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ShelaghDB
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I don't believe I have had any bedbugs BUT i found this in my bathtub yesterday. It was dead. How it was dead I don't know. I have a rubber mat on the floor of the bathtub so I don't slip and I just spotted it out of the corner of my eye, picked it up and thought, oh no, I think this is one.
The water in our building had been off the day before so I wondered if it had come through the pipes.I quickly checked my bed and it is all white and there is not a sign of them anywhere there but I am still yet to check a big dark brown leather sofa we have where my husband falls asleep on it many a night in case they are there.
This is so small, it reminded me of a watermelon seed which i know is a common thought for bed bugs.
I have not had them in this apartment and i have been here 4 years but have a lot of university students coming and going and figure it is just a matter of time......Anyhow, its very small.
I had to look through a magnifying glass at it to see it properly and I had a problem trying to get a clear photo but i think i got at least one that will let u know what it is.I should say that it was raining heavily the day before and at this time of year when that happens, I have a big lot out back that brings in beetles and spiders, etc.
I have included a drawing. As you can see i can't draw. LOL
The bug is brown and flat
There are straight lines going across his body
at the end of his body, the bottom, its a shade darker as if it is black
his legs are all folded up underneath himI am SOOOO hoping this is not a bed bug
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Thu Apr 26 2012 10:58:37
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Based on the first picture I would say yes it is. Flip it over and take a picture of the top.
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Thu Apr 26 2012 11:03:37
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LVK9 - 4 minutes ago »
Based on the first picture I would say yes it is. Flip it over and take a picture of the top.I tried but will try again
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Thu Apr 26 2012 11:16:54
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Thu Apr 26 2012 11:27:19
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Id be curious to know if anyone can tell if it is male or female?
My all white bed has no signs but I had a problem with them 4 years ago in another building. I sprayed and got rid of them immediately although I must have had quite an infestation before i noticed them. I was in a junior 1 bedroom, small place and i found about 5 crawling up walls in the day time......they sprayed and a week later I opened up a blanket in my living room and another 5 fell out---so i assume that was an infestation but the spraying got rid of them.
I have lived in fear of ever getting them again and this is the first signs of one.......nothing at all on or under my all white bed..( my bed is covered in those zip up plastic covers) but I have lift up the mattress, I have looked behind and no blood, no signs of anything but just lots of white....
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Thu Apr 26 2012 11:56:38
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Shaped like a female.
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Thu Apr 26 2012 12:31:20
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I am new to the group Loubugs so judging from your post count, I will assume that you do know what you are talking about and just aren't someone thrown in your $0.02, therefore, is this a 99.9% confirmation it being a bed bug??
( not being rude but just wanted to make sure any declaration was coming from someone
that knew what they were talking about. Some forums are full of people with a tiny tiny bit of knowledge that act as if they know all the answers and you end up with incorrect information but the does n o seem to be the case with you )So, IF it is a female bed bug, I am now, starting to throw all clean clothes in a hot dryer for 45 mins and then will bag it all.
I am going to tear the living room apart or i believe round zero would have to be the brown leather sofa as i do not have them on my bed, nor have either of us had bites.
Although, I have seen a couple of "rashes" on the hubbie but he's so far been able o attribute the few I saw, o either he had jus shaved and irritated his skin, or one day, the rash was situation the we thought it was just due to being a bit overweight but now I wonder.......and he falls asleep a lot on this sofa in the living room.
Due to sleeping problems due to something else, he has rarely spent time in our bed the past 6 months but on this couch.
We are in an older very large and long 2 bedroom apartment so I am assuming they haven't made it down to my bedroom yet and if we have them, they must be happy just with him in the liven room.My question though............DO WE hire an exterminator from having seen one bug only or not? I am startin the laundry process today. I am throwing out anything we don't need.....and so on, so i am going to see what i can find but the last thing i want is an infestation so DO I call them in now or wait to see if there are any more?
A FEMALE i take it is a bad sign??!!
I can assume there is more than one bug and i should be calling in exterminators?
