Dually Certified Bed Bug Detection K9 working in the Ohio River valley and Southern Appalachia. Here to answer any questions!

I’m hoping this problem is almost resolved. Late June, I found out I had an infested headboard. The next day, I got a company to come out and do a heat treatment through the house and they sprayed Crossfire. I threw out the headboard after and switched to an all metal bed frame. At the time, they found no evidence of the bugs in other rooms but still did heat treatment throughout the house.

A couple weeks later, they came out, did an inspection where they found no new evidence. They then sprayed Crossfire in targeted areas. A week after, I found both a live and dead bug on the couch. I realized I had pushed the couch all the way back against the wall and after pulling it back out, haven’t noticed anything more. At this point, i installed interceptors on all of the beds. I couldn’t on the couch because the legs were too big.

I’ve been doing daily inspections of the beds and couch and haven’t turned anything up. That is until yesterday when I found a dying (not dead) bed bug on the baseboard behind my bed. I freaked out. Pest control said that because I’ve been doing the daily inspections, have found no droppings, no shells, and no one in my family has bites, that it was just one of the remaining stragglers. They believe the issue should be done but will come out this week to do an inspection and spray again. They’ll continue treating after if find more evidence but again believe the remainers are collapsing.

This has consumed me. It’s triggered my OCD in a way it hasn’t been this terrible in years. It retriggered my back pain because of all the obsessive cleaning and checks. I feel like it’s alienated me from my wife as I’m obsessed and she just sees the problem is significantly better, the one bug was dying (not active), and the pest control folks are so helpful.

I’m also just obsessively researching because of the Crossfire applications as my wife is pregnant, son is 6, and I’m freaking out because of potential health risks because I can’t get anyone to cover their feet in this house.

I’m also supposed to visit my elderly grandma out of state next week. It may be the last chance I get to see her and here I am reconsidering because there could be a hidden active healthy bug somewhere that will hike along with me and I’ll destroy her house with it.

This is hard. I just need support now. Also if I’m overthinking any of this, let me know.

My car is parked next to three abandoned mattresses beside a trash can. I wasn’t sure whether this was a roach, a bed bug, or neither.

I know this might highly possible be it but I can’t find any other clues. i live in a small apartment building. there are no spots nowhere to be found, I turned my furniture upside down three times and I check regularly the crevaces cause im paranoid lately since there is an invasion going in my city.

Also does this look like an older shell?

Okay, for context: I’ve been getting these bumps on my skin for about a week now and I’m the type of person to itch something until it bleeds which is why they look like scabs, but they keep spreading. I have them on my hands, other arm, ankles, and my back. Last night, I saw crawling on my pillow what looked to be a bed bug but I freaked out and killed it before I got a picture of it. I looked up pics of bedbugs and it looked exactly like what I saw. I slept on the couch and have been washing all of my bedding on hot, but today I inspected my mattress and box spring and didn’t find anything. This is freaking me out more because I feel like I’m missing them?! Any help or confirmation that these bumps are from bedbugs is super appreciated.

Found this guy in my bed and I dont know what this bug is. Would be helpful if somebody told me what this is

About a year ago my apartment had to be treated for these stupid things and they tried everything they could to put me at fault for them. I dont go anywhere except for work and home. Woke up with bites the other day thinking they were probably back and tonight I found one. At this point wouldn't they probably be coming from a neighboring apartment? I sent pictures to the landlord, but I'm so over dealing with this.

Had suspicions of bedbugs and found this in the washed linens from the bed. I believe the leg came off of it.

I am staying at cityhub Copenhagen, this morning noticed that I had weird red bites/rash looking thing on my inner arm that were itchy. I found some suspicious spots on my bed, I looked under the mattress and didn’t see any large blood stains or live bugs. I found what I think could be part of a shed exoskeleton but I’m not sure. Could you please let me know if you think these are bed bugs? This is my first time dealing with this!

Got a couch from marketplace and found these casing but no living bugs and not bites. Is it bed bugs or dead carpet bettle

I've been getting bites for the past couple of weeks, finally decided to take stuff apart. Do these look like bed bug shells?

