goathead wrote:Happy Birthday Yggy
LOL, glad my boot is not squishy today, although it is amazing how many nerve endings are under the big toenail.
Plus I know your a member of this club.
But bedbugs are a terrible scourge. 
Not sure they can be confined to a single room. And yes they are hideously expensive and difficult to kill. It might be cheaper to throw everything away than to rely on teenagers to carefully clean and segregate their belongings.
ygmir wrote:*wanders in, makes CCC*
yeah, we're dealing remotely with this, being 500 miles away.
The condo is only 2 years old, and no neighbors are reporting bugs (property mgr. asked). They think only a few came in on the one kids luggage, since he had stayed in some hotels for the week or so before moving in.
But jeebus!! 600 bucks to treat one room, 2K for the whole place!! criminy!! One room is chemical, twice. Whole house is "heat" treatment, where they raise the temp inside to 140 degrees all day, and periodically go in and turn mattresses, fluff clothing and closets and stuff, to get rid of "cool pockets". They of course suggest the whole house treatment.
dang this crap!! Big cities and humans..............
I guess warm climates like L.A. are becoming infested, and the research I've done suggests it's not going away.......I guess back to beds in cans of kerosene? I know that worked "back when", since they really only feed of sleeping people, and tend to live within 6' of a bed.
crap...........
*heads for ROS*
Jackass wrote:ygmir wrote:*wanders in, makes CCC*
yeah, we're dealing remotely with this, being 500 miles away.
The condo is only 2 years old, and no neighbors are reporting bugs (property mgr. asked). They think only a few came in on the one kids luggage, since he had stayed in some hotels for the week or so before moving in.
But jeebus!! 600 bucks to treat one room, 2K for the whole place!! criminy!! One room is chemical, twice. Whole house is "heat" treatment, where they raise the temp inside to 140 degrees all day, and periodically go in and turn mattresses, fluff clothing and closets and stuff, to get rid of "cool pockets". They of course suggest the whole house treatment.
dang this crap!! Big cities and humans..............
I guess warm climates like L.A. are becoming infested, and the research I've done suggests it's not going away.......I guess back to beds in cans of kerosene? I know that worked "back when", since they really only feed of sleeping people, and tend to live within 6' of a bed.
crap...........
*heads for ROS*
I have an old can of DDT that says to saturate mattresses and bedding weekly for bedbugs on the back of the can, I wonder what kind of side effects that would cause for the occupant. Can't be good...they outlawed this stuff for a reason
ygmir wrote:
IIRC, DDT was not so bad on mammals, it was making bird eggs thin and killing off eagles and such from no hatchlings.
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