Brittyn:

I can’t figure out what this may be and am really worried it’d be bedbugs. I first got a little bite on my forearm that I picked off (looked more like a pimple) and it became larger, and rash like. The doctor said it’s most likely just dermatitis (tested it for fungus and it came back negative). A few weeks after that I got a bite on my neck that has been there for about 2 weeks, and soon after that I got a couple bites on my stomach (now have about 5-10). Since then, I have about 15 additional bites on my back, chest, some under my arms but none really below my waist at all. I have a few on my neck as well. I was away for 4 days in another state this past weekend and continued to get bites there, even though I checked the inside of my shirt I’d be sleeping in before I put it on and found nothing.

Since I got home, I inspected my bedding and mattress and found no clues for it to be bedbugs. Would bedbugs travel on your clothes and continue to bite you? I haven’t heard of that happening, nobody else I was with was bitten either. I checked my suitcase last night with a flashlight and found no signs of bedbugs there either!

Becky:

Hello!

I have been trying to figure out if you can have only a few bedbugs in your home without an infestation. I only work 3 days a week, at a place 2 hours from my home. While at work, I stay at my boss’s house. During the holiday season (our busiest time), I stayed at his house for the better part of the month. I started noticing small red spots on my body, and at one point had counted 17 all together. I have had a problem with fly bites in his house before, so I thought nothing of it. The season ended, I came home to my apartment, and the spots went away.

I went back this past weekend, and stayed for two nights. I came home last night, and woke up to something tickling my check. I naturally scratched it, only to find a bedbug on my face. This morning, I tore apart my bedroom, and I didn’t find anything. No blood, feces, eggs, skins, nothing. I went through every checklist I could find, and I couldn’t find anything.

I thought that it was just the one bug and realized that my boss’s house must have bedbugs, and that the one came back with me from the weekend. Tonight, however right as I was climbing into bed, I saw one more on my wall near my bed. I killed it, but now I’m worried that I might have more someplace that I can’t find. Or is it possible that a couple of them just attached on the me?

My apartment manager is having an exterminator come in on Friday to clean the place out. If I have only found those two, should I be ok for the next several days? I’m not a big fan of bugs of any sort, and I have a feeling that it is going to take me awhile before I feel comfortable sleeping with the lights off.

Thank you!

Melissa::

Hi there:

I’m hoping someone can help me out. Is it possible to just have one or two bedbugs? Tonight I noticed my cat poking around my pillow, and she found one bug slowly walking across my pillow (gross!). It looked kind of like a bedbug, and now I’m totally freaked out. I killed it, and there was no blood. I stripped my whole bed and found what I *think* was either a single bedbug shell, or a dead bedbug, but nothing else. Couldn’t find any eggs or feces or anything. Admittedly, I just did a quick check, so I suppose they could be better at hiding. I haven’t received any bites, either. I’ve lived in my apartment for 2.5 years, and this is the first I’ve seen of them. Is it possible this was just a one-off?

Any advice would be very much appreciated!

HoP::

I had woke up last week with 3 welts in a triangle shape on my arm. Thinking it was just an allergic reaction I ignored it. It went away after 4 days and exactly one week to the day Three more showed up on my back. I immediately started searching. bedbugs? Huh those things actually exist?

So i rampaged my room. Flipping over everything. There it was. Hiding on the black lining of my box spring. Full of my blood. I grabbed him and went to the kitchen and cut the head off. Black blood came oozing out. I immediately started searching for more. I couldn’t find any fecal matter or anymore signs of bedbugs. Then i saw this budge of down feathers and under it were all these white colored and furry larvae. I thought i was infested by nymphs. However after finding these things all over my house, they could be something else. Carpet beetles?

I know the first thing i found and the bites are a bedbug. I’m hoping I only had one as I was traveling 2 weeks ago.

In the meantime can anyone identify these as nymphs?
I have found about 30 of them buried in the carpet along the baseboards. No reasoning as to where. Just random spots.

bedbug Girl::

Hi NK,

Yes, that looks exactly like a bedbug to me! Did you find any more of them?

Kayleigh::

I found a bug in july and thought it was a tick, but it was only one so I didn’t freak out and I just killed it. It was in the master bedroom bathroom on the counter. It is now february and I just saw one running on my couch. Me and my baby sleep on the couch and she has one bite, her father sleeps in the master bedroom and he had a possible bite also. I have not had any and neither has our roommate. Could we have bedbugs, three bug does look similar to the pictures. It has skinny legs and a flat brown body. There are 4 legs and 2 attenas. Could we have bb?

kimberly::

My stepdaughters Mon just informed us that they have bedbugs. What precautions do I need to take to make sure they don’t cone home to us if they already haven’t. She is with us during the week and st her moms on the weekends.

Rick Blaine::

I need help diagnosing whether bites I got on vacation were from bedbugs. When I was there (for a week) I thought the bites were from other insects common in the tropics such as mosquitoes, sand fleas or no-see-ums. That’s a reasonable possibility since those kinds of pests are endemic in the area, and I was not using insect repellent. I did not think of bedbugs at the time and I did not inspect the room or bed where I stayed. I’m back home now so I have only clues to work with, no direct evidence. One clue is the distribution on my body. I have numerous bites, and some parts of my body were consistently bitten more heavily over the course of the week, while other areas have very few bites.

Here’s my question: If I always sleep on my stomach, would bedbug bites more likely be on the front of my body which is actually in contact with the bed, versus on the back of my body which is facing up (with a sheet over me)?

Has anyone noticed a correlation between sleeping position and distribution of bedbug bites? Thanks in advance for any help.

Stacey::

Hi,

I just moved into my dream apartment on Saturday. Everything was clean and remodeled. New windows, freshly painted. I moved most most of my stuff in that day. That night we slept there for the 1st time. We woke up in the morning and there was a spot of blood in the bed. 2 minutes later my 4 year old daughter said there was a bug in the bed. I looked and picked it up. It looked like a little beetle with a full reddish belly. I threw it on the floor. My husband got up and reached for his shirt and said there were little bugs on it. i looked and they did not look like the beetle bug I found in the bed. After a few minutes I put two and two together. I picked the beetle bug up and examined it closer. Then realizing that the blood spot on the bed and the full red belly of the bug….I realized that it must be a bedbug!

The night before my daughter had gotten up to go to the bathroom. She was fine and we were talking and the next thing I knew she was throwing up. Didn’t think much of it at the time. She was not sick it just seemed like a freak thing. We decided to pull our mattress into the living room and sleep there until we located our land lord. We looked all day and found no bugs. At around 10 pm they were crawling out of the radiator and up to the wall. We were horrified!

