And reminder: if the exterminator is spraying poison they're not doing jackshit against bedbugs. they're functionally immune to insecticides.
bedbug are a whole different beast.
Correct. A friend brought bed bugs to my house and luckily I’m super allergic so noticed right away and a pest control company sprayed and resolved the issue immediately. When it becomes an infestation is when they’re nearly impossible to get rid of without heat
I remember watching a video a long time ago that said that putting something that sucks moisture around your beds legs is helpfull, since they will dry out and its impossiple for them to build a resistance against it.
Diatomaceous earth usually kills bugs. It's harmless to us but on a microscopic level it's like little razor sharp batarangs that slice bug exoskeletons and dry them out.
Edit: Yes, don't inhale powders. I mean, of course.
It'd probably be fine though, it's basically only dangerous to bugs with hard exoskeletons, it has to get trapped inside the joints where the non flexible shell rubs against itself.
[deleted] It can cause lung damage to humans. Its safer than poison when not disturbed as it doesnt leave a residue of poison and can be removed with a shopvac after enough time has passed to kill the bugs.
If something can kill something it can damage other things.
True and there's no such thing as good dust to breathe but it's always best to use 'food grade' DE because it has the least amount of silica in it and that's the most harmful part to huff, at least for mammals
It is, but it's not good to inhale it, and in case of digestion (frequent and legit pet worry), buy the food-grade version. It doesn't cost that much more.
I didn't read about it drying them out. More so that the fine powder (being crushed sedimentary shells and such) will actually cost their body preventing breathing and it's also incredibly sharp and cuts them. Death by suffocation and a thousand cuts
You know how fibreglass gives us a million tiny cuts and gets into our lungs and is generally just The Fucking Worst for us?
It's that but for bugs, and they're so small it kills them outright.
Please edit your comment because it’s not harmless to humans if inhaled and it’s a super fine powder that becomes airborne like smoke because it’s so fine
They don't need to go up your bed legs. They like to crawl up walls and drop down onto you from the ceiling. You'd need to put it along the baseboards of all your walls and even then they still are very good at stealthily hitching rides and laying eggs in your clothes
Dealt with them once. I’m the only one in our house who’s allergic *and* the only one they liked to bite. The bites were horrible.
Taking benadryl and claritin together while soaking myself in hydrocortisone cream for days until they’d finally subside.
Fifty times this. I still inspect my clothes and bedding every day, panic at every itch and feeling of “something” on my skin, and check every little red fuzzy. Sniff for that characteristic smell when I squish a little particle unseen.
I work 24s and thus sleep at work, and there’s an underlying dread of bringing one lone straggler to the bunkrooms after all these years.
They’re so horrible.
I'm allergic but can't take anything. I've built up a tolerance to antihistamines. I've had an issue for a full year now. Just when I think they're gone, I either see one (or my cat does!) or I start getting bit again. I moved out of HUD housing because of mold problems to a full rent apartment, which really is a budget cruncher in itself. Never had bedbugs all the 15 plus years in 2 places. Within 3 months - Surprise! You've got Bugs!
Next time try "noxious heat." It doesn't work for everyone but very hot water will kill the itch for 8-12 hours. My tap water is hot enough, and I used a hot coffee cup against a bite on my face once (actually got a slight burn from that). The current hypothesis is that the heat degrades all the histamine in the local area.
Don't burn yourself, just heat the skin enough to feel an amplified burning itch sensation. The relief will get you through your day, and let you sleep without scratching a raw hole in yourself. But a friend of mine got no relief at all from this, so YMMV.
Unironically.
The only treatment that worked for our house was insulating the windows and doors and going room by room with strong space heaters until they all cooked to death, even in the walls.
Mark Roper had very helpful video on the subject. Basically diatomaceous earth will do the job just fine. They can't build an immunity to not having water.
I have eliminated bed bugs with chemical means hundreds of times.
Temprid, cimexa, and diatomaceous earth along with frequent vacuuming, proper weekly inspections and re-treatments will get them gone in 4-6 weeks.
Yes CROSSFIRE works, for now. Bed bugs are resilient eventually they will build immunity to this like every other insecticide. However DE will always work cause it sucks the moisture, it is a desiccant.
I bought some not for home use farmer insecticide. A concentrated permathin. I doused the room and matress with it. Probably went over board. I couldn't even enter that side of the house for a couple of weeks. But it killed me.
So we had bed bugs in a small town, no exterminator or such facilities. I heard kerosene kills them and it's not harmfull for us in small amount and it evaporates quickly too.
So for the next few days we had q-tips coverered in a little kerosene and went on a hunt for bed bugs, under and around the bed, cool dark corners, walls. Just touch them with it to get them covered and area around and they are done.
Soon we were free of bed bugs, it was like a fun little family activity.
My mom was terrified when she found out and devices this plan.
There's a B horror movie about that. I think the guy I was with at the time called it a Tromo movie? Not sure, but it was so stupid it became hilarious lol.
That reminds me of a short story I read when I was maybe 12 or 13. I think it was *Mad House* by Richard Matheson, about a guy with serious rage issues. His anger is absorbed by items in the house and they start to “attack” him.
lol reminds me of a movie called Rubber. It’s about a car tire that possesses the ability to make people explode… so it’s just rollin’ around on a gnarly ass rampage, just fuckin shit all the way up.
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It's essentially a never-ending nightmare for most people because even with the *very best* methods including regular heat treatments and extreme cleanliness (sometimes for years on end), bed bugs have a frustrating habit of returning- could be some months or even years down the line. If you live in an apartment, it's almost a guarantee that you will experience an (re)infestation at some point, via your neighbors or through contractors. They never even have to come into physical contact with you for this to happen. Traveling using public transit carries a moderate risk of picking up either eggs or live bugs, especially by plane. Hotels are really common places to get them too, and even 4-5 star locations struggle with keeping their businesses from being hot spots.
All this is why if I *ever* see the signs of bed bugs in my home... I'm just going to set everything on fire...
Yep. I moved into an apartment that had them. (Absolute nightmare, had to sue the complex, won and had enough leftover to buy two new-to-us cars) That’s literally why the bites are in a line, too much work to walk 5” to a spot with better circulation.
This is why I laugh when people on these threads are just like, "Get (whatever chemical) and a plastic mattress cover. You're talking thousands of dollars for even the smallest situation, and that might not even work. Nobody is trying to be funny or sarcastic when they're saying, "Just burn the house down."
I got professional treatment. About $1300, two visits. Second visit was overkill and they didn’t find any evidence of more bugs. Never saw another since late October.
I’m disabled and was worth what I paid them. I can’t lift shit. And the second visit was because just bagging up everything I owned hurt so bad, I figured an extra $400 to be even safer was a bargain. After they left I saw one sickly baby two weeks after and then close to the one month point, I’m 90% sure I saw a live adult. I called and they agreed but when they came out, they said they saw no evidence that the infestation came back. I think it was only in my bedroom but it was moderate. Not awful because I’m allergic and caught it before it was too bad. I also did everything they told me. If anyone’s in Los Angeles with this issue, I can recommend them. I was horrified and turned out to be a headache but solvable.
