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Who has dealt with bedbugs?
#23660854 - 09/20/16 07:08 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Started waking up itching and noticing red stains on my sheets. Finally realizing my matress has a major bed bug infestiation.
Bagged up all my sheets and threw them in the garage, but I see a ton between my matress and my box screen. Can anyone give me tips? Do products work? I've heard it can be a real pain to get rid of.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23660861 - 09/20/16 07:15 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Should probably get into a better bathing routine. It's likely you brought them in from somewhere else.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: 1234go]
#23660893 - 09/20/16 07:34 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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get a new mattress and box spring. Just chuck them anf sleep on the floor man. Use teatree oil on your skin, alot of insects are turned off by the smell. wash your clothes in extremely hot water with light amounts of bleach. Bathing has part to do with it as well as how clean your place is and how exposed it is to the outside. Dont leave clothes laying around or shit like that. Tho, fire cleanses all
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23660897 - 09/20/16 07:37 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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In my opinion, all your materials are compromised. You could put everything you own that would melt into some plastic storage tubs, and rent a torpedo heater. Then crank up the temperature in your apartment or house to 'FUCKING HOT', which would kill them all off... but personally, I wouldn't take the risk. I would move out and get all new things.
I've heard things like rubbing fabric softners sheets around the lining of your mattress and shit, but I've also heard myths about smoking bed-bugs and getting reeeeeally high. Both probably don't work in the slightest. haha!
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx] 1
#23660898 - 09/20/16 07:39 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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There is a bug called the Reduvius personatus, commonly known as the 'Masked hunter'. They delight in hunting bed bugs at night. You might consider releasing a colony inside your house to help maintain the problem. This is of course presuming that regular changing and washing of your bed sheets is not an option.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: SonicTitan] 2
#23660901 - 09/20/16 07:42 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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If they've infected your mattress, the mattress belongs in the trash, preferably with knife gashes in it to prevent pickers from using it without realizing it's bad.
I had a bed bug problem years ago, apartment complex couldn't get rid of them. After 4 months we terminated our lease on the grounds that the place was unlivable, and they paid for our tossed furniture (because we would have taken them to court otherwise).
Exterminators couldn't even get rid of them. Their eggs can survive an attack and repopulate in no time. We just threw our fabric furniture away. Anything that couldn't go in a dryer really.
We had a bunch of Somali refugees in our apartment complex. These guys grabbed our mattress when we threw it away (they were part of the reason the bed bugs were so hard to get rid of too, they refused to let the apartment management bug bomb their apartment to the point that they got evicted for it). That's why I say take a knife to it.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: 1234go]
#23660919 - 09/20/16 07:55 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx] 4
#23660920 - 09/20/16 07:56 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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It is not a matter of cleanliness, worst places are theaters and hotels to pick them up... with that out of the way.
We had them and beat them on our own.
#1. go get some heavy duty bug resistant zip up mattress covers don't be cheap, get the best they have and wrap mattress and box spring in them, that will confine them.
#2. Bug bomb your room at least two times a week for at least two weeks.
#3. Wash every bit of clothing you have on hottest settings.
#4. MOST IMPORTANT - Get a sack of diatomaceous earth at any hardware store. Sprinkle that shit everywhere, mainly carpet. Leave it and repeat until you no longer see bed bugs. This product cuts their shells as they travel over it and they dry out and die.
We beat them with this process.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: RobZombie68]
#23661011 - 09/20/16 08:43 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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If you have them, they aren't just in the mattress. They are in other places as well, such as hiding in your curtains.
Unfortunately the only treatment that actually works is professional heat treatment. You have to hire professionals to cover your house and heat your whole house to over 130 degrees, to kill the bugs. It costs between $1500 to $5000+ depending on the size of your house. If your house is small, it'll be on the cheaper side.
Sprays and all those things aren't effective for bed bugs. They are resistant to chemical treatments, which is why they're practically impossible to get rid of. People will bomb their house dozens of times before realizing that the problem is getting WORSE, not better.
They hide in places like inside outlets, places that you can't see, and you have to directly make contact with them with spray in order to kill them. So even "bed bug sprays" or whatever don't work. They simply crawl over the areas you sprayed hours earlier and don't die. They aren't like ants which die easily when coming into contact with sprayed areas.
You will have to take ALL your clothes too, every single one of them, and pull your curtains, take your blankets and sheets, any fabric that you have, and you have to put them in the dryer for at least 15 minutes to kill any bedbugs or bedbug eggs that are on your clothes. You don't have to do this if you get your house heat-treated, but you will have to do this if you move out to another location.
Apparently the East Coast has really bad bed bug problems, especially in Philadelphia and NYC, it is considered to be some of the worst in the country, and I experienced it there.
The people I was living with were too cheap to do the heat treatment for their house (which is crazy to me if you're getting bitten that many times in one night, and for that size of a house it would have only cost $1500). I don't know why we couldn't have just split that between 3 or 4 people and paid a few hundred dollars each, that's fucking nothing if it means avoiding months or years of misery. The house wasn't in my name, so it wasn't my choice to hire professionals or not, it was theirs and they refused to do it.
So I moved out and put all my clean clothes in the dryer for 15 minutes. I also wiped down all my other items such as suitcase and toiletries with alcohol, since alcohol kills any bedbug eggs you might not be able to see. I didn't bring any bed bugs back with me.
You should watch this video, it explains at the end how to kill bed bugs effectively:
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: RobZombie68]
#23661107 - 09/20/16 09:37 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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RobZombie68 said: It is not a matter of cleanliness
LOL. Okay. So he could just skip #3 then?
Why would you confine them in a protected cover, and then do the bug bomb?
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23661165 - 09/20/16 09:59 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I don't have any personal experience with them, but a friend of mine once moved into a ratty apartment building & a few months later he had bedbugs. Everyone in the building had them, & it was a big building. The apartment management tried to fumigate a few times, but the bugs always came back in full force. The complex had to pay for everyone to move out. My friend said it was a nightmare.
Bedbugs are something I've been hella concerned about ever since. The idea of them weirds me out, and doing all the crap you gotta do to be rid of them sounds awful. But from what I've read, Crystal G has it right; the most certain way to be rid of them is through heat treatment. If anything else works, it's dumb luck. Spring for the heat. Good luck, danielx, I hope it works out for you.
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Burke Dennings said: I don't have any personal experience with them, but a friend of mine once moved into a ratty apartment building & a few months later he had bedbugs. Everyone in the building had them, & it was a big building. The apartment management tried to fumigate a few times, but the bugs always came back in full force. The complex had to pay for everyone to move out. My friend said it was a nightmare.
Bedbugs are something I've been hella concerned about ever since. The idea of them weirds me out, and doing all the crap you gotta do to be rid of them sounds awful. But from what I've read, Crystal G has it right; the most certain way to be rid of them is through heat treatment. If anything else works, it's dumb luck. Spring for the heat. Good luck, danielx, I hope it works out for you.
Yeah, I can totally see how it's so easy to spread in urban cities like NYC or Philly. Apparently loose bed bugs will crawl on your clothes, and their legs are evolutionarily designed so we can't feel them on us. So if you are taking public transportation or the train or something, they can crawl on your body from another person's you're sitting next to, and you can get them that way.
I remember putting Icy Hot on my skin all over when I was living through an infestation, it does help temporarily while the Icy Hot is still active on your skin, but once you fall asleep and a couple hours pass they resume biting you again.
I don't know why your friend's landlord didn't just heat-treat the entire building. I mean eventually new tenants will have to move back in, and otherwise it's going to be the exact same problem. It probably would have been cheaper than paying for everybody to move out.
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My only experience with them was at ghetto ass apartments when I was young and hanging with crowds, desperate
Woke up to shit crawling on me at this ghetto girls apartment, utterly disgusted, I would never sleep in a bed or home with them they are the most disgusting blood sucking and filled bugs.
My advice is don't let untrustworthy people sit on your furniture, don't live in apartments or at least shitty ones, always strip your clothes after returning home in front of the washer
You gotta always be on your toes
I would leave a entire house behind before I lived I a bed bug infested home
They are disgusting creations
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: SunnyD]
#23661282 - 09/20/16 10:38 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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My advice is don't let untrustworthy people sit on your furniture,
Haha, Zomed. I know what you mean, but this conjured up a mental image of you sitting in your house, telling someone you just met, "I don't trust you. You must stand."
