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Why do i see them around my sink and bathroom?
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Rman643
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Posted 2 years ago
Thu Jun 21 2007 18:09:10
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I have been trying for a year to get rid of this critters..i now am seeing tghem around my bathroom toliet and sink and now on the ceiling..can someone tell me why this is? not getting bitten and the ones i see are the large flat brown ones....I am in NYC.
Thanks!
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They are probably coming along pipes that go from one apartment to another. Your neighbors probably have them. If many appeared at once, they may have used a bad treatment like a bomb, but even without that, they do move from one place to another. Call your landlord and get him or her to have all units inspected by a good PCO who knows bed bugs. Read the FAQs also! Good luck!
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wantmyskinback
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Posted 2 years ago
Thu Jun 21 2007 23:24:05
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Hello. I read your post. I think that you need to stick double stick tape on the ceiling of your bathroom and have Steri fab handy to kill them. If you are not being bitten you are lucky. But maybe you just don't react.
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Have you been fighting them on your own?
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BBsBlow
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Posted 2 years ago
Fri Jun 22 2007 15:05:55
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Speaking of double stick (carpet) tape, has anyone here successfully caught BBs on it? I've had it down for around a month, and it's caught a few bugs (no BBs). However, what's creeped me out is once they've seemingly gotten stuck, I've come back to see that they've been able to move around! What the heck? So I wonder if BBs may be a species that can't move once stuck?
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parakeets
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Posted 2 years ago
Fri Jun 22 2007 15:15:08
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My bathroom is right up against another tenant's bedroom, so what's on the other side of the wall or ceiling, not the bathroom itself, could be a factor if there are conduits in the walls (electrical conduits, ducts, pipes, cracks, etc.)
Are the bedbugs possibly just more visible in your bathroom, against a while tile background, for example? They are hard to see against rugs, wood, electronic equipment and the more crowded surfaces of other rooms.
Are there less hiding places in your bathroom than there are in your other rooms so you are just seeing dumb bedbugs who are not hiding? Bedbugs could be elsewhere in the same numbers or greater but hiding better.
"Not getting bitten?" Either they are not bedbugs (which I doubt since you know bedbugs!), your skin has stopped showing reactions--60% of people bitten don't know they are being bitten--or the bedbugs are getting blood meals someplace else.
Or some unexplained reason. Maybe the bath products you use are secretly bedbug pheremones?
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