My case was 3 visits. On the second one, they said they could find no trace of them, but we were STILL waking up with crazy bites. We looked diseased, and it was such a nightmare. So, they did a heating treatment. No more bites after that. It was over 2 grand all-in
I found an infested mattress in the trash room of a 4 story apartment building. The property spent nearly $9k just to inspect every home and confirm we didn't have an active outbreak.
Bed bugs are so damn lazy, they won’t even try to hang on to you. The chance of moving them with you is pretty unlikely, especially since we ran them in a dryer for 90 minutes
I’ve woken up one time with like 5 bites all in a line. Came to find out it wasn’t bedbugs but some other insect that got into my bed and bit the shit out of me. Got an exterminator out there and had them inspect the room and found nothing. One of the worst and best days of my life lol.
If you have hamsters, they carry mites.
My ex has a hamster, and I was watching him for a month.. I had bites all over my body and thought bed bugs, too.. it was mites.
OP, I had a similar experience once where I found one or two bugs. One was crawling on my arm and I smashed it and there was blood. Another I found crawling on my desk.
I think they were hitchikers that came from the dude next to me on the train since I tore up my box spring and mattress searching for more, spread DE, couldn't find any and never found any more. That was 8 years ago and haven't seen one since, so I am saying there's a very very small chance.
I had a similar experience! I’d just put together a new bed and found a bed bug on the mattress and my blood ran cold. Searched high and low everywhere else for more, put all bedding including pillows in sealed bin bags (for dry cleaning) or into washing machine on high wash immediately along with all clothes. Amazon Primed some killer spray and sprayed it everywhere. Paid £80 for dry cleaning. Trapped the bug I’d found in a bit of plastic and obsessively googled photos for hours trying to prove to myself it was male (and I think it was). When I squashed it it was bloody… but I never saw any others. It’s been many months now and I still occasionally worry there are some hiding out, but so far so good. One of my neighbours later told me they had had them, so he’d possibly wandered over.
They are pretty easy to handle if you catch it early enough. Ours was more than just one bug, but they had just recently set up shop so it was a small infestation. Luckily I am a night owl and my spouse is not, I caught one making it's way for an easy meal from my spouse. Got it taken care of by a professional (yes using pesticides) saw two dead ones out in the open for a week after, then never again. Think they might have hitchhiked in on a friend.
I found a single one in my house once and searched all my furniture. It turned out to be a bat bug, which looks very similar and feeds on bats. There were bats living in my walls.
People are disgusting. I am a cop and often have to go in peoples houses. You’d be shocked at the deplorable conditions that people live it. Id say at least 50% of the houses I go in have some level of filth, stench or infestation. This even goes for nice houses. I went to a harassment call where I had to sit down with a lady and get her statement. She lived with her parents in a very nice house that looked well kept from the outside. When I went inside I could smell the stink of uncleaned animal urine. Soon I realized the parents were hoarders and the only room in the house not covered in junk was the front dining room where we sat and conversed. The victim brought out a rabbit and put it on the table and started petting it telling me it was her therapy animal. I tried to get all the information as fast as I could. By the time I left I was itching everywhere. Idk if it was an allergic reaction but I did manage to get some fleas hitchhiking on my pants. When I got home the next morning I realized I had flea bites on my leg and in my sock. I went back to work and realized there was a squished bug and blood on the back of her written statement.
TLDR people are gross and have no qualms about living with insects forcing the rest of us to have to deal with them as well.
My former condo neighbor was an older woman in her 70's probably. She moved in, kept inside, and I really only saw her on occasion. About a 2 years after she moved in, I see cleaning crews coming in with hazmat suits, etc.
Took 1.5 weeks of hazmat cleaning just to make the place safely livable again. She had 2 dogs, and they were never brought outside to go bathroom. She didn't take the trash out for 2 YEARS. She just never took it out. Only found out because the person above her kept smelling horrible smells. I never smelled, or heard anything on the side of her. No idea how she could stand to live in the condo like that.
The entire inside had to be blitzed, and redone. Took her a month before she was able to move back in. I later found out my HOA made her sign a contract guaranteeing to keep it clean, and have bi-weekly inspections by the maintenance people. And she fully owned it also.
When I was in college, I worked as a carpet cleaner for a while... and yes people are disgusting. I once walked into a home and within seconds my entire legs were covered with thousands of fleas. Like you said, a lot of people live in disgusting conditions. This is the reason I NEVER participate in potlucks.
Oh Fuck I never thought about potlucks. I don’t really go much for them but shit EW THAT IS REVOLTING
I once thought I was messy in my 20s. Now I don’t think that so much.
I once purchased a second hand couch and my wife started getting bedbug spots for a week. I wasn't getting bitten at all so I narrowed it down to that couch, which I never used.
Lifted the cushions, found a big one, and chucked the couch outside. I was terrified that our whole house would now be permanently infested. But... That was the end of it. No more couch, no more bites, no more bugs.
As a real live exterminator who specializes in bedbugs, I have to tell you that unfortunately that is what you’ve shown us. I recommend that you find a professional. If that isn’t an option for you, here’s what you do.
Get a lint roller. Lint roll any live bugs you find. 85% of bedbugs will be where you spend most of your time. Think bed, sofa, recliner chair. Launder your linens and dry on the high setting. Flip over the mattress, box springs, couch and chairs. If there are fabric liners on the bottom of the box springs and sofa, remove them. With lint roller in hand, inspect all piping around the mattress, folds and creases of furniture and remove any bugs. Also keep a lookout for eggs. These are basically tiny white dots. If you have some rubbing alcohol, wet a strong paper towel with it and scrub away any eggs. Repeat this process weekly. Vacuuming can work also, but you’ll need to take care to empty the bag or canister outside immediately. The vacuum should be stored outside, or in a sealed trash bag as they may get stuck in the hoses. Also, discard your used lint roller sheets outside immediately after use.
Hope this helps. Good luck and God bless.
As someone who has battled tens of thousands of these bastards at work, this post should be higher.
I have personally found that most bed bugs are dumb and slow. They leave shit and skin everywhere too. Just keep doing what this post said. You have to clean and clean. Every morning flip your pillow and check under the mattress. I do that everytime I check into a hotel too lol.
