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If you see a Masked Hunter give it a cigar and shake it's little insect hand.
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lieutenantdan
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Mon Jun 4 2007 18:01:04
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GOD BLESS THE MASKED HUNTER.
FYI
If you see a Masked Hunter give it a cigar and shake it's little insect hand.
For more info see THREAD- Bed Bug Year 1905.
This was taken from the linked site.Natural enemies
Some bedbug predators may also be found near bedbug infestations. The most common bedbug predator is the masked hunter.
Jeffrey Hahn writes:
Adult masked hunters are dark brown to black and are elongate oval in shape. When full grown, they're about 3/4 inch long. They have a short, stout, 3-segmented beak. Immature masked hunters are similar but smaller and lack developed wings. They are often covered with dust, lint and other debris, giving them a grayish or whitish appearance. Underneath, however, they are dark-colored like adults. Masked hunters do not feed on human blood. However, they are capable of inflicting painful bites as a defensive reaction if they are disturbed or carelessly handled. The bite feels like a bee sting followed by numbness and swelling. Rarely does a masked hunter bite require medical attention. Masked hunters do not transmit any disease. [1]
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Posted 5 years ago
Tue Jun 5 2007 1:56:20
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Well, since they bite humans, and since they also mean you have bed bugs, I would not be so thrilled to see a masked assassin (aka masked hunter).
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willow-the-wisp
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Tue Jun 5 2007 2:09:06
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I do not know if I had a bunch of these too. I guess I did, although I had put a question on to Sean at the bed bugger resource about it. I was confused about the one photo I saw, but the description above, certainly meets the criteria. I know some of the bugs along the futon zipper had wings were darker (almost black) and a bit bigger than the Bed bugs.
I had not the chance to see their hands so I could not shake any hands, which, I think, is pure unadulterated Internet gossip.Bugs don’t have hands, Right?
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Tue Jun 5 2007 10:26:04
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Hi willow-the-wisp,
"I had not the chance to see their hands so I could not shake any hands, which, I think, is pure unadulterated Internet gossip".
If you see a Masked Hunter give it a cigar and shake it's little insect hand.
I made up the title.
My intention was to add a little humor. -
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Tue Jun 5 2007 11:55:38
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Dan,
I suspect Willow's intention, too, was humorous
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willow-the-wisp
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Tue Jun 5 2007 12:39:39
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willow-the-wisp
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Tue Jun 5 2007 12:40:16
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I know ... it's hard to say with this willow guy ...
OK--Yeah it was meant as a joke too!LTND Dan, the first thing I thought of, when I saw your post, was Mickey Mouse's little gloved hands ... But he's not a bug.
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Posted 5 years ago
Wed Jun 6 2007 11:02:35
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Good willow I am glad that I made you laugh.
Please may I commend you on all of the help and support that you have given to people.
You have so much enthusiasm and energy.
You are a good person Willow and I wish you the best.
And Mickey could be a bug with a little imagination. Why not? -
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Posted 5 years ago
Wed Jun 6 2007 14:09:19
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Thank you LTNT:DAN, I, as have you, and as have many of us brought what we had to "share" in the war AGAINST bed bugs in the very best way we knew/know how. Your courage and all of your phone calls amaze me! (I'd suspect many would not want to experiment as have I) but it was the circumstances and the way that they unfolded at the particular time they had—that had caused me to feel the need to do so.
"They is all dead now"--Wheeew!
There were several close calls no matter how careful I was in keeping those bugs isolated!
For instance: last night, when the first baby did not really react nearly as quickly as I would have thought to the advantage ... I decided to try it on all of them. At that point I needed to change my game plan.
I needed to put #1 into a separate concealed container, and I would have had to do this with all six.
But--that container I had available had been washed, but had a lot of static electricity in them because they had some remnant of Vaseline in them.Several times the first baby bed bug--drawn from the static electricity--seemed to hop just like a flea! It did not hop--it was the static electricity. So I therefore had to leave off this idea and I wound up killing them all after 20 minutes or so, if they had not yet died from exposure to the Advantage.
Please don’t anyone say I said they hop. They do not hop … they crawl and run and can cling easily to many things but they do not hop.Also—even the youngest babies more often than not will fall onto their backs. It is not much, but it is something of note. In addition, it seems through al my experimenting … the closer they are to death the more they tend to fall onto their backs and the longer it takes them to right themselves.
So I'm saying fairly assuredly: much more than just Advantage flea drops is/are needed for house pets during a bed bug infestation. I so truly wish this was otherwise—it is not.
Not all the love in the world is going to get a single bed bug out of anybody’s house-pet.
A first Instar, on the go … can EASILY run up to a foot a minute or more! But they do tend to just stop, for no apparent reason. And no bed bug I tested seemed affected by any type of noise or vibration, like a tap or light thump. That was unexpected too!
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Posted 5 years ago
Wed Jun 6 2007 14:22:27
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Hi willow,
Thankfully I have not had the oportunity to experiment with live bugs because I have not found any since December 2006.
I think that you expermenting with them is helping you a great deal. Continue on Warriow!
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