Hi please tell me if this is a bedbug. Havent seen red marks but seen a few of these maybe about 7 or so. Body is itching but not sure if its mental or for real. Please telll me asap. I have a video of it moving but cant upload here

I have what could be bb bites on one forearm. It’s been almost two weeks since I noticed them and have had no other issues. I tore my bed/ bedroom apart but didn’t find anything. The “bites” have morphed over time and seem to have “spread” into smallish raised bumps all around larger ones. Still itchy. I was also working around poison ivy, so I’m losing my mind wondering what ails me. What should my next move be? Should I see an allergist? Call for an inspection? Who could ID this rash on my arm with certainty? I just want to know what exactly I’m dealing with.

I recently moved and in the corner of the room next to the bed, I see these tiny translucent bugs that seem to live in the floor and walls. Today I tried to catch them and there are just so many. Most are very light yellow but some are more brownish, which made me suspicious if they can be fed bed bug nymphs. I also saw 1 book louse (I know it's a booklouse), but these are like 5 times smaller. Can they be bed bug nymphs? I know the photo quality is bad, but... It's a cotton disk, for size comparison. Also, I put one on my finger and it wasn't interested in biting me, if that matters.

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I’ve had bedbugs in the past three times and I am left with severe PTSD. No signs for months and months and moved to a new place, new bed, new everything. Pls help.

I am new to this but I have been fighting bed bugs for almost three years. Mentally and physically, I am totally drained, I purchased an adjustable base bed but haven't been able to use it. I am looking for suggestions (?) For finding a protector for the mattress that won't tear. My last one won't even fit and money is running out.

BB timeline -late January woke up with bites -mid February woke up with bites again -late Feb chemical treatment

• last week sprayed baseboards with aerosol Crossfire
• today I received Crossfire concentrate and found this while cleaning up

-what's next Reddit?

Coworker sent me an image of a bug found in one of our rooms. Please help me identify if it’s a bedbug!

all these posts of people saying it takes months for them to be bug free, what are we supposed to do? do i just live at home and never got out anymore? how can i be comfortable going out again? i have had 2 treatments in the last 2 weeks, and another one set in 2 months! i have plans! i need to leave my house and see people. when can i do it?? when can i unpack?

If anyone has any insight to what’s going on, I’d really appreciate it. It’s been 2 months since my first set of “bites”, since then I’ve done 3 room inspections (no signs of bedbugs). My room is the cleanest it’s been in months and still cannot find anything. I haven’t slept in my room a lot, but each time I sleep there I see welts. There was only one other night sleeping in the basement that I found a welt. I found 1 carpet beetle in a spare room (had wings and a patterned shell) and I have found evidence in the basement while vacuuming. I can’t find any evidence in my room of carpet beetles. My big questions are, can bed bugs go undetected for 2 months? And why am I getting marks in my room and not other areas of the house? I have vacuumed and treated the areas of activity. Also each set of welts looks different, they vary in size, shape, and color. They disappear quickly within 4-5 days.

Hey everyone,

Kind of really freaking out here. I'm a health care provider at a hospital, and a couple days ago I was working a shift, and I ended up sitting down for a while in the room of a patient while interviewing them (on a chair they had their coat on), until I was informed that they come from a building known for bed bugs. The patient denied this and said they had a cockroach problem, but also might not have honestly been the most reliable historian. Then I gowned and gloved into contact precautions but had my documenting clip board on me - but I had already sat down.

Then I later went into this patient's room again after I thought they had showered (had changed rooms) but turns out they had been put back in some home clothes. This time I did not sit down anywhere, but was also not gowned and gloved.

I had nothing to change into after work and was really tired after a hectic day so I found two plastic bags in my shared office and put those on my car seat. I put my other belongings in the back (coat, backpack, lunchbag). Those other belongings would not have been exposed to the patient but would have been exposed to me (I carried them out of the hospital and wore the backpack which touched the back of my sweater).

I got home to my apartment and placed my belongings down for a minute to change out of my clothes from work and seal them in a plastic bag. I put my belongings outside on the balcony. I took a hot shower then into a hot bath. I changed and put my work clothes into a hot wash and hot dryer x 2. I then the next day put my belongings on the balcony in a sealed, tied garbage bag and left them there (removing some things from the inside of my backpack that I needed, like my laptop and clinical clipboard).

I know it's obviously hard to say with certainty what my risk is here or not... but I just want to know if I am freaking out more than I should be? Are there any words of advice for next steps (I was going to encase my mattress, pillows, get interceptors for the bed and see if I see any).