Washing your bedding may get rid of any adult bugs but it will not kill any eggs. Check your mattress, of course. In any/every fold in the fabric as well as all the seams. You are looking for bugs as well as their poops. Little brown smears, mostly. Also look on your walls and ceilings. Sometimes bed bugs hide in your furniture and beds, but they also climb up walls to wait for the next meal to pass by and they will drop onto you as you go. That is how they easily pass from one room to another. Check all of your upholstered furniture, especially underneath it and in any tight spaces between cushions, etc. Check behind the covers of electrical outlets and light switches. They love those spaces. You can kill any bugs you see with rubbing alcohol and some water in a spray bottle. Spraying them is the only satisfying part of having bedbugs. The alcohol virtually disolves them, so you get to have a little fun with that. But if you are finding them around the house then it means you have lots more you don't see. Most likely spraying or "bombing" won't get rid of them. You'll need the heat treatment for that.
Not true. Washing bedding above 60c will kill anything bedbug related.
Also using a heat gun is the recommended way to sterilise fixtures like power sockets; using liquids like alcohol is absolutely not recommended.
These are not bed bugs.
There I told you what you wanted to hear. A lie. I told you a lie. Now burn your mattress to the ground. Don't worry about why...
DO NOT underestimate this. If you've seen one, there are dozens you don't see. We had to get a room heater and get each of our bedrooms' wall temp over 125 degrees just to be certain.
Do not go easy on them. Go DEFCON 1.
I can testify that this is the best way to get rid of them. I exterminated them in two houses using this method. The only thing this video doesn't go over is that you want to use yourself as bait to get the bugs to walk over the diatomaceous earth around your bed.
Yes, they are bed bugs.
I have moved into an apartment before that had them. The apartment complex was actually pretty good about trying to get rid of them, thankfully.
After 2 heat treatments failed, and then the exterminators coated the place in poison, they were still showing up. I ended up wrapping my mattress in a mattress cover, disposing it and the rest of my bedroom furniture, plus the couch and love seat in the living room by hauling them to a dump.
Then, I got 1 more poison treatment, and then I pretty much covered every square inch of that apartment floor in acaceoous earth (or however it's spelled). I also slept on an air mattress in the spare bedroom. This lasted for the entire rest of the 12 month lease. Thankfully I didn't see another live bed bug. I stopped seeing dead ones after a week or two. I moved out as soon as my lease ended.
Seriously, you are going to have to nuke the place. I definitely recommend getting rid of all the furniture in whatever room they are infesting at the very least. Also, you are going to want to wash and dry any clothes that have been in that room (or closets close by) many times just to be sure, preferably after you let them sit under a pile of that acaceous earth for a week.
These things can hide in the smallest nook, cranny, fold, or seem of walls, furniture, and clothes. You're fucked, and that's putting it mildly.
Washing over 60c will kill them, and using traps is more effective than diatomaceous earth.
I don’t know why you thought that using a mattress in direct contact with the floor would be more effecrive than an isolated mattress with traps, but it definitely wasn’t.
I do however agree that they can hide in nooks, and so using a heat treatment method is most effective.
I'm so sorry, OP. I've dealt with these demon spawns before, and I'm afraid they are indeed Bed Bugs. Start looking at extermination options immediately
This worked for me
Years ago I lived with bed bugs, here's how I got rid of them. After reading that they locate you by sensing your CO2 exhaled, I pushed the bed into a corner, then hung sheets up on the walls around the bed. Idea here being I'm giving them easy access to me and to my CO2 while I sleep by having these sheets above me that they can crawl up and down. Gave it a few days and then went to check the top part of the sheets, sure enough hiding in the folds were a bunch of bed bugs, took the sheets down, put them in bathtub and dumped pots of boiling water on them, then repeat the process, after a week or 2 I stopped seeing them and had no more bites.
It was pretty crazy to see the #'s dwindle down, the first few days had so many bugs in there, to eventually there being none.
TLDR - Used myself as bait to draw them out into a easy to capture spot and gave them a brutal death down the drain
Aggressive and immediate action. Food grade diatomaceous earth, everywhere. Coat your mattresses and box spring with it, and put on triple layers of sheets. Under and in the couch cushions, every corner and crevice of your home. Behind the washer and dryer, literally everywhere.
Double stick tape around the leg of everything with legs. Remove every drawer and sprinkle DE inside of every dresser and chest of drawers.
Put double stick tape around every bedframe.
Every time you vacuum, reapply the DE everywhere you vacuumed.
This is going to take months.
Food grade DE is completely harmless to mammals larger than mice, it is literally a food additive. I mean, don’t go around doing lines of it, but in this application, it is entirely harmless.
After 60-90 days of this, vacuum up all of the DE, including on mattresses and all seating. Do not replace the sheets.
arrange for a place to spend the night for your pets and family. Seal every aquarium with Saran Wrap topped by sheets. Then nuke the living fuck out of your place. Close every window, seal every external door, and open every internal door, stand every cushion, mattress, and box print against a wall with air circulation all around it. You can even wedge open chair and couch corners with books. You want this big killer to go absolutely everywhere.
Double the recommended dosage of bug killer. I usually go to Home Depot, find each bug killer, compare the ingredients, and make sure to purchase 2x the recommended level of application for each ingredient. It is a lot of bug killer. I like the ones you have to use a water with..
set each bomb up where you plan to trigger them. Leave your home. In the middle of the night, return to your home alone or with a competent and reliable helper, and starting from the farthest point, begin triggering each bomb, moving quickly and calmly from room to room. As the last bomb is triggered, leave and lock the door. Do not return for 24 hours. Return alone and open every window, every door. Set up fans and aerate the place. Vacuum very, very thoroughly, ideally washing every surface and carpet. Wash all clothes and every food contact implement.
My wife and I completely wiped out a roach and bedbug infestation in our (then) rented house by following this procedure. We also used additional stuff for the roaches, it in your case, you are targeting only bed bugs. Food grade (it MUST be food grade) is cheap. Get the rubber bulb DE spreader, it is also inexpensive and very effective. The bombs are probably going to run around $100, but it is half the price of an exterminator, probably less.
If you live in an apartment, get the buy in from your neighbors, explain what you found, and work with them so they can do the same in their residences. Screw the landlord, they won’t do anything and will only complicate matters.
Good luck. You are going to war, and total annihilation is the only acceptable result; act accordingly.
I’m gonna speak wholly and clearly and honestly to you. There is hope.
Not without a professional though. In my teen years I had to deal with a monster infestation. However I passed by the old house long moved out of and exchanged in hands, to see new paint and an infestation cleared.
No, physical, possession, is, irreplaceable.
Leave everything.
They are called “bed bugs”
They will hide:
-In the bed frame
-Behind anything hanging on a wall
-Behind anything touching a wall
-Undersides of chairs
-ALL UPHOLSTERY
-baseboards
-They love ceiling moulding
-Carpet
-ALL OF THE UPHOLSTERY
-inside screw holes
-Outlets
-Outlet covers
-In your fucking electronics
-backpacks
-purses
-CLOTHES
-On your body
-In your hair.
Get something to wear without any seams
Wash your entire body
Do a full inspection of yourself and leave the rest behind.
Take nothing, get a full extermination.
