What a bedbug crawling all over your skin, possibly right now, may look like:

Bedbugs are evil...you really don't feel them at all during the night while they feed on your ripe flesh. But the next day you will know it. Folk remedies do not work against them.

and this is why you never get used mattresses

The easiest ways to get them are by going to a hotel that's infested (many hotels) or by wearing clothing from a shop infected with them (not many at the moment, but it is increasing). Check the corners of your bed frame for bedbug poop.

Bring back DDT ... Screw soft egg shells

I am now very itchy. Thanks, assmitter.

I think you mean maggots, assmitter, seeking as how my mom is DEAD!

Mattress Encasement buy one

/you won't even know it's on your bed.

Ladies, my bed is bug free.

Aside from the scabies.

Bedbugs were developing resistance to DDT before its use was even discontinued. Its not a panacea.

I advocate the use of Zyclon B to exterminate this pestilence upon our land.

Or sulfuryl fluoride.

dan78: Bring back DDT ... Screw soft egg shells

Yes bring back DDT. Rachel Carson's studies which allegedly proved DDT caused thin shells were flawed. The birds in those studies were given a diet low in calcium which is needed to make the shells.

NEVER take in furniture off the street.

That bites.

I've been throwing them on people's clothes as a game I learned during my time of playing games. Should this behavior not continue?

It's not the bedbugs I'm worried about. It's the cat that sleeps at my feet and attacks anything that moves under the covers, like my toes. Nothing like a barrage of razor-sharp claws in your flesh at 3:30 am to start the day off right.

Toronto is having a MASSIVE bedbug infestation. So many of the city-owned buildings have them. Including libraries - the farkers hide in the books and then make their way into your house.

get some sunlight in the cave you call a bedroom

Gulper Eel: Disapproves of bedbugs most vehemently:

they took ma tooms charlie

What Plants Crave: It's not the bedbugs I'm worried about. It's the cat that sleeps at my feet and attacks anything that moves under the covers, like my toes. Nothing like a barrage of razor-sharp claws in your flesh at 3:30 am to start the day off right.

Yeah, but you can at least get rid of the cat. Not so much with the bedbugs.

Readysteadystop: I am now very itchy. Thanks, assmitter.

This

/Flying bed bugs?

Don't those Tempur Pedic beds solve the issue?

If people kept clean houses bedbugs would not be an issue.

I got eaten alive staying at the Marriot in San Francisco. I looked like a clumsy junkie.

ippolit: If people kept clean houses bedbugs would not be an issue.

The video in TFA said there is no correlation between bedbugs and cleanliness.

it has nothing to do with whether one or one's living space is clean or not.

I blame Obamacare.

HempHead: Don't those Tempur Pedic beds solve the issue?

Bedbugs can't survive in tempurpedics, foams are too dense and they can not burrow through them. They will move to your boxspring, coach, or in severe cases your BRAINZ

I've know a few people who've had bed bugs. One was a case where they were in the apartment before moving in (land lord didn't disclose it). Remember, these bastards can live 3-6 months without eating. They can hide anywhere. It doesn't matter how clear your place is as they only drink blood -- garbage means nothing.

Seattle has been having problems with them, too. I've had two friends that have had to abandon their apartments with barely the clothes on their back, and wait for some pesticide place to clear their apartment.

On the positive side, I guess there is some kind of oven you can buy that kills them and their eggs. It's supposedly hot enough to do that without burning your things (like books, clothes, etc). Costs a couple hundred bucks though, from what I understand.

bed bugs live in your walls.

halfof33: I think you mean maggots, assmitter, seeking as how my mom is DEAD!

Maggots make the best lube

I had them once. I hate those little bastards. I noticed one week that I was waking up with tiny spots of blood all over the sheets. As a male, this concerned me. Eventually, I spotted one of the little assholes walking across the sheets. Lifting the mattress, I found a whole infestation of them. It was farking disgusting.

I dismantled the bed, and set off multiple bug-bombs, with no effect. Eventually, I had to call the exterminator, wash every fabric-based item in my home with steam or hot water, and have a bedbug-proof liner put on my mattress and box spring to starve the little shiats that hadn't died due to the insecticide (which takes about a year). It makes me wonder how those poor medieval peasants dealt with them.

See, this sucks so much on so many levels. I am a firm believer in reuse and recycle so I shop a lot of thrift stores and yard sales, and Ebay as well as Freecyle and now I'm all paranoid about getting anything from these places! Now our sofa and mattress are new, but I would totally freak if I brought a shirt home and it infested my house with bed bugs. The video even mentioned libraries as a place they infest, so I have to be all paranoid about getting books from the local and PaperbackSwap now!!
/Fark, my paranoia maker
//Scared now

subby's mom is fungible.

This has been an epidemic for at least the past three years. I first heard about this some time in 2005.

The_Sponge: What Plants Crave: It's not the bedbugs I'm worried about. It's the cat that sleeps at my feet and attacks anything that moves under the covers, like my toes. Nothing like a barrage of razor-sharp claws in your flesh at 3:30 am to start the day off right.


I've got the same problem.

$70 and a night at the vets will fix that.

My question, after watching the video, is why use C02, if it is so expensive? Don't bug bombs work? They are like $4 each.

blueeyedjess: See, this sucks so much on so many levels. I am a firm believer in reuse and recycle so I shop a lot of thrift stores and yard sales, and Ebay as well as Freecyle and now I'm all paranoid about getting anything from these places! Now our sofa and mattress are new, but I would totally freak if I brought a shirt home and it infested my house with bed bugs. The video even mentioned libraries as a place they infest, so I have to be all paranoid about getting books from the local and PaperbackSwap now!!
/Fark, my paranoia maker
//Scared now

It appears cold kills these. Simply take the unopened paperbackswap books and place them in the freezer overnight. Ought to help. Or take a cardboard box, and turn it into a fumigator to use in the yard... and, as *ALWAYS* anything that can be washed, should be washed, when you bring it from a thrift store.

fark my neighbors who brought bed bugs into my apt building.. i'm in the middle of putting all of my clothes into ziplock bags and i had to buy expensive mattress covers and shiat.. fark bed bugs!!!

I clicked that link and now know that the world is infested, crying is wonderfully healthy and HIV is everywhere.

Thanks subby...thanks a lot

/ordering a plastic bubble right now!

loonatic112358: and this is why you never get used mattresses

And why you bring your own damn mattress cover or light sleeping bag if you're gonna hostel-it-up.

I dragged my own mattress around to multiple rental houses during college. Pain in the ass at move in and out, but hell, I got a good deal on a minivan senior year of high school anyway. It didn't cost me anything but hassle and a bit of gas.

Plus, I now feel justified in my (logical) paranoia. And you just can't put a price on that.