Bedbugs
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Disgustipated
Deity
obviously you haven't seen Manos: The Hands of Fate. Torgo rules!
Slaughter
Paladin
What's a bedbug? Never heard of them. Heard of Mites, but not bedbugs. How do I can know if I'm getting bedbugs around?
Skwink
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On the subject of DDT inadvertently breeding stronger and more resilient species of pests, I present
I HATE SPIDERS. He looks like the spiders we get at my house: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider
Onionsoilder
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My apartment had an infestation of begbugs about 9 months ago. At first I had no clue what they were; I never saw anything, but I kept getting these itchy bites. One of my friends thought I might have fleas, so I got one of those foggers. Didn't work. Each day I would have more bites that itched really bad, much worse than mosquito bites. Sometimes they were so bad they would actually burn. After about two weeks, when I woke up one morning and went to make my bed, I saw something on the sheets. I grabbed a glass jar and put it inside, then started searching the internet. Found out they were bedbugs.
Talked to my landlord that same morning, who had no idea were they came from. All of my bedding and furniture was brand-new, and the apartment didn't have them when I moved it. We ended up splitting the bill to have the exterminators come and spray twice a week. I had to wash everything I owned each time they did that, and I had to stay im my apartment and keep getting the bites so the bedbugs would actually come out and get exposed to the poison. Finally after about a month the bites stopped.
I later found out the most likely origin of the bugs; a budget $2 movie theater that I went to occasionally. It was dark, full of people and was frequently visited by poorer people who might carry the bugs to the theater, since the bugs can live in clothes just as easily as the be or walls.
Talked to my landlord that same morning, who had no idea were they came from. All of my bedding and furniture was brand-new, and the apartment didn't have them when I moved it. We ended up splitting the bill to have the exterminators come and spray twice a week. I had to wash everything I owned each time they did that, and I had to stay im my apartment and keep getting the bites so the bedbugs would actually come out and get exposed to the poison. Finally after about a month the bites stopped.
I later found out the most likely origin of the bugs; a budget $2 movie theater that I went to occasionally. It was dark, full of people and was frequently visited by poorer people who might carry the bugs to the theater, since the bugs can live in clothes just as easily as the be or walls.
Lord of Elves
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I would lose it if I saw one of those. Would probably strip my place of residence to the ground to kill every single one.
Captain2
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I got in one of the wierdest talks with my father recently when he said if I get a girl interested in me I can't bring her home or go to her place because she might have bedbugs.
Right, thats what people worry about these days when they have sex right?
Right, thats what people worry about these days when they have sex right?
They're a problem in San Francisco too. Unbeknownst to my wife and I the first apartment building we moved into together 4 years ago had them. (The building is listed on an online list we found shortly after we found the bugs. Wish we had known about that.) After about a year and a half or so they made their way into our apartment. We noticed them coming out of the walls after one crawled across a book my wife was reading in bed. They leave little black trails of poo where they live. They come out of the bed or your cabinets or your clothes before dawn and suck your blood. They can travel in your clothes or your hair to your work where you can spread them to others. They are disgusting, vile creatures. They are very difficult to eradicate. If you own an apartment building you must spray every apartment to even be remotely sure they are gone and even then they could still stick around. I will never own a condo because of this.
I had no idea how traumatic these little things are. They get into everything. We had to get rid of basically all our furniture, move, wash everything that could be washed and put it in sealed bags to take to the new place, put the furniture we could not do without in storage for a year, put the books we could not do without in the oven (yes the oven, they make homes in books) and basically be forever traumatized about any little itch we ever got for the rest of our lives. We still occasionally check our bed and mattress for signs of them. We will never, ever purchase box springs again and try to buy metal furniture. We use flats for support of the mattress on our metal framed bed. Our bedroom is sparse. We never buy second hand furniture. We think twice about consignment shops for clothes. When my wife comes home from a day of work (she is a social worker) where she entered an infested building, she puts hr clothes in a sealed plastic bag, washes them, and immediately showers. We check the mattresses at hotels. Always.
Once you have them once you never truly feel confident you will be rid of them ever.
They are a horrible horrible thing and I would never wish them upon anyone.
I had no idea how traumatic these little things are. They get into everything. We had to get rid of basically all our furniture, move, wash everything that could be washed and put it in sealed bags to take to the new place, put the furniture we could not do without in storage for a year, put the books we could not do without in the oven (yes the oven, they make homes in books) and basically be forever traumatized about any little itch we ever got for the rest of our lives. We still occasionally check our bed and mattress for signs of them. We will never, ever purchase box springs again and try to buy metal furniture. We use flats for support of the mattress on our metal framed bed. Our bedroom is sparse. We never buy second hand furniture. We think twice about consignment shops for clothes. When my wife comes home from a day of work (she is a social worker) where she entered an infested building, she puts hr clothes in a sealed plastic bag, washes them, and immediately showers. We check the mattresses at hotels. Always.
Once you have them once you never truly feel confident you will be rid of them ever.
They are a horrible horrible thing and I would never wish them upon anyone.
I guess you'll just have to have sex in public then. You're still a minor, right? SHould be able to avoid charges by simply blaming your father.
Disgustipated
Deity
Mise
isle of lucy
Please stop posting pictures of spiders 
Disgustipated
Deity
I wasn't afraid of spiders before, but now I think I am. Thanks cutlass. bedbugs freak me out enough. I should stop following this thread.
Terxpahseyton
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@illram
Wow, I totally understand that. Terrible.
@Cutlass
Out of principle I don't report, but your last post got pretty close.
Wow, I totally understand that. Terrible.
@Cutlass
Out of principle I don't report, but your last post got pretty close.
Mad Man
Your lord and master
All right coming from someone who's home is completely infested with these little bastards, I can honestly tell you that they get in to every thing, and I do mean EVERY THING not just beds like the name implies.
Mise
isle of lucy
Not cool...
Cheetah
Deity
Unfortunately, they are.Is there any point to this thread?
I mean are the bed bugs really on rise?
They're being reported more and more frequently in Norway too. I don't want any bedbugs!
Are you suuuure there are none in Germany?
Just did a quick google news search, and my German isn't the best, but still:
http://alles-lausitz.de/21262_die-bettwanze-ist-wieder-auf-dem-vormarsch.html
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/2010/09/07/bettwanzen-nachtzug/autozug-muenchen-rom.html
Notice the dates of the news stories...
Just remembered, I need to translate better languages into English to put it on CFC, so here's a rough translation:
Be afraid! Be very afraid!
La chinche o chinche de las camas in Spanish (I guess) - couldn't find a Portuguese wiki-article.
Veggedyr in Norwegian
Bettwanze in German
The Norwegian name implies they live in walls. But we couldn't very well call them Everywherebugs now, could we?