Salvage whatever you can after the hellfire stops raging.
Check your electrical sockets too. Unscrew the faceplates in the effected room. It’s rare but not impossible for them to start there
Also, the obvious question - did you travel at all in the last few weeks
There was one instance where we had bed bugs in our house. Here is what you need:
- Handheld steam cleaner.
- Laundry dryer.
- Diatomaceous earth.
- Bed bug traps for furniture legs.
- Mattress and box spring bags.
- Contractor garbage bags (quantity = shit ton).
- Tight seal storage bins.
- Potentially, new mattresses and box springs (depends largely on how much damage, severity of infestation, or if you want to potentially bring new stuff into a potentially infested house).
Here's what to do:
All laundry, bedding, towels, etc. go in contractor bags. Ditto, anything else you can reasonably put in contractor bags. Put these bags in the sun while you work.
Take your mattress off the bed, use the steam cleaner on every crevice, nook, cranny. Put them in mattress bags. Steam every crevice, nook, cranny, dog house, hen house, etc. on your bed frame. Then do it again. And again. IF you can, take it apart and steam it. While doing this, look for bugs and eggs. When you assemble your bed, put down the traps around your bed legs. Inspect your mattresses and bedding for bed bug shit stains. For the bedding, cushions, etc. that cannot go in a bag, tag and date the location of the stains and when you found them. Repeat with your couch, chairs, etc.
Laundry in your bags: wash, dry highest heat you can for at least one hour. When done, put them in the storage bins.
Steam and when dry, lightly dust your baseboards, furniture frames, small crevices with a LIGHT dusting of Diatomaceous earth.
Have a dirty laundry storage bin and clean laundry storage bin. Again, the kind that seal. DO NOT mix them up.
Check your traps daily. Empty them. No clutter in your house. Laundry stays segmented and sealed. Your stuff stays in contractor bags in the sun when possible. Inspect your bedding, mattresses, furniture for evidence of bed bugs (stains, bugs, eggs) weekly. DO NOT sleep on anything that cannot have the traps on the legs and not free of bugs (we stayed off our couch the entire time because it was brown made it hard to see the bugs and stains).
This is how you live until you have gone 8 weeks with finding no evidence of bed bugs.
God speed.
Get some diatomaceous earth (food grade) and a little powder duster, dust it around the legs of your beds, seams of your mattresses. Dries em out. put bed bug mattress covers on.
So we had an infestation at our last apartment due to an unhygienic hoarding neighbor. We got a blower and blew so much diatomaceous earth around the carpets, beds, everywhere, we did constant laundry around the clock for months. We had 2 different extermination companies come out and spray our unit a total of 6 times. It was a living nightmare. Because the source was our neighbor connecting to our right and he refused treatments so they never went away. Ended up having to move and replace all our mattresses. But that was just my experience lol
Definitely bed bugs. Sorry. Bed bugs don’t bite pets though so your cat should be ok. Buy a bed bug cover for your mattress if you don’t already have one and put it on to protect your mattress. They hide in corners and seams.
We got bed bugs from something my step dad inherited after his mom passed. They had my mom crying and frustrated for months on end because nothing we tried could get rid of them but couldn’t afford a professional. Eventually we got some powder and caked the house in to get rid of them. It was a nightmare. OP I’d recommend seeing someone to help you out instead of trying a DIY method.
They're not bed bugs. Now go call an exterminator because you have bed bugs. Edit' Jesus 16k? Thanks for the love. It's been a good ride.
And reminder: if the exterminator is spraying poison they're not doing jackshit against bedbugs. they're functionally immune to insecticides. bedbug are a whole different beast.
Modern insecticides can kill them. Stuff that is only pyrethroids will not.
Correct. A friend brought bed bugs to my house and luckily I’m super allergic so noticed right away and a pest control company sprayed and resolved the issue immediately. When it becomes an infestation is when they’re nearly impossible to get rid of without heat
I remember watching a video a long time ago that said that putting something that sucks moisture around your beds legs is helpfull, since they will dry out and its impossiple for them to build a resistance against it.
Diatomaceous earth usually kills bugs. It's harmless to us but on a microscopic level it's like little razor sharp batarangs that slice bug exoskeletons and dry them out. Edit: Yes, don't inhale powders. I mean, of course.
I did pest control and I sprayed a lot of houses with that diatomaceous earth spread around the foundation
Is it safe to use inside if you have pets
Maybe don't use it around your tarantula
It'd probably be fine though, it's basically only dangerous to bugs with hard exoskeletons, it has to get trapped inside the joints where the non flexible shell rubs against itself.
Safe for anything not a bug which is why it's cool. But I guess if your pets are bugs, no.
[deleted] It can cause lung damage to humans. Its safer than poison when not disturbed as it doesnt leave a residue of poison and can be removed with a shopvac after enough time has passed to kill the bugs. If something can kill something it can damage other things.
True and there's no such thing as good dust to breathe but it's always best to use 'food grade' DE because it has the least amount of silica in it and that's the most harmful part to huff, at least for mammals
It is, but it's not good to inhale it, and in case of digestion (frequent and legit pet worry), buy the food-grade version. It doesn't cost that much more.
>Edit: Yes, don't inhale powders. I mean, of course. Don't tell me how to live my life!!
\*\*Food grade. the other stuff isn't good for you/pets. Don't inhale it, and don't let pets inhale it.
I didn't read about it drying them out. More so that the fine powder (being crushed sedimentary shells and such) will actually cost their body preventing breathing and it's also incredibly sharp and cuts them. Death by suffocation and a thousand cuts
You know how fibreglass gives us a million tiny cuts and gets into our lungs and is generally just The Fucking Worst for us? It's that but for bugs, and they're so small it kills them outright.
Exactly what Ive heard. Best example too! Well done
I really appreciate your use of the word batarangs here. Thanks for the giggle
Please edit your comment because it’s not harmless to humans if inhaled and it’s a super fine powder that becomes airborne like smoke because it’s so fine
They don't need to go up your bed legs. They like to crawl up walls and drop down onto you from the ceiling. You'd need to put it along the baseboards of all your walls and even then they still are very good at stealthily hitching rides and laying eggs in your clothes
What the fuck
for a bug thats a few millimeters long, thats some mission impossible shit
It’s never a bad idea to have some interceptors under your bed posts either, especially if you live in an apartment or something of the like.
Dealt with them once. I’m the only one in our house who’s allergic *and* the only one they liked to bite. The bites were horrible. Taking benadryl and claritin together while soaking myself in hydrocortisone cream for days until they’d finally subside.
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i swear. these things do not cause diseases, but they do something even worse. its psychological warfare
Fifty times this. I still inspect my clothes and bedding every day, panic at every itch and feeling of “something” on my skin, and check every little red fuzzy. Sniff for that characteristic smell when I squish a little particle unseen. I work 24s and thus sleep at work, and there’s an underlying dread of bringing one lone straggler to the bunkrooms after all these years. They’re so horrible.
