Comments on: bed bugs and thrift stores

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:39:40 +0000

Dee, –and leave them in the car for a long time in either below freezing cold, or the heat of summer, yeah?

I just wanted to fill in the rest of that thought, else newcomers might think cars = magical decontamination chambers.

Yes, I know it sounds crazy, but I can’t forget the entomologist on the newscast a while back suggesting people put suitcases “outside for a day” after a trip to a hotel.

Umm, if it’s cold, they’ll huddle in the suitcase for warmth. If it’s hot, they’ll huddle in the suitcase for shade. They won’t die unless the temps hit 140 degrees F for four hours, or zero for a few days.

So putting them outside, in New Jersey, in October, is going to do, exactly, what?!? Bad TV entomologist, bad! Bad!

By: Dee

Dee — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:24:45 +0000

Note to self… put some XL Ziplocks in the car & put purchases in them!

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:41:03 +0000

The scary thing about bed bugs is that it HELPS to be a bit obsessive and paranoid. The problem breeds obsessiveness. If you’re easygoing, it will be very hard to get rid of this problem.

By: parakeets

parakeets — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:45:11 +0000

This scares me because once I get rid of bedbugs (I hope I will, I’ve been trying and so has my landlord, though not effectively so far), the bedbugs can come right back again! I live in an apartment building so it would not just be a result of my shopping–any tenant in the building could bring them in from shopping or visiting a place that had them.

Major warning: Just don’t watch what you buy, watch the corregated boxes they are shipped in, too. I found a bedbug hiding in one of the the little tubules of a corregated box.

I begin to feel paranoid.