Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Bedlam

Folks at my work claim they use in on their

space in a phone room.

Is that OK?

What should they be using?


Knowing what they are

More like Tics than jumpers.

Cleaning the Shop Vac today.

One jumped on wrist.

Got him with Alcohol.

Washed it out.

Cleaned Filter off site.

Bagged the sweepings and hosed out the whole thing.

Jumped in shower.

Put work clothes directly in Washer.

You must live on these protocols.

Treat all waste as contaminated.

No bugs in over 10 days and want to keep it that way.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Alcohol will kill the nasty little beasts.

Not what I thought they were.

Not hopping bugs like Fleas.

But crawlers and plodders.

Have pulled them from feeding from my forearms...

it feels like removing a scab.

Alcohol will kill the nasty little beasts.

Have at it.


Have not seen enemy in a week.

Have read on line that the 'all clear' point is at 50 - 60 days.

All clothing still in plastic bags. Straight from the dryer.

Vacuum and steam now as the hope is that chemical methods are now at an end.

Airing the whole place out every day with Fans blasting.

AC only sleeping hours.


Sunday, May 6, 2012

Killing Bedbugs With Heat:

Bed Bug Traps

Traps


Use Dry Ice to build trap and detector.

Learn tactics of air movement within your “foxhole” (sleeping quarters)

Hide your CO2 plume from this preyer on mankind.

Test to see if you have them.

Provide “ocular proof” of your infestation to landlords and doubters.

Just getting started...

lots of work and catching up to do for you here. 

Trap instructions will be posted.

If Dry Ice can be found at a reasonable rate a prototype will be built by the research foundation here (at your service am I)

Pictures if possible.

My gosh took me a month to figure out these jokers style.

Brash. Hungry and emotionless hunters.

Clinging to your skin like a scab.

Sucking your blood.

And as a reminder of who is boss and what this true 'coo' means.

You can not brush them off...

Disturb he or she and they amble a centimeter away set down beak or prong or what ever evil of evolution they use to pierce our virgin skins.

You can just hear them say in jeering droves...

like some Hannibal chorus from hell "Yum"

Eradication must be my goal.

Eradication must be you goal.

Eradication must be our government's goal.

Eradication must be all of our goal.

Just for the impact on Asthma sufferers alone...

So many blogs to work on here.




Mattress Encasements

Are they right for you?

At least till you know it is all clear you do not want to expose a new one to the front yet.

What quality?  What cost?

Do you get what you pay for here?

Share your experiences.


Steamers - Take the battle to the enemy.

Steamers

Take the battle to the enemy.

Bug to Hand combat.

I was vacuuming after I was thinking I was reaching an "all clear" monent

and one sucked its sustanance from me from under my arm as I tried to suck up as many bretheren both dead and alive and the carcases of previous days - now weeks of battle.

Surely the industrial strength stuff the guys in the building at work gave me the instructions for using would do the trick?

Was the 15 hours I spent steaming the bedroom carpet with a hand steamer from the big box store worth the pain?

And yet after all of that - with now just the bed and one dresser in the room.  Far from all walls.
No backboards for me for who knows how long.

Just another example of how life changing this is all going to be my brothers and sisters in arms.

Gather by this electronic glow and share your tales of woe and of strategies of victories and contributions to my new quest to rid this world of all Bed Bugs. May they go the way of the Dodo for all I care.


Stopping A Bed Bug in Mid Bite.

Reduce the suffering and itching.

Learn the signs.

Learn the tools you need to fight back.

Here is a quick free hint.  It is tiny and invisible -

Where the itch is - right now.


That SOB is sucking your blood.  These are not flighty cowards.

But brazen entitled clingers more akin to a chigger of a tick than a flea bite as I had envisioned.

Perhaps I was stupid once again but ...

They feel like a scab perhaps from a pervious bite - yes sorry if you have been there but you can lose counts and dates.  You may want to keep a log.  I kick myself that I did not document the bites in pictures. Dang.

