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I’m at a shelter, and we’re dealing with these fuckers right now. Kill me.
Bedbugs can’t survive heat. 1 hour over 100F or a few seconds at 200F kills them. Depending on what you have available, either throw your clothing in a dryer on high for an hour or use a steamer that goes over 200F to rid them. Alternatively placing them in a black garbage bag in a parked car for a day if it’s hot out will also do it. Depending on what is infested, some plastic totes to stage things that haven’t been treated yet can greatly limit their ability to re-infest while you’re treating stuff, and re-treat within a week if you’re not certain (their life cycle is about a week, so treating the same item twice in a week kill get any that survived before they can multiply again)
Another option is freezing it. For stuff that’s hard to wash or heat sensitive (usually sleeping bags or pillows) chuck it in the freezer for a week.
Mom mad me take my sisters bed outside cause she suspected be bed bugs. We checked the bed and saw nothing. Just One night at freezing temp and you can see ALL of them littered on the bed. It was disgusting. Had to wipe them off and bring it back inside.
Later.
What were they even called before? Just “bugs”?
I read somewhere that bed bugs actually evolved alongside humans, so they’re about as old as bedding and that’s it
So the insect version of tuberculosis?
Owchy Oogga Buggas.
couches came before beds?
Only tiny couches. Full sized couches took millions of years to evolve to that size.
