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do pesticides turn them black and crispy, post mortum?
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vampireweekend
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Mon Jul 14 2008 13:55:45
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we had our place treated by pest control on friday afternoon. i just found what looks to be half of an abdomen of a small, crispy and very black bed bug. do the pesticides make them black and crispy?
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belle72
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Tue Jul 15 2008 12:55:39
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I'd like to know too. And what else I want to know is where are they NOW??? Since our 1st spray 4 weeks ago (and the second 2 wks later) we've not seen one...shouldn't I see dead bugs someplace? We encased the mattresses but still...
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Hi,
Long dead bed bugs tend to be very thin and a lot darker than the live samples. This is the case no matter how they die if left for a while.
Oddly enough like many animals they tend to die close to the nesting area and often inside the cracks and crevices.
Don't be suprised if you still find a few dead ones long after treatment as I have the feeling that they get worked out of the joints in the bed with time and the "natural movement" of the bed. I made one client blush the other week when I explained that now her social life was back on track she was more likely to find a dead bed bug after the new boyfriend had visited.
David
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buggyinastoria
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Tue Jul 15 2008 15:28:57
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the day after spraying by PCO I found a few dead ones on the floor near the bed...
and they were dark and sort of dry looking
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vampireweekend
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Tue Jul 15 2008 15:38:26
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i think that's what i found then. my cat was on my lap and when she jumped down i noticed it on my leg. i guess it's possible that she stepped on a dead, dark and dry one, it cracked and part of it stuck to her.
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terrifiedtosleep
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Thu Jul 17 2008 1:42:29
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I've found bugs like that oddly in my bathroom. Most are thin and look to be long dead. I'm trying to figure out if these are recent casualties or if this has been part of a greater problem that's been here long before me. Oddly since the first spray, I haven't found anything alive. I've been bitten a few times. And quite A few bug bites from My shoot in florida(there's so many bites it's hard to tell so I'm writing everything off before tonight as crazy Florida bugs)
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paulaw0919
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Thu Jul 17 2008 7:25:37
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We had our home vikaned last fall. Had some scares, even some dogs alert back in May. After nearly really losing it, I had another professional inspection, and one more k9 inspection within 3-4 weeks of each other. All was clear. The professional that came is was very reputable from Cooper, the K9 team that came in was from Freedom Pest. Freedom Pest was also here 3 months prior of this past inspection in June. Always turned up clear. Well, anyway, Since fumigation, nine months ago, we had every bit of flooring redone in this house. All carpets replaced and wood floors redone,moldings all sealed all other floors that were not wood, had new tile put down instead of carpet. I still find myself washing the floors once a week, maybe twice a month in the bedrooms due to less traffic. We vacuum very often due to little ones in the home. In Jan I found a decapitated bed bug, Not too long ago, maybe May, I found another half of one in the kitchen and then just last night (mind you, I washed the floors the day before) I find another half of a bed bug in my kitchen again. They are all very dark, almost black, but the very outer lining has brown. The last two bugs were confirmed to be bed bugs by entomologists. Kind of freaked me out last night seeing it on the floor when it wasn't there moments before, and we wipe up the floors after every meal due to the kids. Last week, for the first time after a month, we flipped the mattress, box and inspected...all seems okay still as of signs of bugs. I'm chucking up this bug as too being old and must be blowing up from the air vents since we now have a/c running. Just goes to show even when you empty and revamp a home, dead ones still may pop up somewhere. Makes it very difficult for a person of high anxiety to move on, but we are. :) We've been living pretty much normally, no clothing in ziplocks...just still bagging dirty laundry. I don't know if I could ever stop doing that one, but hope to soon some day. I just fear bringing one into the home and it laying in my dirty laundry. Anyway, between all my rambling, I think, even the most cleanest home, once infested, you may find a dead, decapitated bed bug, many many months after an infestation. (like we are experiencing now, 9 months after fumigation.)
PS: yes I have experienced bites as well, but all I've seen as of live anything are mosquitoes, various types of midges (biting and non biting) and black flies.) I have a cluster by my neck area and after reading up on black flies, they tend to bite that area. So that's that for now. For those fighting an infestation or have beat an infestation, try not to panic about any dead bed bugs...they're dead. That's a what's they are supposed to be, long dead. -
vampireweekend
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Posted 1 year ago
Thu Jul 17 2008 11:43:59
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see, now my concern is that david said "long dead bugs" look like the one i found. but it wouldn't have been long dead because pco came a few days before i found it. he was a bed bug expert and said we'd done one of the best jobs prepping for PCO he'd ever seen. he is adamant that we don't have an infestation and that the bug we found that prompted us to call him was possibly the first we'd tracked in. he kept telling us how lucky we were to have found it and gotten on top of the problem before it blew up to out of control proportions. so... if the bug would only be black and crispy if it was long dead... well, is it not possible that they look like that after being dead for just a few days? i hope! otherwise it would suggest that there have been bugs in the building in the past, that the building manager has known nothing about. we've lived here for almost 6 years. hm... time to move. time to flee all cities and never travel again.
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vampire said
"see, now my concern is that david said "long dead bugs" look like the one i found. but it wouldn't have been long dead because pco came a few days before i found it."
Okay, but bed bugs probably died in your home before the PCO ever killed any.
It could have died of natural causes prior to treatment.
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