Crystal: I think they didnt pay for the heat treatment because it was a piece of shit building owned by the absolute worst management company in the city, and they maybe wanted it to be condemned. Idk. The building was massive, so it would've cost a fortune, & it just would've been as decrepit as before anyway, just minus the bedbugs. I lived in that town for 4 years after that, and never saw that building reopened.
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Burke Dennings said: Haha, Zomed. I know what you mean, but this conjured up a mental image of you sitting in your house, telling someone you just met, "I don't trust you. You must stand."
Lol, I was once looking at cheap places to stay in Philly. I came across this place called "Liberty Motel," which is this nasty ratchet-ass place where basically vagrants and homeless junkies and prostitutes live. The place has 1 star on Google and Yelp, and the reviews say the place is ridden with roaches and bedbugs.
This place is so infamous it made the news for being so shitty: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Residents-Say-Troubled-North-Philly-Hotel-Makes-Them-Feel-Like-Hostages-in-Their-Own-Neighborhood-289400341.html
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From 2004 to 2014, police have responded to more than 1800 calls at the motel or within a block of it, made 116 arrests for prostitution, 46 arrests for other crimes and responded to 20 deaths, mostly drug-related, according to documents obtained by NBC10.
“I feel like a hostage,” said Arletha Pickens. “You don’t feel safe.” Carmen Perez told NBC10 her kids can’t even go out and play due to the fact that they live so close to the motel.
“It’s very dangerous and it’s very unsafe,” she said. Residents told NBC10 police and lawmakers have frequently clashed with the owners of the motel over drugs and crime in and around the property.
Jesus dude.
So in 3650 days, there were 1800 police calls made to the motel, that's basically one call every other day.
Suffice to say, I didn't stay there.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: RobZombie68]
#23661319 - 09/20/16 10:59 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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RobZombie68 said: It is not a matter of cleanliness, worst places are theaters and hotels to pick them up... with that out of the way.
We had them and beat them on our own.
#1. go get some heavy duty bug resistant zip up mattress covers don't be cheap, get the best they have and wrap mattress and box spring in them, that will confine them.
#2. Bug bomb your room at least two times a week for at least two weeks.
#3. Wash every bit of clothing you have on hottest settings.
#4. MOST IMPORTANT - Get a sack of diatomaceous earth at any hardware store. Sprinkle that shit everywhere, mainly carpet. Leave it and repeat until you no longer see bed bugs. This product cuts their shells as they travel over it and they dry out and die.
We beat them with this process.
This, unless you wanna shell out for a heat treatment you gotta go all out. Your house will need to be spotless and you will have to put in a considerable amount of effort to eliminate them. Its not easy, at all. They can also survive a year without eating so you can't lay siege and just starve them out either.
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OP are you in a house or apartment complex? Id look for a new spot if you can.
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Whether your place is clean or not makes little difference to bedbug infestations. They hide in places you can't see or wouldn't think to look or disinfect, like inside the electrical outlets. In any tiny crack or crevice that you would normally gloss over. They could be hiding underneath or behind your furniture, or between certain folds.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23661332 - 09/20/16 11:05 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah, I read that they'll live in any tiny crevice or dark spot. Like, if you've got holes in your wall from where you used penny nails to hang a picture, the bedbugs will be in there. Or any place that tiny.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23661354 - 09/20/16 11:11 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Crystal G said: Whether your place is clean or not makes little difference to bedbug infestations. They hide in places you can't see or wouldn't think to look or disinfect, like inside the electrical outlets. In any tiny crack or crevice that you would normally gloss over. They could be hiding underneath or behind your furniture, or between certain folds.
It makes a difference, not directly, but its way harder to treat a place when it's messy.
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So basically as far as I can tell this is the only true solution to the bed-bug problem
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23661380 - 09/20/16 11:15 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I think you need to catch them before they spread everywhere, otherwise it's an uphill battle.
My son's bed had bed bugs a while back but it wasn't bad yet. There were only a few spots on one side of the mattress that had evidence of their presence and I think we only actually saw a couple of the bugs themselves. We trashed the sheets, rug and bed, cleaned/vacuumed the room really well and haven't seen any signs of them returning.
No idea where they came from. We don't really take in second hand furniture and he doesn't really go to other people's houses to bring them back from their house. I thought initially he may have brought them home from school but that seems like a long shot as well. From what I read they don't hitch a ride on your body so his backpack would've had to catch an STD from another kid's backpack.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: OhMrJohnson]
#23661403 - 09/20/16 11:23 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Bodhi of Ankou said: It makes a difference, not directly, but its way harder to treat a place when it's messy.
I remember when I was living through the infestation and the other occupants of the house were refusing to get the heat treatment even if we all split the costs.
We cleaned the house, pulled the curtains, threw all my clothes and sheets and curtains in trash bags and went to the laundromat to wash and dry all of them. We also sterilized all the floors and everything we owned that wasn't able to be put in the dryer with alcohol to kill any bed bug eggs, moved everything that was recently sterilized or heat-treated with the dryer into one of those plastic tupperware boxes and sealed them, and we even sprayed an additional coating of diatomaceous earth spray on top of all the floors after we finished wiping everything down with alcohol.
That night after we had spent all day and night doing everything and I crawled into bed exhausted, I still got two bed bug bites.
All it does is delay the repopulation process for bed bugs. It might kill some, but definitely not all, and within a few weeks you're back to your original problem. A female bed bugs lays one egg per day, so if you have thousands of bed bugs, they repopulate again in no time.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Shroomslip]
#23661421 - 09/20/16 11:29 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Shroomslip said: I think you need to catch them before they spread everywhere, otherwise it's an uphill battle.
My son's bed had bed bugs a while back but it wasn't bad yet. There were only a few spots on one side of the mattress that had evidence of their presence and I think we only actually saw a couple of the bugs themselves. We trashed the sheets, rug and bed, cleaned/vacuumed the room really well and haven't seen any signs of them returning.
No idea where they came from. We don't really take in second hand furniture and he doesn't really go to other people's houses to bring them back from their house. I thought initially he may have brought them home from school but that seems like a long shot as well. From what I read they don't hitch a ride on your body so his backpack would've had to catch an STD from another kid's backpack. 
Yes, they do hitch rides on your body or your luggage.
This is true with all infestations. But if you only see a couple, it means hundreds or thousands are living there. The entire time I was living through an infestation, I only saw and killed maybe 5 or 6, yet I ended up with hundreds of bites all over my body over time.
The same is true for ants and roaches. If you see 1, it's likely thousands are living somewhere. If you see a dozen, it means millions are living somewhere close by.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23661430 - 09/20/16 11:32 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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My bro was a driver and protection for a female escort. Was I all kinds of shady hotels and brought them home.
1) your clothes and bedding put in a garbage bag and out out side in the sun for a few days. Heat kills them. Or high temp wash and dry. 2) for acute areas, get the highest concentration of isopropyl alcohol you can find and put in a spray bottle. Hit all the crevices of your bed frame and nooks and crannies, kills on contact 3) get the powder stuff from home depot and follow directions, don't use too much cause you can push them all through your domicile 4) if you get an exterminator, DO NOT TELL THEM YOUR PREVIOUS REMOVAL ACTIONS....THEY WILL NOT GUARANTEE THE ELIMINATION OF THE BED BUGS. They will tell you some BS about using too much product and pushing them all through the house via electric sockets and other corridors .
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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I forgot about the living beside other people issue. I actually had to move out of a apt block because it was so infested I literally couldn't get rid of them. They just crawled through the cracks and vents and resettled no matter what I did. I even threw out my couchs and bagged everything up, got a bedframe and spread diamateceous earth all around it. They still found a way. Shit there must of been 4 or 5 futile attempts before I finally gave up and left. Luckily I was single at the time so it wasn't that hard. Cant imagine how bad it'd get with a family.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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They may hitch a ride on your clothing. I meant they're not like lice and don't target your hair or anything like that.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23661459 - 09/20/16 11:42 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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To answer certain questions: its not my lack of cleenliness. I'm anal about bathing/laundry. I live in a large house my family has owned for decades I can't just leave. I really hope its contained just to my room. I slept in the guest room when I found out and had no problems, but who knows maybe I just infected it.
Between the mattress and box spring seemed like ground zero. I examined my clothes and other areas didnt see much, but I realize everything probably needs to be burned.
This has been one of those 'if it rains it pours' type months.