We went over to were my daughter was and found 2 in the bed. One with an engorged stomach with blood. My daughter had been bitten. We did not let her know what was going on. We decided to go to a hotel. As we started getting ready my daughter became sick and threw up again. After she was fine. I started to realize that this may been her bodies reaction to the bug bites. After days of trying to reach the landlord he said that he was sending an exterminator. So eventually he confessed that he had brought the house and found that it had “bugs” he made all the tenants leave and bombed the house and remodeled it.

He said that they had not seen any bugs in months. I was shocked. No one warned me about this. They are coming tomorrow to treat the house. I am very concerned for my daughters health and also concerned that now all of my belongings are infected. The landlord claims that it will be taken care of. My question is do you think the bugs will get exterminated? There are 3 floors and the 3rd floor tenants who just moved in also claims that they have not seen any. I was only finding them in my bedroom. The house is old. All hard wood floor and horse hair fiber installation. I have some bites on my back. Do you think that my daughter is getting sick at night due to bites. She also has some marks but they are not as red as mine. Should I move out. And what if I bring them to my new place. My stuff has only been there for 3 days.

Ronnetta::

I have two red bumbs on my chest and can’t figure out what could it have came from… very scared

bedbug Girl::

Hi Alane,

Yes, you should be able to feel them crawling on you and this is exactly why they wait until you are in a deep sleep before feeding! Only when they have found there feeding spot on you and numbed it up would you not be able to feel them.

Michelle::

Hi – we’ve just moved into a furnished apartment that we were going to stay in for 2 weeks. I felt a little itchy when sitting on the couch, so I moved. My husband then felt a bit itchy and had what looked like mosquito bites, so I started looking up information online and found your website.
We inspected the mattress on the bed and the couch but it all appeared fine.

Then when it was time to go to sleep, my husband found a bug crawling on the bed!
We captured it and lucky this place has an air mattress, so we’re sleeping on that with new sheets just out of the packet.

We bagged anything we were wearing, put our luggage in the kitchen and had showers! Lucky we hadn’t unpacked our bags, and we had only been here for maybe 4 hours tops.
Do you think our bags could be safe? They were just sitting on the floor in the middle of the room not really near any furniture.

From what i can gather this might just be a new infestation, its only a small bug. So I don’t think our things are infested.

Because its past midnight, I’ve sent a message to the owner and hopefully she’ll get it checked out or we can just move out.

I don’t think we have any bites yet, my husband may have some non-itchy ones.

Is there anything else we should do?

I would like to send a photo so you can let me know if it really is a bedbug, please let me know what email address to send it to.

Update: Ive now zoomed in on the photo and the bug isn’t flat at all and doesn’t have any ribs… so maybe not a bedbug!! (although now i feel itchy but that’s just psychological i know!)

OK Thanks!

bedbug Girl::

Hi Michelle,

Upload your pictures and I’ll be happy to take a look!

Ashley123::

So I pretty much live at college and come home every so often maybe once or twice a month. Tonight i came back and found like 5 bugs on the back corner of my mattress all were dead but one, then i found another when i was changing out my sheets jut on the comforter.

We flipped my bed and saw nothing now I’m on here googleing what to do. Obviously i need to get someone to come inspect and clean. I’m like 99.9% sure they are bedbugs because i looked up the pictures on here. Am i safe to sleep tonight after changing my sheets? I’m planning on cleaning my room pretty good tomorrow, but I’m still scared to sleep or go back to college and them get worse..what do i do?

Carina::

I’m not sure if I have bedbugs, but I’ve noticed mosquito like bites on me. If I’ve only just started seeing bites, is it possible the bugs have been there for over a week? Do they (the bugs) go away on their own?

Leo::

Hey guys. I went thru this bedbug disaster last year. I was looking into calling some professionals but found they were to expensive. I went to my local hardware store and bought a powder for bedbugs and diff types of insect killers. Similar to boric acid. Guys it work!! It took like 2-3 weeks for it to work but it did. It prob would’ve worked quicker but I let it get pretty bad b4 acting. Just apply it around the foot of the bed and crevices and cracks. Under the mattress and onto of the mattress edges. Anywhere they will crawl to u u must apply it. U should be ok with putting a sheet over the mattress. The powder didn’t do no harm to me. I recently found one dead bug today and will start applying the powder b4 it gets worse. Also got a few small bites. Goodlyck to everyone =)

Doug Riley::

The stories are all to common. My family gave up after months of exterminators. We burned everything but photos (frames were kindling), the bedbugs were in the carpet, beds, near the computer desk, you name it.

I know the experts say the stay near beds but that wasn’t so for us. We were given a couch in 2008. I have never heard of a bedbug at the time. I saw a bug but assumed it was a tick from fishing. The landlord sent people to get rid of them but no one could. After the burn pile we showered in a garage (for mechanics) unpacked new clothes that were boiled and dried. My truck has plastic seats and no carpet so it didn’t get infested (I religiously checked and dusted).

Our final step was find new land, have the dirt turned, then build the home ourselves. We no longer allow visitors because they could carry bedbugs. Our children homeschool. We avoid public places. I do not work with other people. I will never go through such mental anxieties again. The experience has scarred us or life.

The US government needs to stop the spread of bedbugs…they are an epidemic. They made the BB killer illegal so the BB came back with vengeance. Now the gov’t leaves people helpless and ill. The worst part is even after the exterminator clears you one could linger for almost 2 years! For those of you that can’t walk away, you will probably be contracting an exterminator for 18 months as well.

I do like Bedbuggirl’s advice…do not just bag up clothes. Also BB won’t drown in water. Alcohol only repels adults. BB breed to rapidly to use alcohol alone as an effective treatment. BB will burrow in heavy sweater type clothing (even in the day time).

Also BB will bite you whenever given the opportunity….like when watching tv on the couch. You don’t have to be sleeping. We used the steamer also. I think that just makes them hide.

I’m not an expert just a survivor. I hope the rest of you find an answer.

bedbug Girl::

Hi Andy,

It could still be bedbugs! See my “bedbug Traps” link at the top right of this site and you can download instructions on how to build one yourself for less than ten dollars!

bedbug Girl::

Hi Adam,

Those are not bedbugs :)

bedbug Girl::

Hi JN,

Three days is a bit long to be having an initial reaction to a bite but if you want to make sure you don’t have bedbugs, I’ve documented how to make a trap for less than $10, see my page in the menu bar at the top right of this page. Let us know what you find out, will you?

Thanks!

