Comments on: Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite

By: OC bail bonds

OC bail bonds — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:31:13 +0000

These little buggers are terrible. I just read on a website that they have developed some genetic mutation that is making them impervious to chemical treatment. Pretty scary!

By: Paige

Paige — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:22:09 +0000

We had bedbugs last winter. Got them from our European neighbors across the hall who had gone overseas at some point to visit family. Apparently they had been living with them for months and had no clue what they were, and their infestation got so bad that the bugs started coming across the hall to feed on us. It took almost 4 months to get rid of them completely. On the bright side, neither my husband nor myself were allergic to their bites. We never got any bumps! Just the gross little stains on our sheets.

By: Annette

Annette — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:19:49 +0000

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!!!!!

By: Carshena

Carshena — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:29:29 +0000

I had bed bugs. My husband is a maintenance worker and he brought them home from his job, which he ended up quitting. We actually had a dog come check for bed bugs, and he detected where the bed bugs were in our house. Then we paid $1300.00 to have them removed. They had to put huge heaters in our house because they said the only way to really get rid of bed bugs was to burn them with heat. It was a nightmare! I’m so glad it’s over.

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:09:43 +0000

Yikes! Thanks for the tip!

xo,
s

By: Kit Lang

Kit Lang — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:29:35 +0000

Just read this post (cuz of your linky) and thought I’d let you know so you can pass on the love – here in Toronto we’re having a huge bed bug problem as well, and apparently, one of the things feeding it is…. going to the laundromat! Apparently, you should never use those folding tables. Eco friendly types (like myself) who wash in cold and dry on “low” are doing the environment, AND bed bugs a favour.

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:53:53 +0000

Wow. My roommate and I got bedbugs last September and it took 6+ months to get rid of them. 8 chemical treatments, 2 heat treatments, and 3 months of living out of plastic bags. I wouldn’t wish bedbugs on anyone, either.

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:17:55 +0000

This post is now a couple of years old, but I wanted to share my own bedbug horror story for anyone else who is reading this post now or experiencing a similar problem.

I am a renter, and due to what I believe was the use of sub-par contractors by my apartment administration, my bedbug problem lasted on and off for nearly 2.5 years. Not the most pleasant period of my life. But in the process I learned a lot.

The most important lesson is that bedbugs are incredibly resilient little stinkers. While pesticides will kill most of them, many have developed immunities to chemicals. And the ones that don’t die will reproduce and create more chemical-immune bugs, and they’ll create more, etc, etc, until the end of time. While some people have success with chemicals (particularly repeated fumigations), the only guaranteed way to kill them is with heat. Many companies now use a method by which they heat your space to 115 degrees for a relatively short amount of time, and ta da!, no more bugs. However, you have to be careful to do this process correctly because any sort of tight space, such as books crammed in bookcases or clothes crammed in a closet/drawer, will create an insulating protection zone where any bugs hiding out will be safe from the high temperatures. (This now-obvious caveat to the heat method was never mentioned by the first extermination company hired by my apartment complex, which is most likely why my situation wasn’t resolved more efficiently). But this problem is somewhat easily solved by putting clothes/bedding in the dryer for 15-20 minutes and removing/checking books for bugs.

It is also incredibly important to check/clean any item brought home from a flea market/vintage store/Craigslist. Prevention is so much easier than extermination.

Finally, as mentioned in the post, I found it important to remember that a bedbug infestation does not mean that someone is filthy or maintains an unclean home. Due to the factors cited in the post, they have become a widespread problem, particularly in urban areas and apartment buildings where tenants more in and out frequently. Bedbugs are gross enough as it is – there’s no need to attach a feeling of shame to an infestation that in no way reflects upon one’s lifestyle.

By: GB

GB — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:16:20 +0000

I live in Iceland and we have bedbugs here of course to. I worked in a hotel that had a whole room infested with bed bugs. The exterminator we called had years of experience with dealing with bg and he freezes them with a special equipment so they die. Says that that is almost the only way to kill the ones you can’t get rid of with washing clothes, f.e. in shoes. Unfortunately we had to throw away everything in the hotelroom and even take down a wall and the electricity had to go as well. It was a nightmare that I still deal with. I examine our beds reqularly and when travelling anywhere the suitcases stay outside the room until after inspection. A warning for travellers is that it does not matter how many stars the hotel has, the bb don´t care and they can very easily escape the eyes of the cleaners. The young ones are almost invisible and very hard to see.
I think I would need to check myself into a mental institution if I get these bugs home. They leave a mark on you.

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:48:57 +0000

Oh no, we’re so sorry to hear about your bed bug nightmare. We’re sending you good thoughts and we hope that you get those buggers this time and they’re finally gone for good.

xo,
s