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Bed Bugs Anonymous
Anyone have any experiences with these damn things? I'm currently battling them, but they seem to be winning.
>> Anonymous
Dust mites are omnipresent but I've had no encounter with bed bugs, luckily.
>> Anonymous
those are like the michael phelps of the nature
>> Anonymous
gas. not once, not twice, not thrice, but 4 motherfucker.

make sure it's every 10 or so days.

if you have a lot of books shake them shits over a toilet.

seal up all the cracks you can find, then douse your mattress and other furniture in bed bug poison and cover them up in something that doesn't have fucking holes.
I haven't been bitten in months. Though with my luck they're probably just hibernating, and I'll get cancer somewhere down the road.

But fuck, it's worth it to get a good nights sleep
>> Anonymous
Make sure you don't let them bite.
>> Anonymous
>>292349

There was this spray at Home Depot called 'Good Night'; it seemed to be somewhat effective and I was thinking of calling an exterminator, but I hear those are kinda...pricey.
>> Anonymous
fire helps, burn them, burn them all
>> Anonymous
Bump for more stories of these blasted insects; do they even have predators?
>> Anonymous
>>292704
centipedes and spiders are about it, I think. fuckers stink.
>> Anonymous
Most evil little fuckers ever. I was talking to some exterminator that came into my work about them, and he said he'd never met such a hard bug to get rid of in 30 years.
>> Anonymous
Hmm...centipedes and spiders; looks like I'm fucked.
>> Anonymous
I had to throw out a lot of furniture cause of them.

My family used fogging on a room by room method. Then do a lot of vaccuming on all pillows and stuff. Wash all blankets. Repeat.
>> Anonymous
Boric acid and food-grade diatomaceous earth will kill them. (Dont use pool-grade diatomaceous earth; it will injure you if inhaled.)

Also, bedbugs are sensitive to heat; crank the heat up to full blast, preferably heating your entire home to 113 degrees Fahrenheit, and they'll die in less than a day. (Although beware that some household items may be heat sensitive; in particular, remove CDs/DVDs.)
>> Anonymous
>>293023

And where would I get my hands on some of this earth? I wouldn't mind using the boric acid idea if need be.
>> Anonymous
they can live without food for a year.
>> Anonymous
Holy shit! These things are REAL?!
>> Anonymous
>>293862
I also thought that was just a phrase!
>> Anonymous
I've had the good fortune to never encounter bed bugs. What attracts them in the first place? I'd like to know so I can avoid it properly.
>> Anonymous
>>293867

Sex.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedbug
>> Anonymous
My mum's co-worker had a lot of trouble. He had exterminators come SIX TIMES with no lasting effect and ended up hiring bedbug-sniffing dogs from the next state over to come and they identified EXACTLY where the bedbugs were (the couch, kids' beds, and a couple other places), he threw out all that furniture, and then spot-steamed cracks in woodwork etc.

The whole ordeal ended up costing him $30,000 since he had to throw out furniture and replace it, plus all the work.

He ended up just buying some bedbug sniffing dogs since there aren't any in this state (MA) and now he has a thriving business.

The end of the story is if you have a bedbug outbreak, DON'T GO TO ANYONE'S HOUSE BECAUSE YOU WILL GIVE IT TO THEM.
>> Anonymous
>>293891
>>Instead of inserting their genitalia into the female's reproductive tract as is typical in copulation, males instead pierce females with hypodermic genitalia and ejaculate into the body cavity. This form of mating is thought to have evolved as a way for males to overcome female mating resistance.

We can learn much from these wonderful creatures.
>> Anonymous
>>293899

ummmmmm how about NO.
>> Anonymous
>>293023

Diatomaceous earth is also effective against fleas.
>> Anonymous
Hate them with a passion. I'd honestly stab whoever the fuck would accidently spread these things, because they are just a horror that doesn't go away. You need to abandon EVERYTHING you have to get away from them for sure.
>> Anonymous
>>293899
this is known as "Traumatic Insemination" and bedbugs are not the only species that does this. Now shutup before /d/ hears about this.
>> Anonymous
got this from a teddy bear. threw out the bear, the sheets, blankets, pillows, etc. along with the bed. vacuumed the shit out of my bedroom. got rid of them.

but yeah, i was lucky. i did all this the day i realized it was bed bugs so before they were able to reproduce too much. if it's been more than a month, you're fucked.
>> Infidel !!qiClNei5oRk
I used to work at a hotel where a guest brought them in. We had to shut down an entire wing for a month for constant bombing, followed by another month of quarantine and repeated hard-core insecticide treatments. All blankets from the wing were trashed, as were half the mattresses and box springs.

tl;dr BEDBUGS SUCK ASS
>> Anonymous
>>292349
this guy here,

GUESS WHAT I JUST FOUND?
>> Anonymous
>>294230

That fucking sucks, man. As for me, they've spread to my mother's room; luckily for her, she had folds on her bed that hid quite a few so a brisk spraying session might have helped her out.

Now, would anyone happen to know of a cheap exterminator? My brother called Orkin and they were asking for $600.
>> Anonymous
Had to MOVE; apartment hotel became infested, and management decided to spray one room at a time. When they moved into MY place, I moved out.