Anxiety Ridden::

I have been in this apartment for about a year now and we just discovered that we have bedbugs…we have been sleeping on the couch now for a few days and my wife says that she hasn’t had any bites or anything and for some reason if I’m being bitten they don’t show up on me.

i haven’t slept with the feeling of always thinking they’re crawling on me, and I’ve even had some anxiety attacks as a result of the thoughts of them infesting my room. i read a site that was telling horror story after horror story where they’ve called exterminators and moved homes and so on and still found no relief…I’m going on so little sleep i think I’m going insane i can’t bring myself to go to sleep because i know they’re in the other room.

It’s a few days out till the exterminators come but will this give me peace of mind? I’ve read so many stories about how people have been battling them for years and nothing seems to work and so on…..i want them gone when the exterminator shows….gone gone GONE…we’re getting rid of the bed after they’ve treated it…as well as new furniture and couch…my question is will this work? Doesn’t it take only 1 or 2 left to just have me having a huge issue again inside of no time?

They said that they steam the bed, put some powder down, spray and treat for the bugs alive still, and a few other things….again will that do the trick? I’m going through one of the larger and more reputable exterminating companies and they’ll be here sometime this week i still have to set up the appointment…

E Anne::

I have bedbugs in an apartment I’m renting. I came into the apartment about 10 days before I had any bites but once I had them, they were all over, hundreds it seems like. Anyway, the morning I saw all the bites I checked the bed and found a few bugs and checked the box spring and saw about 5-10 spots of their fecal matter in the corner. Is it possible that I brought the bugs in from somewhere? And how long before spots like that will show up in the corner? My landlords are taking care of the problem, but they think I’m the one that brought in the bugs. I’ve had 2 treatments done and this morning found another one in the bathroom!! I’ve never had them before and this is all I can think about, they are taking over my life and driving me nuts! I’m sorry for everyone who has gone through this.

Lala::

Ever since the bedbug epidemic I took caution. I’ve always covered my mattress and box spring. I moved into my new apartment in September and got new mattress from Macy’s I was skeptical but they were fine. I kept the original plastic on my box spring, tapped down the sides making sure there was no air in there or any wholes, then I put a plastic/vinyl cover over it and then a fitted sheet so the two mattress wont slide together and rip, before laying down my top mattress and I have a plastic cover over my mattress as well.

I’m pretty determined not to have bedbugs. I change my sheets every two weeks and I spray down my mattress pad and even the plastic of my mattress with alcohol and lysol spray. I know that it doesn’t matter rather your clean or dirty anyone can get bedbugs. I never let people sit on my bed but when my friends come over they constantly sit, lay or put there things on my bed. I don’t even sit on my own bed with my clothes Ive been outside in. I do have a roommate but I mean she is rarely here and stays at her boyfriends a lot.

While cleaning up the remainder of my room I saw a bug crawling off of one of my pillow, at this time there isn’t any sheets or pillow cases nor comforter on my bed just my mattress pad and pillows with protectors. I instantly grabbed my alcohol spray bottled and killed it. From my observation it looks like a bedbug, I instantly freaked out! I haven’t had any bits & there is no sign of them anywhere in my room or my living furniture, but I don’t know about my roommates room.

So even if its possible I have them it isn’t anything serious at the moment but I want to take caution quickly. I haven’t had any sleep stressing out about this. I was going to call an exterminator in the morning so I left the creepy crawler on the bed and now its GONE! So Im almost certain it has to be one because it disappeared into the night.

I don’t know what to do….I’ve read a lot of websites these past 24 hours and since I have no proof I guess I can’t call an exterminator to come out and look?

Also, I never bought bedroom furniture. I bought some rails and made sure my bed never touched the wall or flooring. I have a huge walk in closet so majority of my clothes are on hangers and if not I have clear plastic Sterlite 3 drawer containers lined up in my closet for things that cannot get hung up. I also have majority of my shoes in sterlite plastic shoe containers. but I have a nice amount of shoes still in boxes. So can the bedbugs be hiding out in my closet? on my bookshelf in my textbooks? in my laundry basket?

There isn’t much they can get into in my room nor anywhere in the house unless there coming to my room from my roommates room or a nearby apartment? This is my first time ever seeing anything and like I said I haven’t been bitten. I just don’t know what to do.

What do you think I should do?

Deb::

Hi,

I wanted to ask for your advice… About 3-4 months ago (in January) we had a cat for 2 weeks until I started getting little bites on my body that looked like flea bites. We got rid of the cat and still after 4 months I am getting bit by something – but think it’s unlikely it is fleas after so long. My husband is not getting bit and I notice that after I vacuum and clean the house, change the sheets – the bites stop for 1-2 weeks, then come back. When I don’t clean, the bites are probably 1-2 a week. Most of the time they are single bites…sometimes in clusters that sometimes itch. I have provided pictures that look like my bites, however a lot of these pictures are in clusters…like I said – most or single bites that look like these (I have had one cluster). Sometimes they are little pinprick bites…then other times they are small raised bumps. They are not welts that itch horribly, and it hasn’t gotten worse or better since the first bite (4 months ago).

My husband isn’t getting the bites, so he dosnt feel effected and I go crazy at moments and need help. I have talked to our landlord and they bombed our house for fleas and it was better for 2 weeks and then started getting bit again. We have a squirrel/bird living in our attic and I have asked our landlord to remove it because of the possibility of bird mites. We havn’t seen any bugs (except for the common spring bugs that come in.)

We haven’t traveled anywhere and haven’t had visitors that would bring bedbugs…plus I would think that after 4 months – an infestation would occur and get worse.

Please help…what do you think it is- what should I do?

May::

How do bedbugs get aroud? Do they jump, and if you kill one do they always have to be filled with blood? or not

akhaleona::

i was recently bitten by a bug or something that looks like a bedbug bite but im not sure its small red and is very painful…..but the weird thing is there is only one

Jinxed::

ARG! This is what has happened so far over the last few weeks.

We went to an outside party at friends. I sat on a plastic chair in the grass, as did my husband. I sprayed myself with OFF as they had HUGE mosquitos. When we got home, hubby had 3 bites that were raised, almost like a blister, from mosquitos. (He had recently travelled to DC, and I’m also a bit worried about hitchhikers from there as well!)

A few days later, we BOTH had bites, first on our arms, then the next night on my torso in a line, with bites a few inches apart. VERY intensely itchy, and looking JUST like most of the pix I looked at online. At first, I wondered if it came from a new pillow I bought. It’s a Cuddle Ewe pillow, with wool filling – expensive but comfy for fibromyalgia! But perhaps it had some kind of sheep bugs? Then I thought maybe one had come from DC, when hubby put the suitcase on the bed. Then I wondered if it was carpet beetles with a taste for human blood. Then maybe spiders…. Or Morgellons…..

