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>> > 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.
1. Do you have carpet in affected room? CHECK where rug contacts wall.
They like dark places.
Search out source:
To monitor room, put bed legs on dishes with soapy water to try and catch
some. Put double-sided tape on the bed legs, we are trying to determine if
they
are outside of the bed in the immediate area. If so, vasiline the bed
legs
until you resolve the situation.
Treatment:
Bedbugs are hell, they can survive for years, sometimes without feeding.
With that in mind;
1. Do a knockdown first with a contact insecticide, I would try a
synthetic
pyrethoid.
2. Dust, spray (like you have) in all cracks, crevices and in the hollow
interior of the bed frame. Do the whole house.
3. Steam VA***N to get eggs if carpeted...
4. Go to local P/C store and find an IGR specifically for bedbugs, this
is
a supplement to control procedures above.
You will have to repeat this process a few times. Get rid of any
second-hand
furniture or take apart and do the same treatment as the bed. I would get
a
new boxspring. Check all seams on the mattress itself.
Good luck!
Tony
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