I only ask for having read many posts here, for some reason it seems to me that many people either don't get someone in and try to handle it themselves or.......well, I am not sure but I seem to get the idea that many are for some reason, struggling to find any but if you get in an exterminator, should you not need to find them and can just ge the problem solves, providing you do all that is necessary beforehand? SO i was wondering wy people weren't exterminating and felt that maybe on one bug only its jumping the gun but maybe id prefer to jump it then let a problem get out of had if it is just starting.......I don't know if i have them OR if perhaps the day before when the water was turned off in the building all day, that maybe this one crawled through a pipe.........but the i think, thats unlikely i assume and if i have one, there MUST be more, right? -
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Thu Apr 26 2012 12:53:26
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But now that i have taken a second photo after turning it over, I am just waiting o see if that makes a difference on determining what it is, or confirms that it is a bed bug,
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Thu Apr 26 2012 13:15:21
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"This is so small, it reminded me of a watermelon seed which i know is a common thought for bed bugs."
See this image. Apple seeds. I didn't bother with watermelon seeds.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lou_bugs_pix/6915713621/in/photostream
Actually it is not small: this looks like an adult female, so that's around 1/4" or 4-5mm. The first instar nymph is around 1/32-1/25" or around 1mm and would be very pale colored unless it had just eaten and/or was in the process of digesting.
See my posted images so you can get an idea of what you should be looking for.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lou_bugs_pix
I am also assuming that it is the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, since there would be no reason to assume otherwise. It doesn't look like a bat bug or martin bug. -
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loubugs - 17 minutes ago »
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I am also assuming that it is the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, since there would be no reason to assume otherwise. It doesn't look like a bat bug or martin bug.I'm curious, do bat bugs, martin bugs, and chimney swift bugs run roughly the same size as the common bedbug? After seeing a couple recent posts on the chimney swift bug, I haven't been able to locate much detail on them, and how they differ in terms of size, stage, behavior and colonization with respect to homes and human hosts.
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Thu Apr 26 2012 14:18:58
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They are similar but once you see them and know them, you can easily tell the difference between all three.
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Thu Apr 26 2012 15:12:57
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ShelaghDB,
Take Lou's word for it, he is one the experts we are so lucky to have in this forum. Entomologist by trade.Sorry the id is positive; the good news - sounds like you have identified early. In your area there are a number of PCOs, including K9 inspections, if you choose that route. A dog inspection could confirm that it is localized to your sofa; and is plausible with your hubby spending more time there resting (no need for the bugs to migrate beyond the sofa to the bedroom). Check out the FAQs on K9 inspections verifying an alert with physical evidence.
Whether the water was on or off would not be applicable - it is more the plumbing lines themselves can serve as a conduit, a transportation corridor for the bugs to crawl from one area to another along the outside of the plumbing or electrical lines. Ken. Disclaimer: I own and operate a K9 bed bug service in BC Canada
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I am almost positive as well that what I have is a bed bug. For what it is worth, I live in downtown Toronto Ontario Canada.
I am very surprised to hear the this could be an adult female though as I have seen bed bugs before and they were much larger than this one. This one I really had to look at through a magnifying glass in order to see what it was. The photo i have shown you I have zoomed in on it with both the camera, and then, looking at hat photo of it on my mac screen, I zoomed in several more times and then took a screenshot of that.
This is was too small for me to take a good picture of whereas I have seen other adults and had no problems seeing them. They were much larger than this one was/is.I live in a building, a 4 floor apartment that is about 80 years old. I did notify the management only because i wanted o know if anyone else had had them around me recently. They told me no one has ever reported any which I find hard to believe that in the city of Toronto I AM THE FIRST in the building with them? I have no doubt they would jus say that in order to remove guilt but they did say if it was confirmed to all them to arrange for a company to come in.
I have no problem with paying for an exterminator myself. I wasn't contacting them to pay for it as these are hitchhikers and they are not responsible for these being here any more than I am so I don't see why landlords should bear all the cost.
I don't know from their email if they planned to pay for it or not OR if i would somehow pay the price later on, being evicted, or something else?