So the next day I washed the mattress pad and sheets in HOT water, put the pillows out in the sun, followed by at least 30 minutes in the dryer, put the comforter in the dryer as well. I put DE with Pyrethrins on the mattress, and vaccuumed it after about 6 hours. I DE’d around the bed, and also sprayed with a Hot Shot spray. We have a TON of carpet beetles, so I have those things on hand since they WORK on the carpet beetles! They also say they will work on bedbugs, so I thought why not try it.

We sprayed ourselves with 100% DEET spray, and tried to sleep. No bites that night, but the next day, when I blew my nose, there was a BUG! It appeared the size and shape of maybe a 3rd instar? (I check after I blow to monitor my sinuses.) Anyways, I was icked out no end. Our mattress is fairly new, and I examined it closely. No sign of anything anywhere. Later that night, hubby brought me a tiny casing. I thought it looked more like a carpet beetle nymph shed, but they are so similar to bedbug nymph shed, it really could have been either…

A week ago we built a CO2 trap with dry ice, etc. We’ve “set” it EVERY night, but I still have yet to see one single bug besides the dead one from my nose! We sleep in the room with it going, hoping to distract the bugs from biting us. Hubby goes to bed about 11, but I have been up all night, unable to get comfortable in bed. I already feel every little pill of fabric or even hair like the Princess and the Pea, and my skin crawls sometimes from the Fibro, so I’m really unhappy right now! I could SWEAR I feel things crawling under the sheets!

Every time I put anything in the dryer, I would check the lint trap. No bugs there!

Last night I went to bed and was laying on top of the covers because it was a bit warm. I felt TWO bites nearly simultaneously about 4 inches apart, and my leg was BURNING where the bites were. There are NO bugs where I spend my day, and no sign of anything until 10 minutes after I lay down to sleep! I immediately got up and put Benadryl Itch Relief on the 2 bites, they were red and swollen and look just l ike the bedbug bite pix online. I actually went back to bed and slept all night, and have no other bites on me that I can feel. Today the bites look like red pinpricks, and don’t itch at all. I also try to squeeze the bites right away, get a little white blood cells out, and hopefully the itchy poison as well. It seems to help.

Today I again washed all the linens, mattress pad, dried the pillows and comforter, vaccuumed the mattress with the Rainbow vac, but only saw a little black carpet beetle, no bedbugs! I put down fresh DE, and sprayed again. I’ve already put the dry ice out, maybe mine feed earlier? If they came from DC, they might still be on EST! Which would explain why hubby is being bitten a little more than I. Still, only one or two bites on him, and the two last night were the first for me in a few days.

We’ll be away for a few days, and I’m setting the CO2 trap as soon as I get back, so maybe we’ll capture something then….

I’m really confused. What is biting us, and are there invisible bedbugs? Do all the bugs come out and bite, or is the line of bites from one bug? Can they bite through cloth? How long for an egg to hatch? WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS? LOL!

Thanks for your site, it really is a great place to find help and support!

Tasha::

My last few days traveling in Australia I stayed at a hostel. I hate hostels but they were the cheapest places to stay in the whole of Australia. I got bit pretty bad each night I was there definitely by bedbugs.

I am suppose to visit my sister in Japan and I am worried that I could have spread them to her non-infested apartment. I left all my luggage outside (I never brought them in) and just brought in my electronics such as laptop n (cloth) case, camera, camcorder n (cloth) case, ipod n headphones, binoculars n (cloth) case, and plastic baggies with my cables n such and also my cloth wallet and passport.

I guess I’m worried that my hair and the clothes I wore the day I arrived could have infested the place. Is this true? I had no bites when I woke up. I also inspected my clothes in the bathroom when I arrived at the airport. I didn’t see anything but I’ve read they are great at hiding.

I hope I took all the necessary precautions. What do you guys think? Could I have infested her home and how could I stop it? And what should I do with my luggage (one small suitcase and a backpackers backpack) to avoid further infestation? Should I go buy new clothes to avoid infestation? I am going crazy with guilt that I infested her home.

Thanks

Also I did notice a bite I got an hour before she arrived to let me in her apartment. But I was outside waiting and walking around a park and it could have been a mosquito bite. What you think?

Please help!

Jinxed::

Just a quick mobile update – we flipped up the mattress and box springs to prep for the Hot Shot fogger, and we FINALLY saw a live bug! Full, as hubby pointed out, of OUR blood! Also ordered Bedlam and Sani-Fab sprays…

Jay::

I just recently moved into an apartment building and I have received a letter informing me of possible bedbugs in the building. I do my laundry in the same building. Is it possible for bedbugs to live in washing machines or dryers? Or is it possible for me to bring them into my apartment just by doing my laundry in the same building?

Clay::

I’m not sure what the exact answer to the question is but I did read an article about a family that picked up some bedbugs while staying in a motel in Rocky Mountain National Park, elevation is around 10 to 11 thousand feet. I always thought that bedbugs were a southern USA problem, but the last bedbug excursion that I was a part of happened in Columbus Ohio, and those are the nastiest bedbugs I have ever ran into. They left huge welts and scars.

Lisa::

Hello,

Can you please help me? I stupidly bought a bed frame at a rummage sale on Sunday and did not check it out but noticed that it had bedbugs on it today. We had it in our living room and now it is outside. Does that mean that I have bedbugs in my house or could they all have just been attached to the bed frame for that long? We do not see anymore. We rent also do I have to tell our landlord?

Thank you,

Lisa

chris guy::

I wanna know if the person that wrote this is in first grade or something?? Look at how many times they put bug bugs instead of bedbugs. I thought it was funny.

Pettine::

Since about a week I’ve been getting little red marks on my arms, legs, chest, back, even my bikini line, they itch and I can say for sure it all happens when I’m sleeping in our bed. Last night I freaked out and began steaming my mattress with the little handheld steamer. But I have yet to see any signs of a bedbug or it’s “leftovers”, there is NOTHING whatsoever.

Today we’re going to take the entire room apart and clean. But I’m not sure what the next step is. If there is no sign at all, what do you do? I looked online for mattress covers but none of them I need seems to be available in the store so I could go and get one right away. I don’t want to wait until it ships! If I went to a doctor, would they be able to say for sure if it’s a bedbug bite or would they just say it’s some kind of insect bite?

Please help, I’m out of my mind and certainly don’t want my kids’ rooms to get infested too. Thanks!

bedbug Girl::

Hi Tammy,

You are referring to bedbug dust (diatomaceous earth) – it works great and is an excellent weapon to add to your do-it-yourself arsenal in the war against bedbugs!

Bad luck::

I was at a friends house, and immediately after getting into bed I started itching so I began to search and there they were, lots of bedbug, saw 3 different sizes. I got bit pretty bad!

Does anyone know if they live in your hair?