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Bodhi of Ankou said: I forgot about the living beside other people issue. I actually had to move out of a apt block because it was so infested I literally couldn't get rid of them. They just crawled through the cracks and vents and resettled no matter what I did. I even threw out my couchs and bagged everything up, got a bedframe and spread diamateceous earth all around it. They still found a way. Shit there must of been 4 or 5 futile attempts before I finally gave up and left. Luckily I was single at the time so it wasn't that hard. Cant imagine how bad it'd get with a family.
Ugh, that reminds me of another place I lived that was infested with cockroaches. This is the type of neighborhood where people live on Section 8 housing, and the city dumpster was placed right behind our house.
Our landlord was a slumlord who refused to get proper pest control, instead she hired her nephew to do a cheap job of spraying that any one of us could do. A proper exterminator would have gone underneath the floorboards or crawled under the house to spray under there, and not just sprayed the surface. We could have totally sued her.
Personally, I think even if she sprayed with a professional exterminator it wouldn't have made any difference. The infestation wasn't there when I initially moved in, I think it was coming from one of the neighbors whose apartments lived right next to our home. So if you're living in close quarters with a next door neighbor who is unkempt or keeps piles of old trash around the house, it makes no difference how many times you get your house treated.
I ended up moving out, and I asked my old roommates how the situation was, turns out it got a lot worse after I moved out. Now they have a roach AND a rat problem. And rats destroy your clothes, they chew up dirty clothes, especially used underwear that has splooge on it. 
Rats are scary too, they've even been known to eat and kill small pets and babies. You could be sleeping and they could totally eat your baby to death without you even knowing it. This mom left her daughter at grandma's house, and by the time she came back within TWO HOURS her baby had been gnawed to death: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3388660/Four-month-old-baby-dies-Mexico-RATS-chewed-face-mother-18-left-home-party.html
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danielx said: To answer certain questions: its not my lack of cleenliness. I'm anal about bathing/laundry. I live in a large house my family has owned for decades I can't just leave. I really hope its contained just to my room. I slept in the guest room when I found out and had no problems, but who knows maybe I just infected it.
Between the mattress and box spring seemed like ground zero. I examined my clothes and other areas didnt see much, but I realize everything probably needs to be burned.
One of the very first things you should NOT do is switch rooms. If you switch rooms, the bed bugs will simply follow you or spread to other rooms where other people are. They can detect the scent of carbon dioxide which is omitted from your mouths and nostrils, and they can detect it from very far away, so they follow the scent that way. You're going to end up with bed bugs spread all throughout your house if you do this.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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That's why you should keep a baby's face clean; so it doesn't smell like food.
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So your saying I should just keep sleeping in an infested room and let them bite me to death?
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danielx said: So your saying I should just keep sleeping in an infested room and let them bite me to death?
Yay 
Well, first things first you should definitely throw away your mattress and bed frame and throw all your sheets and clothes in a cycle in the dryer. You should not be keeping an infected mattress around.
Is heat treatment for the house not an option?
Make sure when you throw away the mattress and furniture too, you have to throw it away right before the city comes to pick it up. Otherwise they'll get back in the home if left out there for days.
I wouldn't buy any new mattress or furniture until you get this problem under control. Use an air mattress if you need a new one, bed bugs can't hide in those.
If you see any spiders in the home don't kill them, release them in the room that has bed bugs. I did this when I moved to a new place in case there were any bed bugs that had crawled on me or my stuff before my move. Spiders are a natural predator of bed bugs, and they're much less of a nuisance than bed bugs.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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To treat an infestation you have to break the reproduction cycle, which usually means killing off the adult population and then continually killing the babies/juveniles as eggs hatch before they can reach breeding age. If you can keep everything concentrated to just one smaller area it's a hell of a lot easier to tackle. (this isn't just for bed bugs, it goes for pretty much any infestation)
So yeah, keep sleeping in the infested area and be vigilant in your eradication efforts. I mean up to completely sterilizing whatever you can (that you're not willing to replace) and getting it out of the room, washing your sheets and stuff daily, vacuuming and cleaning out all the crevices around the sleeping area.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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Heat treating the whole house probably isnt an option right now. Things have been tough and I live in a large house with my elderly grandma I take care of.
Recently I got my car stolen from an illegal mexican immigrant who was sleeping in the car. The cops caught the guy, and im almost wondering if he brought the infestation here.
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Here danielx, I found a place for you to get bulk spiders.
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This gregarious or quasi-social spider can be common in parts of Arizona, where it may be found in rodent burrows and wood rat (packrat). It is of the round-belied cellar spiders, body about the size of a baby pea, long and slender legs, very small fangs and enormous genitalia
Was that really necessary to add in?
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Shroomslip]
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I guess when you're a spider with very small fangs, you compensate in other areas.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Shroomslip]
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I had them last year. Took Orkin 4 times to come and spray to officially kill them all. Nothing was lost or destroyed. Juse a large amount of work. Especially if you have carpets, cause you got to rip the edges of the carpets out, one of bedbugs favorite places is popcorn ceilings, floor trim, and carpet.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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danielx said: Recently I got my car stolen from an illegal mexican immigrant who was sleeping in the car. The cops caught the guy, and im almost wondering if he brought the infestation here.
Yeah, it's possible, if he was homeless he was probably staying at shady motels or crack houses that are infested with bugs.
When I moved to the new place I actually had one new bite when I initially moved in. I was worried I may have brought bed bugs with me. I saw a spider the next night and released it close to my bed.
A few weeks after that, I saw a couple baby spiders, and I killed the baby spiders I did see, since there were probably hundreds of others I probably couldn't see. But I never got bitten by a bed bug again. I also haven't seen many spiders around since.
I think people who got lucky at getting rid of bed bugs probably have some type of natural predator in the house that they aren't aware of. Like Shroomslip, it's possible you had more spiders that were able to get rid of the problem before it got out of control.
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Just spray DDT around and you'll be fine.
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My house is filled with spiders. I don't make a habit of clearing them out (just kill the ones that are bugging my wife). House is old as fuck with plenty of places for them to hang out in and since I don't go out of my way to try and get rid of them, they're more or less free to breed and grow to adulthood. As long as they're not crawling on me (which I just don't like things crawling on me) I'm perfectly fine cohabitating with tons of spiders.
I think we just got lucky. It was only in my son's room and the infestation hadn't gotten out of control in there. We don't have carpet either, just had a giant area rug in there that got thrown out. Even with a healthy spider population I'm pretty sure that if they had spread to other rooms we'd of had a much harder time getting rid of them.
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MushyMatt said: I had them last year. Took Orkin 4 times to come and spray to officially kill them all. Nothing was lost or destroyed. Juse a large amount of work. Especially if you have carpets, cause you got to rip the edges of the carpets out, one of bedbugs favorite places is popcorn ceilings, floor trim, and carpet.
carpets? Check. Popcorn ceilings? Check. Floor trim? Check. There is so many fucking hiding places in this room I dont even know where to start.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23661723 - 09/20/16 01:15 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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If professional heat-treatment isn't an option, then the best option will be that diatomaceous earth powder stuff. It can be found at a hardware store since it's used in gardening.
I recommend sterilizing everything that you have, either by putting it in the laundry or wiping it down with isopropyl alcohol if it's a hard surface. After that you should sprinkle diatomaceous earth powder on your carpets.
Your grandma and any other occupants in the house should immediately buy bed-covers for their beds. They seal them in and protect bed bugs from getting in or out. That way their mattresses don't get contaminated with bed bugs. If you're going to sleep in the other room, you have to get a bed cover for that bed too.
That way if the problem spreads, you guys won't have to throw out all your mattresses and buy all new ones, because constantly replacing mattresses will get expensive.
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carpets? Check. Popcorn ceilings? Check. Floor trim? Check. There is so many fucking hiding places in this room I dont even know where to start.

How bad is your bed? Check under the tags, and any folds or tight spaces.
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Bodhi of Ankou said: How bad is your bed? Check under the tags, and any folds or tight spaces.
Yes, a good way to check for bed bugs is to look between the folds of your mattress (see video). If you see any brown staining, that is a sign of bed bug poop.
If you have a strong stomach, check out this video from 1:30. He opens up the seams of his mattress, and finds bed bugs crawling all over in between the seams.
Video of inspection starts at 2:05.
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Crystal G said: If you see any brown staining, that is a sign of bed bug poop.
Don't blame the brown stains on bedbugs. Give these bugs some credit.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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ewww, just seeing them again makes my skin crawl. I remember I had PTSD for a while after because the slightest movement on my skin would have me snapping awake and searching my bed for anything. Theyre a fucking nightmare.