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Thanks. I figured he did know what he was talking about so I wasn't concerned but just wanted to make sure he just wasn't someone that had had them once and that was his only experience with them. I certainly can tell beyond his first post that he is indeed very knowledgeable
From what you have said, about it being in the couch, etc, I suspect the same. I have just thrown out a 8 x 10 rug on the floor for i wanted to get rid of it anyway and this seems as good a time to throw out anything can afford to get rid of. They could be in the rug for all i know.
1 question? How are you able to determine I am am in the early stages and am not already suffering from an infestation?
I don't see the point of getting in a sniffer dog but i just want to get a company in that will do the spray, then come back 2 weeks later and do another one a which point they should be gone, providing what i do on this end is very careful, with laundering of clothes, etc etc
if anyone knows the best company in Toronto to handle this, feel free to let me know.
Thank you for ALL of your help, all of you!!!
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Shelaghdb,
Do you still have your sample? If so can you photograph it with something like a ruler or a penny for scale? This will potentially help clarify for future readers of this post, as there seems to be a disconnect between what you're saying in terms of size, and the confirmation of the bug as an adult.
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Shelaghdb,
Do you still have your sample? If so can you photograph it with something like a ruler or a penny for scale? This will potentially help clarify for future readers of this post, as there seems to be a disconnect between what you're saying in terms of size, and the confirmation of the bug as an adult.
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MindoverbbsOk, I will do so a bit later tonight..............as soon as I am done with some other things and have a moment to get to it
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Shelaghdb,
Do you still have your sample? If so can you photograph it with something like a ruler or a penny for scale? This will potentially help clarify for future readers of this post, as there seems to be a disconnect between what you're saying in terms of size, and the confirmation of the bug as an adult.
Thanks,
MindoverbbsOn the other hand, perhaps my eyesight it not as good as it was 4-5 years ago when I saw other ones
Beside a penny it does look a bit bigger then I imagined but I sill had to look through the magnifying glass to make out details on it. Maybe I didn't do that the first time?http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/BedbugPenny2.jpg
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When downloading your images and then looking at them, they become widened horizontally. Do you know why? There's no way to zoom in without distortion. I think from your description, this explains the problem: "The photo i have shown you I have zoomed in on it with both the camera, and then, looking at hat photo of it on my mac screen, I zoomed in several more times and then took a screenshot of that." Your last two against the penny are better, but downloaded and zoomed in also has horizontal issues.
Would you consider mailing me the specimen? Based on the last images, I would like to verify against the actual specimen. There is something that looks off in the "penny images" and I might want to hold off on my initial determination. Should have stayed with my initial determination of "shaped like a female". "I am also assuming that it is the common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, since there would be no reason to assume otherwise. It doesn't look like a bat bug or martin bug." I'd like to be able to see a clearer image of the head and thorax to rule out other species. Are you able to post a ventral view of it next to the penny? Use the same technique since it is good for posting. Would you be able to take a picture but not do a screenshot? Is your camera set for macro and high resolution image?
I'm sorry about quickly providing an ID -- it is a bit on the smaller size, although I have seen small, adult bed bugs. There definitely is something "different" about it and I want to be sure.
Take Lou's word for it, he is one the experts we are so lucky to have in this forum. Entomologist by trade.
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The only shot I zoomed in on and then took a screenshot when it was big enough was this one, otherwise all of the shots are shot normally
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/ScreenShot2012-04-26at102918AM.png
And I am sure that this shot below, is the original shot before I zoomed in on it several times for as you ca see, its really sort of small.
But if I get to close, the image gets blurry.
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0147.jpgI am not sure where you are located and I would not have any problem sending you the bug except that the building management has asked me to hold on to it in case they wish to make a positive ID.
Let me know roughy where you live and lets guess how long it might take to make it to you......for if not long and a positive ID can be made, possibly they will accept that.
Just not sure yet.Going to see if I can take some better photos
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ShelaghDB - 13 minutes ago »
The only shot I zoomed in on and then took a screenshot when it was big enough was this one, otherwise all of the shots are shot normally
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/ScreenShot2012-04-26at102918AM.png
And I am sure that this shot below, is the original shot before I zoomed in on it several times for as you ca see, its really sort of small.
But if I get to close, the image gets blurry.
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0147.jpg
I am not sure where you are located and I would not have any problem sending you the bug except that the building management has asked me to hold on to it in case they wish to make a positive ID.
