Periproct wrote:
> "02befree" <nottoman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:42b0a392-3e5c-4fdb-9b5c-9eb7c157283e@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Here's the story. We live in a nice area in our own home. 19 yr old
> > son complained one night he felt like something crawling on him, next
> > day found typical bedbug gatherings underneath the mattress edging
> snipped
>
> > Then put out two little girls in the room
> > on two twin beds and they complained of bites two months later
>
> Hi
>
> Can I ask how often you get bitten?
>
> One of my colleagues thought he saw a bed bug at work and now I'm
paranoid.
> Visual inspection at home and I can't find any but one night I got about
> seven bites on my upper arm plus a couple elsewhere. I put the bites
down to
> what we call gnats over this side of the pond.
> The bites were over a week ago and none since. I have read that BBs can
live
> for a long time on one meal so I'm wondering if they've had their fill
and
> won't be back for a period of time.
>
> Regards
The bb can live up to 18 months, unfed. Life span is shorter if
they're eating, of course.
Apparently their strategy of waiting 50 years for a new, unprepared
generation, seems to be paying off in spades for these parasites. By
simply filling one room with pesticide, we succeed in herding them
into another; and another, and another.
So far, by staying up all night and spotting them during an approach,
my own standoff with these close relatives of the Assassin Bug nets an
average of a dozen nightly. I still get bit, of course, but generally
catch the biters as well by not sleeping more than half an hour at a
time...until well past dawn...
Catching them with two folded index cards, though slightly difficult
due to their evasiveness and their tendancy to stick *hard* to
anything, has proven most effective in depleting their vast numbers.
Still, the fact remains: a main hive can exist anywhere; inside walls,
behind books (where they leave droppings) and, of course, along that
funny little rim that most mattresses seem stuck with.
I'm thinking, the only thing to do is move to an uninfected place,
making sure to decontaminate all possessions along the way. Otherwise,
some might wait up to 18 months before swarming in again.
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