Comments on: Tales of Bed Bug Woe: ask questions, share advice and stories about bed bugs

By: bbwarrior

bbwarrior — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:01:35 +0000

Hi All
I just registered at the forums and am waitng for my password, but wanted to say hi. Will post a few questions on the forum.

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:24:41 +0000

Willow, the forums are not just for tales of woe, and you’ve started a lot of topics. Others have too, in the last few days. So when someone has a question, they should start the topic. But the downside is if you post too many at once, you might not get as many answers. There are about 10 people participating and if there are lots of questions, they won’t probably get to them all, so spacing them out is good.

This thread is on hold while everyone tries out the forums! If you want to discuss the forums, you can do that there too!

By: willow-the-wisp

willow-the-wisp — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:17:02 +0000

it does and it doesn’t
a–It does … but I’m not seeing a lot of topics in the forums so these are really questions I have that I would like others with much much more experience than I to start topics on–or give them some topic ideas if they want to start one, but don’t know quite how to start one.
It seems eveyone wants to share here in “tales of woe” but it’s all a tale of woe. So that is confusing to me–does that make sense?

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:59:49 +0000

Hi Willow,
I think the best thing is to discuss the forums in the forums! Also, I suggest anyone who wants to should start a topic, when it seems really important to them. I don’t think we need to start conversations until people feel the need. Anyone who has a question can just jump in. Does that make sense?

By: willow-the-wisp

willow-the-wisp — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:10:40 +0000

THAKS NOBUGS I KNOW people are rooting for me, although I’ve seeminlgy taken a different and “willful” tract and brand of tactics. My plans are not all that willful I’m listening … and I’m correcting errors I’ve made in my judgements to the best of my ability.
ie … once I learned that DE only works if it is lightly spread, as I did sort of clump it up in certain areas behind stuff to keep the bb’s I have not gotten to yet–from getting to me–it is like a bb short term “stay away” order. It is the best I can do for now.
I’ll have money in a few days.

Bad News–I probably lost my little job today Good news it was interfering with my personal riddance of the bb’s. The jury is still out on that job thing. I’m waiting for a call back. it all had to do with me being late and the phone not working–so they could not contact me. that’s the tip of iceberg–saying more is irrelevant to BB’s save to say–my boss has them too, likely if I do–but she’d rather get rid of me rather than here about them: The fact that I told her her cat could even become the host when she’s at work–seemed to piss her off and make her mad at me.

Good News: although I overdid the DE there is a fine powder all around most stuff in my place now. And so I’m only using 30% of my space for living and sleeping.

heat traps??? The convoluted combo heat trap and plastic bag with enticing items I set up produced no results when I carefully eptied the bag into hot bath water (save) one little black dot).
Hardly seems worth the effort. And there is no objective evidence saying I have no BB’s caz the bag was empty.
But there have been other times that it does sort of help attract them to cross areas where the de is rather smoothly laid out. (I feel).

I also had some topic ideas for the forum and rather than start more rooms I thought I’d post them here. other people can either start some forums on this stuff or not: could link be put into the appropriate rooms eventuallt nobugs?

*all about bb pooh
*how bb’s differ from other house pests
*all about bb movements–they are not as nocturnal as we hear so say I.
*all about prevention ie (staying rid of or not getting the BB)
*BB blues (social isolation)
*managing kids ( and or our pets) before while and after the infestation is abaited.
*when and if you should ever clump up the de i’m adding some stuff to the de threads right now–because there are certain instances when it might be helpful so long as you keep yourself isolated from it.
thanks all!
WILLOW

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 19:14:58 +0000

Dan– thanks. If people like it, we’ll keep it, with the usual tweaks that need to happen when we decide what’s not perfect. I hope you’ll still read the blog and comment on the other posts! Oh, and don’t feel stupid–lots of people don’t see the forum button–it’s not like the rest of the links. Working on that too.

Willo–I wish you did not have to put up with this. If there’s anything we can do, let us know (maybe we can brainstorm about that over in the forums.)

By: willow-the-wisp

willow-the-wisp — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 16:18:49 +0000

I feel a bit lost. So much stuff in my place. I just woke up but I can’t find my spray bottle of easy to buy contact killer: I feel like a sheep withour skin or like a goatithout it’s horn. Sitting in my chair by monitor. I’m getting some phantom-bites …? Real bites …?
Someone wrote a few days ago something about a bed bug jumping off the dog and runing up your leg. It feels like that. I’m told it is probably phantom bites–AKA sensitized skin.
The good news is I found only very minor and inconclusive evidence of bb activity last night near abd around the heat trap–which is encircled with dbl sided carpet tape–Some might have gone into the plastic bag trap with balloons and a few cardoard, old paper towel rolls. I just sealed it and I pan to fill the tub and dump it into the hot water later.
in the BR … also only1/10th the evidence than I had been finding in the last few nights. it is possible the bugs are getting sick of me and thus moving onward and outward. That’s a shame if I didn’t kill em. But others in this building SEEM to take the attitude that “bb’s in your room is better than in mine.” This is just what I’m sensing. Very few will even talk about the bb’s in my hotel.
If I had everything the way I could I’d move then contact a news program.
But that is likely to not post publically becase THE GOV DOES NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE BB AT HOME–abroad sure … I hear more about that that I do about inner cities shelters libraries …

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:33:42 +0000

Oh my i am so dumb. I saw the picture of the bedbug witht he word FORUM in it and id idnt even realize to go there haha. Ugh, thank you for pointing it out. I just quickly glanced it over and in my opinion i like that format a lot more. It is a lot easier to read and i like having different threads, and being able to easily go into each and post.

good work!! Im goign there now!

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:47:59 +0000

Bugalina, BBwarrior, and Dan,
Everyone else has been trying the forums as a replacement for Tales of Woe thread here. It’s an experiment which we’ll cancel if people don’t like it, but for now, click on the Forums button above right. Your login here should work there.

By: Bugalina

Bugalina — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:27:09 +0000

Willow, You bring up a topic that the Ciry Government would rather not talk about. Bed Bugs in pubic places. Because Bloomberg has his head buried in the sand, We are witnessing a bug explosion in the City, and Bloomberg isn’t going public with it! A person on this blog told me that his exterminator told him that the City Shelters were so badly infested that “the walls appeared to move” because they were completely covered with bed bugs. This never should have happened. I wouldn’t sit on a park bench anymore, knowing that someone could have been sleeping on it the night before. The attitude of government is one of “keep it hidden”. If tourists knew about the bed bug problems in NYC, don’t you think many would cancel their visits ! But where would they go ! Because bed bugs are in every city and state in the USA. Your info about the bed bug crawling into the seam of your sneaker is good info.. It tells us all to advoid shoes with lots of seams , if we can help it. And , upon re-entering our homes, keep a bottle of some kind of contact spray on hand to spray off the shoes. And recently I read that someone dusted the area around their door mat. This sounds helpful. I think large ziplocks will soon replace pocketbooks. Go seamless !