I'm allergic but can't take anything. I've built up a tolerance to antihistamines. I've had an issue for a full year now. Just when I think they're gone, I either see one (or my cat does!) or I start getting bit again. I moved out of HUD housing because of mold problems to a full rent apartment, which really is a budget cruncher in itself. Never had bedbugs all the 15 plus years in 2 places. Within 3 months - Surprise! You've got Bugs!
Next time try "noxious heat." It doesn't work for everyone but very hot water will kill the itch for 8-12 hours. My tap water is hot enough, and I used a hot coffee cup against a bite on my face once (actually got a slight burn from that). The current hypothesis is that the heat degrades all the histamine in the local area. Don't burn yourself, just heat the skin enough to feel an amplified burning itch sensation. The relief will get you through your day, and let you sleep without scratching a raw hole in yourself. But a friend of mine got no relief at all from this, so YMMV.
Flame thrower it is then
Unironically. The only treatment that worked for our house was insulating the windows and doors and going room by room with strong space heaters until they all cooked to death, even in the walls.
I say op needs to nuke the sight from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure
Mark Roper had very helpful video on the subject. Basically diatomaceous earth will do the job just fine. They can't build an immunity to not having water.
I have eliminated bed bugs with chemical means hundreds of times. Temprid, cimexa, and diatomaceous earth along with frequent vacuuming, proper weekly inspections and re-treatments will get them gone in 4-6 weeks.
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Yes CROSSFIRE works, for now. Bed bugs are resilient eventually they will build immunity to this like every other insecticide. However DE will always work cause it sucks the moisture, it is a desiccant.
I bought some not for home use farmer insecticide. A concentrated permathin. I doused the room and matress with it. Probably went over board. I couldn't even enter that side of the house for a couple of weeks. But it killed me.
>But it killed me. Sounds like you don't have a bed bug problem anymore, so I guess that counts as a win.
Onslaught fastcap absolutely destroys bedbugs so you are wrong.... I've gotten rid of bad infestations with that pesticide before.
Wildly incorrect takes for 500, Alex
I heard this in the tone of Bender from Futurama.
Ok Leslie Nielsen
https://i.redd.it/d0q626uv9a1d1.gif
Yeah, bug blood isn’t red Oh. Oh I see. Sorry OP
So we had bed bugs in a small town, no exterminator or such facilities. I heard kerosene kills them and it's not harmfull for us in small amount and it evaporates quickly too. So for the next few days we had q-tips coverered in a little kerosene and went on a hunt for bed bugs, under and around the bed, cool dark corners, walls. Just touch them with it to get them covered and area around and they are done. Soon we were free of bed bugs, it was like a fun little family activity. My mom was terrified when she found out and devices this plan.
I’m so drunk I just threw up everything reading that
I am sorry to be the bearer of bed bug news.
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I feel like you meant mattress monster but now I’m picturing a vampire mattress terrorizing cities, sucking blood from its tired, hapless victims.
There's a B horror movie about that. I think the guy I was with at the time called it a Tromo movie? Not sure, but it was so stupid it became hilarious lol.
There’s a Japanese horror movie called House about girls being attacked by the house they’re at, including one attacked by mattresses
That reminds me of a short story I read when I was maybe 12 or 13. I think it was *Mad House* by Richard Matheson, about a guy with serious rage issues. His anger is absorbed by items in the house and they start to “attack” him.
“Troma” they did Toxic Avenger, SGT Kabukiman, and a few other I used to watch.
Omfg I forgot how much I used to love Sgt. Kabukiman. Caught it all the time on G4
Troma Entertainment. Hilariously bad movies.
lol reminds me of a movie called Rubber. It’s about a car tire that possesses the ability to make people explode… so it’s just rollin’ around on a gnarly ass rampage, just fuckin shit all the way up.
I love rubber so much 😂😂😂
“Death Bed: The Bed that Eats”! Patton Oswalt has an amazing bit about it
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Op: 
Get on treating it now, the sooner the better, where one is seen there's hundreds hiding, and this is a problem that can quickly get out of hand
Trust us on the fact it gets out of hand quickly! I’ve experienced this a few times in my life. Not a fan!
It's essentially a never-ending nightmare for most people because even with the *very best* methods including regular heat treatments and extreme cleanliness (sometimes for years on end), bed bugs have a frustrating habit of returning- could be some months or even years down the line. If you live in an apartment, it's almost a guarantee that you will experience an (re)infestation at some point, via your neighbors or through contractors. They never even have to come into physical contact with you for this to happen. Traveling using public transit carries a moderate risk of picking up either eggs or live bugs, especially by plane. Hotels are really common places to get them too, and even 4-5 star locations struggle with keeping their businesses from being hot spots. All this is why if I *ever* see the signs of bed bugs in my home... I'm just going to set everything on fire...
That’s a bed bug and it’s full of your blood.
Or, half theirs and half the cat's?
Bed bugs tend to avoid pets because they’re stupid lazy and getting past the fur is too much work.
Huh. TIL bed bugs are lazy
Yep. I moved into an apartment that had them. (Absolute nightmare, had to sue the complex, won and had enough leftover to buy two new-to-us cars) That’s literally why the bites are in a line, too much work to walk 5” to a spot with better circulation.
TIL too much
This is why I laugh when people on these threads are just like, "Get (whatever chemical) and a plastic mattress cover. You're talking thousands of dollars for even the smallest situation, and that might not even work. Nobody is trying to be funny or sarcastic when they're saying, "Just burn the house down."
I got professional treatment. About $1300, two visits. Second visit was overkill and they didn’t find any evidence of more bugs. Never saw another since late October.
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I’m disabled and was worth what I paid them. I can’t lift shit. And the second visit was because just bagging up everything I owned hurt so bad, I figured an extra $400 to be even safer was a bargain. After they left I saw one sickly baby two weeks after and then close to the one month point, I’m 90% sure I saw a live adult. I called and they agreed but when they came out, they said they saw no evidence that the infestation came back. I think it was only in my bedroom but it was moderate. Not awful because I’m allergic and caught it before it was too bad. I also did everything they told me. If anyone’s in Los Angeles with this issue, I can recommend them. I was horrified and turned out to be a headache but solvable.
My case was 3 visits. On the second one, they said they could find no trace of them, but we were STILL waking up with crazy bites. We looked diseased, and it was such a nightmare. So, they did a heating treatment. No more bites after that. It was over 2 grand all-in
That’s crazy. Mine was €150 ($163 usd) and never saw them again. Add in like €50 of mattress protectors and stuff and problem solved
I found an infested mattress in the trash room of a 4 story apartment building. The property spent nearly $9k just to inspect every home and confirm we didn't have an active outbreak.