When they get me the mark will itch for 7 to 10 days. Never had anything itch like these do. Poison Ivy with more staying power.  My Doctor gave me some Steroid Cream that was a wonderful help.

If you think you feel one.  Soak a cotton ball in Alcohol and hold it on there maybe you get just one or two 'volcanos of hell fire itch and pain"

We will discuss the phases of our enemies life style and how we can end him.

So I guess my underwear and socks will come out of zip lock bags for the rest of my life and I will be considered eccentric. Well have a passel of nymphs hatch inside our sock and see how you feel about the dangers of DDT.

Via con dios.

How to Build a "Bed Bug Purification Oven"

 How to Build a "Bed Bug Purification Oven"


Stay tuned her as we give you plans and ideas for constructing a death zone of your very own.

Yes your clothes dryer is your new best friend but you can't put everything in the dryer. Alas.

Heat is their Kryptonite dear friends.  All stages die in the heat including the eggs.

Gotta get it up to about 130 for about 3 hours to do the job.

Did you know you can't set my oven can't be set below 170 ?

(Yes I thought the idea of a truly toasty pillow would be comforting.)


They will win rounds my friends.  Do not loose heart.  There will be tragic set backs.

You must persist.

These horrible beasts serve no ecological purpose in the very least.

They eat just one food.  Blood.  Human blood.

OK some Bat blood but you get my point.

No species needs them to exist.

They require only nips into our skin to tap our life's blood.

One trip to "the Host" for each molting. For some bizarre ritual of graduation of their stages of life.

Like some gang banger initiation.

Their senses tuned to detect the CO2 plumes

signs that their fast food joint is just over there…

provide them to "cows" of their civilization.  Us.

In a sense we live for their benefits.  The serve no purpose in the food chain of Gia and this garden world that is mankind's home.


Duct tape to the fore of all true pioneering and exploration once again...

Stay tuned...


Death to all Bed Bugs

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Death to all Bed Bugs

Phases of a desperate War.

There are now two kinds of people in this land from sea to sea.

You have had bed bugs or - it may just be a matter of time and luck.

It has been only a month now that my life had changed - plunged into war.

Out foxed out played out numbered by the hive mind that has succeeded in feeding off only the blood of mankind for millennia.

Does that not in a way strike awe?  One food source. Much larger than you. Faster.

Yet they in light and night ( they are not believe you me at all solely nocturnal ) Trust me and read on for specific examples.

I began this war a fool.

Twice now I had thought the war at the wane or at least in a detant.

Now of course I wish I had kept a journal - I wonder now shall I ramble or try to re construct?

In advance dear reader and brother in arms... take heart for you are not alone.

Not a pun here but a call and affirmation of an alliance.

We will get to a mission statement shortly as of today - Death to all Bed Bugs is our avowed goal.

We will provide hints.

Stories of woe and victory.

We will review methods.

Review products and make assessments of treatment values.



Tricks and ideas.



I am a single guy living through this humiliating horror.  I just shudder to think what life could be like with a 2 and a 4 year old for example - it causes me to shudder.



The second day I knew I had them I had 50 to 100 bites on either forearm.

They were in the arms of my office chair first and moved on from there.

I will get the the whole sorry tale for you here.







Please lets us know about your experiences and your contributions of lessons you have learned on the front lines and in the trenches.



We will try to start a PAC



If you are a lawyer out there help me set this up.



(“Though she be but little, she is fierce!” ― William Shakespeare )



Congress must be informed and motivated to open the way to research into technologically modern control and containment methodology.



If the reversal of the ban on DDT even as a stop gap or a way to bridge the gap to the next chemical, genetic, forcefield pheromone - who cares what they come up with as long as it does not require a second mortgage.



There is little doubt that this is too raw to post as a first draft but in a way.  That is what I hope this blog is about.  Help me.



I searched on the Web - saw my doctor - spoke to many people - not a single one ever explained what the bites are like ...  I was watching them for a month "eat their fill" like some post modern Assisi.