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| dreamweaver 2005-07-14, 11:25 pm |
| I am kind of eccentric when it comes to killing things-I don't
like to, haha (like the guy in Psycho, haha). I will kill flies
and cockroaches.
A month or two ago I started noticing (live in S. AZ) a tiny brown
bug about a cm in length, oval in shape and dark brown. I let it
go thinking it was harmless, until one night I felt one of the
suckers crawling on me in bed. That was bad enough until one bite
me and it hurt.
I started checking the box spring which lies flat on the floor.
there were some holes where the wiring is poking through. I opened
up the material in it and could find none of these bugs with
flashlight. Yet they keep attacking me at nigh and seem to have
established my bed as their home away from home. From previous
experience I thought bedbugs were much tinier and prolific, but
these suckers are starting to really bug me, haha.
What are they? And what can I do about them. Any non-humorous (at
my expense) helpful posts most appreciated. Today I put the box
spring out in the hot sun (107 today) hoping that would kill them
if they are in fact living in it. Sheesh, I feel like Fred
Flinstone without the modern conveniences.
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| dreamweaver 2005-07-14, 11:25 pm |
| I forgot to add, these little suckers have a hard shell and you
have to squish them hard to kill them. Also I think they can fly
for short distances (not sure about this).
on 14 Jul 2005, dreamweaver <dreamweaver_fake_@earthlink.net>
wrote in
news:Tin9693A165655E301FFFdkwkjdweaverk99@213.155.197.138:
quote:
> I am kind of eccentric when it comes to killing things-I don't
> like to, haha (like the guy in Psycho, haha). I will kill flies
> and cockroaches.
>
> A month or two ago I started noticing (live in S. AZ) a tiny
> brown bug about a cm in length, oval in shape and dark brown. I
> let it go thinking it was harmless, until one night I felt one
> of the suckers crawling on me in bed. That was bad enough until
> one bite me and it hurt.
>
> I started checking the box spring which lies flat on the floor.
> there were some holes where the wiring is poking through. I
> opened up the material in it and could find none of these bugs
> with flashlight. Yet they keep attacking me at nigh and seem to
> have established my bed as their home away from home. From
> previous experience I thought bedbugs were much tinier and
> prolific, but these suckers are starting to really bug me, haha.
>
> What are they? And what can I do about them. Any non-humorous
> (at my expense) helpful posts most appreciated. Today I put the
> box spring out in the hot sun (107 today) hoping that would kill
> them if they are in fact living in it. Sheesh, I feel like Fred
> Flinstone without the modern conveniences.
>
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| bugs@bugs.com 2005-07-15, 4:25 am |
| From your description it sounds very much like bedbugs, only bedbugs don't
fly. You say you have seen one so I am going to post a link here and let you
see if what you saw looks anything like this picture.
http://www.askourpros.com/04464560.jpg This particular picture is of a
bedbug but there are more pictures of them on my site and they are in the
pest gallery here is the link to it also http://www.askourpros.com/id5.htm
Please take a look there and see if you see the bug you are talking about
and let us know.
From your description however it sounds dead on like bedbugs and if that is
the case I would hire a professional to get rid of them. They are hard to
control and can be very tricky to deal with in many instances. Placing your
mattress in the hot sun may have helped but you really would have needed it
a little warmer than the temps you said and it would have had to been
exposed to those temps for several hours to do any good. If it was exposed
to the 107 degree temps for maybe 24 to 48 hours straight it might do some
good but not for a few hours it wouldn't.
--
I wish you all the best
Tim Wise
www.onepest.com
www.askourpros.com
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| In article <Tin9693A165655E301FFFdkwkjdweaverk99@213.155.197.138>,
dreamweaver_fake_@earthlink.net says...
 What are they? And what can I do about them. Any non-humorous (at
my expense) helpful posts most appreciated. Today I put the box
spring out in the hot sun (107 today) hoping that would kill them
if they are in fact living in it. Sheesh, I feel like Fred
Flinstone without the modern conveniences.
Bedbugs will be 1/4 to just under a 1/2 inch...It would be best to wrap
the mattress in plastic to take advantage of the sun's heat, though they
can be living under the baseboards or other furniture in the room.
--
Lar
to email....get rid of the BUGS
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| dreamweaver 2005-07-15, 6:25 pm |
| Thanks to you bugs and also to Lar for their good replies.
