Comments on: W. O. Buggy’s bed bug elixir: get yours here! Or, some notes about bed bug detection and treatment options

By: willow-the-wisp

willow-the-wisp — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:13:53 +0000

I was reading thru these comments again, sudenly noticed my reply above was the last–and–exactly 2 months ago.
Are any new bites reading these blog comments and the articles?
All the above is great info and banter!
I guess I’m getting old or something … I don’t recall if “Winstons part three” ever materialized. parts one and two, again were well worth my reading, yet again.

By: willow-the-wisp

willow-the-wisp — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:43:53 +0000

perhaps it “willow” “all come out in the wash” … in part three or …
donno but I’m glued to the chair, which; BTW, has three layers if plastic bags duct taped to it

By: Winston O. Buggy

Winston O. Buggy — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:25:50 +0000

On More Time, Sorry Willow, But not in this case. Although I have seen it happen
in addition I have seen people with questionable legal status be victimized
or have kept it to themselves.

Actually in one of my power points I have a slide with bed bug treatment
accessories and I list the following with a grphic
… Darts; if your really good or really desperate!

By: willow-the-wisp

willow-the-wisp — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:10:55 +0000

This is a timely comment, the 83 y. o. in my building whom I helped de-infest” the bed last week saw me just now, as I came in. He said the “termite” people were supposed to have come today and he’s got all of his stuff bagged but that he can’t stay all day and wait for them. So … apparently management here is more on the ball when people get me involved. That is good for them but not so good for me, if you know what I mean. Yes, he said “termite people.”
I have noted in my long career working with elderly that they so very often are so absolutely terrified that they will be blamed for things like water pipes breaking (and now bed bugs.) Could it be that this particular couple perhaps was fearful beyond reason Winston–Although you said the building was doing a lot to help out?

I have seen it time and time again. Elderly afraid of management, afraid of having to give up their home or their memorabilia, and often afraid the next stop would be a home. Maybe this will help you get a sense that some people only act like they don’t really care–and those often are the one’s who are so fearful–they stuff it to the point they don’t even know it is fear–And then we call THAT flat out denial. or, “FEAR BASED DENIAL.”

AND OH … YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE “DIRTY DARTS THROWN AT ME FROM THE MANAGER TODAY … (I usually throw them right back but this weekend is not the time for that.)

By: Winston O. Buggy

Winston O. Buggy — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:52:35 +0000

Sorry willow if I didn’t make myself clear I said I bought an air mattress to
avoid going to a hotel when they painted my apartment room by room.
James B bed bugs may be in a lounge chair or couch if enough time is spent there
say home bound folks. Sometimes they will be content just behind a headboard for
a while or in privacy curtains in nursing homes. I actually just got back from
reviewing a really bad infestation in an apartment. It has already spread to 3
adjacent units in a T shape with them at the base. In this case the management company is doing there best to help but it’s a lot of bugs. Elderly couple clean but
with a fair amount of accumulated memorabilia, yeah they knew they were getting bitten but it didn’t really bother them.

By: willow-the-wisp

willow-the-wisp — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:41:13 +0000

I’ll certainly second that last remark.
The formication and the D.P. … well it is sort of hard to know which is which, especially if you are in the midst of a battle with the bugs. And, moving on is harder for some of us and for many reasons: Seemingly, I’ve moved on to a large degree, yet I know I have to keep my guard up for various reasons:

a–The way they treat for bed bugs here where I live (including I will likely be the last room to get the shoddy bed bug treatment again–If it comes down to that again).

b–Many neighbors do many things, one would hope they would NOT do, if one did not want to become continually re-infested. I’ve tried talking reason…

c–they are just in the neighborhood now. That last fact alone, is cause for constant concern, yet I am, for the most part “adjusting down” from high alert about Bed bugs accordingly, to my constant, semi-harrowing living situation.

Some absolute do notÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s after treatment for people who really want to be hyper vigilant:

1–do not … sit on your isolated and protected bed ever, nor should you ever put anything on the bed unless you know 99% sure that you, and whatever is being put on the bed–is bed bug free.
(Either that, or check your bed well every week.

2–check the bed about once a month well, after the infestation is gone.

3–Strategic and proactive placement of Fresh Water Diatomaceous Earth

4–keeping laundry more separated and more isolated and cleaner than you used to, unless you were already an “on overkill laundry-wise type” anyway.

Those 4 things are not too hard to do and will not absolutely guarantee you will never become infested again–but they will certainly help and so I recommend this for everyone in the entire world–whether you have the bed bugs or not.

If everybody in the world did these 4 things–bed bugs might have “nowhere to go–but into crowded public places. I smile when I think how we, as a global society, could isolate them out of our homes and into public places only. So much easier to treat 10 or 20 public places aggressively, and thoroughly, (I think) rather that 10,000’s of private dwellings individually.

Will it happen? Probably not … But we can do our best to keep them from setting up house in our homes again. Oh yeah, and very good strategic vacuuming and steaming and cleaning too Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ so make it 5 basic things. I correct myself rather than edit myself.

Thanks Winston O. Buggy this was really worth the extra wait!
Question Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ So you say you bring a blow up air mattress to hotels WITH you?
If so Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ where do you put it at night for sleeping?

By: hymenoptera

hymenoptera — Wed, 23 May 2007 03:26:34 +0000

I’m really getting a lot out of this post and the comments too.

By: jessinchicago

jessinchicago — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:34:48 +0000

Ahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Soap! I assume that’s a reference to my (humiliatingly) famous dirty mouth, huh? Too funny.

Winston, I just love it when you write for us. You talk to us, not down to us, and you make a whole lot of sense.

Once again, thank you for taking the time. It is much appreciated.

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:27:13 +0000

Winston,
I’ve heard a number of other bed bug professionals describe what they do when they go to hotels. It’s convinced me that one does not have to have had bed bugs in order to imagine how bad bed bugs are. It sounds like you have a pretty good idea too.

By: James Buggles

James Buggles — Wed, 23 May 2007 00:51:57 +0000

Are there situations in which bedbugs would first hide in a location other than the mattress/bed or do they always reside there first until they run out of room?