I feel like I've been feeling itchy lately but that might just be psychosomatic. Sometimes I can have odd skin findings, and I have something on my outer thigh that feels like a sore small bruise but I am wondering if it is a bite. I'm wondering if that could happen that quickly thereafter (that showed up the next day).

Would appreciate any help or thoughts especially from those who have had exposures but no subsequent infestations who work in similar fields with patients who may be coming in from homes w/ bed bugs. Or any words of advice if I am making this at the moment bigger than it needs to be. And any next steps I should take. Thank you so so very much!

The long antenna on this bug makes me question if it’s a bed bug? Found on comforter.

I'm trying to locate Nuvan strips here in Canada. No luck, I guess they are not approved for use?

There is an alternative I've found, Otho Home Defense Max strips, however everywhere seems to be out of them. Has this item been discontinued?

So frustrating.

Hello everyone, i was just curious about casings i could buy to protect matresses and such from bedbugs as a precaution, as yesterday i found out my friends had bed bugs, and knew about it, but never said anything or warned anyone. So just to ease my paranoid mind after doing a full cleaning frenzy and finding nothing, I was looking into purchasing some pillow and mattress protectors / casings, but i do not want the ones that sound and feel like i am sleeping on plastic bags. I'll take any recommendations I can get. Thank you ♡

Edit 1- cleaning was using diatomaceous earth, decluttering, and vacuuming every nook, cranny, and surface I could. Also , I put everything I could into the dryer on high heat for three 1 hour long cycles, vacuuming out the lint trap every time in between. Shoes and clothing worn over there was put into a sealed bag with diatomaceous earth, and left there for the next few weeks. Everything else was thrown out in sealed bags. So I'm just trying every single thing I can do that doesn't involve chemicals to help stop anything from happening and protecting what I still can. (Currently living with a roommate who's dad doesn't like involving chemicals unless they are organic or endored by infowars type people. If you know, you know.)

So I moved into a new apartment this past November, at first I thought I was getting bit by a spider or house centipede that I pissed off. It would only be like a bite every 2 weeks or so. Fast forward we found out we had bed bugs at the end of November and made our property management aware. Ever since then we were battling like crazy with an exterminator to kill the infestation. Our upstairs neighbors moved and we found out they were the source. They left a lot of their furniture outside that was covered in fecal splatter and bed bug molts. Our property management told us that none of the other units were having a problem and insisted this to be true even after the upstairs people moved out and they had the unit inspected. Obviously this wasn’t true because we knew our exterminator was making frequent visits upstairs in some hefty gear and once again we looked at the furniture that had been thrown out so our suspicions were confirmed in our eyes. They moved about a month and a half ago and we are still experiencing bites and finding bed bugs. All of our stuff is in contractor bags. We’ve never been able to actually unpack and move in. Our exterminator said this last time he comes he’ll be using spores and that we will have to be out for 6 hours. I’ve been trying to do research on all of the chemicals he uses since we have pets and how to make sure at least one area is safe for them so our pets have been living in the bathroom. I just feel like there’s always inconsistencies in what he tells us sometimes like how he wanted us to mop into the grains of the linoleum but when said I mopped everything he said that was bad. He said one time that we should have been unpack for the next couple of treatments, but then we had to repack everything again and keep it sealed. We appreciate him because we know he’s trying to help us and keep us informed but our morale is definitely down. Has anyone else been through it for 6 months or have information on the spores?

Please tell me it isn’t.

Got this in, treated the entire house, all furniture, and vehicles (along with purging the house, laundering everything, the works 😭) after finding a lone BB in my van. Still no signs of anything else, feeling confident that I will not be dealing with a BB problem any time soon. That being said I am going to stay vigilant and keep my eyes peeled. Thank you everyone for the advice, the last few weeks have been a nightmare 😵‍💫.

At what point can I consider our house good, without seeing activity? I feel like I’m gonna be paranoid for a long time 😅

Saw this and got worried and sorry for bad image quality. Pls help

I've found that I need a surfactant to make my Crossfire spread out and not bead up on most painted and metal surfaces. I've been using a paintbrush to apply it. I added a little hand soap to a small amount of Crossfire (Crossfire+water) and it worked great. The solution doesn't bead up on those surfaces. However, I've read that "ionic" (electrically charged) surfactants like common soap can interfere with insecticides, so non-ionic surfactants are best for this. Non-ionic surfactants have an "HLB value" (hydrophilic-lipophilic balance) that can range from 0 to 20, under 10 being more lipid(oil)-soluble, over 10 being more water-soluble. It appears that a product with an HLB of around 10 would be just right for Crossfire. I would like to know which surfactant products would be best for Crossfire. By the way, I mixed my Crossfire using distilled water, so there are no mystery minerals to get in the way.