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Do these look like bedbug shells?

Do these look like bedbug shells?

A friend of mine moved into a new apartment that was fully renovated. It seemed super clean because of it. She found these on her floor this morning and we think they could be bedbugs shells. I will try to get some better pictures.

u/Slothloveonly — 17 hours ago

are these bed bug bites?

woke up today with these bite marks. I've looked through my mattress and bedding with my flashlight but found nothing. Im not sure if I need to call inspection and need my home to be investigated

u/Flaky-Pay-8207 — 1 day ago

Is this a bed bug?

I found some of these bastards in a 20yo pc. It wasnt opened for like 10 years. What should I do? Is the pc infestated? I got it from a friend. He wanted to throw it out, and I got it as a souvenir for parts

u/mihking2023 — 1 day ago
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Second application of treatment, bug killing spray phase (Day4)

Hello, I'm back to continue documenting my journey with the ZinPlagas bedbug treatment kit, the active ingredient is cipermetrina 21.29 %, I may have fucked up because I didn't use bottled water, the first and second photos are the concentrate, and the third is the actual solution.

Fourth photo is my headboard, the gift and sixth is my mattress, the seventh, eighth, and tenth are my baseboard and the ninth is a part of my mattress that has ended up unsewn, if I have to get rid of it, I wouldn't mind, but I would prefer to wait until I finish the treatment, so that the bedbugs don't colonize the new one.

The seventh is a dead bedbug from the first day of treatment

And the last three are the instructions that came with the kit.

Fuck when I added the last three the order became fucked up, and I can't be bothered to fix it, right now I'm waiting for it to dry so that I start applying the diatomaceous earth.

u/Wafflewaffle2 — 23 hours ago

Is this a bedbug?

Found on my bed this morning. It looked like a flea at first but it didn’t jump when I was going to catching it with a ziplock bag. I accidentally smashed it before I was done examining it. What came out didn’t look like blood ( in my opinion.)

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My journey on getting rid of bedbugs with the Zinchinches bedbug removal kit (First day)

Well now I know the reason that my arms are itching all the time since November. So I bought this kit, and one to get rid of biological remains in the clothes. The directions are to spray with the liquid wait until it dries and coat with a light dusting of diomatecus earth, all the crevices and surfaces that they could be hiding in, and specifically in the nests that I'm able to find.

I have to do this the first, the fourth, the seventh and after that every five days for at least two months, and the mark that it's working is that the bed bugs will start getting smaller and transparent, if I continue to find adult bedbugs, I need to search for the hidden nest.

I bought this because I live in Mexico, and I don't have the time or money to hire a professional, and this kit seemed to have good reviews and were honest about the fact that you can't kill the eggs, and that putting clothes in black bags in sunlight isn't effective at all, they also answer questions via WhatsApp.

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u/Wafflewaffle2 — 22 hours ago

Need advice: bites but no evidence found yet

About 10 days ago my daughter woke up with several bites on her body, but since they wet spread out we figured it might be a spider or a mosquito. The following few days, however, she woke up with a few new bites, some in a line on her face. In total there was probably less than 10 after 4 days. I removed all her sheets and washed what I could, and ran all the rest and her stuffed animals, and everything else on high heat in the dryer. Checked for anything on mattress or bed frame and pillows and found nothing. The only evidence I’ve ever found are about 3 really small red dots on her pillow case but I’m not sure if the stains were there before the bites showed up or not.

I thought everything might’ve been ok but she again got a couple bites. So I dismantled her bed, looked in every screw hole, and also looked at the furniture (turned them upside down) and checked in all the seams and have not found any evidence, like molted skin or eggs or black or colored dots of any kind on the wood or furniture. I looked in the foam mattress and nothing. She has for the last four days slept with us, and at first nothing showed up. We also took her to a doctor and said that it is a bite but he wasn’t sure. Two more bites showed up isolated, one by her eye and one on her back shoulder. I looked at our sheets and found one black dot, and touched it but it didn’t smear. All the sheets are in dryer now and I’ve turned over bed frame and our foam mattress and still no evidence. No dots or blemishes or molted skin etc. there aren’t any blood stains either on the sheets etc. I have also vacuumed at every step of my search but did not use a steamer or hair dryer in my investigation.

I’m really not sure what to do now since she is still recieving bites I wonder if they are delayed reactions? My wife and I have not gotten bites but again I can’t find any evidence that I can show an exterminator if I call one.

Any advice on next steps would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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u/junkthought — 1 day ago
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Creepy worm like thing crawling on bed

Whenever I sit to study I discover them on my bed like 3 or 6 sometimes

Does anyone know what is it?

u/Spiritual-County-231 — 3 days ago

Bug bites

Please don’t say bedbug unless you’re pretty sure. I have a phobia. Lol.

Context: was in Florence Italy. Stayed one night in Edinburgh, then 3 in Florence. 2 in Tuscany. 1 Pisa. Home now. These bites showed up about 6 days ago whilst in Florence. No bites since (that I know of. Husband seems unconcerned). Air bnb was very very clean. I checked (minimally) as I’m trying to be less crazy about bb. Now this happens.

This is my husband. He has a couple more isolated bites: one on his chest, one on his side, one on his ankle. I have absolutely none.

We slept with the window open and left it open thru the day. Our Airbnb was next to the river - just one small block over. It was chilly the first night but hotter the second and I think that’s when he got them. I was taking an antihistamine.

u/NoParty6438 — 3 days ago

BB related?

Doesn’t look like typical molt, could it somehow be part of the skin? Was hard not papery almost felt like the inner layer of an onion. The black mark on back has me concerned. Found on top of sheet.

u/Majestic_Paramedic37 — 3 days ago
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BB related?

I have found these a few times. At first I didn’t think BB related, but now I have been finding on mattress encasement. Could it somehow be a part of dead BB or no it doesn’t look like the typical molt. It will not crush easily like a seed and is pretty hard. Last pic is blurry, but shows the shape better and some details

u/Majestic_Paramedic37 — 3 days ago

Bedbugs brought home from the thrift store

My girlfriend works at a thrift store and today when she took off the clothes she wore to work she found a single bed bug. We immediately killed it and put the entire laundry bin of dirty clothes in the washer and dryer on high heat. Is there anything else we can do to prevent an infestation if more got around before we realized?

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u/Interesting-Let383 — 4 days ago

I need help live in New York

Just moved in to a Condo and being on these pages for awhile I am scared shit of everything. Please tell me these are not them I haven’t sleep since Saturday.

u/External_Walk_2798 — 3 days ago