I got some furnature from a storage unit auction and I want to make sure it doesn't have any bugs in it. Its been in there for a year or so. Can bedbugs survive that long without blood?
yes they hibernate can live for years
My wife and I live with the inlaws in S.E Asia, the house is normally immaculate. Our bed room is very small with a great deal of books and papers - she has a lot of clothes and little things everywhere. I picked up my book which is right next to the bed at night to see 3 of these little buggers run out from the pages - I squished them on sight! We've pulled the bed from the wall and thouroughly vacuumed it and the walls and crevices, tomorrow we plan to put all of the books and clothes in plastic bags with the hopes that if there are any more bed bugs - they will die in the plastic bags!
We really don't want to alert her mam as she WILL respond badly and look for someone to blame - so we'd prefer to get rid of these things without her knowing (or) if she were to find them herslef and we could just play dumb and be surprised!
They haven't really bit us all that much - we seldom have any bites do you think that this meens that there aren't so many bugs at this stage?
I read the other answers, and was surprised. Use a pesticide for goodness sake and clean up the mess. Wash linens in hot water, vacumn the matresses after the pesticide. Good luck. The sooner you address this problem the better. Do you know what all this critters can do to you? Infections leading to staphs gane-green. I hope you don't have kids sleeping in that house. They are most likely in all beds and around the whole house. You CAN SEE THEM WITH THE NAKED EYE.
Hi, a family member and I went to someone's house in Long Island for a couple of days and we got what we think to be bed bug bites on both of our legs. Does anyone know how we would treat these bites and how to tell for sure if they even are bed bug bites?
There is no need to treat the bites if they are bed bug bites other to apply something like an anti-itch cream if they are itchy. You should tell your host/hostess as they need to ascertain whether or not they have an infestation. If they come across any "critters" it will be at night and they should submit them to a medical laboratory for identification. Bed bugs are heat seekers so at night, while you sleep, they sense your body heat and you become dinner 
They are blood feeders and so the bites are more annoying than anything else. That being said, keep the bite areas clean to avoid any secondary infection to the wound. Bed bugs will also seek out blood meals during the daytime…more often than not this will be bats in the attic since daytime is when they sleep.
Bed bugs are making a comeback in parts of North America that have typically not been problem areas. In my lab we went years without seeing any. Now I'd say we probably get them each month.