On advice, everything--EVERYTHING--went into airtight-sealed boxes (even the seams were taped) with a couple of mothballs tossed in each and all left sealed for three months--mothballs to kill hatchlings, three months shut to make sure the adults starved. All furniture tossed.

It was not a great three months, with nothing in the new apartment except a huge stack of boxes and what little new stuff I'd bought, but I was going to be damned if I was going to bring the li'l fuckers with me.

A few weeks after moving, I visited a drugstore across the street from the old place. Little old lady in there REEKED of that rotting-berry smell bedbugs emit; she had to be swarming with the bastards. I felt awful for her, but what could I do? Tell her she smelled of vermin? Never went back (San Francisco).
>> Anonymous
Fucking Mexicans brought the bed bug back from near extinction after they had plagued humans world wide for thousands of years. When is that country going to learn about sanitation? Do they still have black plague and leeching there? I think they wear those sombreros to keep the lice out of their food.
>> Anonymous
>>293717
Buy it online, or maybe Home Depot sells it.
>> Anonymous
Heat treatment is probably the best bet, in combination with diatomaceous earth sprinkled on the floor and in cracks. Crank up the heat up to 120 F throughout the house and leave it like that for a day. They'll all die from heat exhaustion, including the fucking eggs.
>> Anonymous
>>294738

Easy, cheap and fast?

Here's a little puzzle for you: if getting rid of those little shits is so easy, why do the people in this thread bawww so much?
>> Anonymous
>>294757

The other poster's temp isn't actually enough. You have to basically have it at sauna level for a week straight. There also has to be very little to no humidity.

Having said that, extreme levels of heat will melt, distort, make tacky and cause to malfunction all sorts of plastics, including CDs and DVDs.
>> Anonymous
>>294762
>The other poster's temp isn't actually enough.
45 degrees Celsius (113 F) is the thermal death point for bedbugs. Sauce: http://www.afpmb.org/pubs/tims/TG44/TG44.htm
Of course, it might require you to heat some parts hotter in order to ensure that the whole structure is at least 113 F. And getting to that temperature is not necessarily easy.
>> Anonymous
I had these also, and they are fucking HARD to get rid of without professionals to do the job but here's what I did.

We have a metal frame bed that's propped up on 4 legs. Went to the grocery store and bought 4 throw away tupperwares filled them half way with water and put the legs in the tupperware. Fuckers can't swim I.E. they can't eat you. Also, make sure you keep your clothes off the floor as they will chill there. Another good thing to try is look for little black dots on your walls/floors/whatever, those are their trails. Put some double sided sticky tape around areas where you see these and you are sure to catch them as well.
>> Anonymous
>>294719
It has nothing to do with Mexicans or even with hygeine; bedbugs have been on the comeback worldwide.
>> Anonymous
OP here:

It's good to hear that I'm not suffering alone; I wish I had more cash and the water pan idea seems to be genius, but I fear that they may have infested my bed already. If anything, I'll probably call an exterminator and hope for the best.

I don't see what use these insects have other than being food for spiders and centipedes.
>> Anonymous
>>296568
water-pan-anon here. what we did for it was went out to walmart and bought these flea..cover..things
*finds a link*
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8154280
there you go. It's not made for alergens and fleas but the fabric won't allow them through either.

So you

1) Starve them out (those living in the mattress)
2) starve them out (water = dead bed bugs)
3) Sleep comfortably at night. The bites they give you stay if you scratch at them also, I had this nasty habit of putting my left arm over my head when I sleep which is good for protecting me and my fiance from bed bugs but fucked my arm up brutal, the scars stick around for life if you aren't careful=/.

Anyway, good luck!
>> Anonymous
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"Let me into your house!"
>> Anonymous
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>>296581
"Yes, we'll not only kill the bed bugs, we'll sodomize them before we do."
>> DO NOT THROW YO SHIT OUT FOO NoStyle
Neem tree oil. I should CopyPAStA this because I post this in every bedbug thread I see.

Neem tree oil is a natural bug repellant, and non toxic. Spray all over, spray yourself, them bugs will GTFO.

My room had a major infestation, I sprayed NEEM oil, they inhabit the other rooms where the jerk who won't clean holds domain over, but my room is clear.

I do get a few stragglers from them being RIGHT IN THE OTHER ROOM, but no infestation. For months after the spraying, they stay away.

Other bugs don't like Neem oil either. But to a lesser degree. Got to spray more.
>> Anonymous
>>296593
How does this react with pets, like say cats or dogs or something? Not OP, but I'm just wondering.
>> Anonymous
>>292345
KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIII XD
>> Anonymous
>>296593

How much would this oil cost?
>> Mr. Bubbles !!DLJ3bQ7yunJ
>>296581
>>296583

Wow, it looks like they're wearing ghille suits.
>> Anonymous
>>296593

Also, if I'm merely pushing them out with the oil, that doesn't really solve the problem on a larger scale...
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>>296897
Basically it is. Assassin bugs are good at disguises when they're little.
>> Anonymous
Hey Neem oil Anon, come back here and give us info on this oil for those of us too lazy to use Google at a time like this!