When I woke up this morning there was a single bug sitting on my comforter next to me. I have no bites or anything. I have been planning a trip that is happening in a few weeks, so have been researching bed bugs in hotels and know what they look like and how to find them and what not… At first I figured it was a tick, but it did not have the legs like a tick and was flat and brown. I immediately looked up pictures and it is in fact a bed bug. I have a brand new bed that i bought before moving into this apartment about 8 months back and the apartments do not have any other bed bug issues. Also, Immediately after finding the bug, I killed it and flushed it down the toilet, then searched around my bed all over in it and around it, Removed my blankets, sheets, and mattress cover, and threw them into a garbage bags and tied it up. I then grabbed all of my laundry and the bags with my bedding stuff and went to the Laundromat. I put all the pillows in the dryer for 40 min and washed and dried everything on hot. I have vacuumed and sprayed bleach all over everything in my room (carpet, mattress, frame, etc..). I have searched my bed thoroughly in all cracks and what not, and see absolutely no signs of them anywhere (no casings, shells, blood spots, bugs… nothing) I have a completely bright white mattress too, so i figure it should be fairly easy to spot them. I think that the one could have been brought in by my friend who goes out of town every week for work and is constantly staying in hotels. He came over and was in my room the night he got back into town (which was Saturday night), and I found the bug the following Tuesday morning. Do you think I have an infestation?????? should i be worried? Im already scared to sleep in my bed now..,
How does an infestation start, then, if there can never be just ONE?
Isnt it quite possible that the bug I found was just one that was carried over from my friend?

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When I was little, about 6 years old, we had many neighbors friends that had kids also. We played with them and hung out together. One weekend my family and I went away for the weekend, which was pretty typical. When we got beck from this excursion, it was at night and when I went to go to bed I pulled back the sheets and there was a cricket my bed! I called for my Dad and told him there was a bug in my bed, so he killed it and got rid of it, and then he told me to go to bed, and to not worry there were not any more bugs. Then as I pulled back the sheets some more there were 10 little black crickets all bunched up together in the middle of my bed.
How did those crickets get in my bed and where do you think they came from? I never though about that experience for sometime, but now I am thinking that maybe neighbors had placed them there. I was a very pretty little girl and maybe they were spiteful. I was a good, polite and kind little girl. What do you think happened and or where or how did those crickets get into my bed? I and my family are still friends with the neighbors. I don’t think they would fess up to braking and entering into to our home to do this. What is your opinion?
Please no insulting comments, I find this disturbing. Don’t you? I thought these people were our friends! What do you make of it? Is it possible for all those crickets to get under my well made bed, under sheets, blankets and a bed spread?
To tell you the truth, I don’t remember if it was a weekend, a week or even two weeks. How long does it take for crickets to hatch and grow?
And also, how many little crickets do adult crickets typically have?
These little crickets were not super small, they were a little bit longer than a 1/4 inch in length.
These little crickets were not super small, they were a little bit longer than a 1/4 inch in length.

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So for a few weeks now almost every night I find a single bug crawling around (quite quickly) in my bed always on my sheets. And every night when I find it I capture it in a tissue and stab it through the tissue and it’s blood and crap pops out the I flush it. It’s like the size of a tic I think, and has the appearance of a head lice bug a little bit but is of course much bigger. Ik it’s not bed bugs because for one I’d be waking up with many bites and I don’t think I’ve had any bites. Plus I’m pretty sure bed bugs are too small to see with the naked eye. I’ve tried washing my sheets, blankets, pillows, pillow cases, and the stuffed animals on my bed, I even got completely new bedding and everything and nothings worked and I really am not comfortable with finding a strange bug in my bed every night does anybody know what this might be and know what I can do?!?! I just killed one like 5 minutes ago please help me!! my mom hasn’t known what to do either we’ve been spraying my bed with hair spray that’s the same brand as the shampoo I started using for a while when I was little to get rid o head lice (Paul Mitchell is the brand) I’ve never had lice since btw so if you are readin this and happen to have lice, use that stuff. The store treatments and mayonnaise don’t work. But anyway, please help me

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Because I’ve been losing my tan and just remembered that my mattress hasn’t been vacuumed for a really long time. My blankets too. When I was at my brothers house, it would take at least a week to start losing my tan and it was only a few days when I went back to my bed 2 days and I’m the skin color I was naturally..

