Got Bed Bugs? Bedbugger Forums

Got Bed Bugs? Bedbugger Forums » General Topics

Going crazy.

1. 

   upagain
   

   member
   Joined: Aug '09
   Posts: 335

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 8:07:57
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   IS it possiable to have only eggs? I've striped everything in the room, found no bugs, found no feces etc. In the plastic corner protectors of my box spring I found a bunch of dust lint, small thing that look like eggs, but they can be blown away with you breath. Could these be eggs? Is it possiable to only find eggs? No bites (at least that we know of).

   This is a magnified pics. It is approx. 0.5 mm long, under tape:

   [/url]

   [url=http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3045/dsc0077copy.jpg]tape strip

2. 

   spideyjg
   

   oldtimer
   Joined: Jul '08
   Posts: 3,201

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 9:27:48
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   Bad picture but it doesn't look bedbuggy. The curled thing on the lower right end is the key. Looks more like the "spring" of a springtail.

   BBs start at about 1mm so whatever you have, if intact at 0.5mm, can't be a BB related find.

   Jim

3. 

   upagain
   

   member
   Joined: Aug '09
   Posts: 335

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 10:45:41
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   Thanks. The curled little thing is actually a fiber. The pic is not the greatest I know. It is actually back lit from my monitor (placed on monitor and shot with macro lens, then magnified in photoshop), so i am not sure how translucent eggs are.
   Most of this stuff came from the plastic corner protectors on my box spring, I am not sure if I am going crazy or if there really is anything to worry about. This is a shot of of a strip of tape that I press on the protector and everything it picked up.

   pic

4. 

   buggyinsocal
   

   oldtimer
   Joined: Jun '08
   Posts: 2,440

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 11:24:18
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   There's a lot of stuff in that photo, but there's also nothing in there as a point of reference to get a sense of scale. However, the fact that you can blow away makes me highly skeptical that they are bed bug eggs. One of the reasons that bed bug eggs are so hard to get rid of is that bed bugs often "glue" their eggs in place with a pretty strong substance. None of the clutches of eggs that I found were blow away able. In fact, they were really, really stuck in place.

5. 

   upagain
   

   member
   Joined: Aug '09
   Posts: 335

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 12:01:17
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   Thanks again. Sorry for the scale again. I try to get a ruler in there but can't get depth of field to get it all in focus. Anyway, nothing in the photo is over 2mm. Most is 1mm and under.

6. 

   buggyinsocal
   

   oldtimer
   Joined: Jun '08
   Posts: 2,440

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 12:07:44
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   That sounds too small to me, but I am at the moment trapped without an easily accessible ruler with metric measurements on it.

7. 

   lil_bit_obsessed
   

   senior member
   Joined: Dec '07
   Posts: 493

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 13:59:37
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   the eggs that i've seen were more consistently shaped (rounded off ends) and they were a whitish-greyish weird color. they were also cemented in place, or at least it seemed that way. they didn't look at all like what i'm seeing in your image there. i'm not a professional so take what i say with a grain of salt, but your photo doesn't look much like a bedbug egg to me.

8. 

   upagain
   

   member
   Joined: Aug '09
   Posts: 335

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 16:07:57
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   Took the to Dr. Lou today. He examined, all clear.

9. 

   spideyjg
   

   oldtimer
   Joined: Jul '08
   Posts: 3,201

   offline

   
   Posted 3 years ago
   Wed Aug 19 2009 16:11:41
   #
   
   
   
   Login to Send PM
   

   upagain - 3 minutes ago  » 
   Took the to Dr. Lou today. He examined, all clear.

   So what did Dr. Lou say it was?

   Jim

10. 

    upagain
    

    member
    Joined: Aug '09
    Posts: 335

    offline

    
    Posted 3 years ago
    Thu Aug 20 2009 9:04:13
    #
    
    
    
    Login to Send PM
    

    He was not sure, but gave me the all clear on it. Say not BB related. I am still flipping out. I have a bite here or there, but not sure if bb. I've been outdoors etc so cant be sure if its not misquito. I ripped apart my bed again last night even opening up the box springs. Nothing. I checked my couches too, nothing. People who have been getting bitten but have no signs, how much do you get bitten? I think I am becoming paranoid and that I might not have these things.

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.