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Man we got them like September last year. We had four pest control treatments that was finally over in December. Now, this week, we found that we have them again. I'm losing my fucking mind.
Have you ever had to deal with them?

No I'm not a scrub.
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My grandma had them.
We burned:
Every mattress
Every blanket
Every pillow
The couch

Then had the house both fumigated and heat treated.
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I have, they are the fucking worst.

They are legit the only bug I personally think that need to be genocided. They contribute absolutely nothing
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coolpal23 posted...

I have, they are the fucking worst.

They are legit the only bug I personally think that need to be genocided. They contribute absolutely nothing

Ticks and wasps
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Co exist.
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Ben_Ruggiero posted...

coolpal23 posted...

I have, they are the fucking worst.

They are legit the only bug I personally think that need to be genocided. They contribute absolutely nothing

Ticks and wasps

I get where you're coming from

But they're not as much of a pain in the ass as bed bugs
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Bed bugs are fake news
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If your exterminator isn't going to fumigate your house, find a new exterminator. Just spraying pesticide isn't good enough, they'll keep coming back when it wears off.
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Odds are you never actually got rid of them.
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No I don't hang around with hobos
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Uncle Choad posted...

No I'm not a scrub.

Not to say dirty people can't get bed bugs, but that's a misconception. You could work in a hospital, sit in the same chair as someone who has them on their clothes, and bring the infestation back home.
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synth_real posted...

If your exterminator isn't going to fumigate your house, find a new exterminator. Just spraying pesticide isn't good enough, they'll keep coming back when it wears off.

Also this. Heat treatment is the only way to be fully sure you kill them. We had such a huge fight over this with a previous landlord that we just said fuck it and bought a house. Granted we had been saving for a house and were intending to buy at the end of our lease, but them refusing to properly deal with it was the last straw.
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IfGodCouldDie posted...

synth_real posted...

If your exterminator isn't going to fumigate your house, find a new exterminator. Just spraying pesticide isn't good enough, they'll keep coming back when it wears off.

Also this. Heat treatment is the only way to be fully sure you kill them. We had such a huge fight over this with a previous landlord that we just said fuck it and bought a house. Granted we had been saving for a house and were intending to buy at the end of our lease, but them refusing to properly deal with it was the last straw.

Well, the apartments have a contracted pest control company. So, they were the ones who did the four treatments.Like someone said in the topic earlier, they may not have killed them all. But now they want to do three more treatments (that'll be a total 7 treatments once they're finished), and I have to pay for every single fucking one with no god damn guarantee or warranty that they will be gone. We had to buy mattress covers for two beds and that was like $300. We have to board our cat every fucking time for $35 a pop. And each treatment from them cost about $115.
I'm thinking to myself, what if we get these three more treatments and they come back again? I can't afford to do this shit all year. Plus we have to move all the furniture and shit.
I don't know what I'm going to do if they come back after these treatments, which would be a total of 7.

IfGodCouldDie posted...

We had such a huge fight over this with a previous landlord that we just said f*** it and bought a house.

I've been think about going this way too.

Getting rid of roaches or ants is a fight. Getting rid of bed bugs is a war.

No, and if I ever did I'd just burn my house down.
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coolpal23 posted...

I have, they are the fucking worst.

They are legit the only bug I personally think that need to be genocided. They contribute absolutely nothing

Think we could include Mosquitos. Best case scenario are obnoxiously itchy bites. Worst case is all the diseases and stuff they carry. Think I remember reading that the mosquito is actually the deadliest animal in the world. And for what? What do they contribute?
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I've found them in a couple of my hotel rooms. These aren't just crappy hotels either.

Protip: always pull the sheets off the bed and inspect the mattress when you first arrive in your room. Look for bedbugs or small blood spots from them. Tell the front desk if you find evidence. Not only will they move you to another room but generally give you a discount on your stay.

One place gave us full access to the little snack/wine bar area beside the front desk. I left the next morning with 5 bottles of wine in my duffle bag.
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I got them last November from a hotel, I got bit like 200 times that night. They only bite my abs. It started out at home 2 weeks later with one bite every few days. Then in December I was getting 50 bites once a week.

Exterminator came over and couldn't find any traces of them. He sprayed some stuff that made the house smell awful for a week. It didn't kill a single bug and I immediately got bit again.