Warymary::

Nice of your husband to be the sacrificial lamb, but that’s not necessary. A bedbug is attracted to carbon dioxide, which we produce as we exhale. When we sleep, we fill one area up with carbon dioxide and it’s like a dinner bell for the bedbug. This is why two people can sleep in the same bed and only one gets eating alive – that one person produces more CO2 and the bugs know this.

Buy some food grade diatomaceous earth (bedbug dust) and create a barrier between the two rooms, then move to another room (or your husband if he’s now sleeping in the infested room) and as the bugs cross the line attracted to the CO2, they pick up the dust and die.

However, if you have them, and have had them for awhile now, chances are they are in more than one room. I’d get some bedbug dust, mattress covers, a spray applicator (where you can mix the dust and water) and got to town.

BA::

About a year after moving in with my mother, I woke up with itching especially all over my body… It was awful.. I could not determine if it was my moms house or work or my vehicle but bugs were somewhere, EVERYWHERE I went… Bathed multiple times a day , and used lice shampoo but nothing worked.. Exterminator was called in and he could not find anything in my bedroom.. I cleaned, steamed, washed with clorox everything, multiple times, sprayed, dusted and nothing worked..My mom had no reaction what so ever..From showering so much my skin was drying out and I grabbed a lotion my mom had on hand.. SKIN SO SOFT…THis really worked for the itchy skin, but I needed to get rid of the bugs…I finally decided to get rid of the old furniture that mom had stored and that I was using, ALL the furniture , bed, mattress, pillows, dressers, nite standand and purchase new furniture, pieces at a time and that solved the bug infestation….PRaise God.

Ashley::

Do bedbugs turn into black spots when gone?

bedbug Girl::

I stopped counting after 30 :)

ben::

Hi,

Is it possible that only one of two people sleeping in the same bed might receive bites? Do bedbugs discriminate?

Over the past month my girlfriend has been receiving bites of some sort, most likely in bed at night (we can’t think where else they would come from). However, I have received no bites whatsoever, despite our always sleeping in the same bed. We have found no evidence of bedbugs so far.

It’s all a mystery. However an answer to my first question would help a lot. Thanks!

Lisa::

Hello,
We had to tell our landlord and use the man company they use they sprayied something called Demon cs and said that that should take care of it. We have not seen any bedbugs but with all the awful stories out there I am starting to think that they are just waiting to attack. No bites other than a few a couple days after. Could they really be gone? We found 3 before the treatment and the bedframe was in the house for 15 hours but we waited 13 days to do the treatment.
Thanks,
Lisa

K.C.::

Do all bedbug bites itch or do people respond differently?

Erica e::

I’m getting rid of my mattress and instead I’m buying an airbed. Do they also get bedbugs?

jamie::

i have repeatedly woken up with tiny red itchy bumps on my skin. the first few times i only had one but now it seems i have been getting two in a line every few nights. i washed my sheets and i didnt get any bites for a week or so, but now i am again. does this sound like bedbugs? im really paranoid to fall asleep? should i move to another room? please help.
~jamie

Wendy::

Hi Alicia,

Yes, absolutely, the bedbugs can travel in the walls (they love the electrical outlets) and get into the room next to it. They can also live for up to a year without feeding if they have to (6 to 7 months on average) but when they sense food is near, they will suck your blood with a vengeance!

Scared::

These last few days I’ve been finding a few black spots on my mom’s covers and my 3 yr old cousin who previously had bedbugs is living with us (about 4 mnths ago.) I’ve squished them and two of them have had brownish stuff come out of them, I have a dog and two cats, my cats but isn’t the cleanest and I’m wondering if it could be bits of poo or feces, their brown and much smaller than the pictures, my parents are divorced and I haven’t found any at his house. Is it feces or dropplings maybe? I’ve checked his mattress and mine, my sisters and my mom’s and my dad’s and ours at his house, no signs of bedbugs plus the pictures on the wall. I’m at my summer apt. and I haven’t been here in 7 mnths. My aunt checked his and his sisters bag and they lived their for a few weeks.

Also you can’t just wipe the spots, you need to use your finger nail.

bedbug Girl::

Hi Nessa, yes, bedbugs can and do bite people all over the body, including the head. There are some very scary pictures of a visitor named Ross who was bitten repeatedly on the forehead which can be found on this site.

Christina::

Hi, I saw your email address when I was searching for information. I recently moved into an apartment, I had heard shortly after being here that someone in the building was infested with bedbugs, I didn’t know much about the bugs, so I had no idea that they could move to my apartment.

About 3 weeks ago I started to find bites on me, I have searched everywhere! Last week I found what I believe to be an adult bug in my curtains, I threw them away in the dumpster. But to my question for you that I cant seem to find on my own.

Do I have to throw everything away? I am going to start packing my stuff and get out of here, I have two children and I cant have them here. I just need to know, do I have to get rid of our clothing and their stuffed animals? Thank you for your time.

Doggone::

Hi

I just found your site. Every year we visit my parents in Australia-it is winter here now. My 10 year old daughter has been sleeping in the same room, in the same old bed that was mine as a child, for the last few visits. And each visit, she wakes up with anything from 10 to 20 fresh bites. They are in clusters, anywhere from her arms and legs to torso, back or buttocks. They itch, but go away after a few days.

I treat them with overcounter cortisone-based creams. Over the years, we’ve taken her to the doctor, who has said it could be insect bites, could be some reaction to ‘something’, but nothing concrete. They are definitely NOT mosquito or flea bites, both of which I am familiar with. Yet they they don’t look half as bad as some of the red welts in the pictures posted on this site by some poor people who got bitten.

I was thinking it must be bedbugs-what else can it be? The bed is old (I am 42 and slept in it till I left for college) and she wakes up with the bites. Yet my mother claims it can’t be bedbugs, as my aunt also visits every year (in Spring) and sleeps in the same bed but has never she got bitten.

Will they bite some people but not others??

jasmin::

my brother works overnight at a homeless shelter in downtown los angeles and my dad has been traveling to san francisco on business. when my dad is at work, my brother sleeps in my dad’s bed. last night i stayed at my mom’s house and i slept in that same bed because both my brother and my dad were away. so now i’m in my apartment again and i just killed something that might be a bedbug. did i pick it up from my mom’s house? if i found one does that mean there will be more?

Dexter::

Kaitlyn,

It’s not that bedbugs are feeding any more the usual over time but that your body may be becoming less resistant to the bites (you’re reaction is getting worse).

Depends on the spray, they can be very resistant in this early stage, but if you do multiple applications, you’ll get them if they hatch. Use Diatomaceous Earth also.

