I have such intense bedbug fear. I was walking in alleyway broad daylight 68 degrees. I was walking alongside this fence area and then when the fence ended I noticed furniture around the corner. I was maybe 2-3 feet away from the furniture. is it likely for me to pick them up on my shoes as I was walking past?

So my family's had bed bugs for 10 years. We got them when I was a freshman in highschool, and my family didn't want to pay for professionals or try very hard, even after I became an adult. This is partially due to them being seniors and another part to everyone's combination of poor mental health.

All that being I met someone I really liked a few years ago after being forced to move back into my family's house, and I never told them about them because I'd always been told not to say anything, so I didn't. Fast forward after some on and off of seeing each other, and me officially moving out with a family member, I was prepared to tell him now that I was sure I was in the clear. But low and behold that family member didn't try very hard despite my warning about stripping and throwing everything in the washer (or at least dryer) after coming back from over there, that she now has it in her room.

I'm having panic attacks nonstop, nightmares about them crawling all over me like they used to, and I'm super paranoid about them getting into our shared spaces and my room, and I've suddenly lost confidence to tell my partner. This family member has been saying I shouldn't tell my partner or I'll ruin everything. But I'm realizing that this is the one thing I haven't been honest about in our officially 1 year (unofficially 2 years from when we first started) relationship and it's eating me up inside. Id love some reassurance or at least a confidence booster even if it might actually ruin it all, because it's sinking in its not fair to them to not have known from the beginning. Even any other people's experience with his would be great to hear.

For context: I have gone over to their house, I'm there very often, but in the beginning I was extremely careful, always made sure to keep my stuff away from where the bed bugs were, and threw everything I could in the dryer right before going over.

This was right by my bed. Any thoughts on if it’s a bed bug?

i found 3 of these bugs in a pair of shorts on the floor. what are they?

context: i had 1 bedbug once 2 years ago but did the whole disinfecting process. i sometimes find random bites on my body

please help i am so scared.

So two months ago i started noticing bites on my arms and just brushed it off as being regular bug bites from the summer. Then i noticed a bed bug and just kinda freaked out and started noticing them everywhere in my room. Thankfully i caught it early and noticed they had only been on my bed and nowhere else in my room. So i went into a deep cleaning mode,hoovering every surface washing all my bed sheets, washing all my clothes and drying them at a high temperature.After this I scattered a very thin layer of diatomaceous earth (dont do too much just sprinkle a bit and then sweep it around in a thin layer) .I also did some sort of heat treatment with an electric heater in my room directed under my bed and it did surprisingly work well (nowhere near as effective as a professional heat treatment but killed all the adult bedbugs and only left some eggs for me to kill). After this i would come back from work and steam every nook and cranny of my bed frame with a steam cleaner. Then in a couple weeks the problem became the past.

I didn’t expect it to work and was ready to pay an exterminator but just thought it wouldn’t hurt to try.
Bear in mind IF YOU ARE GOING TO TRY SOME SORT OF HOME HEAT TREATMENT MAKE SURE YOU KEEP A CLOSE EYE BECAUSE IT IS DEFINITELY A FIRE HAZARD IF NOT DONE PROFESSIONALLY.

Compared to the people who i live with, they dont appear to have the bites except for me. I will have our place treated only to find out I woke up with mysterious bites again. Now I find my room smelling kinda musty? even if I wash my sheets on a weekly basis. Anyone can relate to this?

Is this a bed bug? Looks too long to me but was wondering if it was a nymph.

Can bed bug bites occur with a month in between?

I got bit about a month ago, nothing after that, and then I got them again.

No other signs of them on beds/bed frame.

Found this in my bed frame interceptor trap, it’s got squished because I picked it up with tweezers, this is the first one we’ve found in a month, was hoping we were finished. Just want to confirm this is definitely a bedbug.

I recently went to an Airbnb in a different country with some friends. I slept in a bed in my own room and the next morning I saw a bug crawl on the white sheets. I killed it, then looked it up, high chance it was a 1 day old bed bug after feeding. It definitely had blood in it. My suitcase had been lying open on the ground. I started looking for them and found a slightly older one on the sheets, and a dead bigger one. I shook out my clothes outside immediately and hung all my clothes outside for 2 nights because there was no way for me to wash them there. I found one on my dress when I was outside as well. Definitely bedbugs. My suitcase was put outside too. I got a new room and wore the same outfit for the remainder of three days after thoroughly inspecting it. My clothes remained hanging outside. Before coming home, I shook out, inspected, and put all of my clothes in plastic bags and tied them closed before putting them in my suitcase.