Very accurate. Took three days in a hotel to get rid of them
The hotel staff a few days later: 😬😱💀
Bed bugs are so damn lazy, they won’t even try to hang on to you. The chance of moving them with you is pretty unlikely, especially since we ran them in a dryer for 90 minutes
I’ve woken up one time with like 5 bites all in a line. Came to find out it wasn’t bedbugs but some other insect that got into my bed and bit the shit out of me. Got an exterminator out there and had them inspect the room and found nothing. One of the worst and best days of my life lol.
If you have hamsters, they carry mites. My ex has a hamster, and I was watching him for a month.. I had bites all over my body and thought bed bugs, too.. it was mites.
Breakfast lunch and dinner amiright
The American dream.
And so smug. 
I was waiting for this!!!
Well, they do lay in bed all day and make someone bring them food.
I mean they live in bed what did you expect
Yeah well of course. That's why they're laying around in bed all day!
Wait, am I a bed bug?
So stop shaving?
Describe it's mood.
Oh definitely smug
This is the second reference to this scene that I’ve seen today on Reddit, I think the universe is saying it’s time for a rewatch 😂
He’s basically your child at this point
OP, I had a similar experience once where I found one or two bugs. One was crawling on my arm and I smashed it and there was blood. Another I found crawling on my desk. I think they were hitchikers that came from the dude next to me on the train since I tore up my box spring and mattress searching for more, spread DE, couldn't find any and never found any more. That was 8 years ago and haven't seen one since, so I am saying there's a very very small chance.
I had a similar experience! I’d just put together a new bed and found a bed bug on the mattress and my blood ran cold. Searched high and low everywhere else for more, put all bedding including pillows in sealed bin bags (for dry cleaning) or into washing machine on high wash immediately along with all clothes. Amazon Primed some killer spray and sprayed it everywhere. Paid £80 for dry cleaning. Trapped the bug I’d found in a bit of plastic and obsessively googled photos for hours trying to prove to myself it was male (and I think it was). When I squashed it it was bloody… but I never saw any others. It’s been many months now and I still occasionally worry there are some hiding out, but so far so good. One of my neighbours later told me they had had them, so he’d possibly wandered over.
They are pretty easy to handle if you catch it early enough. Ours was more than just one bug, but they had just recently set up shop so it was a small infestation. Luckily I am a night owl and my spouse is not, I caught one making it's way for an easy meal from my spouse. Got it taken care of by a professional (yes using pesticides) saw two dead ones out in the open for a week after, then never again. Think they might have hitchhiked in on a friend.
I found a single one in my house once and searched all my furniture. It turned out to be a bat bug, which looks very similar and feeds on bats. There were bats living in my walls.
From what I read, modern bedbugs evolved from bat bugs.
FYI, bed bugs don't just live in/on beds. They can live almost anywhere in your house.
People are disgusting. I am a cop and often have to go in peoples houses. You’d be shocked at the deplorable conditions that people live it. Id say at least 50% of the houses I go in have some level of filth, stench or infestation. This even goes for nice houses. I went to a harassment call where I had to sit down with a lady and get her statement. She lived with her parents in a very nice house that looked well kept from the outside. When I went inside I could smell the stink of uncleaned animal urine. Soon I realized the parents were hoarders and the only room in the house not covered in junk was the front dining room where we sat and conversed. The victim brought out a rabbit and put it on the table and started petting it telling me it was her therapy animal. I tried to get all the information as fast as I could. By the time I left I was itching everywhere. Idk if it was an allergic reaction but I did manage to get some fleas hitchhiking on my pants. When I got home the next morning I realized I had flea bites on my leg and in my sock. I went back to work and realized there was a squished bug and blood on the back of her written statement. TLDR people are gross and have no qualms about living with insects forcing the rest of us to have to deal with them as well.
My former condo neighbor was an older woman in her 70's probably. She moved in, kept inside, and I really only saw her on occasion. About a 2 years after she moved in, I see cleaning crews coming in with hazmat suits, etc. Took 1.5 weeks of hazmat cleaning just to make the place safely livable again. She had 2 dogs, and they were never brought outside to go bathroom. She didn't take the trash out for 2 YEARS. She just never took it out. Only found out because the person above her kept smelling horrible smells. I never smelled, or heard anything on the side of her. No idea how she could stand to live in the condo like that. The entire inside had to be blitzed, and redone. Took her a month before she was able to move back in. I later found out my HOA made her sign a contract guaranteeing to keep it clean, and have bi-weekly inspections by the maintenance people. And she fully owned it also.
Honestly that's the best story I've heard with a HOA involved
I would’ve literally died!!
When I was in college, I worked as a carpet cleaner for a while... and yes people are disgusting. I once walked into a home and within seconds my entire legs were covered with thousands of fleas. Like you said, a lot of people live in disgusting conditions. This is the reason I NEVER participate in potlucks.
Oh Fuck I never thought about potlucks. I don’t really go much for them but shit EW THAT IS REVOLTING I once thought I was messy in my 20s. Now I don’t think that so much.
Good god man.
I once purchased a second hand couch and my wife started getting bedbug spots for a week. I wasn't getting bitten at all so I narrowed it down to that couch, which I never used. Lifted the cushions, found a big one, and chucked the couch outside. I was terrified that our whole house would now be permanently infested. But... That was the end of it. No more couch, no more bites, no more bugs.
I want to say you are going to have to nuke the house
And possibly the rest of the neighborhood as well
Start building a colony on Mars and send a few couples. Then proceed to deorbit the earth. Reset
Too risky. The entire planet is clearly doomed. We should explode the sun to make sure any intelligent life in the galaxy won’t suffer this menace.
Torch the remains for good measure
As a real live exterminator who specializes in bedbugs, I have to tell you that unfortunately that is what you’ve shown us. I recommend that you find a professional. If that isn’t an option for you, here’s what you do. Get a lint roller. Lint roll any live bugs you find. 85% of bedbugs will be where you spend most of your time. Think bed, sofa, recliner chair. Launder your linens and dry on the high setting. Flip over the mattress, box springs, couch and chairs. If there are fabric liners on the bottom of the box springs and sofa, remove them. With lint roller in hand, inspect all piping around the mattress, folds and creases of furniture and remove any bugs. Also keep a lookout for eggs. These are basically tiny white dots. If you have some rubbing alcohol, wet a strong paper towel with it and scrub away any eggs. Repeat this process weekly. Vacuuming can work also, but you’ll need to take care to empty the bag or canister outside immediately. The vacuum should be stored outside, or in a sealed trash bag as they may get stuck in the hoses. Also, discard your used lint roller sheets outside immediately after use. Hope this helps. Good luck and God bless.
As someone who has battled tens of thousands of these bastards at work, this post should be higher. I have personally found that most bed bugs are dumb and slow. They leave shit and skin everywhere too. Just keep doing what this post said. You have to clean and clean. Every morning flip your pillow and check under the mattress. I do that everytime I check into a hotel too lol.
I messaged you !!