Amanda::

Regarding the way bites look:
There are 4 people in this house and each of us react differently to our bites. My daughter gets hard, flat red raised bumps (like a mosquito bite that is a few days old), where my son gets these huge red welts, still rather flat. My husband, his bites tend to look very similar to his eczema, lots of tiny red bumps. Now me.. my own bites either look like little blisters, or they get almost a tick bite like ring.

If you have doubts on whether you are being bit by bedbugs or not, take a look at the bites themselves. More often than not they will seem to line up in a series of three to 5 bites in a fairly straight line.

Regarding the traveling:
It is extremely easy to accidentally take bugs with you to another house. If you haven’t been keeping clean clothes bagged up (and unfortunately even if you do), they are sneaky. I have had occasions where I had been wearing clothes for a few hours, even though i haven’t been in the infested room, and still have had a bug run out from a seam, or a pocket. What I do to combat this is each morning, I wake up, pick out our clothes, toss them in the dryer straight from their bags with a wet towel until the towel is dry, usually about an hour. Once we are dressed, we do not go into the bedrooms at all. This does not eliminate the fact that we still have them, only helps with making sure we aren’t taking them traveling with us.

Regarding where to look:
DO NOT RELY ON ONLY YOUR BED FOR EVIDENCE.
They are sneaky, I’ve seen plenty of places listed. If you go to the J.T. Eaton website and look through their treatment plan, they have a very good list of where to put your treatments and how to eliminate them. In our case, we are having an extremely hard time getting rid of ours. We have drop ceilings, and they seems to be hiding up in there every time we do mass treatments. We have had a company in here three times, plus do regular spraying and treatments on our own (i was going through three cans of “contact” killer a week for awhile there, but part of the problem is how tiny the babies are. they will hide in ANYTHING. We have found them in the speaker covers for the alarm clock, our keyboard, in-between the buttons on the monitor. They can get into the tiniest of cracks, if you have nail holes on the wall.. or say, a thin line of molding around the top of your room. Our third round with them we discovered they were hiding behind the half inch strip of molding in our bedroom. They LOVE paper. You have to go through each book you own one page at a time, and make sure they aren’t hiding in there. They will hide in cardboard, dirty clothes, anything with a crease or crack. They can get into your baseboards, hide in cracks you don’t even know are there.

Regarding the smell:
Don’t rely on smell to tell you if you have them. We have them very very badly here, despite our constant spraying/cleaning/getting companies in here. The only time I have smelled them is when I have squished them. If you squish one between your fingers, yes they do have a very distinct smell. Its not raspberry though as so many sites say, more of a musty but still sweet smell.

If you are only seeing one or two bugs, you will have a much easier time getting rid of them than a case like us. We didn’t know we had them until we already had well over 1k bugs in just our room alone. For us, a combination of a good strong contact killer (we use J.T Eaton and/or the RAID sprays) vacuuming every other day (we bleach out the parts of the vacuum every time we do this) and manually catching bugs as we see them (i have an old vodka bottle with about two inches of baby oil in it) is keeping the numbers down, but NOT eliminating them. We are working on saving up enough money to do a pesticide + heat treatment combo. The company we used last time used an interesting combination of all green things (Cedar Oil fogger, some rather rank smelling spray like 5 types of spray total) and it did very nearly get rid of all of them. We didn’t see any for almost a year, but the evidence was there. We were getting bit, but only here and there. Now they are back with a vengeance, but this time, I’m ready for them.

Leigh::

Back in April I found a bug (looked like a bedbug) crawling on my couch. I killed it without thinking. I then sprayed my couch. A few months later (now august) I found another bug crawling on my couch. Looked exactly like the previous one. I have checked everywhere…my couch, my bed, and found nothing. I washed my slip covers on my couch and sprayed all over. Remembering back a few weeks ago, I woke up in the morning in bed with a patch of red itchy bites all over my shoulder. I noticed some blood on the sheets but figured it was just me scratching. So, my question is…is it possible to have just one or two bedbugs and no more? I have searched and haven’t found anything else….Help, bc I am freaking out!!!

Martha::

Unlikely Panic Attack, but anything is possible. Chances are they are in other areas of the home as well; wrap the couch up, get it out of the house and into the garage and treat it. Then spread diatomaceouse earth (food grade) around the home and follow the checklist on how to kill bedbugs.

laurirobison::

i work with a lady who has been battling the bedbug problem for over a year now ,my question is can she bring these bugs into work with her ,how can we prevent them from traveling to us plus we work in a food industry -is there any dangers there?

Exposed to bedbugs!::

Hey! Thanks for reading my email!

I’m a nervous wreck because I dated a guy who has been over two nights this week and sat on my couch for a couple hours both nights. he said he has found 6 bugs on his bed and has 2 bites on one arm but to “not worry” because he kills them when he sees them and always shakes his clothes out before dressing (seriously? that doesn’t help!)

I am trying to be calm and I’m not coming in contact with him anymore… but he has been in my car once and on my couch twice. What are the chances they were carried in?

IF one or two have fallen into my carpet…what can I do to kill those and prevent them multiplying, and how long might it take to have enough of them that I might notice some signs? I’m itchy just thinking about it and becoming more and more paranoid!

THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN PROVIDE!

Lauren::

Lauri, she can indeed bring them with her to work! Happens all the time! The only thing you can really do is create a barrier around her office using bedbug dust.

confused::

Hi,

Can bedbugs die on their own? The other day when i was having a clear out i noticed about 3or4 shells looking very much like the bedbug shells, in the drawers under my bed. I searched the mattress including all seams and the frame of my bed but found no live bugs or eggs or feces or blood spots.
I did have 3 lumps on my shoulder blade a few weeks ago but neither i nor my partner have experienced anything else. The thought of it now is making me paranoid and itchy!

Please help!

How do determine whether this is the case? (I have been looking all over and have not seen anything else) Can i set a trap? Or use a preventative measure? Or may they have died on their own?

Allie::

Jim, I have a serious question. I am a home health aide and my company sent me to a clients home for homestyle services. After going there the first thing I noticed was a smell in the apartment. About one hour later the clients provider called and talked to me. I was told they are loaded down with bedbugs. I called my office and reported this. Was told did not matter about the bedbugs it was still my job to go there.

I was also told by the company just to spray alcohol on my legs and shoes this would keep me from carry the pest with me. Then they said for me to undress when I get home and throw my clothes in a dryer for about 60 minutes. I have now got several bug bites from going in the apartment. Is there anything I can do to stop the bugs or make a complaint on my company because they knew of the problem and neglected to inform me before I took the case.

The client has been moved 3 times in the last year due to the bedbug problems. I need advice here please. Thanks

SF::

After researching what bedbugs look like I’m pretty sure I found one crawling in the sheets last night. I saved it in a glass and it’s dead now but it looks EXACTLY like the one near the paper clip on your site. Is it common to only find one? I couldn’t see any others. What are the next steps? Ew!

