Bedbugs - move over roaches and rats?

[travelguide]

I hate these things. I had a friend whose place got bed bugs. I have been careful cause I don't want to bring them to my place. They can jump from contact with someone who has them I think.

[makossa]

Does the telltale black spot which is found on the underside of your mattress look the same in cabinets, night stands, picture frames.....etc....??

[travelguide]

Hello,
What you have heard is true. They are the Epidemic of the decade.but recently I happened to come across Commercial Integrated Pest Management for the Hospitality and Lodging Industry::Bed Bug Bureau::Products By All Stop who claim to be efficient enough to pull the bed bugs out just like Pied Piper Of Hamlin did to the rats.

[travelguide]

what you have heard is true. bed bugs are this decades worst epidemic. They drink our blood. I had faced their bite while I was staying in ahotel . They are horrible.

[90'sHip_Hop_Head]

They can last a year without feeding OMG WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by 90'sHip_Hop_Head

They can last a year without feeding OMG WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, and cockroaches would be the only survivors of a nuclear war. I'm afraid that if they could laugh at us, our six-legged fellow denizens of Planet Earth would be doing so at this very minute.

[Moderate Guy]

bedbugs, roaches, rats, food carts not clean.........eeewww, where's a guy to sleep or eat?

[Fred314X]

Originally Posted by Miles

bedbugs, roaches, rats, food carts not clean.........eeewww, where's a guy to sleep or eat?

Come on, that's an easy question! Sleep or eat where there aren't any bedbugs, roaches or rats. (If you don't know where those places are, hey, you'll have to ask someone else for help. I cannot be giving away secrets of this nature.

[gaia227]

We have bed bugs in our apt building. The landlord has not done a gd thing about it either. It is a nightmare. They are the most disgusting, vile creatures and to think that I have them really bothers me. We are clean people who keep a clean apt and the fact that we have these bugs makes me feel like people think we must be slobs or something.
We were on the roof the other day watering our tomatoes and there were bed bugs everywhere crawling all over the brick. We have an exposed brick wall in our second floor apt and that is exactly where they are coming from and where they live.

We have found that rubbing alcohol kills them and the herb thyme is a deterrent. So, we steep thyme in a spray bottle with rubbing alcohol everynight and spray the bedding, the pillows, the walls, the floor, etc and it definitely helps alot.

It is completely pointless for us to have our room fumigated because since the landlord has not had the other apt sprayed they will just keep coming back. I think the only solution is to throw everything away and move.......

[plistumi]

Nasty animals. Wish we still had DDT...