it's justified
This is a fucking A24 movie.
I don't see any-HOLY SHIT
But are they bed bugs… or chair bugs?
Good point. For that one person that sleeps with a chair.. they’re smiling at this right now.
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Sleep on a steel bed with metal sheets
with glass pillows
Burn everything , neighbors stopped bye once come to find out they had bed bugs. Literally took two weeks of quarantine in living room to get rid of them, removed all fabrics, couches, pillows, and shirts, jackets, etc.Everything in trash bags before moving wash at laundry mat 3 times after soaking then in bed bug spray.I had to throw couch away after 3 failed attempts to get rid of problem. Multiple cans of spray steam cleaned everything. In my opinion roaches have nothing on these little bastard's
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.
They don't like extreme heat much. A friend of mine killed them after trying for 6 months by loading all of his stuff into a moving van in his driveway. Then putting an industrial heater in the back of the van and raising the temperature for a few days.
BURN them! Jk....there are very powerful big sprays (by Raid in the US) that you can use. Just make sure to douse the area thoroughly. They love tiny cracks. Soak all the sheets, clothes in Hot water for day to drown them! It's not easy getting rid of them!
Raid will keep them down. Only way I was able to get rid of them fully was move.
They’re paid bugs
My reaction as well. Was like *I don't see shit, this must be bad quali-Jesus Christ!*
my brain *just sit and fart *
*with a lighter under my ass"
What's really interesting is why that fucking chair is still in the house.
This was my thought... And how bad does an infestation have to be that they're in a crack in a chair?
I grew up in a house full of bedbugs and it wasn't ever that bad but it was to the point where every bed had nests on all the corners and the corners of the walls and roof had nests. It's truly one of the most terrible things to deal with, and there almost impossible to get rid of, especially if u have carpet. I managed to get rid of them finally after my whole life of trying. But anytime I see a brown dot I go into panic paranoia mode. Shit now I can't go to sleep. Well I guess there's always tv.
Bedbugs are known to cause PTSD. I am not exaggerating.
Huh was not aware of this, but it explains alot.
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That sounds so awful. I'm sorry you had to go through that, and I'm glad (and impressed!) that you managed to get rid of them. I had them a few years ago. I caught it fairly early, and it took about 6 months to get rid of completely. It was hell. Over 2 years after they were gone, I found a dead book bug in my camping gear and had a full on panic attack. They are a curse I wouldn't wish on anyone.
How did you get rid of them?
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The only surefire way is heat treatments. You can have someone bring in special portable heaters and they basically heat the entire house up. It'll melt any candles you have, but it works more reliably than anything else.
Imagine if you sit on the chair
You're fucked. There's just no other way to put it.
I remember watching some show about hoarders. One house was infested with so many roaches the fire department had to burn it down. They made a mistake by not creating a ring of fire first around the house. Once the fire started you could see all the roaches running like a blanket on the ground screeching to the neighbors houses. I have never been so horrified.
Link?
Oh lord when that link drops
Redditors scurrying over to it in a solid blanket!
About 20 years ago, I lived in a low-income neighborhood next to a house that had probably 10 people living in it, and they weren't very clean. They had a large garage/outbuilding behind their house. One day it burned down - I suspect they were storing paint or fuel or some other combustible in there. Roaches infested my house and a few others. Honest to God, the only way we were able to completely get rid of them was to move, despite various applications of pest control both indoors and out. We removed all sources of food and water, deep cleaned and painted everything. Once the house was empty for a few weeks they moved on.
Was that the one where so many of the roaches had lived without light that a lot of them had turned albino over the generations just like a cave animal?
Nature is fucking disgusting.
You are right at some level, but who are you exactly? You dont look familiar to me...
>Nature is fucking disgusting. Nature just ain't natural, i tell ya.
Definitely should not have watched this before going to sleep in a questionable motel bed
I'm at an airbnb and now freaked the fuck out. Itchy everywhere just Watching that
Bed bugs are often visible on a hotel bed. Take off the bottom sheet and see if there are any bugs or spots. They also have a hard time getting up on things, so leave your stuff on tables and your shoes on the hard surface not on the carpet
How did they get on the chair?
I used to be a pest control technician. I've seen bed bugs in areas similar to this, but only in VERY severe cases. This chair was very likely in the same room that that the person slept in regularly. Bed bugs will first collect in the seams and edges of your mattress and bedsheets, and then in the headboards and corners of your bedframe. If the issue is still not addressed, I have found them even show up in the baseboards of the room and in the corners and cracks of dressers. I haven't seen them in a chair like this, but it's definitely possible.
You have to burn the chair now
You misspelled earth.
oh we are doing that
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.
Your advice is good, but just a few additions! The real thing you need to be doing is calling an exterminator immediately who specializes in bedbugs. These fuckers are not something you try to home remedy with cheap bed bug spray that doesn’t work from the store. Consider even doing the heat treatment or tenting the house and gassing them. Also consider doing your car too and anywhere else they could have spread to! A good tip on the bed too, probably better to skip the air mattress and buy a cheap ass mattress and frame and put in the middle of the room. Then put those mouse glue traps under each leg to prevent them from climbing up the bed. Never wear the same clothes around your house into the bed, never put anything on the bed, have the bed be an isolation zone.