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When I was little, about 6 years old, we had many neighbors friends that had kids also. We played with them and hung out together. One weekend my family and I went away for the weekend, which was pretty typical. When we got beck from this excursion, it was at night and when I went to go to bed I pulled back the sheets and there was a cricket my bed! I called for my Dad and told him there was a bug in my bed, so he killed it and got rid of it, and then he told me to go to bed, and to not worry there were not any more bugs. Then as I pulled back the sheets some more there were 10 little black crickets all bunched up together in the middle of my bed.
How did those crickets get in my bed and where do you think they came from? I never though about that experience for sometime, but now I am thinking that maybe neighbors had placed them there. I was a very pretty little girl and maybe they were spiteful. I was a good, polite and kind little girl. What do you think happened and or where or how did those crickets get into my bed? I and my family are still friends with the neighbors. I don’t think they would fess up to braking and entering into to our home to do this. What is your opinion?
Please no insulting comments, I find this disturbing. Don’t you? I thought these people were our friends! What do you make of it? Is it possible for all those crickets to get under my well made bed, under sheets, blankets and a bed spread?

These little crickets were not super small, they were a little bit longer than a 1/4 inch in length. How long does it take for crickets to hatch and grow? And how many little crickets do adult crickets typically have? And do they carry them on their backs?
To tell you the truth, don’t remember if it was a weekend, or a week or even two weeks.

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Like it says in the question-
last year we signed a lease at what looked like a decent apartment just to find out after we signed the lease that the place was infested with cockroaches and bed bugs. We’ve spent the last year working with pest control companies and fighting against our crappy landlord but there are just too many bugs, so matter how many times we kill the ones in our apartment it doesn’t matter because there are still bugs in the rest of the building to come back again.

So finally our lease is up and my husband, our 3 month old son, scent hound, house cat, 2 dwarf hamsters, and I will be moving out of our disgusting bug infested apartment into a brand new never-lived in condo, without bugs, and we need to know how to move all our things, without bringing the bugs to infest our new home.

We’ll be moving over-sized leather couches, mattresses, the carpeted cat tree, doggie beds, closets full of clothes, luggage, blankets, baby toys, pillows, etc…
and we don’t want to bring the bugs with us.
So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated- thanks!

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i have never thought bed bugs has existed until i saw on the news that the hotels were have infestations.

my uncle brought a chair back from arizona to my grandmas house and it ws infested. and so my grandma has them at her house…i got these bumps and didnt know what they were. well now i have bites all over my body and i have a water bed and cant tell how i have them or not.

how do i know? how do i get rid of them?

i just washed blankets and used bed bug spray and took a shower then went to bed…not even two hours later i have bites all over me and one was crawling on the wall.

someone please help and give information. and they are only in my room no where else in the house.

what should i do?

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I am deathly afraid of ANY kind of bug. I spray for insects around my house, I constantly clean so I will be free of roaches….but now I read a question about what bed bugs look like and now I am freaked. I change and wash all the sheets on the beds every week. Should I be good not to get them, or should I wash my sheets adn blankets more often than once a week?
I didn’t know they were do tiny. I thought they were flea sized.

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Like it says in the question-
last year we signed a lease at what looked like a decent apartment just to find out after we signed the lease that the place was infested with cockroaches and bed bugs. We’ve spent the last year working with pest control companies and fighting against our crappy landlord but there are just too many bugs, so matter how many times we kill the ones in our apartment it doesn’t matter because there are still bugs in the rest of the building to come back again.

So finally our lease is up and my husband, our 3 month old son, scent hound, house cat, 2 dwarf hamsters, and I will be moving out of our disgusting bug infested apartment into a brand new never-lived in condo, without bugs, and we need to know how to move all our things, without bringing the bugs to infest our new home.

We’ll be moving over-sized leather couches, mattresses, the carpeted cat tree, doggie beds, closets full of clothes, luggage, blankets, baby toys, pillows, etc…
and we don’t want to bring the bugs with us.
So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated- thanks!
I ask in this section since this is where I usually get the best answers

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Hey all,

Recently when I go to bed, I get these sharp painful bites over my body from bed bugs. They have become a major annoyance and I’ve tried changing my bed and blanket sheets to no avail.