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Bodhi of Ankou said: ewww, just seeing them again makes my skin crawl. I remember I had PTSD for a while after because the slightest movement on my skin would have me snapping awake and searching my bed for anything. Theyre a fucking nightmare.
Same here, I lost so much sleep because any time I felt movement or something I'd wake up or slap myself.
I once killed a bedbug that was in the middle of feeding on me. Surprisingly I felt it then. A couple times I would also see one crawling on the bed, usually late at night after I've turned all the lights off but was using the computer in my bed. A lot of times I smashed one, blood came out, which means it had recently bitten one of us.
I didn't immediately figure out what they were until I took a peek between the seams of my mattress, and discovered two full-size adult bed bugs that looked just like this crawling away once I opened the seams. I screamed and fell backwards.
Once I saw the adult ones, I recognized that they were bed bugs. Sometimes the younger ones are oval-shaped instead of round, which makes it harder to identify, because I didn't know bed bugs could be long and oval too.
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Crystal G said: If you have them, they aren't just in the mattress. They are in other places as well, such as hiding in your curtains.
Unfortunately the only treatment that actually works is professional heat treatment. You have to hire professionals to cover your house and heat your whole house to over 130 degrees, to kill the bugs. It costs between $1500 to $5000+ depending on the size of your house. If your house is small, it'll be on the cheaper side.
Sprays and all those things aren't effective for bed bugs. They are resistant to chemical treatments, which is why they're practically impossible to get rid of. People will bomb their house dozens of times before realizing that the problem is getting WORSE, not better.
They hide in places like inside outlets, places that you can't see, and you have to directly make contact with them with spray in order to kill them. So even "bed bug sprays" or whatever don't work. They simply crawl over the areas you sprayed hours earlier and don't die. They aren't like ants which die easily when coming into contact with sprayed areas.
You will have to take ALL your clothes too, every single one of them, and pull your curtains, take your blankets and sheets, any fabric that you have, and you have to put them in the dryer for at least 15 minutes to kill any bedbugs or bedbug eggs that are on your clothes. You don't have to do this if you get your house heat-treated, but you will have to do this if you move out to another location.
Apparently the East Coast has really bad bed bug problems, especially in Philadelphia and NYC, it is considered to be some of the worst in the country, and I experienced it there.
The people I was living with were too cheap to do the heat treatment for their house (which is crazy to me if you're getting bitten that many times in one night, and for that size of a house it would have only cost $1500). I don't know why we couldn't have just split that between 3 or 4 people and paid a few hundred dollars each, that's fucking nothing if it means avoiding months or years of misery. The house wasn't in my name, so it wasn't my choice to hire professionals or not, it was theirs and they refused to do it.
So I moved out and put all my clean clothes in the dryer for 15 minutes. I also wiped down all my other items such as suitcase and toiletries with alcohol, since alcohol kills any bedbug eggs you might not be able to see. I didn't bring any bed bugs back with me.
You should watch this video, it explains at the end how to kill bed bugs effectively:
Well yea, we checked all our furniture, steam cleaned carpet weekly, until they were gone. But no, depending how quickly he caught them heat termination is NOT the only way. An exterminator wanted $3,000 just to treat our one bedroom condo. I said fuck you and did it myself for about $200 and a lot of work, and it has been 3 years and no signs of bug life.
Like I said the Diatomaceous earth is most important product in the process. It may take a week or two before you see them completely gone, but they will be gone. Unless the entire building is infested...
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: RobZombie68]
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I had bed bugs earlier this summer. Fucked this girl and unaware that was a problem. Ended up washing everything, buying a steamer that heats to like 200 degrees and treating my room with chemicals.
Live in a trailer and haven't seen them in months. But I also have a pretty healthy slider population under there. Had to go under there to do some work on the water pipes. It was not a pleasant experience.
So that probably helped seeing as how they were pretty much stuck between a rock and a hard place. Good luck op.
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Did you keep the big comfy bed or you had to toss it?
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I still got it. Too many sexy memories. Just took about a week of extensive cleaning. The steamer worked wonders as well shit gets scalding hot. But I also nipped it in the bud fairly quickly when 2 days later I was covered in bites and have had to deal with them before.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Enjoywho]
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Enjoywho said: I had bed bugs earlier this summer. Fucked this girl and unaware that was a problem. Ended up washing everything, buying a steamer that heats to like 200 degrees and treating my room with chemicals.
OMG where do you get one of those steamers? What are they called and what are they normally used for?
OI OP, I actually found out that you can rent one of those heaters that professionals to heat-treat the entire house, and depending on the size of the area you want to treat, it will only cost $99, or up to $300 a day.
http://rentbedbugheaters.com/pick-your-package/
I wish I had found this service while I was still living there, it would have been a lifesaver.
If you live in a very large house, you might have to rent a couple of these, so you can blast them all at once.
But still, if you calculate in the costs of replacing mattresses, throwing out furniture, buying bed covers, and all that, you would actually save money by doing heat-treatment yourself.
If you do the heat treatment yourself you won't have to replace any mattresses or throw out any furniture at all.
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Enjoywho said: I had bed bugs earlier this summer. Fucked this girl and unaware that was a problem. Ended up washing everything, buying a steamer that heats to like 200 degrees and treating my room with chemicals.
OMG where do you get one of those steamers? What are they called and what are they normally used for?
OI OP, I actually found out that you can rent one of those heaters that professionals to heat-treat the entire house, and depending on the size of the area you want to treat, it will only cost $99, or up to $300 a day.
http://rentbedbugheaters.com/pick-your-package/
I wish I had found this service while I was still living there, it would have been a lifesaver.
If you live in a very large house, you might have to rent a couple of these, so you can blast them all at once.
But still, if you calculate in the costs of replacing mattresses, throwing out furniture, buying bed covers, and all that, you would actually save money by doing heat-treatment yourself.
If you do the heat treatment yourself you won't have to replace any mattresses or throw out any furniture at all.
The heat treatment though isn't the best option. The house has to get very hot and by that point vinyl starts to melt, along with other plastics in the house.
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I dunno I got it online can't remember where it was like 150$ with 2 day shipping. Looks like this however.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: MushyMatt]
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Welcome to hell, OP. It has been nearly a year since my infestation and I still have nightmares on occasion. I was in a super shady place with three apartments. All of them were infested and the slumlord took his sweet ass time getting Orkin in. I threw out all of my upholstered furniture, mattress, and bed frame. Screwed two large I bolts into the wall in my bedroom and strung up a hammock. ALL towels, curtains, and tapestries were dried on high for at least 45 minutes along with the clothes and blankets I decided to keep. They were then double bagged and kept in my moms garage (it was winter) if I wasn't going to use it in the next month or two. No hardware stores in the area carried DE. I sprayed all books (especially in the spines) with alcohol. I sprayed all furniture with alcohol and (this is important) sprayed the underside of any furniture I kept with alcohol.
Eventully the orkin man came because the tennants were calling him, the health department, and the city housing inspector relentlessly. I still found two bugs after the Orkin man came.
I threw out more and more shit.
Then I got the fuck out of that place as soon as I could. Dried and sprayed everything down once more before getting onto my new place.
I haven't had a problem since, but there were so many cracks and crevices in that old building in the walls, ceilings, and floorboards I wouldn't be surprised if there are still bugs there.
That picture Crystal G posted will probably give me nightmares tonight.
Good luck, OP.
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MushyMatt said: The heat treatment though isn't the best option. The house has to get very hot and by that point vinyl starts to melt, along with other plastics in the house.
Plastics don't melt like that? The house doesn't get hot enough for plastic to melt. Bed bugs die off at 120 degrees, so the recommended temperature to kill off bedbugs is 130 degrees.
That's not even as hot as a steam sauna (steam saunas are 160 to 200 degrees), it is actually perfectly safe for you to walk inside that house for quite a long time, to turn off the machines and check the temperature as the heater is running. Plenty of people live in desert climates that reach 130 degrees all the time.
You take out anything that could get damaged or degrades from the house of course, if you wish.
