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alfie4472
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Posted 4 months ago
Sat Jul 18 2009 14:37:40
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I alreday had my apt treated 3 times in 3 weeks,,,did some treatment myself 1 month before with DE and Eaton spray...Despite all efforts plus caulking, vacumming, sealing, etc I still run into a few often in bathroom and ocassionaly in L.R. and B.R(one a day or so) they're usually very little and very hard to identify. I need the oppinion of an entomologist or Bug expert to confirm
I am in Inwood , upper Manhattan, New York City!
Alfie
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Adele
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Posted 4 months ago
Thu Jul 23 2009 13:19:01
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Alfie - the best thing you could do is to take a clear picture of the bugs you are finding and post it on flickr and then post the link here
there are many really helpful and knowledgeable entos and PCOs who can help you provide an ID but there is nothing they can do if they can't see what you are seeing
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Hi,
Spot on Adele, we are good but many of us are still working on our remote imaging skills.
A picture as they say is worth a thousand words, a sample is best but they are hard to email around.
If you get an image sorted out I am sure we can help ID it for you.
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alfie4472
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Posted 3 months ago
Sat Jul 25 2009 13:47:16
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Here they are!
Help please!
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buggyinsocal
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Posted 3 months ago
Sat Jul 25 2009 13:52:37
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Not bed bugs. I'm not an entomologist or a PCO, so I can't tell you what they are, but they definitely aren't bed bugs.
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spideyjg
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Posted 3 months ago
Sat Jul 25 2009 13:56:07
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They look like a beetle of some sort. Not a bedbug guaranteed.
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alfie4472
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Posted 3 months ago
Sat Jul 25 2009 14:02:16
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They don't bite? suck blood? hang around my bed?
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It looks like an adult of "buffalo worm" (Alphitobius diaperinus), or black carpet beetle (Attagenus sp.)
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alfie4472
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Posted 3 months ago
Sat Jul 25 2009 14:22:40
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Thank you EffeCi....
Pls corerct me if I am worng but whatever it is ,,,,it is not as bad a as a bedbug...meaning they don't suck blod or infest your bed, etc? I had an exterminator here 3 times already who identified something similar as a bedbug a couple of months ago...maybe they were spraying the worng pesticide? They also ytold me to spray Eaton permethryn and DE to help keep under control...i bagged everything, vacuumed everyday, slept 4 to 5 hours, etc..
Appraently I did have a mild infestation of bedbugs then and when treated it brought up now this kind of bugs ...i live across the Inwood Park so maybe this is where they are coming from
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buggyinsocal
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Posted 3 months ago
Sat Jul 25 2009 16:41:16
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If it's not a bed bug, then no, it won't suck your blood. As for infesting the bed, well, bed bug is in that sense a bite of a misnomer. Bed bugs sometimes harbor in beds, but they also can harbor in curtains, behind baseboards, in dressers, and any other spot that is undisturbed but close to their prey.
Carpet beetles do not actually bite humans, but some of us have an allergic reaction to them that looks like a bite.
Most other insect infestations are easier to treat than bed bugs (there are exceptions, like bird mites, but they are rare exceptions.)
As for how to treat, well, increasingly the trend is toward IPM--integrated pest management. Exactly what treatment you should use will depend on exactly what pest or pests you have.
The good news is that it's not bed bugs.
Please be sure if you're doing do it yourself pest control that you're using all chemical pesticides in accordance with the instructions on the label.
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