So I'm not sure what other people's experience with Bedbugs are, but i just wanted to put this out, there's this biopesticide called Aprehend that actually works. It has to be put on with a special sprayer that costs like $500 but ya boy juice knows everything about paint sprayers, and found a $60 airbrush to put it on with.
I couldn't get completely rid of them for years. I can't tell you how many steam treatments, and treatments with temprid (which is good) I had done over the years...but they always came back. I threw out all the furniture, I bought new beds, everything. My house is only like 2 years old and they were in the fucking walls.
One treatment of Aprehend and a week later they were done. The product was expensive but for like $300 I was done with bedbugs and had enough product to treat 5 houses. They are a trauma. If anyone is struggling with them DM me and I'll tell you what I've learned
I lived above a screen printing business owned by the landlord. I had these weird itchy rashes for a while and went to a dermatologist who said it was Psoriasis. I was super depressed and didn't change my bed sheets for a while. On the day I was moving out after the landlord told me to leave a month early, i pull up my sheets and see hundreds of these bugs and just leave the sheets on the bed, pack up all my cloth items in black garbage bags, and gtfo of there.
The landlord fucking charged me a cleaning fee for the sheet left on the bedbug infested mattress, above her husbands screen printing store, that printed shirts for large events in the city.
To this day I check creases in hotels and basically refuse to allow any used furniture into my home that might conceal these evil creatures.
The landlord fucking charged me a cleaning fee for the sheet left on the bedbug infested mattress
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Thanks for the advice. My parents constantly get them, making it nigh impossible to spend the night at their house.
I swear it was so bad when I lived with them it horribly exacerbated my unaliving tendencies. They're cursed little monsters (I'm allergic, too!) and the world would be better off if they were annihilated imo.
Damn, I have no experience with bedbugs in my life, can you describe why they are so awful?
Warning ⚠️: Nasty Images, Creepy Crawlies
A lot of folk will never know they have bed bugs - the only indicators being blood from squashing them in one's sleep, filth in their nests, blood from their fecal matter, and their eggs.
For me, I'll know I have them when my skin looks like this after sleeping.
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It is the itchiest thing imaginable. So much worse than mosquitoes or other insect bites, in my experience. When they bite, it feels like an electric shock. I'll jolt, scramble on my bed looking for the villain, only for their ridiculous speed to make it impossible to catch them in the act.
I get paranoid even thinking about them. If I feel what feels like a bite, I won't be able to sleep. I'll spend all night lifting up my mattress, my bed frame, looking underneath everything, opening every vent, and checking every corner. They're sneaky as shit, though, and can prove almost impossible to find. Worse still, they're amazing climbers.
If you see stains like this on your sheets or pillows, be wary. You likely squashed a few of the monsters in your sleep.
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They can hide anywhere. I don't have pictures of it, but my parents had doors with grates/vents on them, and they were stained dark red and brown from the bed bug infestation. They can get in your outlets, too.
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Imagine a blissful night of sleep being interrupted by this thing crawling on the back of your neck. I picked one off of me and I swear I was stunned. I started squishing the fucker in my fingers trying to figure out what the hell it was before throwing it across the room. In hindsight, I should have flushed it down the toilet. It probably would have survived, regardless. The bastards survive almost anything, especially bug sprays specifically marketed towards killing them.
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Don't let the images or my descriptions make anyone reading paranoid. It feels like even mentioning the words "bed bug" is enough to manifest them into existence, sometimes. You probably know if you have them. If you're worried, be on the lookout for stains like those in the spoiler, and cylindrical off-white tubes about the size of a pen's tip. Kill on sight, and show no mercy. They will show you none.
They also hid in my headphones for a long time and used to suck blood from my ears , I came to know after I opened the ear pads.
city renowned for reeking of piss and filth ALSO pest-ridden, news at 11!
Good ol' barbarian Europeans. After a millennia and countless plagues, they still can't fucking shower and clean themselves.
Surely it must be that, it has nothing to do with the sanitation issues caused by massive ongoing strikes..
Bedbug infestations have little to do with sanitation or hygiene
The main factors here IIRC are increased travel from people and increasing resistance by the bugs to insecticides
The whole country has become obsessed with bedbugs for a week or so, like front page news. This is after a series of videos that went viral showing them indeed in the subway and in a cinema.
It's probably overreaction but frankly if it results in the gov doing something against these hellish things I'll take it.
Also you will likely be unsurprised to learn that the usual suspects have immediately blamed the issue on immigration.
It was like when in 2019 Germany had plague of this tiny litle bugs that are so small they push themselves into the computer monitors and die there looking like dead pixels, not to mention every other electronic part (they are apparently drawn to EM field or something). I laughed at Krauts losing their shit and overexaggerating things (we also had them in Poland then but much less apparently), but then Poland second-hand shops were flooded with used German electronics with tons of those dead bugs inside, so i guess they weren't exaggerating.
Poland also had a small mantis plague of all things in the same year iirc.
Because the twitter user in the screenshot I was sceptical but this is true https://time.com/6319725/bedbugs-increase-paris-france/
There is such a thing as more or even less of a bad thing in some places compared to other places, even if both have the bad thing.
Does that statement about Haiti have something to do with reality or is just some casual prejudice?
The vast majority of Haiti practice some elements of vodou, but official stats list Christianity as the main religion.
It is a country with plenty reason to hate the French. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy
vodou is inherently interwoven with Christianity, so this isn't a contradiction at all. It's a blending of Catholicism, West African religion and magic, and some Native American beliefs and practices.
it's a reference to the Haitian revolution and France never forgiving their former colony for the audacity of a slave revolt. Haiti has been paying for that crime for 200 years. "liberte egalite fraternite" was always just
.French colonialism caused Haiti to be the birthplace of Vodou, because they Christianized Native Americans and Africans they had enslaved, and the blending of religions and magic ideas caused the belief system vodou to exist. The people practicing this system were brutalized by the french, having to pay them for theri revolution. And so, they would be likely to use the curses in their system against the French.
Vodoo is a native african practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Vodun not due to colonialism .
Yeah but it got heavily syncretized with christianity in the french colonies in America due to forceful christianisation of slaves, and this version got popularised in popculture.
Literally scrolled to see if anyone was commenting on the insane racism in that statement
I don't think it's insane to say a people that engage in vodou and hate France would put those two things together.
Could be that the mayor of Paris is a bedbug, like how the president of the Federation was made of worms in that one TNG episode.
I’m fine with getting downvotes for this one… but… shouldn’t the Frogs be fine with all these bugs around? Thank you, folks, you’ve been great tonight, I’ll see myself out👋
biggest contradiction ever, imagine being the considered the capital of perfume and also have bedbug infestation due to lack of hygiene
You can have exceptionally good hygiene and still get a bedbug infestation. In fact the only good thing about this is that I know even some rich bourgsie fucks who can afford perfect hygiene are getting their blood sucked by these critters too (a taste of their own medicine, really).