For me I would take out things like alcohol or wine bottles, any expensive face creams, medications, laptops and drugs, certain foods stored at room temperature (though I would rather throw most of it away just to be safe), and disinfect all the bottles and containers with isopropyl alcohol, preferably 90% purity. Actually the laptops I might even heat for at least 10 minutes, because there are spaces between the keyboard where eggs could be hiding. If it's only at 130 for 10 minutes it shouldn't do permanent damage.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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Get yourself a gram of glass and stay up for a day attacking those fuckers,one of the reasons I hate to even stay at hostels,in sf some of the more low life hostels have had many an infestation,been like dozens of articles about it in the chronicle,probably in the mission and tenderloin low rent hotels as well
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fuck man, I dont think my place is that infested yet. I think its just my bed to be quite honest. Im going to throw away my bed, and buy some poison/DE and just straight go to town on the room. I live in a big house with my elderly grandmother. We only use two rooms in the house.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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I know about bed bugs! Don't eat food on your bed and make sure you wash your hair well in the mornings if you have long hair.
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Crazy_Horse said: Just spray DDT around and you'll be fine.
This will actually work best if you can manage to find DDT
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Shroomslip]
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may i as what is DDT?
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DDT = dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
Its a strong insecticide that was banned a few decades ago. Reason being that it mimics estrogen and thus high exposure can impact human reproductive features. Its highly effective against pretty much anything
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SunnyD said: they are the most disgusting blood sucking and filled bugs.
Damn right, Sunny D. Those motherfuckers are the stuff of nightmares.

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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Niffla]
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I slept in the other room last night while I poisoned my room. Now im all paranoid they are just going to follow me and start infecting the whole house though If they start taking over the rest of the house things are probably going to get really bad because I live with a borderline whorder. She is almost having a heart attack at the idea of me throwing away an old ass bed.
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danielx said: I slept in the other room last night while I poisoned my room. Now im all paranoid they are just going to follow me and start infecting the whole house though If they start taking over the rest of the house things are probably going to get really bad because I live with a borderline whorder. She is almost having a heart attack at the idea of me throwing away an old ass bed.
If the entire place gets infested you will have no choice but to heat-treat the entire house. Once the problem is out of control you can't get rid of them, that's the only way.
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Dude if they infested the bed chances are pretty goddamn high they are also elsewhere... good luck.. bedbug infestation is like one of my worst nightmares. I would be going to town on that shit if you plan on staying there.
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Never had any bed bugs, but I do suffer from a silverfish infestation.
I just sucked them up with the vacuum cleaner, thinking this would kill them instantly. So my vacuum stopped working, and I opened it to check what was the problem... motherfucking silverfish build a whole civilization in there, god damn.
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Microwave books, and check battery compartments on electrical devices.
I don't show bedbug bites, but I spent 6 months sobering up and getting my ass straightened out in a shelter, and my god, everyone in my room was waking up.covered in bites, and bedbug shit under each mattress.
Dude, those fucking literally get in the walls.
I remember one climbing around on this dude, Scales, during breakfast. Later we thoughthink shit was under control, and I was outsidentified with a coffee and a book, and a goddamn bug came trundling out of the binding. Oh yeah, and the males stab their dicks through the females bellies to impregnate them, even though they have functional vaginas.
Pretty big assholes....
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I once campred out in a farmers barn and every night I'd lie in bed and these TINGS started crawling onto me and tarted to sting me.
That was so fucked up.
I hope I wont get a bedbug infestation, I hear these fuckers are near impossible to get rid of.
double dose bug bomb the fuckers.
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Bug bombing isn't really effective....
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yeah true, not with bed bugs. Their eggs are quite resistant.
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Turtletotem said: Never had any bed bugs, but I do suffer from a silverfish infestation.
I just sucked them up with the vacuum cleaner, thinking this would kill them instantly. So my vacuum stopped working, and I opened it to check what was the problem... motherfucking silverfish build a whole civilization in there, god damn.
So that was the end of it?
They all set up shop in your hoover bag?
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Asante said: yeah true, not with bed bugs. Their eggs are quite resistant.
The bugs themselves are also resistant. I've sprayed diatomaceous earth spray that was even advertised as "designated for bed bugs" all over the floors, and they were still crawling over the floors the next day.
I think I remember reading that they also have special sensors that can detect or smell poison long before it becomes toxic to them, so they are able to run away to a safe hiding spot while the bombs are going off.
It's the same way with brown recluse spiders, usually spiders are pretty easy to get rid of, but brown recluse spiders are an exception, because they are so good at evading poison.
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Crystal G is spot on. Diatomaceous earth would definitely help a ton. I think if they get directly doused with high proof alcohol that'll desicate them also.
The problem is that they're really rudimentary. If a roach or ant gets poison on itself, it will later clean itself and ingest it. Bedbugs, on the other hand, do not clean thems elves, so the poison must be liquid, or something like the diatomaceous earth that'll slice 'em up.
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DrMambo said: I think if they get directly doused with high proof alcohol that'll desicate them also.
Yeah, but directly dousing them is so difficult. You could do it for a couple you find here and there, but definitely not for most of them. The alcohol does help kill any eggs that you can't see with the naked eye, however.
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people live in desert climates that reach 130 degrees all the time.
Lol. No they don't. Outside of a few areas in the Middle East, areas that get that hot are not populated. The highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix was 122. It's only reached over 120° three times. Vegas has never gotten above 117°.
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koods said: Lol. No they don't. Outside of a few areas in the Middle East, areas that get that hot are not populated. The highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix was 122. It's only reached over 120° three times. Vegas has never gotten above 117°.
Yeah, I was talking about the entire world, not just the USA. I know this year we had the hottest recorded summers globally all around the world this year.
Tunisia reached 130+, China reached 120+, Irael reached 129+, USA apparently reached 134+ in Death Valley, California.
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I have not read the comments, but I have read the OP. I have personal expereince with bed bugs, I had my entire appartment infested and I have gotten rid of them. It took months and a lot of work, it was fucking terrible but I will tell you how I did it but I warn you, it takes a lot of work and it sucks hard-core.
You need to buy a number of things, if you look up videos people will probably suggest that you make co2 traps, don't because it is a waste of time.
Buy diatomaceous earth Buy a bed bug encasement for your mattress as well another one for your boxframe if you have one. Buy bed cups, such as these https://www.amazon.com/Climbup-Insect-Interceptor-Bed-Trap/dp/B0033SC0LI for example.
You need to put the diatomaceous earth in every corner of your bedroom and in your home, the powder will dry out any insects that cross into it. I even ended up putting this shit onto my bed frame.
Which reminds me, if you sleep with your mattress on the floor, you need to buy a bed frame that has four or more legs, and put the bed cups under those legs, if you have a bedframe thats like a box that sits on the floor you need to buy a bedframe with legs instead. Don't cheap out on any of this shit.
for the bed bug incasement, the thing that goes on your mattress and box spring..... Buy one that isnt a cheap peice of shit, one with zippers designed specifically for BB's, read reviews and find one thats good. These trap any bugs that are left in your bed, and trust me you can clean your bed a million times, there will still be those fuckers in it.
Another important thing you must do, you should learn how bedbugs reproduce, they do it quickly, so this is a numbers game. You need to kill them faster then they can reproduce, which is every week or so I beleive. Everytime they bite you, they have the possibility to reproduce, you need to disable their ability to feed on you.
If you have roomates, or pets you need them to be doing the exact same thing you are in their rooms, in fact if you have a pet, send them away to somewhere else or this whole plan wont work, if thats the case you might need to hire an exterminator but it doesnt always work.
Pretty much you need to keep them off your bed, move your bed away from walls, dont let anything touch the ground and eliminate any possible chance they have of getting onto your bed, you need to do this for months until you are absoultly certain they are gone, and then when you are think they are gone; continue to watch for them and dont stop. Bed bugs can live up to a year without feeding, the BB incasements on your bed need to stay there for at least a year to elimante the posssiblity of them surviving, write down the date of when you put it on. Diamcous earth is the game changer here, the ultimate weapon but if you don't follow the things I have said it wont work. Also, clean your bed everyweek or more, change the sheets and flip the mattres over and look through it carfully and remove any bugs or eggs that you find, you need to do this the entire time.
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If anyone blames this on you OP, for being uncleanly or whatever; they obviously dont know what the fuck they are talking about. There is a number of ways to get them, living in an appartment is obviously a major factor because the bugs will move from appartment to appartment, the thing you can use to your advantage is that BB's are attracted to the co2 that you give off when you sleep, so they will always be attracted to you, you can use this to your advantage. Sprinkle the diamtomaceous earth everywhere you can, under your bed and under furniture and in carpets too.
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The5thElement said: for the bed bug incasement, the thing that goes on your mattress and box spring..... Buy one that isnt a cheap peice of shit, one with zippers designed specifically for BB's, read reviews and find one thats good. These trap any bugs that are left in your bed, and trust me you can clean your bed a million times, there will still be those fuckers in it.