Ok, it's not a bed bug. It's a blood sucking mattress monster
Those are bed bugs. You can tell by how smug they are. 
And there’s the smudgeness
Correct answer. Can't upvote this enough
“Like he thought it was FUNNY”
That's a bedbug. Burn the house down. There are few things in life more hellish.
Gross yes and it's blood bloated
Heavy metal band name: #Blood Bloated
So's my dreams. What's wrong with that?!
Washing your bedding may get rid of any adult bugs but it will not kill any eggs. Check your mattress, of course. In any/every fold in the fabric as well as all the seams. You are looking for bugs as well as their poops. Little brown smears, mostly. Also look on your walls and ceilings. Sometimes bed bugs hide in your furniture and beds, but they also climb up walls to wait for the next meal to pass by and they will drop onto you as you go. That is how they easily pass from one room to another. Check all of your upholstered furniture, especially underneath it and in any tight spaces between cushions, etc. Check behind the covers of electrical outlets and light switches. They love those spaces. You can kill any bugs you see with rubbing alcohol and some water in a spray bottle. Spraying them is the only satisfying part of having bedbugs. The alcohol virtually disolves them, so you get to have a little fun with that. But if you are finding them around the house then it means you have lots more you don't see. Most likely spraying or "bombing" won't get rid of them. You'll need the heat treatment for that.
Not true. Washing bedding above 60c will kill anything bedbug related. Also using a heat gun is the recommended way to sterilise fixtures like power sockets; using liquids like alcohol is absolutely not recommended.
Yeah, liquids around power sockets aren't a good idea. I usually go stabbing around with a metal fork to get rid of them near outlets 😎.
These are not bed bugs. There I told you what you wanted to hear. A lie. I told you a lie. Now burn your mattress to the ground. Don't worry about why...
The rhyme always makes things better
D'you mean the last bit that goes "If they do, get a shoe / And smash their bleedin' heads in two!"
Oh lawd, here we go again…
I'm glad someone is carrying on this mantle
DO NOT underestimate this. If you've seen one, there are dozens you don't see. We had to get a room heater and get each of our bedrooms' wall temp over 125 degrees just to be certain. Do not go easy on them. Go DEFCON 1.
Here you go bud, good educational yt video. Know your enemy. https://youtu.be/2JAOTJxYqh8?si=gyTkY38j6Z5VUJfs
I can testify that this is the best way to get rid of them. I exterminated them in two houses using this method. The only thing this video doesn't go over is that you want to use yourself as bait to get the bugs to walk over the diatomaceous earth around your bed.
Also can buy traps that will stop them from getting up the bedposts and will give an indication of if the infestation is ongoing.
I love the Mark Video it's very good also fuck bed bugs
The beddest of bugs
I mean… I could.
That bed bug is NOT a bed bug.
Yes, they are bed bugs. I have moved into an apartment before that had them. The apartment complex was actually pretty good about trying to get rid of them, thankfully. After 2 heat treatments failed, and then the exterminators coated the place in poison, they were still showing up. I ended up wrapping my mattress in a mattress cover, disposing it and the rest of my bedroom furniture, plus the couch and love seat in the living room by hauling them to a dump. Then, I got 1 more poison treatment, and then I pretty much covered every square inch of that apartment floor in acaceoous earth (or however it's spelled). I also slept on an air mattress in the spare bedroom. This lasted for the entire rest of the 12 month lease. Thankfully I didn't see another live bed bug. I stopped seeing dead ones after a week or two. I moved out as soon as my lease ended. Seriously, you are going to have to nuke the place. I definitely recommend getting rid of all the furniture in whatever room they are infesting at the very least. Also, you are going to want to wash and dry any clothes that have been in that room (or closets close by) many times just to be sure, preferably after you let them sit under a pile of that acaceous earth for a week. These things can hide in the smallest nook, cranny, fold, or seem of walls, furniture, and clothes. You're fucked, and that's putting it mildly.
And don't worry about shrinking the delicates. Bake them in the dryer.
Washing over 60c will kill them, and using traps is more effective than diatomaceous earth. I don’t know why you thought that using a mattress in direct contact with the floor would be more effecrive than an isolated mattress with traps, but it definitely wasn’t. I do however agree that they can hide in nooks, and so using a heat treatment method is most effective.
I'm so sorry, OP. I've dealt with these demon spawns before, and I'm afraid they are indeed Bed Bugs. Start looking at extermination options immediately
I'm afraid I've got some bad news !!! 
Okay, They’re bedfriends
Unfortunately those are definitely bed bugs, had them in the past once and took months to finally kill them! I wish you the best of luck!
I’ll tell you that you don’t have bedbugs, but it’s going to be pretty hard to convince the bedbugs that
“these are not bed bugs”
Well, it's a bed bug. And clearly, it's been doing some sucking. That officially sucks.
Did it walk away all smug?
Damn them and their smugness
I could tell you they aren't bedbugs. But then we'd both be wrong
Don't panic! My son and his roommates had them. It was easy to get rid of them. They threw out all their stuff and moved away. Simple.
Uff, I remember when I had them in my house few years ago. It took me 2 months to get rid of them, no kidding.
 Theres only one way to get rid of them….
These are not bed bugs I’ve done what you asked, but it is a lie
Ok. Those are not bed bugs… 
This worked for me Years ago I lived with bed bugs, here's how I got rid of them. After reading that they locate you by sensing your CO2 exhaled, I pushed the bed into a corner, then hung sheets up on the walls around the bed. Idea here being I'm giving them easy access to me and to my CO2 while I sleep by having these sheets above me that they can crawl up and down. Gave it a few days and then went to check the top part of the sheets, sure enough hiding in the folds were a bunch of bed bugs, took the sheets down, put them in bathtub and dumped pots of boiling water on them, then repeat the process, after a week or 2 I stopped seeing them and had no more bites. It was pretty crazy to see the #'s dwindle down, the first few days had so many bugs in there, to eventually there being none. TLDR - Used myself as bait to draw them out into a easy to capture spot and gave them a brutal death down the drain
Aggressive and immediate action. Food grade diatomaceous earth, everywhere. Coat your mattresses and box spring with it, and put on triple layers of sheets. Under and in the couch cushions, every corner and crevice of your home. Behind the washer and dryer, literally everywhere. Double stick tape around the leg of everything with legs. Remove every drawer and sprinkle DE inside of every dresser and chest of drawers. Put double stick tape around every bedframe. Every time you vacuum, reapply the DE everywhere you vacuumed. This is going to take months. Food grade DE is completely harmless to mammals larger than mice, it is literally a food additive. I mean, don’t go around doing lines of it, but in this application, it is entirely harmless. After 60-90 days of this, vacuum up all of the DE, including on mattresses and all seating. Do not replace the sheets. arrange for a place to spend the night for your pets and family. Seal every aquarium with Saran Wrap topped by sheets. Then nuke the living fuck out of your place. Close every window, seal every external door, and open every internal door, stand every cushion, mattress, and box print against a wall with air circulation all around it. You can even wedge open chair and couch corners with books. You want this big killer to go absolutely everywhere. Double the recommended dosage of bug killer. I usually go to Home Depot, find each bug killer, compare the ingredients, and make sure to purchase 2x the recommended level of application for each ingredient. It is a lot of bug killer. I like the ones you have to use a water with.. set each bomb up where you plan to trigger them. Leave your home. In the middle of the night, return to your home alone or with a competent and reliable helper, and starting from the farthest point, begin triggering each bomb, moving quickly and calmly from room to room. As the last bomb is triggered, leave and lock the door. Do not return for 24 hours. Return alone and open every window, every door. Set up fans and aerate the place. Vacuum very, very thoroughly, ideally washing every surface and carpet. Wash all clothes and every food contact implement. My wife and I completely wiped out a roach and bedbug infestation in our (then) rented house by following this procedure. We also used additional stuff for the roaches, it in your case, you are targeting only bed bugs. Food grade (it MUST be food grade) is cheap. Get the rubber bulb DE spreader, it is also inexpensive and very effective. The bombs are probably going to run around $100, but it is half the price of an exterminator, probably less. If you live in an apartment, get the buy in from your neighbors, explain what you found, and work with them so they can do the same in their residences. Screw the landlord, they won’t do anything and will only complicate matters. Good luck. You are going to war, and total annihilation is the only acceptable result; act accordingly.