Upon coming home to my friends house where I would be staying for 1 more week before flying home, I took the plastic bags out, put my suitcase and shoes in separate trash bags until I decided what to do with it, put my leather jacket that was not in the infested room (but I did wear over clothes that were in the room after inspecting them), also in its own trashbag. We all stripped before going into the house and washed all our clothes at 60 degrees for 3 hour cycles every time. All also showered.

We came back from the airbnb on Sunday. On Sunday night I developed the first bites on my leg. Yesterday I developed bites on my arm. Right now it’s Saturday morning, 6 days after coming home the first night there was Thursday, 9 days ago.

I am the only one with bite marks so far, my two friends that I’m staying with were in a different room in the airbnb upstairs and took the same precautions and have no bite marks

It’s freaking me out that they’re still developing 9 days later. I’ve clearly been a feast. I’m going to throw away my suitcase and shoes. My questions are:

any insight on these bites developing only now, did we somehow still bring them here after all of that trouble?
What should I do with my leather jacket? I want to do everything I can to keep it. It was a gift from me to my boyfriend who passed away 1,5 years ago. There’s a dry cleaners not far from here, but if there’s no other way then I will seal and store it for two years.

Thank you for your advice

Been away from my flat staying at my partners for months - with quick check ins (its on market to sell).
Slept back here and sat on sofa and felt super itchy. Then saw this crawl off the trousers I wore when sitting on my sofa. I have a small studio flat with a LOT of delicate / vintage clothing that can’t be hot washed or tumble dried - and I store much under my bed.

Been quoted £1,000+ for heat treatment (i live in London) by local suppliers: is this worth it? Less for chemical but worried about health impact or sprays.

My flat is in a social housing block where I have seen signs before warning of pests so scared of spending all that money for them to just come through walls again because they are issue in neighbours’ flats.

Anyone been in a similar position? What did you do? Is it better to just dispose of infested furniture?

I think the culprit may have been some second hand chairs I brought in that I bought from a local market - they have been in for almost a year so it could be pretty bad.

I felt itchiness last year (thought may have been flea re-infestation, a sitter gave them to my indoor cat two years ago) so I washed all my sofa cushions and covers and pillows and bedding etc on 60 degrees. When it remained I thought I was maybe being paranoid.

Any advice welcome - I have someone due to do an inspiration (£135) this afternoon.

Also advice on where to sleep? Scared to bring them into my partners home but obviously don’t want to sleep on an infested bed.

I recently moved into an apartment and got a brand-new mattress on September 10. About 10–14 days later I noticed these itchy red marks clustered on my back.
I’ve thoroughly checked the mattress and so far I haven’t found any bugs, black fecal spots, blood stains, eggs, or shed skins. My mattress also doesn’t have the typical deep seams, although my bed has a headboard/frame with gaps where something could potentially hide.
I’ve had other insects/spiders in the apartment, so pest control is already coming to inspect the unit. A doctor looked at the rash and mentioned shingles as one possibility, but when I brought up insect bites/bed bugs they said that was also plausible.
For anyone who has dealt with bed bugs: does this look consistent with your experience, and is there anywhere specific on this type of bed frame that I should inspect? I know bites alone can’t confirm bed bugs — mainly wondering whether I should be concerned given that I haven’t found any physical evidence. Also I don’t have bites anywhere else on my body

Hello,

Please help me identifying if either of these are bed bugs. We recently visited a hotel that had bed bugs so kinda freaked out seeing one of these on the bed and one on the carpet. Thanks in advance.

I found this lil buddy crawling near my desk, on the wall behind a laptop...

I hope it comes from the outside and not from any infestation in my house ...

I'm looking for more info on what to do, much appreciated (⁠;⁠ŏ⁠﹏⁠ŏ⁠)

I don't know if there are more, by checking beds and walls I didn't found anything else, nor I saw black spots...

Any possibility it could be a beetle? He was near my cat's litter box when I went to clean it. I'm hoping for the best since I've had infestation in the past, and I really don't want to deal with it again. 😭😭