Comments on: Bed Bug Preparations

By: Bugged Out

Bugged Out — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:45:19 +0000

Here's my theory: About three weeks after a trip to Italy, I began getting classic bed bug bites. I didn't know it then, but a lot of research showed me that large welts in patterns of "breakfast, lunch and dinner" that itch like mad and take forever to go away, must be bed bugs. Our apartment in Italy had french doors that opened onto a patio that was home to hundreds of pigeons. When we opened it to get air, we might as well have been living in a pigeon coop. That would seem a likely way to get bird mites but the initial bites we got were very typical of bed bugs. After an aggressive treatment and not sleeping or relaxing for several months, the big bites stopped and we began getting the tiny pinprick kind. They come on suddenly and make you jump a little..actually, I have seen my dog do this, wake from a deep sleep with a little squeal of pain and a twitch and it looks like the same thing that happens to us. After a few more months of steaming and endless treatment, even showering with Cedar oil, the bites stopped and we got back to normal for three years. Now the pinpricks are back, worse than ever. They seem to bite mostly on the back, crook of the elbow, neck and feet and the same spots over and over again. I have to believe that bed bugs and bird mites are somehow related and that we are now being bitten by nymphs. We don't see anything, but there is no doubt we are being bitten, even though everyone thinks it's a "mental" issue.
I know there are lots of you out there, tired of being called paranoid and looking for something concrete.

By: Bugged out Marilyn

Bugged out Marilyn — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:05:30 +0000

I have had exterminators in and believe they've gotten the adults, but I think there may be some nests that they missed. (My infestation was very light AND I had slept in different beds pevious to being exterminated, which, I believe, established several very light locations for bed bug infestation.
I think the nymphs are biting now, but there is some disbelief on the part of the exterminators and they don't want to come back. I'm getting pin-prick bites, smaller and larger-than-pinprick-but-not-full-adult-bites – some of which are only visible when I work out. The reason I think they are nymphs is because they have the same constellation pattern.
Do you have pictures of nymph bites? Do you have a picuture of nymphs? Needless to say, I don't want these possible adults to become adult, but it's also possible I'm bugging out.

By: Polypropylene

Polypropylene — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:42:52 +0000

pest control is necessary specially if you have an expensive wooden home and if you are cultivating some plants ‘.’

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Bed Bug TV » Episodes » Bed Bug Preparations – Bedbug Blog — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:39:14 +0000

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By: Juanita Tabian

Juanita Tabian — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:35:26 +0000

pest control is necessary specially if you have an expensive wooden home and if you are cultivating some plants :;,

By: Tereasa

Tereasa — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:55:07 +0000

Jeff,
Just found your site it is educational. My issue with this episode about preparation is in telling folks not to empty closets/dressers is so wrong..I am a licensed PCO in Columbus Ohio and have been for over 10 years…In my experience and I have quite a lot of BB experience 9 out of 10 times there are bugs at the dressers and closets..We do a lot of apartment treatments. I just wanted to remark because it is rather hard to get tenants to comply as it is and believe comments such as yours can cause general population to further not comply…
Sincerely, Tereasa