buckler: skabbo: buckler: Didn't work for me; I used to regularly go to "sleep" after drinking, and the little bastards still got a foothold in my bed. Pain in the ass to get rid of, too.

HUGE pain in the ass. We're still in the process. They're a plague in Brooklyn, to the point where every little laundromat in our neighborhood has some kind of "Yes, we sell bedbug supplies!" sign. And. Nothing. Works.

I tried the bug-bombs, with no effect. I then went back to the traditional "wash every damned bit of fabric in your home in the hottest water and hottest dryer available, then seal the clean fabrics in plastic" mode. Then I had to call the exterminator to use whatever crap they use before sealing the mattress and box spring in an impenetrable envelope so the little assholes could spend a year starving to death (that's how long it takes). I didn't have to go the "we'll heat your home up to 120 degrees for awhile, so you might want to be somewhere else," route. I hate those little assholes.

Fortunately, they haven't been back.

And you don't bring dirty bed bug hookers back to your house anymore.

/I keed!

pedobearapproved: And you don't bring dirty bed bug hookers back to your house anymore.

/I keed!

Bed bug hookers are revolting. I just couldn't bring myself to plunge my unit directly through the flesh of her abdomen and into her uterus.

As a note of caution, he added:'I'm not going to suggest someone should consume alcohol to control bed bugs.'

He also added that while the bed bugs eat and reproduce less, they still do lay eggs - and 95 per cent of them do hatch.

Entomologist Dini Miller told the Huffington Post: 'I don't know what sort of implications it has ultimately, because unfortunately they still produce enough eggs to cause an infestation.

Yeah, they still lay and hatch eggs, but Dr. Braino here only experimented with BACs up to 0.1. That's hardly even tipsy. Presumably if you got drunker than that, the bedbugs would stop laying eggs entirely. Hurray for alcohol!

We were so poor, our bedbugs had fetal alcohol syndrome.

SteveFU: Then Drew is safe for life.....

/same with myself

Me too. And just to be extra safe I'm going to drink ten coronas instead of my usual six.

You mean "One MORE advantage," right, Subby?

Is it blood with alcohol bedbugs don't like, or alcohol in general? If they don't like alcohol, period, maybe you could get rid of them by filling one of these



with medicinal alcohol and spraying it on and around the bed once or twice a day for a while?

/wonder what happens if you inhale the fumes
//not bothered by bedbugs
///crosses fingers

Uncle Tractor: Is it blood with alcohol bedbugs don't like, or alcohol in general? If they don't like alcohol, period, maybe you could get rid of them by filling one of these

[upload.wikimedia.org image 294x393]

with medicinal alcohol and spraying it on and around the bed once or twice a day for a while?

/wonder what happens if you inhale the fumes
//not bothered by bedbugs
///crosses fingers

One of the products we've tried is essentially that, plus some Eucalyptus oil which they apparently dislike. The stuff smells so strongly of the oil that it's hard for me to tolerate, but it hasn't had much discernible effect on bedbugs.

Oddly, my girlfriend, who sleeps right next to me, stopped getting bit months ago - meanwhile I'm still being eaten alive (and I've caught a few - surprisingly few considering the number of bites, but a few - so I know it's not a different culprit.)
It's really bizarre - I wake up with a half-dozen new bites every day. She has gotten none since April or so.

By this point I see why they were used as a torture method in the gulag system. I feel like a tweaker every time I get into bed - all of a sudden I feel like they're crawling all over me.
They've got this awful evolutionary adaptation where their bite has a local analgesic effect, meaning you don't feel it until it wears off a couple minutes later, and the culprit has already retreated. I hate them like few other things on earth.

/if the story above about them hiding inside electronics is true, I'm extra farked. $20k worth of recording equipment in the room between the two hotspots - the bed and the couch. If I have to throw it out because of bedbugs.. ..there's no end to that sentence, cause there's *nothing I can do*.

buckler: pedobearapproved: And you don't bring dirty bed bug hookers back to your house anymore.

/I keed!

Bed bug hookers are revolting. I just couldn't bring myself to plunge my unit directly through the flesh of her abdomen and into her uterus.

Sir -

I will overcome my reluctance to give further thought to your penis (being possessed of absolutely no desire to cast my mind to it but sadly being unable to avoid doing so thanks to your having brought it into the discussion) long enough to offer a bit of advice, which you may confirm if you should ever actually find yourself having vaginal intercourse with a live human female.

