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ngsm13

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Posted 1 year ago
Tue Sep 20 2011 12:16:01
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Hello all.

Yesterday, while getting into the shower I noticed a small bug on the show mat. It wasn't moving, but I immediately picked it up with a tissue and flushed it. After my shower, I began searching online and thought it might be a BB. So, I immediately began washing all of my linens/clothes.

So, today I went back into the bathroom, and noticed another on the floor mat. My bathroom is usually cold/cool, and has a tile floor. I found it on a cloth floor mat, it looks dried up and dead, and I took some pictures for ID.

http://imgur.com/a/KP4XV

Thanks for your help.
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Posted 1 year ago
Tue Sep 20 2011 12:19:47
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Sorry. Bad news those are BBs or another Cimex species.

Save the samples for proof and call a PCO.

Jim
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Posted 1 year ago
Tue Sep 20 2011 13:09:58
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Hi,

If you find no confirming signs in your bedroom check all adjoining neighbours as bedbugs in a bathroom alone indicates it's likely to be an adjoining source.

David Cain
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ngsm13

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Posted 1 year ago
Tue Sep 20 2011 15:06:36
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bed-bugscouk - 1 hour ago »
Hi,
If you find no confirming signs in your bedroom check all adjoining neighbours as bedbugs in a bathroom alone indicates it's likely to be an adjoining source.
David Cain
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Yeah, I checked my room thoroughly. I have bad allergies, so my bed and box springs have been encased in a protect-a-bed liners since I moved in here 2 years ago. I noticed nothing on my bed, I checked behind and underneath my bed, drawers and pulled out drawers in night stand, I pulled the edge of the carpet up near the edges of all walls and I found nothing in my room thus far.

The bathroom is not really connected to any bedrooms, as it's on the second floor in an buildout/addition type thing from the roof. The doorway connects to the carpeted stairs. I have one roommate on the second floor and informed him, we'll be checking that room when he gets home.

I'm super paranoid, and now worried and don't have a lot of money to spend on costly exterminations but I know something needs to be done.