Bedbugs making comback in U.S.

[Gogi]

After almost being eradicated bedbugs are being found in increasing numbers in this country. So, if you wake up with what look like chigger bites all over your body you have bedbugs!

[Abe Linkman]

1. If they do, just throw your shoe.

n/t

[scarlet_owl]

14. and hit them 'til their black and blue.

[NaMeaHou]

2. Not in this waterbed!

no way!

And any lice lurking on this message board, take note - you are not welcome either! (dust mites are not my friends, but we have an uneasy truce)

[Cappurr]

3. How do you get rid of them?

I have a fairly decent matress, a matress cover and I wash my sheets ever two or three days. But I am getting what looks like chigger bites. And they aint fleas cause my cats are flea-free. Ugh. Now I don't wanna go to bed.

[Gogi]

5. If all the bites are clustered together you have chigger bites.

If they're all over then you have bedbugs. They hide in crevices in the room, wallpaper and bed clothes. The only way to get rid of them is to get your house professionally sprayed.

[Cappurr]

9. No.....they are pretty much only on my legs....

Ive been spraying and I think it is helping. But I can't "bomb" the place because of the cats.

[OrdinaryTa]

13. How to Kill Bedbugs

They don't live in the bed, they live in cracks in the floor. Getting rid of them is no big deal, you just spray a couple of times and they're gone. It also helps to constantly vacuum the places where they hide.

I suspect they are related to fleas. If you've lived in a flea area during flea season, you don't freak out, but you do what's necessary to get the upper hand. In California we'd groom our Siamese cat with a comb and tweezers - it was a constant struggle for as long as flea season lasted.

Bedbugs are slightly larger than fleas and they go after humans. It makes them lots more annoying than fleas (which also bite humans), but they aren't significantly grosser.

[montana_hazeleyes]

4. I've heard of them all my life,

but what are they?! It gives me the willies just thinking about it.

[Don_G]

6. Here's A Link

http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/bemf/microangela/bedbug.htm

[Gogi]

7. They are hard to ee but they look like lady bugs.

At least that's what the article said.

[Cappurr]

10. Nah....

Thats not what I have. First of all, I don't usually see any bugs upstairs. There are some fruit-fly like thingies that get in through the screens when I open the windows. They like the garbage can where the cat food is. So I spray the damn can every day. Then I saw a couple of these little black things. Not fleas. But I kill the suckers as fast as I see em. I think they are what has been biting my legs. Ugh.

[NaMeaHou]

12. I suggest good insurance

and poor electrical wiring.

Seriously - there are so many creatures out there that love us humans that we should take it as a compliment that they would give us little "love bites"

really seriously - put the cats in a storage area for a few hours and get a professional in there to spray and bomb and whatever.

good luck on it.

[LynneSin]

8. Here

Great, dealing with the roaches (which the treatment is working but the roaches seem to die in public places. I'm cleaning up more dead ones :eyes: )

[Clovis Sangrail]

11. what constitutes all over?

Lately I notice that I have 1-4 itchy insect bites at any given time, and they aren't mosquito bites.

[jburton]

15. are you sure they're bedbugs?

Perhaps they are Cooties!

:crazy: