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Seeing lots of bugs, but no bed bugs

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   nycbedbug
   

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   Posted 2 months ago
   Wed Aug 26 2009 7:29:14
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   Hi,
   Does anyone have any thoughts as to why I would be finding more bugs (mostly cockroach nymphs, but also a dead silverfish, a live centipede crawling on me (!), and a dying adult cockroach) post-treatment, as opposed to never seeing a single bug in my apartment prior to the bedbug fiasco? I know one possible reason is that I am just looking at my apartment in a whole new way, especially in this state of hypervigilance post-treatment, but I found a cockroach nymph right beside my bed this morning, and I think I would have noticed something like that before!

   In the basement of my building, near the trash cans, the landlords have some of those sticky flat white cardboard traps. I don't know if they're glue traps for mice - yuck - or specifically meant for bugs, but there are often bugs (mostly cockroaches) stuck to them. Should I stick a few in my apt. to see what I catch? Would bedbugs stick to them? (I've never seen a bedbug but know that I had them).

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   EffeCi
   

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   Posted 2 months ago
   Wed Aug 26 2009 15:08:02
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   There are normally 20-40 different arthropods species in every home...

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   bbbegone
   

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   Posted 1 month ago
   Mon Sep 28 2009 11:19:34
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   From what I hear centipedes eat bed bugs and their presence might indicate that there are bed bugs. I haven't noticed them before I had bed bugs but they again it might be that I'm looking at these things in a whole new way like you said. Also, I am noticing the same thing, a lot of more bugs, dead and alive that I never saw before but no BB's. It is probably because of the pesticides. The bugs are running away or die in the middle of the floor so you see them as opposed to not seeing them before the treatment.

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   EffeCi
   

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   Posted 1 month ago
   Mon Sep 28 2009 18:26:58
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   centipedes eat bed bugs and their presence might indicate that there are bed bugs

   Their presence indicates simply that there are insects...

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