Let me know roughy where you live and lets guess how long it might take to make it to you......for if not long and a positive ID can be made, possibly they will accept that.
Just not sure yet.
Going to see if I can take some better photosLou is in New York. When I mailed him a specimen to ID I sent it to his address at the Museum of Natural History. You will almost certainly get a more competent ID from Lou than from whoever your building might want to have look at it - which is likely just their PCO.
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You can also photograph the bug through the magnifying glass (I find it works well if you use a lighted loupe or if you shine a light under the glass so you don't have to use the flash but you may want to experiment).
I think it would absolutely be worth it to take the time to photograph the ventral view next to the penny as Lou asked, and then send him the specimen because from what I understand your treatment protocol might differ based on species.
Even though you live in a city where bedbugs are common, you did find her dead in your tub, which might be unusual enough to warrant the extra effort for 100 percent certainty of ID.
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Dear shelagh,
Sorry but I concur with Lou, your photos are of a BB.
It's time to begin the inspection process and not waste time getting other opinions.
The sooner you can determine the location(s) and extent of your situation, the better !
Hope this helps ! paul b.
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Lou if you wish to send me address info, i can do such. My only concern was in wasting time waiting while it was getting to you.
Anyhow, i can be reached at shelaghsiphone at mail dot com
Advice on how to package it etc.
Id like to get it to you ASAPI will do what I can in the morning to take photos. Its too dark now.
We already started the inspection process and haven't found any signs yet. We are also already throwing out anything we don't need, which I don't mind doing. In fact I prefer to purge all clothes, books, and anything at all...........i don't like clutter but have become full of clutter for the past 2 years when i became lazy.
One good point? The one I found is brown, not red and is flat and dead so it would appear not to have fed...although i don't know how long that would have been beforehand but i wa
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I do have one concern since it appears that i don't have any bites?
I live in an older apartment so there are lots of spaces bugs can get t through, as opposed to a new condo.
Since I moved in here 4 years ago I have seen 2 centipedes, 2 beetles, a few ants and numerous ceiling spiders.The past year and a bit, I have been neglecting its cleanliness from the point of my normal house which would be so clean and tidy not a thing would be out of place.
Its not dirty but I get a lot of dust in and instead of vacuuming one a week, I have been letting it go so although clean in every other way, there has been more dust in here then usual.2 YEARS ago I would see the odd ceiling spider and kill it. But last year it seemed I had far too many. I bought at the time it was partly due to the dust so I vacuumed more than I had been doing and got on top of it again. Winter just ended more or less, I have vacuumed but I am yet to find more than I think 2 spiders. It might just not be warm enough or perhaps they liked he dust and i was attracting them for that reason.
Anyhow, my question. Its not possible that i have had these here for the past year or so and never knew is it? And that the spiders doubled in quantity as they were eating bed bugs?
IF that were the case would they have not found their way down to my bedroom by now?
I do have a fairly large 2 bedroom with one bedroom uninhabited by humans but just storage and my bedroom is on the opposite end of the place whilst the living room is at the other end, with the bathroom just beside it......?PS: I wasn't denying Lou's credentials. I was just hoping that when he asked for more photos and then said perhaps he should not have said with full certainty.........that perhaps he was going o come back and tell me i was a beetle or something ;-(
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I was able to use my hi res laptop setting and also my system at home and the images didn't distort. The monitor at work in the windows 7 image viewer caused them to stretch out horizontally --- never had that happen.
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Dear shelaghdb,
While it is possible that you may have had a low level infestation, from the information you've presented this seems dubious at best because you report no bites and have not found any physical evidence other than the presence of this lone BB carcass. Of course, this assumes that you know what you're looking for and have conducted a reasonably effective inspection/search.
Additionally, you may be a person who does not react to bites. We have seen many cases where folks are being bitten without reacting to BBs and/or have unkowingly had a BB infestation going on for a significant amount of time prior to discovery.
There is no need to panic. Remain vigilant, keep up with your BB induced spring cleaning efforts and conduct periodic inspections just in case.
Hope this helps & good luck ! paul b.