He came back and sprayed with something else, put traps on my bedposts, and double sided tape everywhere to see if we could get evidence.
January no bites
February no bites
March I've gotten 3 bites in the last 10 days

Still nothing in the traps and we can't find any evidence of them. I'm losing my mind.
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foreverzero212 posted...

I got them last November from a hotel, I got bit like 200 times that night. They only bite my abs. It started out at home 2 weeks later with one bite every few days. Then in December I was getting 50 bites once a week.

Exterminator came over and couldn't find any traces of them. He sprayed some stuff that made the house smell awful for a week. It didn't kill a single bug and I immediately got bit again.

He came back and sprayed with something else, put traps on my bedposts, and double sided tape everywhere to see if we could get evidence.
January no bites
February no bites
March I've gotten 3 bites in the last 10 days

Still nothing in the traps and we can't find any evidence of them. I'm losing my mind.

Me too man, I'm going to have a heart attack.

I've had them in 2 states

I got 200+ bites once in Indonesia. Later that same year I got bitten on the dick by one. It bit me on the shaft just below the head, made it swell up 3x in size.
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Zikten posted...

I've had them in 2 states

O_O
What did you do to get rid of them?

I had them last summer. Bombed the house with fogger spray. Put down traps and powder all over the house and kept cans of spray on hand.

Combine that with a bug check every night and weekly sheet washing and heat treating and I've been bug free for 3 months.

It takes forever to get rid of them and a lot of work. I suggest pulling out all dressers and static objects in your rooms that you never move and look for nests. Their eggs look like grains of rice and they don't always hang out right on the bed. Also we found them hiding in the curtains for the window that touched the floors, we tossed the curtains and got some shorter ones and treated them with sprays and put powder down under them. The most important part is saying proactive and search for them.
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I haven't, but this girl I was seeing did. I found them while we were going at it. Truly terrifying stuff.
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Cocytus posted...

Man we got them like September last year. We had four pest control treatments that was finally over in December. Now, this week, we found that we have them again. I'm losing my fucking mind.
Have you ever had to deal with them?

You got ripped off then, anything short of heat treating your whole house doesn't work.

My old boss had a few rental properties and has a tenant who got bed bugs. As an experiment he put one in a plastic ziplock bag to see how long it would live for. 6 months. That thing stayed alive in that bag with little air and no food for 6 fucking months. Fuck bed bugs.
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I think I might just take a bare minimum of my shit and move after this round is done. My lease is up in April.

RE_expert44 posted...

I had them last summer. Bombed the house with fogger spray.

I've heard that floggers and bed bug bombs are extremely bad things to do, due to sometimes the bugs going even deeper into the house to avoid the poison, then coming back
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Nope, they don't exist in my home state it seems. I luckily never ran into them in NY
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I work at a hotel so I have had to deal with them, but I never have had them in my actual home.
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mew4ever posted...

coolpal23 posted...

I have, they are the fucking worst.

They are legit the only bug I personally think that need to be genocided. They contribute absolutely nothing

Think we could include Mosquitos. Best case scenario are obnoxiously itchy bites. Worst case is all the diseases and stuff they carry. Think I remember reading that the mosquito is actually the deadliest animal in the world. And for what? What do they contribute?

I get what you're saying, I do. I think both wasps and mosquitoes, and bedbugs are worth a genocide, tbh. And I'd never wish that sort of thing on anything whatsoever
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I've read that eliminating mosquitoes could have disastrous effects on the ecosystem because of their importance in the food chain.

Bed bugs, however, I bet could be eliminated without any disastrous side effects. It's like they aren't even a part of the food chain. Nothing relies on them as a major food source, I'd bet.
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It is a pain to get rid of them for good. They kept returning for a couple years before we finally killed all of them in our house.
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yeah nothing eats bed bugs

if they had a natural predator we'd have people infesting their houses with those then killing them after. safer than the fire people sometimes try
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I'd be afraid to buy a house until I was absolutely 100% certain every bedbug was dead

I wouldn't want to bring them to a property I owned
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thronedfire2 posted...

yeah nothing eats bed bugs

if they had a natural predator we'd have people infesting their houses with those then killing them after. safer than the fire people sometimes try

Not even house centipedes? I stopped killing them when I realized they were eating all the other bugs.

