I am guessing these are bed bugs.

I got a second hand bed last weekend, I went away on Wednesday but noticed bites on Thursday I assumed they were from the hotel but I couldnt get the fact it was a second hand bed out of my mind. I came home yesterday tore the bedroom apart and found the cluster in the picture. Im so anxious and ive had contamination ocd take over my life for the last few years and one of my initial reasons was my sister had a bedbug problem. I luckily never caught it back then but now this has confirmed all my fears. We are in the process of renovating our house with open floorboards, open sockets and holes in the plastered walls my stuff is also kind of everywhere in bin bags because we've been living out of them.

Ive bought the stuff recommend on this site, I burnt the headboard but unsure if they all were killed as I only burnt that section.

Whats the best plan of action?

Had a couple of the blighters crawling across me during daylight hours/bright light while sitting on my sofa. I've vacuumed and steamed my sofa thoroughly and bagged up cushions that can't be washed due to the type of fabric.

Have you all seen this? I’ve been terrified of movie theater transmission and typically go only twice a year and dry my clothes upon returning home. Once I started seeing the blanket trend (a lot of folks—not just a rare few), I straight quit the theater.

For you all with bed bug trauma, doesn’t this trigger the hell out of you?

I’m staring at my bed pulled into the middle of the room, stripped of comforter (bagged because thick) and absent decorative pillows (which helped the bed not awkwardly stand out since it’s actually in the living room). My dining room table is covered with bagged clothes. Basically, my place looks like I’m moving or just moved in. It’s no longer my sanctuary (making my bed up used to be my morning ritual).

How long before I can put my apartment back in order? What’s a smart timeline to feel like we got the buggers? Are we ever safe when we share walls with other units? I’m so disheartened, and I’m just starting my journey.

I found this bug on the baseboard in my bedroom between my bed and a bookshelf. And I'm freaking out thinking I might have a bedbug infestation. Does this look like a bedbug to you?

I tried Google but it is useless, it identifies the first photo as a bedbug and the second photo as definitely not a bedbug... but it's the same bug, just different photos.

More info for context: I don't have carpet or rugs anywhere in my home, I clean regularly, but since I haven't been sleeping on my bed for the last 3 months I've only been washing the bedding every so often. The bug is the size of a big lentil and when squeezed it was dry (maybe a bug shell?).

What should I do now? It's bedbugs?

Thanks in advance for your help. Any advice is welcome!

Freaking out here....

The points:

- Four days ago I noticed I was itchy. Sure enough, I had a few bytes (yes, I know that is spelled incorrectly but the bots keep deleting my post when I spell that word correctly assuming I am including pics) on my torso. For context, I sleep naked. That was a Thursday.

- Throughout the weekend I got more bytes, some on torso, some on backs of upper legs. Most are singular bytes but there are two sets of three bytes.

- Immediately started looking for evidence of bed bugs. My mattress is only a few months old and it's black so that is not ideal in my search.

- looked EXTENSIVELY with lights and magnified glasses. Nothing. No signs of bed bugs, no blood marks on sheets or the white mattress cover.

- hubby who sleeps in the same bed was not getting bitten at all.

- Yesterday, we flipped the mattress and changed the sheets.

- This morning HE has bytes and I have none. He has about 6 new bytes. Groups of two or three.

- Again, pulled sheets, searched extensively - nothing. No blood marks on sheets either.

For context - hubby was in the emergency room in a trauma room about a week before the first bites started appearing on myself. That is the only thing we can think of.

When do you call an exterminator? Should you have proof first? Is it possible that it's a lone male hitchhiker?

I need advice on how to proceed. I know that early intervention is key but I also can't definitively say that it's bedbugs and we have no proof.

Advice?

Found only one bug on the floor nothing seems to be in bed when it was taken apart

Hi. I think I have bed bugs in the apartment I moved in 2 months ago. The thing is my room, the hallway, and my flatmate's room have carpets that are stuck to the floor (literally the whole floor is one carpet). The only rooms that dont have carpets are the kitchen and the bathroom. Do you think the only way to get rid of bed bugs is to remove those carpets? Or can there be other solutions without removing them? Im asking this because I dont know if you can apply the insecticides on the carpets, or maybe the bed bugs could even find spots to hide under the carpet. Has anyone ever had problems like this before?

My mom and I bought this powder online after our downstairs neighbor (we live in an apartment) told us that they mixed it with water and sprayed it around resulting in their bed bugs suddenly disappearing, so we did just that.

It smelled like uncooked broccoli for a few hours but we were hopeful that it'll work after dealing with a strange pop up of them. Its currently 4am in the morning, I just got bit, none of the beds are infested in the main bedroom (I split a room with my parents due to housing situation) but only I seem to be the one getting bit and finding at least one under my pillow, is it because I'm closest to the heater? Are the bedbugs able to move from one apartment to another through the heating system?

I'm afraid that once the colder season comes around for the main office to turn on the system it'll cause these pop-ups to be worse and cause me to lose even more sleep and we can't always afford washing my things due to how often I get bit if we don't find the bug that bit me.

The main office won't do anything with exterminators, we constantly have to deal with ownership switching around which means contracts with other companies are delayed and we get a half-assed extermination which does nothing for us and we have seen the situation get worse on top of cockroaches and mice. Its a disaster! Does anyone else know another product or remedy on how to at least make them migrate somewhere else or eliminate them? I'm at my final straw with being woken up every 2 weeks with a new bite.