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Here is an interesting BB story since it concerns drugs but will back up your theory of my not reacting to bites.
My husband and I split up after 20 years of marriage in 2003.
5 years later he was a mess and it was determined that he had had a bi-polar break and in our former condo, some really nasty people got in and began giving him crack.......which he became badly addicted to. These people destroyed the condo etc as well.Once I realized what was going on, my X husband I did not recognize anymore as he was once a very lovely person had changed so much. I stepped into save him for we had spent 20 years together and I did not wish to see him die, which I believe he would have had he continued.
So I brought him to live with me, got rid of those people and sold the condo.
However, it was a nightmare and a fight for me to get him clean which took me about a year.
Today he is the man I once knew and has been clean from that awful drug for 4 years +But in that year period, he was still doing his thing, with me trying to stop him and in retrospect, I now know he brought us in a bed bug.
Let me preface the rest of this by saying that this is NOT the situation this time.
This is completely due to something else, having picked one up now.Anyhow, one afternoon he came him.......understand that i lived in a very small apartment at t he time. It was a luxury building that had never seen bed bugs who were not at all impressed with him a the time but my unit was about 500 feet.
So he came home exhausted and lay down on my bed.
An hour later I walked in to see how he was doing. It was about 4:30 pm and i saw a bug walking up the wall behind him, behind the bed and killed it. Ran to the computer, looked it up and knew it was a bed bug.
But I didn't know much then and thought it was only one.2-3 days later i saw one crawling up on the ceiling about 2:30pm.
At that point I called pest control and had about 4 days to do my laundry, etc before they showed up.
In all of this time I NEVER had a bite...nor do i remember him having them either but i wasn't seeing his naked body back then much. (Now, today, I am checking it all over to make sure he doesn't have any, but I can't speak with certainty in the past few weeks he hasn't had any for I wasn't looking but he doesn't remember any, nor do i)In those few days I found a couple more, ALWAYS in the daytime. I had just bought my new bed weeks earlier a $2,700 bed and I looked and looked and no bugs were on it or in it. Same bed I have today.
I immediately covered the box spring and pillow top mattress in those covers but I never did see another bug on the bed and i moved it away from the wall, nothing touching the ground and put plastic jars under the legs and never caught a bug in those jars either.I assumed then they were in the living room for he was still partying at that point and bringing low lifes home with him all of the time-----at which point i wold go to bed angry
But sill I never had a bed bug bite or saw one in the bed.Then the guy came into spray and I didn see any in between the 1-2 week period until he came in again.
But the day before he came back, in the living room on a chair I had a big blanket and I went to use it one night and as I opened it, about 5 bugs fell out so it was disposed of immediately
Again this was about 8pm ( NEVER saw them at night, only daytime )The next morning, the day he was coming in again, with my bed out from the wall, my husband fell asleep in the bed with me that night and as we got up about 8:30 am and walked out of the bedroom, about 5-10 min passed and I walked back in and there were 2 large bugs walking along the wall, I suppose from near the bed but were walking out of the bedroom, I suppose o get closer to where we were.
10 Min. later I saw another big one crawling up the wall behind my computer where i had just been working.
The weird thing was, that NONE of them had blood in them. They were all flat and brown.
The pest control guy came back that morning and was not pleased to hear I had found so many and seemed very surprised by it so he did a really thorough job....he turned absolutely every piece of furniture over and sprayed underneath. Other then 1-2 dead ones over the next few days, I never saw another bug again.
From what I knew, I was very shocked the bugs were all coming out in the daytime as they were so assumed i was badly infested? But it must have happened quickly?
OR i often wondered if the drugs they were all doing ( my husband and his horrid "friends" at the time) were making the bed bugs crazed?
And none of them ever had blood in them..........so who were they biting? Always flat like this one and brown, never red. I never saw one like that.
One day I did see a full one when a friend of his was over who complained he had just been bit on the neck. I saw the bug and killed it and yes, it looked completely different with blood in it to the ones I have ever seen, but thats the only one like it I have seen, ever.I am now curious if this story represent a normal infestation?