What can I do to get rid of these bugs in my bed? Your responses will be of a great help to me.
Do they also live inside blankets? Because one time I covered the top of my mattress with cling wrap and still got bites (though much less).

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I recently have been treating my hair for dry scalp. I noticed dust mites go to drapes, bed. I was my blankets every 2 week. I use disinfection spray. What eles can you use to remove them that safe with small kids

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This morning and yesterday my son woke up with what appear to be insect bites. They itch and are red; one was puffy after he scratched it. He is the only one in the house getting these.

So I took the blankets and sheets off his bed and inspected the bedding, mattress, floor and baseboards around the area. I did find one small insect–very small and not like the pictures I’ve seen of bed bugs. It was maybe 1/8 inch long, elongated and brown in color. That was all I could find. I didn’t see any blood or rusty stains on the sheets.

Ugh. I’m almost vomiting here at the thought that there might be bed bugs or something. To my questions:

Can bed bugs be passed by casual contact? We haven’t been anywhere overnight or had any company. My son did get a used stuffed animal that he took to bed with him! (crap) That was a couple weeks ago. Can he pick them up from the kids at school?

If it was bed bugs, wouldn’t I find them on the mattress or sheets or somewhere around the bed? Like I said, it was just that one and it didn’t appear to be a bed bug.

Something is obviously biting him at night. What else could it be, if not bed bugs? What else should I look for for signs of anything?

So I’m going to wash his bedding and vacuum the room really good. What else should I do? Take him to the doctor? Call an exterminator?

Oh, I seriously have the heebie jeebies! Any thoughts or advice greatly appreciated.
No chickens. We do have a cat that’s strictly an indoor cat. We’ve had him for years and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have fleas, but it’s something to check into. Thanks a lot. I made a doctor’s appointment for tomorrow.

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I have been feeling itchy down there for about 4 days now, but I have looked many times and there is nothing visibly wrong with my skin. This morning when I woke up, I saw about 6 black dots on my sheets (but not on my pillow case). It’s possible that it was from my cat sleeping on the bed, but I was feeling paranoid so I immediately washed my blankets, sheets, and pillow case.

I was feeling a little better until I went into the shower and looked at my loofah. I hadn’t used it since yesterday, but I was unable to use it today because I realized it had similar looking blackish dots (not really circular shaped but I will call them dots for lack of a better term) on it.

I took a magnifying glass and tried to figure out what they were, but I still couldn’t tell. I couldn’t see any legs or anything indicating bugs. This is the first day any of this has happened. It’s possible that the things on the sheets were from my cats and that the things on the loofah were from the rust in the bathtub, but since I have been having irritation in the genital region (not visible but still not normal feeling), I am paranoid. Please tell me what to do…I looked at pictures of bed bug and public lice online and the photos don’t seem to match up with what I saw.

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if you could help me. Just a little while ago I went to change my sheets, and found a tiny bug, that was brown, and looked like it had a reddish/black spot on it’s butt. It was attached to one of my heavier blankets, thankfully it was dead, or perhaps it was the exoskeleton? Could this possibly be a bed bug? The mattress is brand new, the blankets were from my old house, which I know was bug bed free. But the room I’m in right now is usually infested with lady bugs, flies and quite a few spiders too. So could there have been bed bugs in the room before I came? Also I have clothing hanging in my room, and some piled on my floor, if I have bed bugs should I wash all the clothing that is near the bed, also?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I currently have the hibbie Jibbies majorly now. As if all the other bugs weren’t enough. I would have posted a picture but the bug is too tiny to photograph in the baggie it’s in, and I’m not touching it.

Thanks for any help.

I’ve checked wiki and google, I’d just like another opinion, suffice to say, I’m sleeping on the downstairs couch tonight.
I should mention that I’m a teenager, living at home, so moving, spraying isn’t up to me.

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In the last case scenario, an exterminator did come through here, but it was such a hassel having to put all clothing, linens, blankets away in plastic bags. Now these bugs are here again, and it's -10 outside. My roommate won't do the hassel again.
How can I take care of bed bugs myself? without the hassel? I just don't want to get bitten in my bed at night. What will at least help?

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