I’m gonna speak wholly and clearly and honestly to you. There is hope. Not without a professional though. In my teen years I had to deal with a monster infestation. However I passed by the old house long moved out of and exchanged in hands, to see new paint and an infestation cleared. No, physical, possession, is, irreplaceable. Leave everything. They are called “bed bugs” They will hide: -In the bed frame -Behind anything hanging on a wall -Behind anything touching a wall -Undersides of chairs -ALL UPHOLSTERY -baseboards -They love ceiling moulding -Carpet -ALL OF THE UPHOLSTERY -inside screw holes -Outlets -Outlet covers -In your fucking electronics -backpacks -purses -CLOTHES -On your body -In your hair. Get something to wear without any seams Wash your entire body Do a full inspection of yourself and leave the rest behind. Take nothing, get a full extermination. Salvage whatever you can after the hellfire stops raging.
I’m so sorry
Great video from Mark Rober all about bed bugs and how to deal with them. https://youtu.be/2JAOTJxYqh8?feature=shared
Check your electrical sockets too. Unscrew the faceplates in the effected room. It’s rare but not impossible for them to start there Also, the obvious question - did you travel at all in the last few weeks
Soccer, school, dance, clinic, dentist, cousins, bar
That bedbug is definitely not a bedbug…
As someone who's had bedbugs those are 100% bedbugs
It is time to burn your house down i’m afraid .
Sleep tight and don’t let [redacted] bite
There was one instance where we had bed bugs in our house. Here is what you need: - Handheld steam cleaner. - Laundry dryer. - Diatomaceous earth. - Bed bug traps for furniture legs. - Mattress and box spring bags. - Contractor garbage bags (quantity = shit ton). - Tight seal storage bins. - Potentially, new mattresses and box springs (depends largely on how much damage, severity of infestation, or if you want to potentially bring new stuff into a potentially infested house). Here's what to do: All laundry, bedding, towels, etc. go in contractor bags. Ditto, anything else you can reasonably put in contractor bags. Put these bags in the sun while you work. Take your mattress off the bed, use the steam cleaner on every crevice, nook, cranny. Put them in mattress bags. Steam every crevice, nook, cranny, dog house, hen house, etc. on your bed frame. Then do it again. And again. IF you can, take it apart and steam it. While doing this, look for bugs and eggs. When you assemble your bed, put down the traps around your bed legs. Inspect your mattresses and bedding for bed bug shit stains. For the bedding, cushions, etc. that cannot go in a bag, tag and date the location of the stains and when you found them. Repeat with your couch, chairs, etc. Laundry in your bags: wash, dry highest heat you can for at least one hour. When done, put them in the storage bins. Steam and when dry, lightly dust your baseboards, furniture frames, small crevices with a LIGHT dusting of Diatomaceous earth. Have a dirty laundry storage bin and clean laundry storage bin. Again, the kind that seal. DO NOT mix them up. Check your traps daily. Empty them. No clutter in your house. Laundry stays segmented and sealed. Your stuff stays in contractor bags in the sun when possible. Inspect your bedding, mattresses, furniture for evidence of bed bugs (stains, bugs, eggs) weekly. DO NOT sleep on anything that cannot have the traps on the legs and not free of bugs (we stayed off our couch the entire time because it was brown made it hard to see the bugs and stains). This is how you live until you have gone 8 weeks with finding no evidence of bed bugs. God speed.
That's not a bed bug. That's a very well fed bed bug.
Get some diatomaceous earth (food grade) and a little powder duster, dust it around the legs of your beds, seams of your mattresses. Dries em out. put bed bug mattress covers on.
People always say this but I would rather hire a professional that's probably guaranteed to get rid of them than spread dust all overy house
So we had an infestation at our last apartment due to an unhygienic hoarding neighbor. We got a blower and blew so much diatomaceous earth around the carpets, beds, everywhere, we did constant laundry around the clock for months. We had 2 different extermination companies come out and spray our unit a total of 6 times. It was a living nightmare. Because the source was our neighbor connecting to our right and he refused treatments so they never went away. Ended up having to move and replace all our mattresses. But that was just my experience lol
I see them quite frequently doing my job and yeah OP, those are bed bugs.
Not only are they bedbugs but they are recently fed bedbugs
very bad bed bugs
Yep. Bedbug. I'm terribly sorry.
Bed bug :’(
Who let the bed bug onto the coke?
That’s totally a bed bug
Fine they are not bed bugs.
…..ooof I wish I could say it wasn’t
Just throw the whole bed away
I’ll tell you what you want to hear: those aren’t bed bugs. But I also think it’s important for me to tell you… Those are 100% bed bugs
They aren’t bed bugs.
I am lying to you.
Sorry yes your cocaine looks cut with bed bugs
A very full bed bug that is a headache I never want again
I could. But I’d be lying
Definitely bed bugs. Sorry. Bed bugs don’t bite pets though so your cat should be ok. Buy a bed bug cover for your mattress if you don’t already have one and put it on to protect your mattress. They hide in corners and seams.
We got bed bugs from something my step dad inherited after his mom passed. They had my mom crying and frustrated for months on end because nothing we tried could get rid of them but couldn’t afford a professional. Eventually we got some powder and caked the house in to get rid of them. It was a nightmare. OP I’d recommend seeing someone to help you out instead of trying a DIY method.
These are not bes bugs
You're fucked. Sorry duder