For it is all I have to compare to.......Despite that story, I can say 100% that the X hubbie is not into that lifestyle anymore or seeing those friends. So this bug would not have come in through him at least for the same reasons as that first infestation 4-5 years ago.
I will end this by saying, I have lived in fear of ever getting these bugs again but I knew it was only a matter of time living in a rental building.
I live in an exclusive part of Toronto but do know many of the other rentals in this area have them, although the area is dominated by $5 million dollar homes which I have all around me.So yes, I do know what to look for and the fear of them has had me always checking any dot I see on anything JUST to make sure it wasn't another bed bug.......but this one was so small I was stumped. I thought it was but I have had beetles in here before so I was hoping that was all it was.
IF I had had an infestation for a long time, which I too doubt, would they not have spread by now to neighbouring units?
That said.........my bed is now away from the wall. I am back to sleeping with a light on LOL
But again NO signs of blood or anything on the bed. I have looked in the folds, I have looked in the seams of the bed, behind the bed, I have lifted up the mattress and none under there etc.
Again my bed is solid white so I would have seen something if they were there.I have not finished our living room inspection yet but hope to do so today.
WE cannot find them in the one couch he sleeps on.
I have jus checked his body all over and no signs of any bites.
No rashes, nothing.I have checked a wooden table in from of him, underneath, in seams, nothing......but i have a lot more to do and I did throw out the rug on the floor yesterday incase they were in the rug.
So far, no more signs, but will know better today perhaps??!!
Loubugs
I was able to use my hi res laptop setting and also my system at home and the images didn't distort. The monitor at work in the windows 7 image viewer caused them to stretch out horizontally --- never had that happen.
I am a MacBook Pro user so perhaps it was a window issue.
I will try now to see if i can get a better picture by the penny as requested
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Ok, latest photos.
Hope these help and give you what it is you need to see in order to determine the sex or age???http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0165.jpg
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0155-1.jpg
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0160.jpg
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0164.jpg
I think that is as close as i can get??!!
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ShelaghDB - 1 hour ago »
Ok, latest photos.
Hope these help and give you what it is you need to see in order to determine the sex or age???
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0165.jpg
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0155-1.jpg
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0160.jpg
http://i785.photobucket.com/albums/yy132/CraigslistStuff2010/IMG_0164.jpg
I think that is as close as i can get??!!A thought just occurred to me...The day of finding this bedbug and the day before, I hung up there after a quick wash and dry in the laundry, 3 spring jackets......that had gone through the original bed bug ordeal of 4 years ago that I've only worn once or twice since----i highly doubt it would be likely but it would be funny to find out that i don't have any bed bugs and this is a dead body that has somehow been in a pocket, seam, lining or something all along......but after so many years, it wouldn't be in such good shape i assume
I only thought of that for i am half way through the living room and purging everything i don't need, which is fine, i don't mind doing it but still not a sign of any other bed bugs, UNLESS they are buried in one of the sofas I have not yet been through.......(getting there) OR unless there are only a couple so i won't find them.
But i just know from the other infestation i speak of above, the i saw about 6-8 walking up walls over the 3 week period in all until it was all over--here, not a one is walking anywhere.......unless, I always wondered if that crack those people were smoking were seriously affecting the bed bugs and they were a bit hyper
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Yes, bed bug, now I can see better. It's a better position for viewing.
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is it still determined though to be female and an adult? SO this is a normal sized adult?
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I wrote a whole story up above about the other time I had bed bugs as i was convinced due to the person I was trying to help at the time who had developed an addiction to crack, that the drugs he was smoking ( his friends) since they would override me and be there when i was a work, which they were not supposed to be.........i assumed that the drugs were making the bed bugs all freaked out but I have read some more on this site that now tells me that was not the case, hence, the story would not be interesting to anyone.
I realize now that because i had isolated my bed and they were unable to get to me, that they were acting desperately, coming out in day time and all sorts of peculiar actions.
The X i was trying to help was not staying there much, until I managed to help him overcome his addiction so i was the only one they could have gone after but isolated, it sure does make them act weird.
So now I know what to do to make them start doing the same here and at least then I will be able to find them if they exist.
Thank you everyone for your help in determining that this was a female bedbug.
Much appreciated!!!
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