So sad. Parents beware!
http://www.theprovince.com/news/edm...+critical+condition+after/10836010/story.html
http://www.theprovince.com/news/edm...+critical+condition+after/10836010/story.html
Bedbug Insecticide Kills
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Terrible story. 
I had bedbugs once. They are the worst! So hard to get rid of, and very nasty. Truly something from a horror movie. I woke up itchy, and every night I would wake up to see bedbugs crawling on my sheets and on my body. I would scratch and scratch till I bled. My sheets were stained with streaks of blood from the bedbugs being squashed while I slept.
I would kill them with a tissue by squeezing them, and they would burst, releasing blood and a sickening sweet smell. I would go lie down until a new swarm would crawl out, and then I would kill them too. I repeated this day and night until they were all gone. They were also hiding on my mattress, all clustered together under the folds at the edges of the mattress. Theere would be tiny specks of their feces dotting the mattress. I would grab a tissue and squish them all too. Despite my best efforts, they never seemed to go away.
After being tortured for days, I decided to exact my revenge. I no longer squashed them instantly. Instead, I grabbed them and then heated up the burner on my stove. When the plate got hot, I dropped the mofos in the middle, watching in delight as they ran frantically in a wide circle, never being able to escape. Had they run in a straight line, they would have broken free. But since the burner was recessed, they would simply go around and around the edge until they would stop and burn to death. That gave me great satisfaction.
I had bedbugs once. They are the worst! So hard to get rid of, and very nasty. Truly something from a horror movie. I woke up itchy, and every night I would wake up to see bedbugs crawling on my sheets and on my body. I would scratch and scratch till I bled. My sheets were stained with streaks of blood from the bedbugs being squashed while I slept.
I would kill them with a tissue by squeezing them, and they would burst, releasing blood and a sickening sweet smell. I would go lie down until a new swarm would crawl out, and then I would kill them too. I repeated this day and night until they were all gone. They were also hiding on my mattress, all clustered together under the folds at the edges of the mattress. Theere would be tiny specks of their feces dotting the mattress. I would grab a tissue and squish them all too. Despite my best efforts, they never seemed to go away.
After being tortured for days, I decided to exact my revenge. I no longer squashed them instantly. Instead, I grabbed them and then heated up the burner on my stove. When the plate got hot, I dropped the mofos in the middle, watching in delight as they ran frantically in a wide circle, never being able to escape. Had they run in a straight line, they would have broken free. But since the burner was recessed, they would simply go around and around the edge until they would stop and burn to death. That gave me great satisfaction.
I would just toss my mattresses off my second floor bedroom deck, go out and douse with gas, and burn the fuckers
They are evolved human predators. We have spent thousands of years trying to kill them, and they have gotten very, very good at staying alive.
Most bugs will hang out near their host, within a meter or two of your bed, but a few will crawl to the other side of your home, hide in a random crack, and hibernate there for six months. Just so that when you kill the rest they can come crawling back and restart the infestation.
Nasty fuckers.
DDT had them on the ropes but now we don't have anything effective to fight them with.
Most bugs will hang out near their host, within a meter or two of your bed, but a few will crawl to the other side of your home, hide in a random crack, and hibernate there for six months. Just so that when you kill the rest they can come crawling back and restart the infestation.
Nasty fuckers.
DDT had them on the ropes but now we don't have anything effective to fight them with.
Can those bed bugs survive the cold in Fort McMurray? I'd
set the thermostat to a level to keep the
temperature just high enough to avoid frozen pipes to kill
off the bugs. This was what I did in my out-of-town residence
once in a while in early winter when I was going away for a
few days. I managed to rid my unit of anything that could fly.
But some spiders and home centipedes survivied.
set the thermostat to a level to keep the
temperature just high enough to avoid frozen pipes to kill
off the bugs. This was what I did in my out-of-town residence
once in a while in early winter when I was going away for a
few days. I managed to rid my unit of anything that could fly.
But some spiders and home centipedes survivied.
so how did you get rid of them eventually?Terrible story.
I had bedbugs once. They are the worst! So hard to get rid of, and very nasty. Truly something from a horror movie. I woke up itchy, and every night I would wake up to see bedbugs crawling on my sheets and on my body. I would scratch and scratch till I bled. My sheets were stained with streaks of blood from the bedbugs being squashed while I slept.
I would kill them with a tissue by squeezing them, and they would burst, releasing blood and a sickening sweet smell. I would go lie down until a new swarm would crawl out, and then I would kill them too. I repeated this day and night until they were all gone. They were also hiding on my mattress, all clustered together under the folds at the edges of the mattress. Theere would be tiny specks of their feces dotting the mattress. I would grab a tissue and squish them all too. Despite my best efforts, they never seemed to go away.
After being tortured for days, I decided to exact my revenge. I no longer squashed them instantly. Instead, I grabbed them and then heated up the burner on my stove. When the plate got hot, I dropped the mofos in the middle, watching in delight as they ran frantically in a wide circle, never being able to escape. Had they run in a straight line, they would have broken free. But since the burner was recessed, they would simply go around and around the edge until they would stop and burn to death. That gave me great satisfaction.
After many nights of waking up in the middle of the night, over and over again, and finding them, I would kill them. The numbers went down gradually, until there were no more. I also used Raid on the mattress.
I heard they can go on for years without eating.
http://www2.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef636.asp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mWxpL03_nU
They are the nastiest, most sickening things I have ever encountered.
I experienced them in a hotel once. I sure as hell didn't want to bring them home so I threw out anything I had with me that I couldn't reliably cleanse of bugs. Clothes I put into a laundromat dryer on hot and fucking scorched them (moderate heat killed them). I threw out magazines and the suitcase itself.
Even then, when I got home I bagged everything and stored it in the bathtub for a month (they can't crawl out).
Total paranoid overkill but the experience was so disturbing I wasn't taking any chances with letting one hitch a ride in my stuff.
You did the smart thing. I heard that bedbugs are like herpes and HIV -- once they invade you can't get rid of them.
Phosphine pesticide the cause: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...s-causes-fort-mcmurray-baby-s-death-1.2969189
p.s when I first heard this on the radio I thought they said Phosgene rather than Phosphine, and said to myself GOOD GOD!
p.s when I first heard this on the radio I thought they said Phosgene rather than Phosphine, and said to myself GOOD GOD!