Dawn::

Hello,

Our building has a bedbug problem, and they have made it up to our apartment. I am moving out, and a company has come to spray our house twice in the last month, and they will be spraying again in a few days. I have thrown away everything that I can part with, but I have around 10-12 containers of family photo albums and other precious things that I cannot part with. I have boxed them up, put the box in a contractor bag, twisted the bag, taped it, twisted again, taped again, then folded the upper twist to the bottom and taped again. I then put this in a contractor bag and repeated the taping process. I have moved everything onto the roof under tarps to get it out of the house. All of these things were stored under my bed, so there is a good chance they are in there somewhere.

I plan on moving these things into the garage of my new home, but am extremely paranoid about bringing them with me. The process that I am going through was recommended by the man spraying my home, but I was wondering if this process is thorough enough. Can they crawl out of the bags, and if so, can they make it from the garage into the house. I don’t know what else to do, any recommendations on how to manage things that need to move with you?

Any information would be great, I can’t handle this stress in the new house, it is really affecting me.

Thank You

Graham::

There are some small spots on my sheets, but not an obscene amount like i have seen when looking for pictures of blood stains and fecal spots. also, I removed my sheets and inspected my mattress thoroughly and cant find any bugs or any other spots. I have some bug bites. Do these things mean that i have bedbugs? Please say no. Email me soon!

Helen Coleman::

My friends and I stayed in a hotel in Key West for the weekend. We came back with bites all over our bodies. I called and complained to the hotel and I an now waiting for the report from Ecolab that came to inspect the room we stayed in. But in the meantime, I am so itchy that feel like ripping my skin off. I am so miserable, and I have been taking benadryl but I am sleepy all day because of it. I am also anemic, and I have suffered about 100 bites. Should I be calling a lawyer at this point? I don’t know what to do and I can’t stop scratching.

Only Victim::

Hey All,

Is it possible that bedbugs can bite only you and not your partner who is sharing everything with you like the bed,couch,furniture etc????….These scratchy bite marks appears on me quite a few times but nothing on my partner….Can it be something other than bad bugs???

Please reply asap….

David::

I found two bedbugs the last week on the floor and I put them in a napkin and burned it. This morning I found one in the bathroom on the floor while I was sitting on the toilet I came back to my room a found one on my bed, so I had a flip and pulled everything off my bed but I didn’t find one more so I continued looking in my room, and the two other bedrooms in the house I did not find any more bedbugs. Should I be alarmed and call an exterminator.

Thanks,
David

Joe::

I work in a dorm at a school, this dorm has been recently infested with bedbugs. How easy is it to bring them home? Do I have to be worried about it?

tracey::

I found an apartment that I would really like to move into. The apartment complex discovered a bedbug infestation in March 2011. The landlord has implemented a treatment plan with a respectable PCO company since April 2011. The company had been spraying every two weeks and now is spraying and inspecting each apartment in the complex each month. The landlord reassured me that they are 100% bedbug free. Is this possible in 9 months? And would you take the risk?

tormentedbybedbugs::

I’m sorry to say that it is COMPLETELY untrue that bedbugs do not like hair. After a couple weeks of coming to visit my family, I was sleeping on a mattress that my brother had been given, and had 100’s of bites all over my back and shoulders. I thought it was an allergic reaction to new vitamins I was taking, until I found a bug crawling through my hair. I immediately researched about bedbugs online and everything matched up.

I shampooed my hair with lice shampoo to try to kill them, but they stayed alive. I combed out all the live ones with a nit comb, but a few days later, more had hatched. I spent 7 hours yesterday combing out eggs and tiny live bugs. If you have a bedbug infestation at your house, PLEASE beware! Check your hair immediately! These bugs are relentless! I had to buy an advanced kit (RID) usually used for lice that includes shampoo, comb out gel, and a really good nit comb that grabs the tiniest eggs.

If you have bedbugs in your hair, don’t follow the normal instructions of the lice treatment… bedbugs are DIFFERENT!

Casey::

Please help!!! We just moved into a rental house this month and a few days after being here we found some bedbugs on the carpets and baseboards maybe 10 in total and I called my land lord right away and he came the next day and treated with some kind of spray on all the baseboards and doorways.

We have new beds and they were checked very well several times and there is no sign of them on the beds my land lord treated for a week straight and I also bought mattress covers and a few cans of rid since it says it treats for bedbugs I sprayed down the beds curtains carpets washed everything I could and what I couldn’t I sprayed.

Now about 2 weeks later I woke up about 4 am by a phone call and my husband had a bedbug crawling on his face and it was a large sized one. Again I sprayed everything and searched everywhere but I can’t find any or any signs of them but I know they have to be here some where or do they? Can we just have a few? Or are we infested and I am not finding them.

None of us have bites but I heard not everyone may show signs of being bitten. I don’t know what to do I am about to go crazy over wondering and worrying and I am also about to take an extended trip to my mothers in another state for a few months and I am afraid that if I have them and can not find them that I will carry them to her house and I do not want to do that!

Please help I am going crazy!!!!

Mila Tyler::

Why is it when you are infected by bedbugs bite the people who’s home, hotel, or etc…… they are the ones who be in these infected places day in and day out 24/7 and they never seem to be showing any signs of bedbugs bite is it because their bodies are immune to it or when an clean person goes by an filthy place their bodies rejects its and bumps appear? why is this?? Well I hope I don’t have to throw away none of my stuff and I hope this doesn’t appear again.

Bedbud??::

Can bedbugs get in your hair, and make you lose your hair/?

bedbug Girl::

Bedbugs can, and do, get in your hair, but they will not cause thinning or loss.

karen::

my friend has noticed a lot of bites lately that we think could be bedbug bites. She wants to know can the bugs leave larva on a person? And does rubbing alcohol kill any bugs that are left on your body? How can we tell for sure that the bites she has on her body are from bedbugs? Do the bedbug bites leave scares? And are they related to cock roaches?

Flippen::

Hey Brandiab,

The bedbug eggs usually hatch between between 6 to 17 days (on average, 10 days) and once hatched, are ready to feast!

I agree with you in that it sounds like they are shirking their responsibility, and yes, they will head for the food source first! Why in the world would they want to set up camp in the next room when they can do it close to you? If the pest control company bombed or did the extermination wrong, they could have easily driven the bugs into your area! What’s the name of the companies (apartment complex and bedbug exterminator)?

Yesenia::

One big bedbug faq… I woke up 2 weeks ago with a bunch of bites on my feet they were huge red bumps I took Benadryl for 3 days and they wouldn’t go down finally after two weeks they’ve gone down a bit. I’ve looked all over my room changed my sheets put a mattress cover I haven’t seen anything! Please Help me I’m going insane trying to figure this out

buuuuugsy::

How do bedbugs protects itself from danger? Does it pretends to be dead?