I took a look at the askourpros page and narrowed it down. It's
either a bedbug, carpet beetle, or cigarette beetle #2 (this one
seems closest).
I will have to take a look at a live one closer I guess. I found a
small larvae also at the edge of the box spring, about a 1-2 cm in
length very thin. These guys don't seem to have much of a head,
being about half the width of a lady bug and more oval and brown.
Hard to squash-they have a protective shell.
Taking the box spring out into the hot sun helped, have only seen
one of them so far. Also found a bunch of them living in some
spilled cat litter together. When I tried squish one of them, he
tried to burrow deeper into the carpet-carpet is old and dirty.
Since I have cats is there anything I can use that is safe for the
cats and will kill these critters or at least stop them from
mating?
on 14 Jul 2005, bugs@bugs.com wrote in
news:wumdnUC6ocMwskrfRVn-2A@adelphia.com:
quote:
> From your description it sounds very much like bedbugs, only
> bedbugs don't fly. You say you have seen one so I am going to
> post a link here and let you see if what you saw looks anything
> like this picture.
>
> http://www.askourpros.com/04464560.jpg This particular picture
> is of a bedbug but there are more pictures of them on my site
> and they are in the pest gallery here is the link to it also
> http://www.askourpros.com/id5.htm Please take a look there and
> see if you see the bug you are talking about and let us know.
>
> From your description however it sounds dead on like bedbugs and
> if that is the case I would hire a professional to get rid of
> them. They are hard to control and can be very tricky to deal
> with in many instances. Placing your mattress in the hot sun may
> have helped but you really would have needed it a little warmer
> than the temps you said and it would have had to been exposed to
> those temps for several hours to do any good. If it was exposed
> to the 107 degree temps for maybe 24 to 48 hours straight it
> might do some good but not for a few hours it wouldn't.
>
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| bugs@bugs.com 2005-07-16, 4:25 am |
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On 15-Jul-2005, dreamweaver <dreamweaver_fake_@earthlink.net> wrote:
quote:
> Also found a bunch of them living in some
> spilled cat litter together. When I tried squish one of them, he
> tried to burrow deeper into the carpet-carpet is old and dirty.
>
> Since I have cats is there anything I can use that is safe for the
> cats and will kill these critters or at least stop them from
> mating?
Is there a possibility that it could be a flea you are dealing with?
--
I wish you all the best
Tim Wise
www.onepest.com
www.askourpros.com
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| PCOpug 2005-07-16, 4:25 am |
| Man if your dealing with biting bugs one centimeter in length , call the
local Agriculture Extension Agent , so he can send some entomologists over
to check the insects out . Itchin' to put my name on a new Species .
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| dreamweaver 2005-07-16, 6:26 pm |
| I caught one of the suckers and took a good look at it. It definitely
looks closest to cigarette beatle no. 2 in the link you gave. the head
is small with a slightly bigger middle part and then the largest oval
part with a hard brown shell that has a vertical split down the center.
After putting the box spring in the sun for a day and cleaning up the
litter and also found a few in a cardboard box, I have not had an attack
since. Keeping my fingers crossed I got all of them.
These guys are fast, almost as fast as a cockroach. And they are good at
hiding like a roach. I think the AZ sun did them in though, ha,ha.
Nope, not a flea. Sure of that. Thanks again for your guys good input.
Bugs are ok as long as they don't take over my apt. and start biting me,
haha, nor spread disease, like roaches do.
bugs@bugs.com wrote in news:dKmdndluutHgrkXfRVn-pw@adelphia.com:
quote:
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> On 15-Jul-2005, dreamweaver <dreamweaver_fake_@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> Is there a possibility that it could be a flea you are dealing with?
>
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| dreamweaver 2005-07-16, 6:26 pm |
| LOL. Yea, none of the pictures matched exactly on the page bug gave. But
closest was the cigarette beatle no. 2. See my reply to him for other
details on their behavior. They were munching, I think, on orange peels
I put around the cat litter box for odor control. Most of them did not
bite but a few woke me up and I got bitten you know where, OUCH!
"PCOpug" <m.j.braun59@juno.com> wrote in
news:1k_Be.425842$cg1.96367@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
quote:
> Man if your dealing with biting bugs one centimeter in length , call
> the local Agriculture Extension Agent , so he can send some
> entomologists over to check the insects out . Itchin' to put my name
> on a new Species .
>
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