Community Chat

[Susan Louise]

...and it's a species that hasn't been around since WWll...

https://weather.com/news/news/tropical-bedbugs-return-to-florida-after-60-years

[cherry]

My son travels overseas for business  very often. He was on a British Airways night flight, coming back to the US

He said people began pulling out pillows and covers to sleep with. All at once he heard the word bedbugs. People complained of getting bitten. Sure enough after he was home for a few days, he started getting bit.

He had carried the bugs in his luggage. He fumigated his apt, and threw away all of his bedding

He said British Air must not have fumigated the plane, He now leaves his luggage in a hot car for a couple of days before bringing inside his home

They are no joke. My BFF had them in a nice hotel room in NYC. She complained to the management and they upgraded her room.

[KingstonsMom]

Ewwwwwww! I'll think twice before renting a hotel room anytime soon!

[MaRina]

YIKES!!!! 

I pull apart the bedding at our hotels because it freaks me out. Search and Search some more before I feel comfortable. So far so good! 

[sidsmom]

....and doesn't Florida have a zillion Rock Pythons

roaming around the Everglades...and in people's backyards?

Hoogey.

🐍🐍🐍🐍

[Jacie]

My cousin and his wife used baby crib in a hotel on their way back to their CA home a few years back from a trip to Colorado. 

Huge mistake. They battled bed bugs for a year before the house was sealed, super heated and bombed with poison.

The Stuff of Nightmares!

[Jacie]

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@sidsmom wrote:

....and doesn't Florida have a zillion Rock Pythons

roaming around the Everglades...and in people's backyards?

Hoogey.

🐍🐍🐍🐍

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I also seem to remember a story on the news about neighborhood pets, cats and small dogs, vanishing. Eeek!

[BalletBabe]

@sidsmom  I live in Florida for 14 years now in Jan.  I have never seen any snakes but black small ones that are also up North.   I think the key is , if your going to live in Florida don't have waterfront property.  If you are inland like I am, there isn't anything.  I have had two small dogs since living here and neither vanished.  

[sgraham30]

Bedbugs are very hard to get rid of. I found some in my house, where I picked them up I don't know. I had my house treated in May 2016. I didn't see any for a couple of weeks after treatment then I started seeing them again. The company that I used offered a 90 day warranty so I had the same company back out in June, & again I went a few weeks without seeing any. I was checking my sofas daily so I could contact the exterminator immediately when I saw the ugly little things. I had the exterminators out for a 3rd time in July but before they came out, I vacuumed my sofas & I steamed the daylights out of the sofas. After my vacuuming & steaming & the 3rd chemical treatment, the dang things were finally gone, I haven't seen any in months.

I paid $700 for the treatments that I had. I'd never use the company again if the situation arose again because all they did was spray my furniture, they didn't vacuum up the eggs so naturally new ones kept hatching. I wanted heat treating done but the cheapest quote that I found was $1,800.

[chlema]

Yes, they are very difficult to get rid of.  It took 2 treatments, $900 total to finally do the trick.  Add that to having to wash in hot water everything, replacing a matteress set, a couch and a chair.  I was always under the perception that they were the result of a dirty house, but not so said my exterminator.  When I questioned him where we get them he said well, you know we spray doctor's offices for them all the time.  Geez, we're always going to one doctor or another.  I have noticed that in some of the offices they have replaced their cushy chairs with those than can be wiped down.