What's the best course of action if I think there's

>>1086297
Wait and see.

>>1086302
How long do you think I would have to wait for the signs? One week? Two?

I had to tell all my friends not to come over for a while; I just want to know when it's safe again for people to come over.

>>1086312
As long as you took precautions, surveyed the area you disrobed in, and didnt see any of the fuckers you should be fine.

If you were going to get a bedbug infestation from a coworker at work it would have happened by now.

>>1086333
>didnt see any of the fuckers you should be fine

as if these creatures werent the best hide-and-seek players on the planet. the babies are incredibly tiny. the eggs are invisible unless you use a magnifying glass.

>We pulled apart the seams of that chair and all the others

clever! you might have infected the entire office and all the people involved with eggs or hatch-lings. eggs take a month to hatch, so you got lots of time to go out of your mind worrying about it.

Forget about any sprays you buy in stores. DO NOT USE THEM.
Store bought sprays are regulated and don't have the same strong chemicals that professionals use.
It will only work on bedbugs with direct prolonged use. Once you start spraying they just move into deeper hiding spots and get more difficult to remove.
The only thing the sprays are good for is to spray the inside of bags when you're bagging up clothing, blankets, sheets ect. which if you're worried about it, that's what I'd be doing right now if I were you. Wash everything you own, then start vacuuming, everything.
I've been through this and I won, but it took months.
Keep an eye out for any markings on your skin and blood spots on sheets, pillows and blankets.
They have bedbug traps at home dept. that you can put out at home to keep an eye out.
Diamasious earth is your friend.
Some study suggested that bed bugs don't like bright colors so you might change what you wear to work.
They also supposedly don't like the smell of lavender, women traveling back in the day used to put satchels in their luggage to keep from bringing them home.
i know all this sounds ridiculous but if you ever have a real bedbug problem you'll be willing to try any stupid suggestion.
You and your coworkers might consider confronting your boss if anyone sees more bugs. If you see one, there's usually dozens more.
Then refusing to go to work, contacting the city or state or even a lawyer if your employer refuses to do anything become an option.

Cont...
Watch out for what you read on the internet. There's a lot of bloggers nust writing articles who are just posting shit up looking for web traffic for ad profits. Some of the stuff on these pages are complete BS that is exactly what you shouldn't be doing.
Also a lot of bedbug info is data collected 100 years ago by the US military after WWI. Todays bedbugs are apparently another strain that somehow survived all the DDT used around the world for years. They luckily don't live as long and their eggs can't last the year + figure you will hear quoted all the time.

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>>1086297
>>1086302

Pest control here. This is what you'll have to do.

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>>1086297
>>1086302
>>1086548
Wrong thread

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You should be fine aslong as you washed them hot and thoroughly. Ive had them before, nast creatures but washing clothes in hot water with detergent etc, putting clothes in plastic bag tied shut, or below freezing temps kill them. Also a good precaution would be to get vinyl zipper mattress covers work great

When I had a bed bug problem. I went to lowes, bought their bed bug spray(about 3 containers). I vacuumed and sprayed everyday. dried the shit out of my clothes. And threw away the worse infested things such as the mattress and night stand. I put my dressers outside, it was winter(-15 degrees Fahrenheit) they say cold weather kills them. It's been two years and haven't seen another one.

best way to kill them is heat. 48 hours of hot as fuck in the house. 140 degrees if you can. Will likely cost 50+ dollars in fuel/electric but it will kill them. It only takes 4 hours of high temps to kill them but its unlikely for you to be able to get it that hot and hold it. Several electric heaters going full blast (on separate circuits), once up to temp, stay outside and monitor. Yes its cold out but you want the fuckers dead. If you can get north of 130 an hold it, do it for 10 hours instead.

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>>1086743

This anon has no idea what he's talking about.

Aslo try looking into something called diamatacious earth, kills about any incect ever known in just a day or so

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"..it's the only way to be sure.."

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>>1086297

You should introduce centipedes to kill the bedbugs.

>>1086312
>>1086297


stop being a fucking faggot damn

they are bugs not the plague

>>1086937
house fluffies eat bed bugs?

[centipedes rule, I love the little fuckers]

>>1086956
Well there is a social stigma that if you have bed bugs, you don't take care of yourself and your place well.
When the actually case is that you probably got it from a hotel or the movie theatre etc.
Some people will throw everything away they own just to stop the infestations, they shit all over everything.

>>1086297
>bug spray

it doesn't work against these motherfucker btw

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buy this

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if you see a line of stings on your skin, you probably have them.
otherwise i would also go with watch and wait.
or burn the house, just to be sure.

>>1086775
>>1087088

Thanks for the tip. I did buy it, and I dusted the entire perimeter of the house along with some other key spots (under vent covers, the bedframe, etc).

No definite sign of bedbugs yet. Every day when I come home from wfork, I'm still following the same procedure that I mentioned in the original post.

They're going to do crack and crevice treatment and fumigate my workplace on Wednesday, so hopefully this is the end of my worries.

>>1087709
>the entire perimeter of the house

... By which I mean every single place in the house where the wall meets the floor.