Yes, this is one of the pieces of advice I gave him. He will need to buy a mattress cover, one that is specifically designed to keep bed bugs out. A good one will cost around $50, and he needs to do this for every single bed where occupants are sleeping in. That way they will keep bed bugs in and out.
Honestly though after finding rentals for those heaters they use to kill bed bugs, I'd probably rather go this route. It's much cheaper than hiring professionals to do it, which can cost thousands: http://rentbedbugheaters.com/pick-your-package/
OP can also get one of these and throw all his furniture and beds and couches in there and heat everything, then at the same time wipe down his floors with isopropyl alcohol and then sprinkle diatomaceous earth powder on top afterward. This is a small one, and won't be large enough for furniture, but they have larger sized ones for all your furniture: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Dr-Infrared-Heater-1500-Watt-2-Tier-18-cu-ft-Portable-Bedbug-Heater-with-Thermometer-and-Timer-DR-122/206600170?cm_mmc=Shopping%7CTHD%7CG%7C0%7CG-BASE-PLA-D27E-Electrical%7C&gclid=CjwKEAjwgo6_BRC32q6_5s2R-R8SJAB7hTG-zcmbqpn8nzb_Tt5V__qnTvrxYqByhZDBK9bcHmT7IxoCzBTw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
It's cheaper in the long run if you calculate the cost of the mattress covers, throwing out any furniture, and all the tireless work and effort you have to spend to get them to die.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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this is like the worst nightmare I could possibly imagine. Im so anal about laundry/showering/washing my hands my family calls me OCD, this isn't about being dirty.
I stuck some traps in the room last night, sprinkled DE everywhere, sprayed the everything down with poison. I dont see any bed bugs, although im sure theyre in hiding until I come and lay back down in there. At this point I plan to just throw away the bed the day they will pick it up, also ripping up the carpet and putting some hardwood floors in I think.
Definitely going to look into the heater after seeing how ruthless these fucks are. Really hope I can contain it to the one room.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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I have. I eventually just had to move, nothing worked. Fumigated the place multiple times, did the thing where they heat up the house to like 150 degrees for a few hours. Nothing worked they kept coming back. Fortunately I didn't have a lease.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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Also im contemplating sleeping on an air matress in the meantime. My thought process is they wont be able to get all embedded in one of those plastic air mattresses. And if they did its cheap and easy to throw away. Thoughts?
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also thread reminds me of this
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danielx said: Also im contemplating sleeping on an air matress in the meantime. My thought process is they wont be able to get all embedded in one of those plastic air mattresses. And if they did its cheap and easy to throw away. Thoughts?
Yes, that is what I recommended you to do if you throw away your mattress and buy an air bed.
If you do end up renting the heater though, you won't have to throw away your mattress or any other furniture, since they'll all die. I feel like doing this would be a lot cheaper than replacing your floors with tile.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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I havent seen any issues outside of the one room, how important do you think it is to heat every room in the house?
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That would probably be more like one of those "be safe or try it and see how it goes" type things. If they are ONLY in that one room, I really don't see the need to heat the entire house. There's no bedbugs to kill in any of the other rooms. However, if you do only treat that one room and there is just a very small population in some other room that manages to find a food source and start breeding again, you're gonna have to start all over.
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They might run from the heat, and it takes a while to get to the temp. Id err on the side of caution.
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danielx said: this is like the worst nightmare I could possibly imagine. Im so anal about laundry/showering/washing my hands my family calls me OCD, this isn't about being dirty.
I stuck some traps in the room last night, sprinkled DE everywhere, sprayed the everything down with poison. I dont see any bed bugs, although im sure theyre in hiding until I come and lay back down in there. At this point I plan to just throw away the bed the day they will pick it up, also ripping up the carpet and putting some hardwood floors in I think.
Definitely going to look into the heater after seeing how ruthless these fucks are. Really hope I can contain it to the one room.
Do you own a house, if so you are in a favouritable possition, don't throw out your carpets or bed it wont matter man. BB's can get into the smallest of cracks, and they will not be gone untill you can kill them faster then they reproduce. You need to do 3 steps.
1) Get a bed, elevated off the ground meaning that they have legs that you can put the cups under. Nothing can go on your bed, other than yourself. if a blanket is on the couch do not put it on your bed. Remove bed away from anything that a fuck-face bb can use to climb on your bed.
2) Get the bed encasement for your mattress and boxframe if you have one.
3) DE fucking everywhere, (diam..earth).
Trust me, this will work if you are absoultly anal about not contaminating your bed with anything that could have a bug in it. Only thing that should go on your bed is pillows blankets and yourself. Every week, at least once a week take your mattress off the bed, and box spring and look it all over carefully for bugs and remove them by flushing them down the toilet. Do not leave your mattress on the ground for anylonger then u have too, it should take you about 10-15 mins each time you do this so don't freak out.
First thing you need to establish that you have infact removed all bugs from your bed, don't be surprised that it will take you a few rounds to completly remove them from your bed, and keeping them off. Second thing is keeping them from ever climbing up on your bed again.
You do these two things and having DE everywhere you could be free of these fuckers within weeks, Remeber they are attracted to the Co2 that you give off from breathing in your sleep, so they will always be lured towards you. Have DE sprinkled under your bed, along the walls and in various other places. All they have to do is walk in the powder and they die within 2 days or so. They reproduce about once a week, and they are able to lay eggs only after feeding, so if you remove the threat of them climbing on the bed and feeding on you.... and your able to maintain that for a few weeks eventually those fuckers are gonna walk on the DE and they will die. You need to keep doing this routine for a long time, just to make sure they are truly gone. The bed bed encasements on your mattresses do need to stay on for atleast 1 year, because like I said before they can survive without feeding for up to one year.
You can do this man, because you have no other choice. Moving will not help, throwing away your bed and carpets will not work. This is the way and its not that expensive.
I have read into this a lot, I have experienced it and I have gotten through it. Take my advice and you will succeed . Any questions you have just ask.
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Also heating you house is pointless, you will not be able to kill them that way. They can live in extream hot and cold temperatures. air mattress is a bad idea, like I said you need to have a bed with legs, put the bed bug cup underneith them and you absoultly must have bb encasements on your mattress. I am going to put the links to everything you need. I will edit this post when I get it all.
Cups https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B004PKKP1K/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
DE
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00PKIPVPQ/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Encasements
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B00462W9MK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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You can find smaller cups that wont be as expensive, same with the DE and I dont know what size your bed is, mine was a fullsize bed at the time, smaller mattress encasements will be cheaper.
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Also, so you are aware. Any cracks, the heads of screws or anything of that nature in your bed frame.. BB's can slip inside there, so just be aware of that. Also check your pillows, if there are holes in the pillow itself just throw it away and get a new one.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: DrMambo]
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DrMambo said: Microwave books, and check battery compartments on electrical devices.
I don't show bedbug bites, but I spent 6 months sobering up and getting my ass straightened out in a shelter, and my god, everyone in my room was waking up.covered in bites, and bedbug shit under each mattress.
Dude, those fucking literally get in the walls.
I remember one climbing around on this dude, Scales, during breakfast. Later we thoughthink shit was under control, and I was outsidentified with a coffee and a book, and a goddamn bug came trundling out of the binding. Oh yeah, and the males stab their dicks through the females bellies to impregnate them, even though they have functional vaginas.
Pretty big assholes....
I did 30 days at a half way house. 4 story building our apartment was the top. We did everything they fucking could care less. We finally caught one of them. And we didn't own much shit. They only bombed our room. At that point I only had like 10 days left. The best part is the night I got out they finally brought new people in. I had 4 of the mattresses that shit was about as comfy as you'll get in jail. Bed bugs are a nightmare.
My Ma picked me up and all my clothing and books I told them to burn. The jail part really wasn't so bad. I read 17 books, learned how to juggle, and I'm a fucking great crib player. Fucking bed bugs.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: koods]
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people live in desert climates that reach 130 degrees all the time.
Lol. No they don't. Outside of a few areas in the Middle East, areas that get that hot are not populated. The highest temperature ever recorded in Phoenix was 122. It's only reached over 120° three times. Vegas has never gotten above 117°.
I live in Phoenix. It gets DAMN CLOSE to 120 every fucking summer. ;(
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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danielx said: I havent seen any issues outside of the one room, how important do you think it is to heat every room in the house?
Well, they can run from one room to the other. Especially since they can crawl through electrical outlets and like to hide in there.
