I don't want to bug you... but....

[Papax3]

Okay,

I somehow feel a little safer saying this on this forum.... since we're friends and all...

Guess what happened to me!
Response: Oh? What Bill...
I was going to bed, and this freaky little bug ran across my eyebrows.
Response: Egad! are you serious!?
As a freakin' heart attack...
Response: so whad-u-doo?
I snatched him up.... and took a closer peek....and then had an "Alanhod" moment: "Blinding flash of the obvious".
Response: soooooo......
I looked it up on the internet because a terrible light was begining to dawn on me.
Response: Yeah, yeah, go on....
It was a feakin' bed-bug.
Response: Gross. I don't want to know you now.
Right.
Response: So, waddid you do then.
Hell... I did the only logical thing, I freaked out.
Response: over a bug.
NO... over BED...bugs.
Response: Just hit'm in the head with a shoe, or you'll turn blue kinda bugs??
Yes.
NOT entirely sure what the vector was (check your Vector, Victor)...
1. My daughter... (complained of a rash, see her every-other weekend)
2. New apartment/ complex.
3. Bought a new-old mattress.

Response: that's just ugly.
Yeah, butt-ugly.... creepy too.... little vampires.
Response: so what can I learn from this?
I never had so much as a cock-a-roach in my house... okay, a few ants back in the day... but NEVER this.
If you are really unaware, there is a widespread NATIONAL resurgence... the exterminator called it an "epidemic". The biggest cities have been hit hardest. Mostly because they stopped using DDT, and they were getting used to the stuff anyway. First it was shooting an ant with an elephant gun (bed-bug vs. DDT), and now they say it's the other way around... they're tougher than ever, and we only have pop-guns. To give you some small idea: I soaked the (5 total bugs) that I found in nail-polish remover (really stiff-stuff), for thirty seconds.... and they all came back alive. They bad-ass Wilifred.
Response: wow.... i think... how do-u get'm?
Because of the resurgence, ANY public place is now in question: mostly hotels, motels, and some movie theaters have been shut down also.
Response: YOU sure? (hint of skepticism).
Their was a "webwatch", and it listed several very "POSH" hotels in my area, that gave first-hand accounts.
Response: What was it like?
I NEVER-EVER saw them (except the one time). I thought my baby-girl had "gifted" one of my pillows with poison-ivy (been done once or twice already)... and I'm very allergic to that stuff. But then I got paranoid... but not paranoid enough.... until the little &$%&&* ripped across my eyebrows.
Response: then what.
I discovered personally that: you will likely NEVER-EVER see them. that the bites are like mosquitoe bites, but they last longer, and never have a "center" drill mark. They are most likely found at the head of your bed, and ..... swear to GOD.... they could hide between two sheets of paper, and you would never find them. OH yeah.. they only have to feed once a year.
Response: let me make sure I got the math right:
1. I'll never see them.
2. Tough as hell.
3. Only need one meal a year, and can hide the rest of the time.
4. Probably breed like crazy.
Yes x4. Our exterminator was very "Up on it"... he went to New York for a symposium. For Arkansas, he said he has gone from 1 case in 6 months, to 8 cases in a month... and that Arkansas is only..... "just on the cusp" of the epidemic. He said that we caught our problem very early, but that it can go from zero to sixty in just a couple of weeks.

Fair Warning, Fair Warning, Fair Warning!!!
I STRONGLY SUGGEST A PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE IN YOUR OWN HOMES.
PEOPLE are the VECTOR, and the FOOD SOURCE.
(It's all about where the most people congregate, sit, sleep)
Have an exterminator lay down some long-acting powder just behind the head of your mattress, and around your base-boards...

...an ounce (literally) of prevention, is worth a pound of cure.

Response..... ?

Bill

[astrorad]

I have heard a lot about this on the radio lately...it is really becoming a widespread problem....high temperature is used as a last resort to clean out an infestation....but that is very hard to do without destroying everything in the house.