Should the stars come into such an unlikely state of alignment, I trust that, assuming your coupling does not involve dismemberment of either of you, at no time will your "unit" enter the unfortunate victim's uterus.

skabbo: Uncle Tractor: Is it blood with alcohol bedbugs don't like, or alcohol in general? If they don't like alcohol, period, maybe you could get rid of them by filling one of these

[upload.wikimedia.org image 294x393]

with medicinal alcohol and spraying it on and around the bed once or twice a day for a while?

/wonder what happens if you inhale the fumes
//not bothered by bedbugs
///crosses fingers

One of the products we've tried is essentially that, plus some Eucalyptus oil which they apparently dislike. The stuff smells so strongly of the oil that it's hard for me to tolerate, but it hasn't had much discernible effect on bedbugs.

Oddly, my girlfriend, who sleeps right next to me, stopped getting bit months ago - meanwhile I'm still being eaten alive (and I've caught a few - surprisingly few considering the number of bites, but a few - so I know it's not a different culprit.)
It's really bizarre - I wake up with a half-dozen new bites every day. She has gotten none since April or so.

By this point I see why they were used as a torture method in the gulag system. I feel like a tweaker every time I get into bed - all of a sudden I feel like they're crawling all over me.
They've got this awful evolutionary adaptation where their bite has a local analgesic effect, meaning you don't feel it until it wears off a couple minutes later, and the culprit has already retreated. I hate them like few other things on earth.

/if the story above about them hiding inside electronics is true, I'm extra farked. $20k worth of recording equipment in the room between the two hotspots - the bed and the couch. If I have to throw it out because of bedbugs.. ..there's no end to that sentence, cause there's *nothing I can do*.

There is a solution to your problems, though it will probably make a right mess of your place. But it works. Google for a place that sells shell flour for a good price. It's also known as diatomaceous earth. Farmers and gardeners use it to change the Ph of the soil when they're planting, so it isn't a controlled substance. But, for the bedbug, this is like powdered razor blades. Scatter a little of this around your baseboards, the legs of your beds, chairs, and on your mattress (especially in the little seams and pockets) before you put the pillowtop and sheets back on. It'll cut the hell out of the bedbugs, dry them out, and kill them relatively quickly. The best part? It keeps on killing, with no harm to you. when they're gone, just vacuum it up, wipe it down, and you're done.

My recommendation? Take a two-week vacation, scatter shell flour everywhere, and let them kill themselves running around looking for their food source.

Alternatively, for area-denial tactics, use petroleum jelly around the legs of furniture, lamp wires, etc. They'll get stuck in it and die.

Either way, no need for you to throw out $20,000 of recording equipment.

Menstrual Cyclist: skabbo: Uncle Tractor: Is it blood with alcohol bedbugs don't like, or alcohol in general? If they don't like alcohol, period, maybe you could get rid of them by filling one of these

[upload.wikimedia.org image 294x393]

with medicinal alcohol and spraying it on and around the bed once or twice a day for a while?

/wonder what happens if you inhale the fumes
//not bothered by bedbugs
///crosses fingers

One of the products we've tried is essentially that, plus some Eucalyptus oil which they apparently dislike. The stuff smells so strongly of the oil that it's hard for me to tolerate, but it hasn't had much discernible effect on bedbugs.

Oddly, my girlfriend, who sleeps right next to me, stopped getting bit months ago - meanwhile I'm still being eaten alive (and I've caught a few - surprisingly few considering the number of bites, but a few - so I know it's not a different culprit.)
It's really bizarre - I wake up with a half-dozen new bites every day. She has gotten none since April or so.

By this point I see why they were used as a torture method in the gulag system. I feel like a tweaker every time I get into bed - all of a sudden I feel like they're crawling all over me.
They've got this awful evolutionary adaptation where their bite has a local analgesic effect, meaning you don't feel it until it wears off a couple minutes later, and the culprit has already retreated. I hate them like few other things on earth.

/if the story above about them hiding inside electronics is true, I'm extra farked. $20k worth of recording equipment in the room between the two hotspots - the bed and the couch. If I have to throw it out because of bedbugs.. ..there's no end to that sentence, cause there's *nothing I can do*.

There is a solution to your problems, though it will probably make a right mess of your place. But it works. Google for a place that sells shell flour for a good price. It's also known as diatomaceous earth. Farmers and gardeners use it to change the ...

I'd heard some people swear by diatomaceous earth, but always in higher quantities than you describe (i.e covering the whole floor up to 2" deep, which I couldn't see doing). Worth trying in that case, since chemical warfare hasn't worked; thanks for the advice.