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Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bite... - 10/7/2010 2:18:47 PM

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Huffington Post

It makes me itch just thinking about it. Anyway, the news in the UK is full of stories about how we are likely to be invaded by a wave of US immigrant Bed Bugs which are highly resistant to pesticides, and really gross close-up. Apparently, NY is crawling with them.

I, for one, welcome our new Alien Overlords, but what about you guys? Had any close encounters? And if you had, would you even say?

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 2:25:30 PM

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supposedly the waldorph astoria had them.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 2:28:08 PM

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And 'Victoria's Secret'...

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 2:32:48 PM

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Bedbugs Strike at WALDORF ASTORIA...

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 3:26:48 PM

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We get lots of added benefits from immigrants and especially illegal aliens from south of the border. I have read and heard radio news stories about the increase in cases of whooping cough in parts of our country. You can vaccinate all you like. If you don't protect your borders you are wasting your time. Bed bugs are creepy but they pale in comparison to some of the other possibilities.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 4:08:33 PM

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If you fog with cedar oil it shuts down their respiratory system and they die, as well as any other bug in your house. It is non toxic to people and animals.

I bought them with a chair. They can live for eighteen months without feeding... they multiply like roaches... they bite... they get in every crack anywhere and they love pine furniture. I went through hell until I found the cedar oil... easy job, far less work and headaches and instant death to the bugs from hell. Nothing else works as fast and as effectively and I don't know why people don't know this. Exterminators cost big time and you go through hell because they can't kill them all at once unless you tent the place like with termites.

Bed bug free for over a year now.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 4:09:25 PM

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Ugh. They're disgusting, and yes, they are resistant to a lot of the poisons being used out there. However, one thing that they aren't resistant to is diatomaceous earth.It's relatively harmless to humans and pets- no poison, but you still need to be careful with it. It kills a variety of pesky insects. I got rid of an unexpected ant invasion using the stuff.

Lockit, the cedar oil thing sounds really great too, I've never heard of that one before. Where do you buy it, and how do you fog with it? Is it a kit or something like that??

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 4:18:01 PM

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http://www.cedarcidestore.com/catalog/item/3580888/5108340.htm

This company saved us and were honest and very helpful. Don't get the spray. Use the fogger machine with the gal. cedar oil. The spray is good for direct contact, but the fogger enters their lungs and they can't breath. For about four hundred dollars I got rid of a problem that cost me nearly a thousand dollars covering beds and buying zip bags for all belongings... total hell. Get the fogger and oil and it's a done deal.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 4:27:56 PM

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Wow, thanks for the link.

Those rotten bugs are such a menace. They can come into your home in just about anything- I've heard horror stories about them hiding in bolts of fabric. The Garment District is totally infested with the damned things. I'm always nervous I'll bring them in when I purchase large quantities of fabric now. Bleah. I have my diatomaceous earth ready to go, it did the job on the ants, but the cedar oil sounds a lot faster.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 4:41:41 PM

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If you spray cedar oil directly on fabric it could discolor. With fogging and believe me we used far more than we had to, nothing was discolored. You could actually call or email this company and ask them, since you are bringing in new fabric often, if it might help to buy huge zippered bags, use the fogger machine to spray inside the bag and let it sit a few days and if that would work. Just my thoughts, don't know if it would work or not. The fabric would smell like cedar oil for a while but the oil and smell dissipate rather quickly.

You can also kill them with steam but you have to have an industrial type steamer to be hot enough and then you need to get the dry steamer or else you could get mold issues.

Those things will get into books, cardboard... electronics and love curtains, they climb and then fall from to get around. They can sniff you out a hundred yards away. They truly are the bug from hell.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 5:01:49 PM

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Man. There has to be a better way.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 6:24:29 PM

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Thanks Lockit, this is a good tip.
I don't have them here yet, and I never EVER want them to come visit.

Fogging sounds a lot easier than trying to kill them this way...

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 6:57:46 PM

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quote:

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We get lots of added benefits from immigrants and especially illegal aliens from south of the border. I have read and heard radio news stories about the increase in cases of whooping cough in parts of our country. You can vaccinate all you like. If you don't protect your borders you are wasting your time. Bed bugs are creepy but they pale in comparison to some of the other possibilities.

Um, just where are immigrants in this? Our bedbugs are homegrown. This ain't a new problem, it's just getting press.

Whooping cough is going around because parents in the US didn't vaccinate their kids, and that was all domestic whooping cough. Back in '91 there was an epidemic of measles at my university, do you suppose that was from immigrants too? Measles outbreaks here are due to parents not giving their kids the MMR vaccine.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 8:07:48 PM

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Ever since they've popped up in the news, I am convinced that every red mark on my body is courtesy of a bed bug...well, except for the welts on my ass.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/7/2010 9:13:50 PM

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only 1/2 the people get ichy from the bites. Maybe there is a vaccine so as to never itch.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/8/2010 3:36:05 AM

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Two sleeping and bed bugs stories...

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News Toronto & GTA

Woman sleeps on balcony to escape bedbugs

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/10/02/15558886.html

I sleep with bed bugs for a living

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/8/2010 7:16:38 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: hertz

Two sleeping and bed bugs stories...

quote:

News Toronto & GTA

Woman sleeps on balcony to escape bedbugs

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/10/02/15558886.html

I sleep with bed bugs for a living

Are you the official "Bed Bug Quality Control" tester?
Is this a conspiracy by the American Bed Bug Reintroduction Society to breed stronger, bigger and better bed bugs?
AHA! I thought so!

I always knew my paranoia would actually hit something dead on the mark one of these days. Eureka!

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/8/2010 7:18:34 AM

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Beg bugs for me .... no problem....
Grass hoppers, WTF!!!!! They cover my house walls, making the wall go from white to a dark brown color. I can't believe the swarms I'm having the past 2 months.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/8/2010 9:18:18 AM

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It's the end times...

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And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key of the shaft of the bottomless pit; he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.

Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth; they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those of mankind who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads; they were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man. And in those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, and death will fly from them.

Death by bed bug and locust. It's an insect conspiracy.

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RE: Good night, Sleep Tight, Don't let the Bed Bugs bit... - 10/8/2010 12:39:38 PM

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Better get you some as quickly and as often as you can if the world is going to end. If not, I recommend the cedar oil. lol

Oh hell... I might use the oil and do the fun stuff as too... might as well.

'I was in just minding my own business when I had this guy tied to my bed, bed bugs came to suck our blood and then locust filled the room to eat our flesh. The earth quaked and we heard a trumpet and by god... we fell through the house and into the crack. The fires of hell came to consume us and since we were so drained of blood from those big bed bugs and our flesh was half eaten... we became dust very quickly. Dust to dust.'

Maybe with all this going on some people will give discounts and some will be more slutty... I know that's what you're thinking. Get ya some now before it's too late!

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