the bedbug thing is freaking me out

Cloud • Sep 24, 2010 12:31 am
Been reading the news about this, and --ugh. Very scary and gross.

I don't have them--yet. But any travel and it seems like you could bring them home. Is it only a matter of time before they spread everywhere?

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2021036,00.html?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+International
Trilby • Sep 24, 2010 6:33 am
Don't think about it. They thrive on fear.
monster • Sep 24, 2010 8:09 am
They're republicans.
glatt • Sep 24, 2010 8:17 am
Did you know that they have been found on library books? You check a book out and then BLAM! your house is infested.
monster • Sep 24, 2010 8:25 am
Also, you need to make sure your AV software has the bedbud update. Yesterday's facebook hack was thought to be bedbug related.
ZenGum • Sep 24, 2010 8:33 am
Bedbugging. That what you kids are calling it these days, eh?
Flint • Sep 24, 2010 10:21 am
glatt;684632 wrote:
Did you know that they have been found on library books? You check a book out and then BLAM! your house is infested.
For the record, they do not make a sound that goes BLAM in your house. And that is what's so scary!
Pete Zicato • Sep 24, 2010 10:27 am
monster;684631 wrote:
They're republicans.

Chuckled-out-loud
monster • Sep 24, 2010 10:28 am
I heard they're rampant in car seat upholstery too.
monster • Sep 24, 2010 10:29 am
Pete Zicato;684676 wrote:
Chuckled-out-loud


:) They're not very conservative, though. Living on handouts.
Shawnee123 • Sep 24, 2010 10:49 am
Bedbugs are liberal tit suckers?
monster • Sep 24, 2010 10:52 am
tit, cock, whatever they can get......
Shawnee123 • Sep 24, 2010 10:56 am
Why don't they go out and work for their flesh? I bet most of them are able-bodied bedbugs who could contribute to society instead of standing around with their entitlement mentality, clogging up the health care system and eating government knees.
monster • Sep 24, 2010 11:00 am
It's the damn mexican vampires who will suck blood for a pittance of cash under the table no benefits required. That and the outsourcing to India. An honest bedbug today is forced into the hobo handout lifestyle. not all hobos are liberals, you know, although the are all tree huggers. and dead. at least all the ones you know are....
Shawnee123 • Sep 24, 2010 11:01 am
I dont' have to worry about the damn mexican bedbugs. I stopped them at the boarder.

:lol:

I slay me.
Lamplighter • Sep 24, 2010 11:12 am
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.
Shawnee123 • Sep 24, 2010 11:15 am
You can SEE bb poo?

How big are these suckers anyway? :shudder:
classicman • Sep 24, 2010 11:27 am
very cool Lamp. I think I might make one and check it out.
classicman • Sep 24, 2010 11:28 am
Image
monster • Sep 30, 2010 8:47 am
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.
xoxoxoBruce • Sep 30, 2010 12:45 pm
Or drink a lot, so if they bite you they can't hide in your luggage, 'cause you'll hear 'em burpin' and fartin'.;)
wolf • Sep 30, 2010 1:09 pm
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.
tw • Sep 30, 2010 7:40 pm
Talk about a real threat - the stink bug. Bill Joel defined it in his song Allentown.
And it's getting very hard to stay
And we're living here in Allentown
But not for long. They escaped to 20 other states where jobs and crops are plentiful. And where predators are none.
wolf • Sep 30, 2010 8:05 pm
This would be one of those times when I really, really don't understand you.
glatt • Sep 30, 2010 8:21 pm
There's an asian stink bug invasion going on in the US right now.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 1, 2010 12:54 am
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.
Cloud • Oct 1, 2010 10:15 am
but stinkbugs don't live in your bed and suck your blood.
Spexxvet • Oct 1, 2010 10:38 am
Cloud;685965 wrote:
but stinkbugs don't live in your bed and suck your blood.


As far as you know.;)
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 1, 2010 11:04 am
Cloud;685965 wrote:
but stinkbugs don't live in your bed and suck your blood.


But Edward Cullen does, and that's OK. Discrimination, I tells ya. ;)
Juniper • Oct 1, 2010 11:16 am
Edward Cullen lives in YOUR bed?
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 1, 2010 11:22 am
No, you thilly thavage. :p:
Happy Monkey • Oct 1, 2010 11:30 am
xoxoxoBruce;685924 wrote:
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.
It's a slightly different species of stinkbug, with stripy legs.
tw • Oct 1, 2010 12:41 pm
xoxoxoBruce;685924 wrote:
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.
Stink bugs did not exist in N America until released by a container in Allentown PA in the 1990s. They were mostly ignored since they were thought to not be a problem. But the stink bug explosion is now a major threat to agriculture.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 1, 2010 8:52 pm
Happy Monkey;685982 wrote:
It's a slightly different species of stinkbug, with stripy legs.
I didn't know this, never noticed that detail.

tw;685996 wrote:
Stink bugs did not exist in N America until released by a container in Allentown PA in the 1990s. They were mostly ignored since they were thought to not be a problem. But the stink bug explosion is now a major threat to agriculture.
No, we've alway had stink bugs. You are you talking about the Pippi Longstocking variety, the Brown Marmorated variety HM referred to.
tw • Oct 1, 2010 9:34 pm
xoxoxoBruce;686084 wrote:
No, we've alway had stink bugs.
Not the ones that were transported from Asia to Allentown PA in the 1990s. And that are now a major concern to agriculture.

I have no idea what stink bug you have seen. I have never seen one. But around 2000, I was seeing this Asian stink bug in swarms. And had never seen it before.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 2, 2010 4:32 am
tw;686093 wrote:
Not the ones that were transported from Asia to Allentown PA in the 1990s. And that are now a major concern to agriculture.
[SIZE="1"]sigh[/SIZE]... that's what I just said. :rolleyes:
I have no idea what stink bug you have seen. I have never seen one. But around 2000, I was seeing this Asian stink bug in swarms. And had never seen it before.
You must have been a city kid. stink bugs
wolf • Oct 2, 2010 10:42 pm
Juniper;685977 wrote:
Edward Cullen lives in YOUR bed?


Vampires are WAY easier to get rid of than bedbugs. One well-placed stake, maybe a beheading just to be sure, and you're all done.

Getting rid of bedbugs is serious work.
Yznhymr • Oct 6, 2010 2:52 pm
A month ago while camping I had my first encounter with the horrible creatures. A hundred or so bites, mostly in underwear region since it was the only place I didn't spray down with Deet. Please don't waste time asking personal questions about where they bit me, the answer would be yes. I had to take the steroid pack and doxycycline. Horrible expierence. Be afraid...be very afraid.

And yes, all clothes, sleeping bag, etc. were torched with fire and covered with lime and then covered with a foot of dirt, then sprayed down with methyl parathion. I shouldv'e thrown a clove of garlic on the pile for good measure.
xoxoxoBruce • Oct 6, 2010 5:37 pm
Where did they come from, the sleeping bag?
Getgo • Oct 6, 2010 6:11 pm
Bed Bugs are becoming the next Cockroaches. Pesky little shits.