Google Lens says this is a Bed Bug.🐜 Do you concur?

I’ve been dealing with BB for about two weeks and it’s really impacting my emotional well being. I have cats so I’m limited in pest control services/products but have been using DE, steam heat, heat drying, and bagging. Both my mattress and box spring are in protectors. I’m still getting bites but reminding myself that this takes time. It sounds silly but not having my partner over is a huge disruption to the normalcy of my life and contributes to me feeling inherently dirty (of course they’re supportive and not saying anything like that.) How long after seeing no bugs and having no bites should I wait to have my partner sleep over?

I’ve had issues with chemicals - they didn’t work. I tried all kinds.

One day, I was using steam to clean a window and accidentally killed a bedbug. Then I noticed a hole and directed the steam into it. That turned out to be their nest, and it killed most of them. Since then, I’ve been using steam, and it does work.

This is just for your information. If you’re dealing with this issue, you can try it. It will definitely help. The only problem is that you need to keep less furniture and avoid excess stuff, because that’s where they tend to live.

Hi,

We were just on vacation and stayed at two different 4* resort and woke up on our second (of three days) day of the second hotel with what looks to be bed bug bites. We thorough checked the room we were currently staying in and found no evidence of them. We are assuming it was the first hotel at this point. We ordered a thermal strike heater that was at our house when we got home.

We got home yesterday and stripped off our old clothes before coming inside house and put on clean clothes. Went back to the garage and took luggage out of car, put one load into thermal strike (stuffed animals, things that can’t go into dryer) and let that run. Got to over 120F for an hour and as hot as 140F. My husband put his clothes through the dryer then washed and dried again on highest heat setting. I saw a brown not moving fleck when I went to empty first load from thermal strike but couldn’t tell if it was dead bug or something else. So left the same load in there and let it cycle again and got to over 120F again for over an hour and as hot as 127F. Turned it off as I was paranoid to leave running while we were sleeping. Have left a separate change of clothes in garage to use while sorting luggage that will throw in wash/dryer when done.

We did put some things in ziploc bags in the freezer (a couple souvenirs and shoes) that I wasn’t sure were heat safe and bagged electronics into ziploc bags and put in our bathtub until I knew better what to do with them.

Our big suitcases are still sealed shut in the garage. I can’t leave shut forever but just wanted to make sure I was having an okay process before continuing to work though what we brought home.

Thank you!

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Hi, i thrifted a bed on Facebook marketplace and got bedbugs from it, i've washed everything, put diatomaceous earth everywhere, sprayed my room and encased my matress, the bed was in my room for about 4/5 days before i started treatment but i now haven't been bitten in 3 days, it's been a bit over a week since i got the bed. Does that mean that i'm kinda fine? i ordered a steam cleaner and will treat the bed when it arrives and I haven't seen any live bugs. I've only seen 2 dead ones on my initial bedding and a tiny bit of shedding? does that mean that it is just a small infestation? do you guys have advice?

also the bed is metal but the box spring was wood

I live with my parents and sister. My dad has been itching and breaking out in hives for about 2-3 weeks now. We thought it was seasonal changes bothering him because my mom sleeps in the same bed and was not getting bit. My sister wasn’t experiencing anything and neither was I. Genuinely thought my dad was just having allergies or something.

All of a sudden, yesterday, my mom sees 3 bed bugs back to back while she’s reading in bed (my dad hadn’t come in yet) and pulls back the pillow to find a shit ton of them. Strips the bed, more, everywhere.

My sister tore her room apart and found just one.

I tore the couch and living room apart and found nothing.

But the state of my parents room is insane.

I am so sad because I love all my clothes and feel like I have to throw everything out or something. Or wash everything on high heat which will ruin most of it.

We’ve been spraying and washing everything. I just wanted to complain because I truly understand this can happen to anyone. But fuuuuck why meeee.