I'm freaking out over bed bugs!

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This Sunday, my buddy came by with a nice office chair and a sound system he picked up at his job (junk removal). So I got rid of my chair and put the new one in my room. Monday I wake up with several itchy spots on my elbows. By Tuesday I think I either have a rash or bug bites. Today, my friend told me about bed bugs, so I check out the chair and sure enough the little cracks have lots of dead little buggies in them and a few live ones. I found 1 dead one and 1 live on on my bed.

Now I am wigging out. I stripped my bed down of all the sheets and blankets and put little containers of rubbing alcohol around the legs. I searched all the cracks. I can't sleep. I want to vacuum really badly but it's 12am and people are sleeping. Tomorrow I have an important meeting, but after that I am going to tear my room apart and try to see if I can get an exterminator in or something.

Has anyone dealt with this terrible plague before?

(Not my pictures)

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Christ, those pictures are freaky. I woke up with what might have been a bite on my leg about a month back, and I starting worrying about it, but having not received any more, I didn't think about it further. But now you're making me really paranoid.

I've heard that it's caused by not washing your duvet. So I'd recommend that. Wash your duvet and your mattress. Once you've done that you should be fine.

And don't look at pictures, it makes it worse.
 
But what do you do when this crawls into your bed!

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You need to introduce a natural predator to control the bed bug numbers.
 
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

**** YOU **** YOU **** YOU **** YOU DIE DIE DIE

auuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
 
Harken to me, OP! I myself suffered from a bedbug infestation pretty recently. Contrary to popular belief, it's got really little to do with your duvet or the cleanliness of your room. Bad domestic hygiene can make it much more difficult to get rid of them, but given the opportunity they'll move into your room whether it's clean or not.

The reason you shouldn't get suckered into worrying about your duvet is that they can nest pretty much anywhere in the room where there's a niche. They can flatten themselves and nest within gaps in the sideboard, within the drawers of a dressing table, within a PC, in the frame of a bed (obviously), or chairs, as you discovered. Regardless of where they have decided to nest in the room, they are ridiculously sensitive to the CO2 we exhale and can regularly travel something like 20 feet to visit their human host in bed every night :| Which reminds me, I heard that one way to draw them out is to blow up a balloon and then slowly deflate it over your bed. Generally, though, they tend to only come out in the dead of night, like between 2-5am or something.

Personally, my family never managed to get rid of our bedbug infestation. It was with us for weeks, but we were already in the process of moving house - it was only by doing that that we got shot of them. I even found a couple of dead ones in the new house, but somehow it never built into a proper infestation.

Tbh I think you're going to have a tough time getting rid of them without an exterminator. That chair sounds like it was crawling with them. The 'dead ones' you saw might even have been shed skins. Wait and see if you've beaten them already or not, but if you haven't then I would call an exterminator in. Seriously, these little bastards are tough. I've heard that people have gone as far as chucking out their mattress or their bed frame, and the bedbugs just came back in through the front door.
 
hey , i had a bed infestation a few years ago , the little critters are notoriously difficult to catch or identify. my parents didnt even believe me until i caught a few dead ones. long story short ... get an exterminator before they infest your room/house.
 
Great, Paul's not sleeping tonight.
*nightmares ensue*
 
Bedbugs can give you AIDs.

That centipede is freaky. Aren't there big ****-off sized red centipedes in Japan which are really poisonous?
 
thats what you get for using furniture that was in the garbage
 
I'm partially amused at the fact that several forumites have actually been attacked by an infestation of hostile bedbugs and never mentioned it, and partially terrified and paranoid of them now. I live in student housing ffs.
 
Shut the f*ck up, Donny. You're out of your element.
 
Au-heppa said:
But what do you do when this crawls into your bed!

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If I have nightmares about this tonight YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, AU-HEPPA!! By fire.

I hate insects like that. I'm really squeamish when it comes to centipedes and millipedes.
 
I've seen those giant centipedes in a documentary. They hang from cave ceilings and eat bats, no joke.
 
Those things look as nasty as white people.

Iron Kat said:
If I have nightmares about this tonight YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, AU-HEPPA!! By fire.

I hate insects like that. I'm really squeamish when it comes to centipedes and millipedes.
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"Oh lol?"
 
lol seriously...why the hell does nature produce such UGLY...bugs? lol why are all bugs so god damn ugly? Centipedes have got to be the ugliest of them all lol, especially the big ones like that and the ones that are clear...
 
You should burn everything you own. That way you can be sure you have gotten rid of everything.
 
A. This is why I have a heart for pyrotechnics.

B. Spiders are still worse.
 
Iron Kat said:
If I have nightmares about this tonight YOU ARE GOING TO DIE, AU-HEPPA!! By fire.

I hate insects like that. I'm really squeamish when it comes to centipedes and millipedes.
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It's actually not an insect.


Cavalry said:
A. This is why I have a heart for pyrotechnics.

B. Spiders are still worse.
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I was digging a hole to find a water valve last friday and I dug up a tarantula about six inches across.
 
Centipedes are really cool to watch, but I would freak out really bad if one was crawling on me :/
 
I never knew centipedes that huge existed. Holy **** they're the scariest things I've ever seen. I ain't even look at those pictures. Like, even though spiders gross me out I can look at them if I calm down a bit, but I can't even try with those centipedes.
 
Update:

Today I stripped down my room and vacuumed it twice. I washed all the beddings and then put them in the drier for 90 minutes. I moved my bed to the middle of the room and put each of the legs into a little container of rubbing alcohol. I threw out old clothes and stuff I didn't need. I put double sided stick tape on the legs of my bed, my desk, and my dresser. I am going to try to leave my laundry hamper in the middle of the room as bait, and then if they make a nest in it I will throw it in the wash and kill them.

My room looks really clean now, but I fear it is not enough. I called the pest control and they told me $400 to get rid of them, but they have a 90 day guarantee on that as well. I think if I still find bugs by next week I will be shelling out 4 bill. All for a stupid ****ing chair.
 
Bloody Hell, Dan. Last night as I was going to sleep I was so incredibly paranoid about any moving hair or itch, and couldn't shake the feeling that my bed was crawling with microscopic bugs. It's not a nice feeling to have, and it's not particularly easy to sleep when you have it. But I hope you get rid of them, anyway.
 
I have my weekend all planned out now. I think I will disassemble the bed frame and rub it down with wood soap and seal all of the joints with petrolium jelly. Then I'll rent a steam vac and vacuum the mattress and the floors and resanitize the sheets. So that way the bed is a safe zone. I've already replaced the cups of rubbing alchohol on the feet with glass mason jars (the bugs can't climb glass) and double sided tape and petrolium jelly. Then I'll put some diatomaceous earth all over the place and seal up some cracks with petrolium jelly. I also need to buy more plastic bags to put all of my clothes into.
 
Sounds like a decent plan. If the little guys withstand all of that then they earn +3 honour.

BTW @Druckles - they're not microscopic. They're pretty big:
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Maybe a teensy bit smaller than that.
Edit: Wow, you can even see the proboscis.
 
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