Now I just have demonic hell snakes crawling around the basement. But no spiders!
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http://www.aprehend.com/

VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE LOOK if you're in the US

this will resolve your bedbug problem and you don't have to throw anything away or do anything weird to your house. just check if you're one of the green states and then contact a few companies and find out who has this.

it's a new product, but i've been following its development for over a year and it's extremely potent, having a 100% mortality rate on bedbugs in the first week and a long-lasting residual effect just in case any of em are hiding out.

i had to deal with bedbugs twice in my life and they're fucking horrible and i hate them and this product was made by angels to help us sleep at night. i'm really good at killin em too if you want tips lol
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littlebro07 posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

yeah nothing eats bed bugs

if they had a natural predator we'd have people infesting their houses with those then killing them after. safer than the fire people sometimes try

Not even house centipedes? I stopped killing them when I realized they were eating all the other bugs.

Now I just have demonic hell snakes crawling around the basement. But no spiders!

We have giant scolopendra (huge biting centipedes). I'd rather have my house infested with bedbugs than let those demonic mother fuckers roam around my house.
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I wonder if they can do to bed bugs what they are doing to mosquitoes. Where's they infect some with a bacteria that makes future generations sterile and they breed with the current bugs to infect them?
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thronedfire2 posted...

yeah nothing eats bed bugs

Spiders do

Cockroaches and ants are also predators
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coolpal23 posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

yeah nothing eats bed bugs

Spiders do

Cockroaches and ants are also predators

These all do just fine without bed bugs though. I don't know of anything that relies on bed bugs specifically for survival.
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CarlGrimes posted...

I work at a hotel so I have had to deal with them, but I never have had them in my actual home.

That's good you didn't bring any home while working.
How do you all take care of them at the hotel?

creativerealms posted...

It is a pain to get rid of them for good. They kept returning for a couple years before we finally killed all of them in our house.

Jesus Christ! Two years AND a single dwelling?!

Caution999 posted...

Uncle Choad posted...

No I'm not a scrub.

Not to say dirty people can't get bed bugs, but that's a misconception. You could work in a hospital, sit in the same chair as someone who has them on their clothes, and bring the infestation back home.

That can only happen if you leave the house, though.
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Itennu posted...

http://www.aprehend.com/

VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE LOOK if you're in the US

this will resolve your bedbug problem and you don't have to throw anything away or do anything weird to your house. just check if you're one of the green states and then contact a few companies and find out who has this.

it's a new product, but i've been following its development for over a year and it's extremely potent, having a 100% mortality rate on bedbugs in the first week and a long-lasting residual effect just in case any of em are hiding out.

i had to deal with bedbugs twice in my life and they're fucking horrible and i hate them and this product was made by angels to help us sleep at night. i'm really good at killin em too if you want tips lol

yep, someone on here recommended them to me and i just now found out it was approved in nc.
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mew4ever posted...

coolpal23 posted...

I have, they are the fucking worst.

They are legit the only bug I personally think that need to be genocided. They contribute absolutely nothing

Think we could include Mosquitos. Best case scenario are obnoxiously itchy bites. Worst case is all the diseases and stuff they carry. Think I remember reading that the mosquito is actually the deadliest animal in the world. And for what? What do they contribute?

They're a food source for bats.
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@coolpal23 posted...

I have, they are the fucking worst.

They are legit the only bug I personally think that need to be genocided. They contribute absolutely nothing

whoa, why so serious?

there must be a way we could coexist together.

no need for violence and hatred

nobody died because of bedbug and to wish such precious life to go away
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MoistenedYouth posted...

nobody died because of bedbug and to wish such precious life to go away

I know a few people that had to deal with them so much to the point that they're paranoid before going to sleep. And we should NEVER be paranoid going to sleep
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EverDownward posted...

Itennu posted...

http://www.aprehend.com/

VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE LOOK if you're in the US

this will resolve your bedbug problem and you don't have to throw anything away or do anything weird to your house. just check if you're one of the green states and then contact a few companies and find out who has this.

it's a new product, but i've been following its development for over a year and it's extremely potent, having a 100% mortality rate on bedbugs in the first week and a long-lasting residual effect just in case any of em are hiding out.

i had to deal with bedbugs twice in my life and they're fucking horrible and i hate them and this product was made by angels to help us sleep at night. i'm really good at killin em too if you want tips lol

yep, someone on here recommended them to me and i just now found out it was approved in nc.

I'll check it out. Thanks