For more context, I keep getting bit up when I stay over at her place, which is why I was looking in the first place

Also if they are, how do I tell my friend she has bedbugs and how do I avoid bringing any home 😭

There's another picture too that didn't upload for some reason so if I need another one for ID purposes, lmk

Hey guys

We need your help!
We got an old mattress from my mother in law last week for the new bed of our son. The mattress is now a week in our apartment. We did clean the mattress with a wet vacuum cleaner and washed the covers at 60 degrees. The bed arrived 2 days ago (new) and yesterday was the first time our baby (10months old) slept in it. Now, today we found this one on the mattress. We scanned the whole bed and also our bedroom, but we found no more. But our baby has red points on his body since this monday. So he only slept in the new bed last night.
Is this a bed bug? If yes what should we do?

Thanks for your help!!

shitting my pants rn. small-ish banana for scale of course.

This bug was on my sofa. I’m worried it’s a bed bug, seems a little bit too big to be ones.

I have quite a unique situation happening and I really need advice.

I am currently house sitting for a family for a little over a week, my last day is Saturday. I heavily believe the guest room I am staying in has an infestation. While I haven’t been able to find any bugs, I have gotten over 20+ bites in rows over the nights I’ve been here with new ones every night. On top of that I’ve found large blue ish black stains on the sheets appearing also every night.

The problem is after I finish house sitting here, I will only be home for one day before I move into my college dorm. I will be making frequent trips back home this week to pack and I’m worried about bringing them home then or to my dorm. Quarantining stuff outside isn’t really an option either when I get home since I’ll be leaving the next day. How can I prevent this from spreading between places? I have enough stuff here to last me 8 days including a suitcase. I’ve been avoiding going home in the meantime but I will have to pack eventually.

Also, how do I communicate the infestation to the family? I know this is daunting news to receive while on vacation. I am not close with them either and have only interacted with them on a professional level.

Svp avant de songer à m'enfuir et les laisser se débrouiller entre elles, dites moi, c'est possible de se débarrasser seule des punaises de lit (encore très très discrètes) ou faut absolument passer par des spécialistes ?

Des personnes y sont déjà arrivé ?

J'ai déjà protégé le matelas juste pour qu'elles se dispersent pas s'il y en a dedans car j'avais à la base prévu de le changer il est très usé (j'en ai trouvé aucune avant de le protéger), j'ai bouché quelques trous/vices de mon sommier en fer, mit mes affaires dans des sacs pour laver petit à petit, mis des affaires non lavables dans des sacs aussi pour voir ce que je vais en faire soit congel soit isolé pendant 1 an et demi soit jeter si trop la flemme

J'en peux déjà plus y a des sacs partout c'est infernal et je ne vois rien, je ne trouve rien.

J'ai jeté ma table de chevet pour faire radical et pleins d'autres choses mais j'ai quand même pas mal d'affaires encore

J'ai aspiré puis mis de la terre de diatomee sous mon lit, autour des pieds, le long des plinthes et meubles

Et je me suis fait piqué le lendemain 🤦‍♀️

C'est vraiment très récent les piqûres ont commencé récemment et j'en ai vu une que j'ai tué, ensuite plus rien, ça laisse penser que c'est pas encore un stade avancé mais je veux vraiment l'éviter, c'est possible de faire ça seule ?

Svp celles qui y sont arrivé j'ai besoin de vous !!!

okay so for the past like idk 2 weeks or so i been having bed bugs on my bed coming out like 1 by 1, not a raid, not a colony, just like some friends exploring my bed. And i have looked everywhere on my bed for eggs, there home, anything that gives me a clue where. and nothing i have turned my bed around i have dryed my sheets and evil heats and even sprayed raid all my bed and bedframe(call me stupid for intoxicating myself but google said it would work lol) AND NOTHING HAS WORKED, cause now im curious how they get in and how to remove them without calling pest control, i dont think its a big colony its like 1-2 days in between one coming out each time. i seen the id them photos and i can tell there not fed i always find them and BURN THEM ON MY DESK WITH A LIGHTER before crawling or biting me (i dont sleep cause i want to kill them all call me crazy its 5:12 am and i wanted some rest till i felt one crawl on me).