So at the very least I would heat at least 3 areas at the same time, which includes any rooms that are right next to the affected room, as well as the hallway.
Getting 1 heat fan from that company should cost roughly $99 a piece, but maybe if you ask for 3, you can ask for some special discount and they will let you rent all 3 for $200.
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The5thElement said: Also heating you house is pointless, you will not be able to kill them that way. They can live in extream hot and cold temperatures.
No they can't, bed bugs die off at 120 degrees. Hence why biologists and bed bug exterminators use heat treatment and set the house to 130 degrees with special heater fans.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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ive been given so much contradictory advice over this.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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danielx said: ive been given so much contradictory advice over this. 
I've given you plenty of videos, Discovery Channel says heat treatment is the only way to successfully get rid of bed bugs.
You have to be careful with a lot of products people are pushing on random sites and forums on the internet, because a lot of them are paid sponsors for a certain company, and they are paid to push some kind of pesticide or product for bed bug treatment.
At 5:50 the biologist/entomologist says "Bed bugs are susceptible to temperatures over 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Once they are exposed to those temperatures, they die very quickly. So people are using heat to treat bed bug problems. That will kill all stages of bed bugs, those that are walking around and the eggs."
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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cool thanks I appreciate the advice. I never doubted you was just pointing out how much contradictory and or misinformation is out there on the subject.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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I've spent some time in Phoenix. I've never been so uncomfortably hot and freezing cold in my life.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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danielx said: ive been given so much contradictory advice over this. 
Dude it takes work. It is not fucking easy at all. And 99% percent of the time you don't even see them. It takes diligence. That's why at times just burning the house to the ground and building another seems easier. Heat kills them. Crystal has posted some videos that some I have watched. To nip it in the bud early. Good luck it isn't easy.
Probably because they've never actually had to deal with them. I have a 200$ steamer that cost me 200 bucks that for the life of me I have no other uses for. Just kinda sits there.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23671325 - 09/23/16 02:50 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I recommend using DEET and/or Picaridin to spray down your furniture (especially your bed) and the walls around your furniture where the wall meets the floor. You can buy both as equipment to spray down camping equipment. Spray down your furniture with either/both, along with the walls around your bed where the wall meets the floor, and you should solve the problem. DEET is a solvent though so make sure it doesn't dissolve any of your fabrics first.
Bedbugs were originally nearly eliminated by DDT spraying. Pesticides are highly effective in bedbug control.
You'll need to get them off of your clothing too, of course. You can use Picaridin safely on clothing though, so you might consider spraying down all your clothes inside and out in it.
If you don't have any pets, you can also use Permethrin, but it's toxic to cats and several other kinds of pets.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: nooneman]
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My clothes I went to a laundry mat. I have my own washer and dryer but there relatively shitty. I got them for free. Toss a thermometer in as well. You'll get a vague idea of how hot it gets. I think I got mine at Walmart for like 3 bucks.
By no means is it actual scientific data. But it'll give you a vague idea of the ballpark your in. If your in a hot state put a bag of clothes in your car. Cars can easily get to the kill zone but that's depending where you live.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: nooneman]
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nooneman said: You'll need to get them off of your clothing too, of course. You can use Picaridin safely on clothing though, so you might consider spraying down all your clothes inside and out in it.
If you don't have any pets, you can also use Permethrin, but it's toxic to cats and several other kinds of pets.
You can't possibly be serious can you... talking about spraying your clothes with toxic pesticides? Inhaling that stuff is potentially neurotoxic, I mean that's how they kill ants and other bugs, and I can imagine it would irritate the hell out of your skin too.
Why on earth would you do that when throwing your clothes in a cycle in the dryer is guaranteed to kill them.
OP you shouldn't listen to this advice. If bed bugs were so easily killed by pesticides, then they wouldn't be almost impossible to get rid of. You could just spray a few corners and you'd be able to get rid of them easily. This is not the case however.
Ants are easy to manage with pesticides. Bed bugs are not.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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Ya I don't really get what he's talking about. There are plenty of sprays that aren't straight up pesticides. And as I said I just bought a steamer and used that on my clothes than washed them at a laundry mat that had industrial dryers. It takes work I spent about 2 weeks just doing the same process over and over. It's a fucking pain in the ass.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Enjoywho]
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Check out this documentary when you have time OP, it's super gross.
Says at 15:00 bedbugs are incredibly difficult to kill. To wipe them out using today's pesticides, you must spray every single bed bug individually. If you miss even one pregnant female, the colony will recovery. That is why pesticides don't work.
Personally, I think the government should subsidize bed bug treatment, or it should operate on a sliding scale basis based on income... because otherwise, the problem is going to spread and get worse in this country if the only effective treatment remains thousands of dollars. And I'd wager to say that bed bugs affect low-income urban people more often than other types of people.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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you couldnt pay me to watch that video. Im already traumatized by seeing google images.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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Crystal G said: Check out this documentary when you have time OP, it's super gross.
Says at 15:00 bedbugs are incredibly difficult to kill. To wipe them out using today's pesticides, you must spray every single bed bug individually. If you miss even one pregnant female, the colony will recovery. That is why pesticides don't work.
Personally, I think the government should subsidize bed bug treatment, or it should operate on a sliding scale basis based on income... because otherwise, the problem is going to spread and get worse in this country if the only effective treatment remains thousands of dollars. And I'd wager to say that bed bugs affect low-income urban people more often than other types of people.
Ya I couldn't afford afford professional help. But God bless the internet where you can learn anything. Problem solved. It takes a lot of work. It is by no means easy.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Enjoywho]
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Is that steamer that you used a garment or clothing steamer? Similar to this but larger? If so you could probably use it to iron some of your shirts and other clothes.
https://www.amazon.com/OPOLAR-Portable-Handheld-Powerful-Capacity/dp/B01EVEBWOI/ref=sr_1_38?ie=UTF8&qid=1474678162&sr=8-38&keywords=high+temperature+heater
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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nooneman said: You'll need to get them off of your clothing too, of course. You can use Picaridin safely on clothing though, so you might consider spraying down all your clothes inside and out in it.
If you don't have any pets, you can also use Permethrin, but it's toxic to cats and several other kinds of pets.
You can't possibly be serious can you... talking about spraying your clothes with toxic pesticides? Inhaling that stuff is potentially neurotoxic, I mean that's how they kill ants and other bugs, and I can imagine it would irritate the hell out of your skin too.
Why on earth would you do that when throwing your clothes in a cycle in the dryer is guaranteed to kill them.
OP you shouldn't listen to this advice. If bed bugs were so easily killed by pesticides, then they wouldn't be almost impossible to get rid of. You could just spray a few corners and you'd be able to get rid of them easily. This is not the case however.
Ants are easy to manage with pesticides. Bed bugs are not.
Campers regularly spray down their clothes with Picadirin. That's it's primary use. Other camping equipment that can withstand it and not dissolve commonly gets sprayed down with DEET. DEET, picadirin and Permethrin are all sold for direct application to the skin as insect repellents. I assure you, people have these chemicals on their clothes and themselves all the time with no bad effects.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
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Ok, heating you house is going to do nothing. I've actually given you first hand experience about this and no comments on that OP? OK goodluck with following G's advice, it seems like shes the direction to follow even though I've literally experienced having bed bugs, and getting rid of them. I'm living in the same place and haven't had anysigns of them for over a year and a half.
Best of luck, really.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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Me and this 26 year old japanese bitch rented a fucking cheap motel room down in Imperial beach a while back and we got fucking eaten alive by bedbugs.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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Crystal G said: Is that steamer that you used a garment or clothing steamer? Similar to this but larger? If so you could probably use it to iron some of your shirts and other clothes.
https://www.amazon.com/OPOLAR-Portable-Handheld-Powerful-Capacity/dp/B01EVEBWOI/ref=sr_1_38?ie=UTF8&qid=1474678162&sr=8-38&keywords=high+temperature+heater
I don't iron fuck all but ya basically. I build houses so my clothes are never really an issue. That is its primary function I believe.
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The5thElement said: Ok, heating you house is going to do nothing. I've actually given you first hand experience about this and no comments on that OP? OK goodluck with following G's advice, it seems like shes the direction to follow even though I've literally experienced having bed bugs, and getting rid of them. I'm living in the same place and haven't had anysigns of them for over a year and a half.
Best of luck, really.
I told him that diatomaceous earth powder is the second best option if heat treatment wasn't available or financially feasible.
