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Shroomism
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23675353 - 09/24/16 09:57 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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danielx said: Between these bed bugs, my car being stolen by mexicans, work, 12 units of college, staying opiate free, junkie ex gf constantly trying to hassle me, things have been crazy.
Hang in there bro! The hardest challenges in life generally reap the greatest rewards later, if you can learn from them. They always seem to come in chains too... it's never just one thing.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Shroomism]
#23675356 - 09/24/16 09:58 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just to shoot the shit, personally I wouldn't have bothered bagging up clothes and stuff. I didn't, I spent a lot of time at nightime with a flashlight looking all over the place for bugs and I noticed they generally want to hang around corners of rooms and anything they can get under near me.
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The5thElement said: Best of luck man, really. I forget sometimes life get's crazy, and things get thrown at you so fast it's hard to keep track of everything. So i understand the delay in reply. My bad for being impatient.
Crystal I didn't know previously that you actually had delt with bb's before, I had assumed you just read about heat treatment or something, that and from what I had read in the past I believed heat treatment to be useless. If it worked thats good to know.
Bb's suck man, I wish I could say more. It's an uphill battle the entire way.
If you read through the thread early on, you would have known that I stated that I had them.
Diatomaceous earth spray and alcohol spray didn't work for me, I blasted all fabrics I had in a cycle in the dryer too but it didn't work in the end, but since they were everywhere in the house including downstairs in the couches and shit, it wasn't effective. I got less bed bug bites overall, but they didn't go away completely.
But yes, I knew even before I got bed bugs how to get rid of them, because I went through a phase where I was watching those Animal Planet documentaries all the time. And one thing the entomologists always say is that heat treatment is the really only effective way to get rid of them.
I kept trying to explain this to my roommates who were insisting on using insecticide, they didn't want to put any money into getting the house heated, and I knew it was going to be an uphill battle, so I just ended up moving out with my clothes and heating all my clothes in the dryer. Then when I moved to a new place, I released a spider close to my bed.
And of course months and months later, they still have bed bug problems.
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danielx
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I figured the the effort of bagging and washing clothes was worth it just for the peace of mind alone. I think you are right though after I inspected everything.
Do you think I should try to get another bed in there with the traps, cove and DE immediatey, or just keep sleeping elsewhere and starve whatever might be left lurking in the room?
And thanks for the words of encouragement ya'll. Hopefully this thread ends up on Google and helps others.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23675430 - 09/24/16 10:33 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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danielx said: I figured the the effort of bagging and washing clothes was worth it just for the peace of mind alone. I think you are right though after I inspected everything.
Do you think I should try to get another bed in there with the traps, cove and DE immediatey, or just keep sleeping elsewhere and starve whatever might be left lurking in the room?
And thanks for the words of encouragement ya'll. Hopefully this thread ends up on Google and helps others.
You can't starve them, they survive like over 6 months without food. Sleeping in another room simply will spread your bed bug problem to the other room.
I wouldn't get any furniture until you've successfully eradicated the problem, you're just going to end up throwing it all out again.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23676494 - 09/25/16 11:36 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah moving rooms would only make them follow you, me and the Gf moved out to our living room and they ended up out there as well. Don't bother getting another bed if you have the encasements on the one your currently sleeping on.
My advice would be to continue sleeping in your room, check your bed every day and remove any bugs you see. Turning off the lights and useing a flashlight to find them helps, especially the eggs because they are whiteish-grey and very small. At least once a week take your mattress, and then box frame off your bed frame and look it through intensly and remove any bugs/eggs you find.
you should have an area in your room where you didnt put an DE on the ground so you can stand your mattress up and look through it carefully, you dont need DE literally every single inch of your room but more the merrier. I pretty much had the DE lined around all corners, under any dressers or furniture, and underneith my bed, mind you my bed was on a bed frame and this whole thing will only work if your off the ground. I also put a small amount of DE in the Bed cups, incase the beds climbed in there they would at least die before they could reproduce if they bit me. I still had room around my room that I could walk without stepping in DE.
I ended up having the bugs everywhere in my appartment, in the living room and all over the place but they would generally hang around my room once I started only sleeping in there.
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How goes the battle OP?
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