>>1086297
Get a large amount of food grade diatomaceous earth and spread it around surfaces. It doesn't always work but it often works, lots of hostels do this with some success.

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The bastard lives off you. So the natural thing in my head would me to divide the foodsourse (you) from the majorety of hindingpleaces. Then It would be eqasyer to eradicate.

>>1087886
You're highly detailed drawing actually shows a recommended tactic.

>>1087886

Alright I'll bite. I thought bedbugs lived inside of or on the underside of a mattress. How would this stop that.

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>>1086297

>>1086297
Rubbing alcohol kills the little demons and their eggs. Spray bottle + rubbing alcohol

>>1087886
>divide the foodsourse (you) from the majorety of hinding pleaces

wont work unless you stay in bed all the time. when they get hungry, they come looking for you and will crawl up your leg while you masturbate to tranny porn on /b/

>>1089339
>Rubbing alcohol kills the little demons and their eggs.

true but irrelevant. you cant spray what you cant see; 99% of the battle is finding them all.

I have a waterbed.
How come they won't drowned?

Sister had some of these bastards. They had already reached the point where they were all over her bed. We just trashed the mattress and box springs and that was the end of it. Dunno where they came from. Our entire house is tile floored which may have isolated them I dunno. Nothing worth having a fit over though.

Buy a bunch of house centipedes and introduce them to your home. They handle bedbugs, termites, silverfish, and all sorts of awful creatures, and they don't bother people.

>>1086297
Get a job that's beyond white trash/nigger capability.

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Stay calm, My neighbour had these in his room, we took a matress and burned all his furniture in the garden :)

>>1086312
Bed bug life cycles take ~10-15 days. They require multiple feelings to mature but once an adult they can lay eggs each feeding.

Pray.

If it's ready to lay eggs you are fucked. Expect hundreds to thousands in damages.

They can lay dormant for up to two years until conditions are right to feed and breed.

That said, regularly monitor your body and anything else alive in your home for bug bites.

If bites exist, immediately call an exterminator, spend the money to do it properly and hope that deals with it.

Otherwise you may never be rid of them.

>>1086297
>We pulled apart the seams of that chair and all the others, but we didn't see any more. We wrapped the suspect chair in a garbage bag and mummified it in shipping tape.
>When I went home, I entered through the laundry room and immediately put all my clothes in the dryer on high heat for 45 minutes. I then went straight upstairs and took a shower. After that, I sprayed bug spray all over my car seat. I also put the clothes in the washing machine and through the dryer once again. I sprayed bug spray all over the laundry room where I entered.
lulz, what sissies you and your faggot friends are. bedbugs are completely harmless

>>1090391
>house centipedes
after these are done with the bed bugs, you should buy a couple of phillipine cobras to deal with the centipedes

>>1091061
>lulz, what sissies you and your faggot friends are. bedbugs are completely harmless
Ye jus liek lise u may get a ichy somtime but their litrally cant do nething too u

>>1086548
Dragon heaters from hotels

>>1086746
Heat is the best control method, hotels use specials heaters just for this

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>>1086937
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE KILL IT

>>1086937
I had bedbugs and to be 100% honest I would much prefer to have a bunch of pic relateds running around than bedbugs, you should do it op

>>1088739
Bedbug veteran here. They (or at least the ones I had) came to the bed to feed then they GTFO to the baseboards or the dresser or other corners of the room.

This is actually how we got rid of them. We put traps on the feet of the bed and when they tried to feed they got stuck and died. They make traps that have two concentric sections so you can tell if they are in the mattress or in the room.

We also had diatomaceous earth everywhere, threw away lots of furniture and a brand new mattress, and every piece of clothing, bedding, or fabric that touched the floor got thrown in a sealed bag until it could be thrown in a dryer for hours.

If we had carpet instead of tile we would have had to burn the house down.

>>1089378
They feed at night, so if you sleep at night instead of perusing trap porn your ok.

Also if you sleep at night you can spend your days working and talking to humans.

>>1091575
>They feed at night

no, they feed at night BY PREFERENCE. but if they cant do that, they'll feed in the noon-day sun if they have to.
same way you'd eat raw snake if you were hungry enough.

>>1086297
Freeze everything you can.

I went on a trip with friends and we stayed in a hostel for a few days. The last night one of us noticed some bed bugs.

After a bit of a freakout from the girls and some googling i found that either washing everything at a high temperature or freezing it at -18°C for 4 hours kills the pests.
When i came home i took my electronics and toiletries out of my luggage and just put it in the freezer.

>>1091063
house centipedes always lose against house spiders

I haven't seen a single one in my basement for years now.

>>1093111
speaking of spiders i found one the other day in my room. i tried to catch it to let it go outside but fucker ran off. is it okay if i just let it live me? i dont want it to mulitply and kill me in my sleep

>>1093112
what's the harm? the spider is just going to get rid of other pests anyways. House centipedes are harmless too but you have to admit that their appearance is far more skin-crawling than any other house insect.

>>1093112
>>1093114
let me add. I live in Canada though so our spiders really are harmless tiny insects.

>>1093116
*Arachnids, Squire

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>>1093116
Canada is fine then. now THESE on the other hand...