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Next time just get a campsite up at cardiff by the sea,just ask if there r any cancellations ,open spots,that way u don't have to make a reservation which is like ten more dollars Pipes is a good breakfast spot across the tracks
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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I'm just irked because I've said all this stuff, and buddies yet to even acknowledge anything I've said. My "treatment", that I'm describing is the only thing that will work; and I well explain it for anyone who happens to read this in the future.
Bed bugs can get into the tiniest of places, "spots"that most people wouldn't even bother thinking of looking. They are drawn towards co2,a gas that is emitted from things such as dry ice, or our breath when we exhale. To further my first point, heat treatment is useless because buddy is never going to find them all. Never, ever. It's not going to happen. Bombing buddies house, with pesticides or whatever doesn't always work either according to other people's findings.
So how do you get rid of a pest that can very easily conceal itself, not to mention very good at suriving most temps that people live in. Well we know that they are drawn towards their prey, we also know that they reproduce only after "feeding". I was wrong in my past comment about them laying eggs once a week, its actually once a day but again, only after feeding...
If you make it impossible for the bugs to bite you, they can not reproduce and lay more eggs. If you have DE spread all around your bedroom (where the bugs will be drawn to, because that's where their meal is)- withing two days of coming in contact with DE, the bugs die. It's that simple.
You need a bed elevated off the ground, you need cups under their legs; you need Bed encasments, and you need DE to kill the bugs. You can get all that shit, well under 200-300$.
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Yeah OP you'd probably do well to listen to this guy ^^^^ he sounds like he knows what he's talking about having dealt with it personally I've heard about the cups and bed encasements and DE while researching as well. I have known a few people who have gotten bed bugs and it was always a nightmare scenario. Most/all of them ended up moving out I'm pretty sure after fighting with it for a long time. I know pesticides don't work, it never gets them all. I know for sure you can't go half-assed on bed bugs. From everything I have read about them.. they are one of the hardest infestations to get rid of. Don't take it lightly. If you plan on staying there I'd listen to the dude that has dealt with it and gotten rid of them successfully
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Best of luck OP. I have also heard heat treatment is the only sure thing, but look into diatomaceous earth as well. Once upon a time my neighbors who shared a wall with my house got them, we had the same landlord so we found out, we put this stuff everywhere, sprayed poison everywhere multiple times a day, moved everything away from the wall, and tbh I moved out shortly after, but it was enough to keep me from getting infested myself till then. I barely slept though.
Bed bugs are my worst nightmare. I can deal with everything else. I dodge cockroaches the size of human babies walking down the street at night and I know they're in the basement of my building and I spent the last week essentially pest proofing my apartment, but if the building gets bed bugs then idk how the fuck that's gonna get dealt with because it's a fairly large apartment building and the cost of heat treatment has to be a complete nightmare. Only option would be to move the fuck out, and I would in a heart beat.
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I'm listening to you man my apologies if I didnt respond to you ive definitely been reading everyone's input. The debate was on whether to spring for the heater or not. Alot of people are saying the heat is the only thing that works, youre saying fuck the heat. I've already started doing what you told me with the traps and DE though. The room is straight coated with DE. Im doing the best I can with what limited resources I have right now.
Trying to remain optimistic at this point.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23673084 - 09/24/16 06:22 AM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Your gonna have to pull the trimming out and pull up the edges of the carpet if you wanna do it right. If your thorough you probably wont need a heat treatment.
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The5thElement said: I'm just irked because I've said all this stuff, and buddies yet to even acknowledge anything I've said. My "treatment", that I'm describing is the only thing that will work; and I well explain it for anyone who happens to read this in the future.
Don't worry bud, he did the same thing to me, that's why I kept posting multiple times in this thread. I think he's just bombarded by all the information he's getting because it's so contradictory, he just doesn't know who to believe.
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They are drawn towards co2,a gas that is emitted from things such as dry ice, or our breath when we exhale. To further my first point, heat treatment is useless because buddy is never going to find them all.
Heat would spread everywhere through the house, if done properly. You are supposed to get several heat fans for one house, and set them to 150 degrees, and leave them for several hours until they reach at least 130 in the entire house. Professionals use industrial-grade heaters and they also take temperatures of difficult-to-reach crevices and cracks as the heating is going on.
I will say, I used diatomaceous earth that was in spray form (it even advertised that it killed bed bugs), and it didn't help in my case. Perhaps it's in a different form that makes them easier to kill if it's in a powder.
The department of entomology will always say heat is the best way: http://www.vdacs.virginia.gov/pdf/bb-heat1.pdf
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
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Bombarded is an understatement. Finally went to town on the room, pulled up the carpets and it had beautiful hardwood floors underneath which is rad.
Everything is out of the room wrapped tight in black trash bags ready to cook in 90 degree weather tomorrow. DE lined the room, and I reapplied poison. I have the cups and the mattress cover for when I get a bed in there.
Has anyone heard of nuvan strips? Someone recommended I throw them into the bags and in the room. They are pricey though. Might just rent the heater anyway. The majority of the bugs were on the bed, box spring, and on the stuff under the bed which was trashed, but I'm sure they made it elsewhere.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23675051 - 09/24/16 07:47 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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danielx said: Everything is out of the room wrapped tight in black trash bags ready to cook in 90 degree weather tomorrow.
Are you putting it inside a hot car? 90 degrees itself isn't hot enough to kill bed bugs. They die around 120F.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23675150 - 09/24/16 08:24 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I was under the impression the black bags would act as a sort of greenhouse and get much hotter on the inside of the bag. I'll see what I can fit in my old beater civic.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23675156 - 09/24/16 08:26 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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danielx said: I was under the impression the black bags would act as a sort of greenhouse and get much hotter on the inside of the bag. I'll see what I can fit in my old beater civic.
Where do you live? I wouldn't try it unless your car was guaranteed to get hot. Because you don't want to end up with a bed bug infested car. If you live in Washington or Seattle or something, I wouldn't try it. But if you're closer to Arizona or New Mexico it would definitely work putting your stuff in the car on a hot summer day.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23675163 - 09/24/16 08:28 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I'm in OC. Someone told me 90-100 by Monday.
Edit- this is also why I was asking about the strips. Im down to apend an extra $30 if it is a guarantee. The $175 heat tent is tiny and will take forever
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23675172 - 09/24/16 08:31 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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danielx said: I'm in OC. Someone told me 90-100 by Monday.
Edit- this is also why I was asking about the strips. Im down to apend an extra $30 if it is a guarantee. The $175 heat tent is tiny and will take forever
90-100 is not nearly hot enough to kill bed bugs. When I had my infestation in Philly it was around 105 degrees on a daily basis in the summer. I keep showing you sources that say that they need around 120F heat to die.
You need to buy a thermometer, and take the temperature inside of your car first for about an hour or two during peak daytime hours. If the thermometer says it's above 120, it's okay to put your stuff inside the car. Otherwise you will end up with bed bugs inside your car.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23675181 - 09/24/16 08:35 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Word. I read your sources, multiple people told me black bags in the sun including pest control company. Just doing what I can with the resources I have right now. Hopefully the car gets hotter
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23675194 - 09/24/16 08:39 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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danielx said: Word. I read your sources, multiple people told me black bags in the sun including pest control company. Just doing what I can with the resources I have right now. Hopefully the car gets hotter
You need to make sure the inside of the bags are going to reach at least 120F. This is simple logic. Otherwise it's not going to work.
So, you need to take the temperature inside the bag as it's under the sun. If it doesn't get hot enough, then you need to take the temperature inside the car FIRST, and THEN if it reaches 120, you put the bags inside the car.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23675204 - 09/24/16 08:43 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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For anything cloth, you should throw them in a cycle in the dryer. That will guarantee they will get hot enough to kill bed bugs.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23675212 - 09/24/16 08:47 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Word will do. Also heard stories of people rigging up ducting from their dryer to all of their stuff. Sounds ghetto fab but makes sense to me.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23675261 - 09/24/16 09:04 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Appreciate everyone helping by the way. Felt really ungrateful when you guys started pointing out my lack of responses. But it's mainly stress and I'm on a phone right now because my computer and router is bagged up.
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.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23675335 - 09/24/16 09:44 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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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.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23675350 - 09/24/16 09:55 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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In 100 degree heat, a car sitting in direct sunlight can easily reach 135+ after a few hours, especially the area around the dash. You know that whole thing about never leave your baby/pet in the car on a hot day, yeah.. that's why. I'd be too worried about putting bedbug infested shit in my car though. If you do triple bag that shit and seal it fucking well.
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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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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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