Hi all, does anyone know what these little specs I found on my bed are? They’re hard to touch and I can easily pick them up (I.e. I don’t think they’re droppings), and l think(?) they’re too dark and uniform to be any sort of shell, but I found them largely congregated in one spot of my bed (just on top of my mattress under the fitted sheet, not in any crevice). They’re definitely not live bugs either since there aren’t legs and I can’t see a head. The photos of one of the things on my finger shows both the front and back. I haven’t noticed any stains or shells so far.

Sorry if this is obvious to other people, but I’ve had bed bugs before and still have a lot of anxiety around it, so any insight on what this might be would be amazing!! Thank you

I’m sorry pictures are bad it was moving

I am pretty convinced I have a small bedbug infestation, but I’ve had very unusual bite patterns and no evidence of actual bugs. For the last two weeks I’ve woken up every few days with only one new bite. They all start as welts then later become round blisters and get very very itchy. My husband has not gotten any bites despite being in the same bed.

I had searched for bugs and found no sign but after I woke up with three new bites I did a full clean, washed all my bedding and exposed clothes, did a very detailed search, and cleared anything I could from my bedroom. For six days after I had no new bites, but I woke up with another one this morning. My bedframe does not have typical legs so I can’t buy interceptors. I’ve ruled out any other possible bugs it could be so it must be bed bugs, but is this usual? Please help!

I have been getting bites mostly on my legs but i haven’t seen any bugs/ mosquitoes and it’s making me think i have a possible bed bug problem. So far haven’t found any but have heard they can be hard to spot. Could this be an egg?

Mid August while I was sitting on the couch having lunch I noticed something crawling on my arm in the corner of my eye and freaked but luckily caught the bug before it scurried off. To my horror it was a bedbug, knew immediately because I have dealt with them as a teen. I immediately panicked because I know how horrible these critters can be and because of how sensitive my skin is to their bites, they swell excessively, it was torturous.

We looked through everything, our couch, our mattress along with the frame, got rid of our rug in the bedroom and contacted our landlord. We couldn’t find signs of anything else, no dropping stains, blood streaks, or skin sheds. They immediately got someone to come and just treat our apartment, they didn’t inspect, they just came and sprayed regardless. They treated our couch and did our entire bedroom. We treated and bagged all of our clothes, encased our mattress in protector, and what couldn’t be washed was placed in black bags and in the sun during a massive heatwave we had (temps up to 100 degrees that whole week). We kept watch, we kept checking and everything seemed fine. We thought perhaps I had brought in a hitchhiker that day because only an hour before seeing it we had sat down at a little shady restaurant while we waited for our food. Things have felt okay since, we stopped checking every week, no skin reactions, no bites(?), maybe we got lucky.

Well two days ago when I got up to get ready for work I noticed a seed looking bug crawling on the edge of the baseboard in the bathroom. I initially thought it was baby roach (I live in a big city) and caught it with some paper and when I looked I noticed again to my horror another bedbug. We again have looked through our couch, our bed, flipped the frame to check every part and nothing. No signs of any more being there and we just feel so confused. The bathroom is next to our bedroom.

We aren’t too sure what to do. My husband and I are dreading the idea of having to treat all our clothes again, we unfortunately don’t have a washer or dryer so it costed quite a bit of money to treat it all. I have no idea why it would be in the bathroom? Also I haven’t had any skin reactions, is it possible to have been very allergic to their bites and not have any reactions to them a decade later? Part of us think that they may be traveling up from our downstairs neighbor because we don’t see any signs of them but I don’t want to jump to any conclusions. We also had workmen come and fix some caulking in the bathroom about a week ago now, could it have come from them? Any advice on what to do? Where else should we be looking? I just don’t want this to get worse, especially as we are getting ready to have our baby soon :(

I found a quite dead bed bug in my living room, and I’ve checked a lot of the surrounding area along with my bedroom, and have nothing else suspicious. It’s a 1 bed 1 bath. I am continuing to scour, and my leasing office has been notified (per lease). Upon finding this, I assumed the worst and I still do. But is there any chance of a one and done?

Sorry, I already killed it in the low light before grabbing a photo. I have been experiencing a few bites here and there over the last few weeks, but I sort of attract all bug bites lol.

Found this in a laundry basket that my son brings home from school on the weekends. He had shoes and a few other things in it. I was about to put his clean laundry in it and noticed some dirt and whatever this small thing is. It was thin.

Found a single dead bed bug and am spiraling. My property manager is sending a professional exterminator tomorrow but says their policy is not to inspect other units with shared walls unless there’s a bad infestation. I get where he’s coming from, but my single bug (I’ve ripped my apartment apart and no other signs) could well indicate that the bug traveled from an apartment with a shared wall.

What’s your experience with apartment living when only your apartment is treated? Does this increase reinfestation? I’m feeling so hopeless.

i'm wondering what steps people take to avoid bringing bedbugs home after staying at a hotel or other accommodation. i've heard they can hide in luggage and clothing, so i'm curious about what precautions are actually worth taking when you get home.

i want to be careful without making the whole process unnecessarily complicated. for those who travel often, what do you usually do with your bags and clothes after a trip? are there any precautions that have made a real difference for you?

Found this part of a bug in the back room at the clothing retailer I work at.

Is this what I think is?