BB's hide from light in dark places, and cardboard makes for great BB bedrooms.
A simple do-it-yourself BB monitor can be made with an index card, a piece of cardboard, and some double-sticky tape.
Put it under the bed near the headboard and check for BB poo weekly.

You'll have either BB's or peace of mind !

Here a pic and link of one commercial model.

You can SEE bb poo?

How big are these suckers anyway? :shudder:

very cool Lamp. I think I might make one and check it out.

OK, I think I'm going to take the necessaries to check for bedbugs when I go to a hotel for a hockey tourney next month. Joking aside, bedbugs are something I could happily live without. Seems the main thing to do, though, it make sure everything goes in a hot wash and dry when you get home. Similar precautions to lice alerts.

Or drink a lot, so if they bite you they can't hide in your luggage, 'cause you'll hear 'em burpin' and fartin'.;)

Quite a few of the residential programs nearby have had bedbug infestations, but I believe they have all been declared "under control." One of my frequent callers has had an infestation, but it's not as easy to get a rooming house full of crazy people to comply with all the washing and cleaning that's necessary to eradicate them.

Talk about a real threat - the stink bug. Bill Joel defined it in his song Allentown. But not for long. They escaped to 20 other states where jobs and crops are plentiful. And where predators are none.

This would be one of those times when I really, really don't understand you.

There's an asian stink bug invasion going on in the US right now.

Yeah, I've had tons of them for the last year. But seeing as these things have been around for as long as I can remember, I'd call it a population explosion, rather than an invasion.

but stinkbugs don't live in your bed and suck your blood.

As far as you know.;)

But Edward Cullen does, and that's OK. Discrimination, I tells ya. ;)

Edward Cullen lives in YOUR bed?