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Random question, I know.

 

I just saw what appeared to be a bed bug on my laptop screen. I tried to squish it but it fell somewhere and seems to be playing hide and seek.

 

Anyone know how to get rid of these buggers?

 

This isn't the first time I have found them on my table. Gross, I know.

 

So... What are my choices?

 

I fear it may have fallen under my laptop keys. I cannot take my keys out which is going to make things difficult. Maybe spray some kind of insect poison in my room and leave the windows open when I'm not home?

 

Note: I live in south UK. No dangerous or deadly animals or insects here. But I'm curious to know what the worst thing is that bed bugs can do. I assume they can carry diseases? But besides that?

 

eg. Can they damage electrical equipment?

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Bite and spread diseases. 

 

Hire a professional. Like cockroaches, fighting them is damn hard and troublesome.

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You kill them

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put your bed mattress under the sun, that usually helps, since they like dark areas 

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Bite and spread diseases. 

 

Hire a professional. Like cockroaches, fighting them is damn hard and troublesome.

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This sounds like a lot of effort.

 

I'll just move house. :P

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I saw some product on shark tank for getting rid off bed bugs, this reminds me I should pirate the latest episode which I haven't seen
 

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put your bed mattress under the sun, that usually helps, since they like dark areas 

 

He's in the UK, that suggestion won't help ;)

 

If you're sure it's a proper infestation, rather than just a few on your desk, call a professional. The fact you don't mention having been bitten, and you only find them on your desk makes me doubt that these are bed bugs.

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Bite and spread diseases. 

 

Hire a professional. Like cockroaches, fighting them is damn hard and troublesome.

They cannot spread diseases. Bed bugs are literally incapable of such, as the bug makes sure no blood is left on their needle, which they use to suck out your blood. Also, since hopefully only you are sleeping in your bed, it is unlikely that on will simply happen to have a disease through another person, as they live solely on you.

It looks as if the peasants have risen up, and found swords!


But their sword's look a little short, if you know what I mean!


Good! The squires need training anyway!

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They cannot spread diseases. Bed bugs are literally incapable of such, as the bug makes sure no blood is left on their needle, which they use to suck out your blood. Also, since hopefully only you are sleeping in your bed, it is unlikely that on will simply happen to have a disease through another person, as they live solely on you.

 

Thank You. I wasn't one to care for sleep anyways.

 

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Call pest control/a professional.

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He's in the UK, that suggestion won't help ;)

 

If you're sure it's a proper infestation, rather than just a few on your desk, call a professional. The fact you don't mention having been bitten, and you only find them on your desk makes me doubt that these are bed bugs.

 

lol

 

I don't think it's an infestation.

 

I haven't been bitten, I don't think. Do bite marks hurt or do I have to get up from my chair and check?

 

I am not sure if they are bed bugs. Could just be smaller types of insects.

I have found them

 

1) On my floor (it was reaaally small when I saw it, had a huge flashlight on the carpet and picked it up using a wet tissue. Please don't ask me what I was doing that day. But I did make a new friend 'Bed Bug' as I called him. I killed him.)

 

2) On my table. This was the most worrying. Having small bugs crawling around on your wooden table? Made me suspect whether they were some type of bug that eats off of wood.

 

3) laptop screen. This one was curious. Have no idea how it got there or what it was doing. Guy certainly wasn't paying rent. Could it be some other type of insect? I will clean my laptop with a disinfectant spray thing. Is that all I will need to do or is there something else I should do to ensure they don't come back.

{if bed bugs feed off of human blood what was it doing on my screen? Pixels can't be eaten. So should I assume it was something else?}

 

4) Not sure if I have seen them on my bed. Never really bothered checking.

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put your bed mattress under the sun, that usually helps, since they like dark areas 

 Why would that help?  They live under cracks in the floorboards behind the wall paper places like that, these places CAN be the bed but not exclusively or even mainly .

They are really miss-named as bed-bugs.

They got this name as they would often bite there victims when they were closed down and not really reacting (i.e. when people were sleeping) so these bugs became associated with beds hence the name bed bugs. There is  the consideration of their size they are not going to travel a relatively large distance to eat so they live near beds (but not necessarily in them).

 

  Strictly speaking they do not give you diseases but your skin (and you) can react to their bites in a VVVbad manner so much so that you do feel as if they have given you something.

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Thank You. I wasn't one to care for sleep anyways.

 

*Curls up in fetal position and watches Requiem for a dream to cheer myself up*

So how did you sleep?  B)

It looks as if the peasants have risen up, and found swords!


But their sword's look a little short, if you know what I mean!


Good! The squires need training anyway!

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So how did you sleep?  B)

 

What's sleep? I haven't known this sleep since an ancient power ruled over these lands.

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LYSOL.

or pour isopropyl alcohol on your bed and put it in the sun.

ehhhhh, you'll probably ruin your mattress.

I wouldn't care, personally, so long as it killed all the things on my bed.

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What's sleep? I haven't known this sleep since an ancient power ruled over these lands.

Is that ancient power known as the bedbug dynasty?

It looks as if the peasants have risen up, and found swords!


But their sword's look a little short, if you know what I mean!


Good! The squires need training anyway!

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Is that ancient power known as the bedbug dynasty?

 

You deserve a medal.

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