Comments on: Ask the Expert: “I thought it was crabs – it’s bedbugs! Now what?”

By: David Wilson

David Wilson — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:09:24 +0000

As a college student I have encountered these things. And rid my apartment of them. If you want to get rid of them, you’ve got to pursue the extermination doggedly. First, research shows that they can live for over a year without feeding on blood. They can also withstand great temperature ranges (i.e. when washing sheets), and they are show resistance to most insecticides. So, what works?
Well, if you have handbags, dufflebags, luggage, or any other types of bags KEEP THEM OFF THE FLOOR!!! Cause they hate light, and that’s where they hide in the day. If you have carpets, they are probably hiding where the carpet meets the wall, but they can climb walls and live where the wall meets the ceiling. The only insecticide I’ve found to kill them is 7-dust (sold at walmart and lowes for yard pests.) Sprinkle it LIBRALLY all over your carpet and at the edges of your room, and LEAVE IT – for a very long time to be sure they are not hiding and waiting for you to vacuum before they come back out from under the carpet.
If you wash your sheets, inspect them before and after thoroughly. Inspect your bed thoroughly, and when your sure there are no more cover it completely with a plastic zip cover.Get rid of any rugs or anything that sits on the floor under which they can hide. Wash your sheets OFTEN – more than once a week. 7-Dust will kill them if you allow it to by leaving it and waiting them out. Oh! and bedbug babies are sometimes too small to see. so if you’re looking for them, ruffle a sheet or surface and watch for movement. If you start having “ant bites” all over you when you wake up, that’s really a bed bug bite

By: tigergwm

tigergwm — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:55:17 +0000

If you threat to move out of bedbug apartment, it will follow to your new place and it won’t solve the problem. So to prevent it, after wash and dry your clothes, towels, curtains and bedsheets & blankets, put it in plastic bags and seal it. Deal with clothes furnitures, rugs, & mattresses with proper treatment. On day of moving, put all oontaminating clothes in separated plastic bag to be wash later. That is how I deal with from one apartment with full of cockroach to new apartment free of cockroach. Problem is solved. Plastic bags and lines are my best friend to rid the bugs during the moving.

By: kerry

kerry — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:04:37 +0000

I encountered these little buggers years ago,and they are very difficult to get rid of.They had deserted the bed and were hiding in the walls or under the carpet.
They bite you when your right under,so I never seen them.The telltale itchy pinpoint entry wound,was all that was left.I finally moved out.