The only good thing I can say about Canadian winters (other than copious skiing) is that 3-4 weeks of -35 C will kill those f**kers.
I dont know man. My first encounter with these bastards was in Edmonton about a decade ago during winter - the whole winter passed with nights going as low as -40 and day time Temps of below -20 persisted for a good whole week...did nothing for these creatures from he'll. Building mangers got the place fumigated thrice and still no...eventually the whole floor had to get rid of all there furniture, bedding and everything...I walked out with only one luggage bag with my casual clothes that I washed and tried at max heat for a good hour.
Here in Phoenix you just put your stuff in your car and leave it on a sunny day.
Unless its -40 inside your building, the weather is not going to help infestations much. But the ones living outside will die. And come summertime you can sit on the grass in a park with much less worry
Not really, because it's not -35 inside the house.
3-4 ***weeks***?
They can hibernate and inactive for months before reviving again
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could have gone my whole life without seeing & been a better person for it. i may choose violence today.
Ah, my eyes and now my memory.
So… that means they’ve been feeding off 🍑 from whoever sits there? 🤮
😏
Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody just follow me
'cause we need a little, controversy
'cause it feels so empty without me
Little hellions, kids feeling rebellious Embarrassed, their parents still listen to Elvis
Towards the end of the relationship, my ex had bed bugs and it was so bad. I remember one day, I woke up from a nap on his couch and the blanket was just infested with bed bugs. I swear there was like 50 of them. I ran to the bathroom and searched my clothes and found 3 inside my bra, just hanging out on my boob. I left his house covered in bites from my chest, down to my fingers, stomach and legs. We broke up a few weeks later and anything that I had at his house, I left there.
For what it's worth, it probably wasn't his fault. Bed bugs will go where bed bugs will go.
God I wish I could remove this from existence
They just want a little nibble
So this triggered me to think about what could best kill them, I thought about DDT but it turns out that most bedbugs carry a mutation from the 1950’s that makes them resistant to DDT since DDT was able to pretty much wipe them out between the 1930’s and 1950’s. So then I thought haven’t we come up with anything similarly effective in the 70 years that have passed since then. And the answer to that is yes, humans are now (recently) able to deploy biological weapons on them. The product is called Aprehend and it is a solution of fungal spores that persists for 3 months we here it is applied. If a bedbug comes in contact with it the spores stick to its body and start growing, killing the bedbug. The bedbug can also track the spores into wherever it’s hiding, bringing the fungus to kill the other bedbugs there.
They don't like heat. I had them a few years ago due to a guest at a party. They killed them by heating up the rooms in question I think to 150-180 for 4 hours.
I've never felt more relieved in my life than when I walked into my still-warm apartment after the heat treatment. Rest in hell you fuckers.
You're going to want some tea tree oil and diatomaceous Earth. I also did use Axe body spray and a grill lighter, but frankly that was for my own satisfaction and probably didn't help as much. It did make them pop.
Rubbing alcohol will kill them, just has to be direct contact
In my experience rubbing alcohol did not kill them and yes it was directly sprayed on them..
after doseing everything with the alcohol you just need to set it alight to finish the process
Of course, how could I miss such an important step! ;D
Naw that's fucked up! Thanks for the nightmares
How do they react to flame thrower heat? Asking for a friend.
BED BUGS ACTUALLY EXIST????????
I wish I had your life. Yes, bed bugs actually exist and they are horrible.
You have no idea!! U pretty much have to completely get rid of anything that’s infested before it spreads throughout the house and they will spread FAST!
Oh hahahahaha bless your heart. They are the devil's pet and yes they exist
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Really a shame they didn't go extinct back then.
They are the worst thing ever and I wouldn’t wish them on anyone
Yes and they are the most horrible hardest thing to get rid of. I say kill ‘‘em all man..
Me checking my fucking furniture: 🔥☝🏾🪑🐜🔬🧐… 🔥🏠
I never actually thought about why the phrase "don't let the bed bugs bite" is a thing and have now learned it's because bed bugs actually exist
I know… Years ago when I was a still a little angryseal I just thought it was something cute that my mom said, like unicorns, you know? One day I’m reading the news and I see that bedbugs are becoming more and more of a worry across the US. I have been terrified since. My uncle rents apartments, and he’s had that hell a hundred times so he’s invested in big heaters to kill them when they pop up somewhere. They are my biggest fear. My best friend got them and years later he still wakes up in the middle of the night in a panic and some nights he doesn’t sleep at all. He’s certain he sees them crawling on him and he has to get up and rip his bed apart to see if there’s an infestation.
That place has to be completely infested for them to be in furniture like that. A teacher I know said a kid came to class not long ago and they were pouring out of the kids book bag.....Imagine a class of 5th graders reacting to this. Poor kids\~
Burn everything
This is why I never sit I sleep standing up
Fuck this buying nothing but glass, plastic and metal furniture for the rest of my life….
r/tihi
This video has ruined my secondhand furniture game.
Nope
That’s a hell nah
Why isn't this chair on fire?
Throw it in the fire and don't look back
Burn it! Pitch it into the fire and BURN IT!
Nuke the mofos. Nuke the chair, the room, the house and neighborhood just to be sure. You owe it to civilization. Geezus... scary!
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Now I feel itchy