2nd rounder::

Dear bedbug girl

I use to live in nyc when I had my first encounter with bedbugs. My father used diesel and a heat gun and threw all our furniture out. I now live in salt lake city 5 years later and recently moved to a new apartment. The first week of sleeping Here I got bitten. But I also started working a different shift at my job. I’ve had exterminators but i still get bitten and I even tried a bomb but they returned 2 weeks after. My whole apartment building has an infestation. On top of that I work at an elementary school where I see kids extremely bitten and I’ve told the custodian and secretary. No one seems to do anything about it and the kids are still coming to school infecting others. I work in a classroom with infected kids so I told the teacher but nothings been done. What’s the point of battling them at home if ill get them at work. please help me I don’t want to get fired.

parker::

Someone please help…I know I have bedbugs but can they get in your hair? These things are multiplying at an alarming rate in rooms I don’t even go in to…wth??? I see them on walls, floor, cupboards, drawers, toilet tank, kitchen sink, bathtub & bath tub jets…there’s no way lice could be producing so much with no blood but they’re are more & more each day in 2 of my unused rooms…what is the deal?

They can be a tiny black spec, a larger crunchy black bug, white things that are oblong and fuzzy looking…I’ve thrown out probably 10 grand in furniture, clothes, shoes…and more…I am already sick & just the cleaning exhausts me & it’s all for nothing because they come right on back…I refuse to use chemicals…ANY help would be much much appreciated. Thank you & good luck to you.

rooms…help, I’m already sick with 4 sever auto immune problems, have had to have iron infusions.

Sheilah::

Do you know how to tell the difference between female or male? or nymph or adult?

NICOLE::

I have had bedbugs for 2 days now. I already have around 10 bites, and it spread to my sister’s bed(shares a room with me) last night. Can I still wear the clothing in my closet, drawers and how should I handle my laundry. Do the bugs stay on me throughout the day. Will they come out at night, even when the light in my room is on? Thank you and good luck with you bedbugs!

Kathy::

if i am getting bit only once a day how many bedbugs do i have?

Colorado girl::

I recently had company that spent a few nights with me and they had had two treatments for bedbugs at that time, as well as washing and drying all their clothing. Around two weeks after they had visited, I found what I am pretty sure was a bedbug. I was sitting on the couch and noticed it crawling down my arm. I base this on the several pictures I have looked at.

I have not seen anything since and have not seen other signs of bedbugs. I am still feeling creeped out and like I constantly have something crawling on me or like something is biting me. I am losing sleep over this because I am so paranoid that because there was possibly one bedbug that there are a bunch more that I am missing somehow. Now I bought an insecticide that is according the pest control man, similar to what they use but in a weaker formula. I am going to spray my couch, bed, and other furniture just in case.

I am really trying not to be a baby and throw my furniture out because of one bug but I am about at that point. Not to mention that my visitors have since found more bedbugs and in different rooms of their house. I have steam cleaned my couch and recliner and vacuumed like crazy. Any suggestions, advice, or ideas are welcomed.

n::

My husband and I just moved into a new apartment and a week later I notice something on my back and found out it was a bedbug! Shortly after, my daughter started getting bit. I have used the bedbug powder and so far, no one has got bit in 2 days but I cant shake the thought that something is crawling on and biting me. What do I do? We found 7 and that was it and only in our daughters room. we killed everything we found. Feces means we are infested?

bedbug Girl::

Hi Herb,

No, they can’t if you’re not having contact with them. They will stay in the house (or their car, etc).

bedbug Girl::

Buy yourself a bedbug mattress encasement right now and cover up the mattress and box spring completely if possible! You may be lucky and have found a small infestation. Get some diatomaceous earth and spread it around as shown on the bedbug dust page within this site. Also, look at the checklist here as well and see if the nightstand and other furniture are infested.

It is a horrible feeling, but it can happen to anyone, you just need to buckle down and follow the instructions on the page referred to on this site. DO NOT give up, just stick with it and you will win!

Michelle::

Our god daughter came to our house today, I picked her up when she came in to our house she came straight in and took a shower her clothes only ever saw the bathroom. I purchased the RID spray that kills bedbugs sprayed my car and vacuumed after it dried then cloroxed my bathroom floor and sprayed the baseboards heavily and the hall way, we have wood floors. Her clothes stayed on the bathroom floor for a couple hours before I found out she had bedbugs at home, what do you think I should do or my chances of getting them are? I am going to spray for spiders tomorrow with professional exterminator spray as well!

Alex::

Hello,

My boyfriend and I recently have had bedbugs (or at least we think we have). We have found two bugs that look like bedbugs – but were dead. And I have been getting bites all over my abdomen and up to my shoulders in clusters of three or more. The tricky part is that my boyfriend hasn’t gotten any bites and we haven’t found any live bedbugs or signs of bedbugs (other than the two dead ones). I continue to get the bites but we can neither confirm nor deny that we have a problem. We have bought the diatomaceous earth and spread it all over the bed room and on the mattress, under the mattress…. EVERYWHERE… we have checked every crack and crevis in the room, even behind electrical outlets, and we have cleaned cleaned cleaned… although the only dirt we have is dust. Is there a way that we can draw them out to see where they are coming from? At least that way we would be able to successfully get rid of them. We don’t want to call an exterminator unless we absolutely have to. Please can you tell me what our next course of action is.

Thank you,
Alex!

Anonymous::

My roommate very recently started having a bedbug problem. (I think she got them from a friend.) She has started treating it pretty quickly. How likely is it that they will spread to my room? Are there preventative measures that I can take?

JULIE::

Friends of ours have stayed at our house a few times, been in our vehicles etc, they have just found out they have a massive infestation of bedbugs in there house. should i be worried? what should i do?

Bedbug Killer::

Yes, you should be worried and start look for any sings of bedbugs. Right now, you best bet is to use DE (bedbug dust) around the areas they slept just to make sure you kill any stragglers!

Cassandra::

My bedbug bites were raised, I went to the doctors and he gave me creams and medicine, that seemed to help, I noticed that they were going down, but last night I also noticed two big bump and later on that night mostly all my bites were getting bigger, they’re not raised they just look like mosquito bites. I was wondering if that was like the “last stage” until they start going away?

Melissa::

If I had a serious infestation of the bugs on a large carpet blanket cover, is it possible to then smell the dead bugs while they are being washed? I was washing it yesterday and noticed this strong unusual musty oder emitting from the wash machine. Is that a sign that they existed in the carpet blanket?