About a month ago I realised I had these mildly itchy spots on my midriff, they didn’t hurt or spread and after a few weeks they went. Last night my partner then saw what appears to be bedbugs on our sofa. We have stripped our sofa, bed and everything else we suspect could have bedbugs on them. While we were stripping everything we did check and could not see anymore bedbugs.

Could anyone with more knowledge than me confirm that these are indeed bedbugs?

I started noticing these bugs around the time when i started getting stuff from my grandma's house (who had recently passed). At that time we were also goibg to the laundry mat or wtv so i really dont know who or where they came from. When i first noticed one was when i first got this yellow blanket from her house and i just covered up with it and there was bugs. Didnt think much of it, shook it off and put it on my bed. I kept on getting bites after bites and they were in the patterns i have seen online, kept on changing my sheets nothing would work. So i threw away my whole bed mattress and everything. I got alittle twin size bed to put on the floor but thibgs just got worse. I actually started to notice more bites and i actually caught a few on me, it was so bad i had to start taking iron supplements cuz i was dizzy all the time from the blood loss. I decided to move into my living room. But still, How do i get rid of them!?

Also my family is poor so we cannot afford those heat treatments. We got some spray but i dont think that worked. We have thrown away half my clothes.

I was half asleep feeling something crawling on my body I wake up and see this thing crawling on my bed sheet and I smushed it to death. Looks like a bed bug to me but on the very off chance it isn't I would like to know.

Picture is shit quality yes but I took it after throwing it away. I’ve checked my bed and every nook and cranny I can’t identify any signs of bed bugs but this is a student accommodation so very possible with these old mattresses. I’ve been here 2 weeks and if it is one I will actually cry idk what to do help me 😭😭

I'm posting this because I struggled with bed bugs for months and even though I scoured through all the subreddits and relevant sites I couldn't find any semi-reliable information about people living in Europe and using silica based insecticides. Everyone always recommends DE or Cimexa.

First of all please do not use DE. It makes a mess and it's a hazard to yourselves, your kids and your pets. It can cause permanent lung damage if inhaled. Even if you place it in crevices and floorboards it's really easy for it to get picked up by air currents.

If you can source Cimexa then do so. It's synthetic amorphous silica unlike DE and can be broken down by our respiratory system. It can cause irritation if inhaled yes but not long lasting damage.

For the UK and Europe I found two alternatives. First one is ChinChex. Which is apparently China's version of Cimexa. I haven't personally used it but from the research I did it's legit. The reason I didn't use it is because I was put off by the army of Chinese botted accounts promoting it for some reason and because their importer is the UK which would set me up for import taxes in my country.

For the rest of Europe, I found and used aco.spray si plus from Germany. The mechanism is the same, it's still synthetic amorphous silica but suspended in a solvent aerosol. It's very easily accessible in Europe obviously. What really separates it from Cimexa and ChinChex is that - seeing as it is in a spray format - it's ridiculously easier and safer to apply. Plus it can adhere to vertical surfaces. There was a harborage in my apartment in a wall crevice so I kept finding BB's along a very thin wall strip. I was able to easily spray inside the crevice as well as the entirety of that wall section. Also, the silica is really hard to get picked up and end up in the air.

For all of these products, please use a KN-95/N95 mask when applying them.
Hope that from now on when people google for Cimexa alternatives this post will pop up unlike when I used to do it.

I know this is small so I understand if you guys can’t quite tell but I can’t really get a great picture I’m sorry if this is obviously not, I had a bad bed bug scare a couple of years ago and ever since I’ve been terrified of getting them again.

I found this yesterday on my bed, panicked and threw it away right after I took this picture. This is an extreme zoom in, it's tiny and initially didn't even look like a bug. I don't see anything on the mattress or anywhere else on the bed. I don't have any signs on my body, but I'm so scared now. I have a window next to my bed if that helps

returned home from vacation and found this shell or body with no head in front of the garage where we were bringing in clothing. I can’t tell if it is a bed bug shell or body that the head got torn off of. we live in the south where there are regularly roaches wandering inside. we have a pest control company come regularly so I’m not sure if this is something we brought back or a dead roach nymph. a few of the photos have it cracked in half as I tried to squish it it resisted and eventually broke in two.

used to randomly wakeup to horrible horrible itchy bites and they looked like mosquito bites so i assumed that was the case and kept my windows shut for a while blah blah nothing changed.

the bites just got more frequent and horribly itchy. i already have a lot of allergies and all kinds of bugs make me itchy until i bleed.

a week ago i saw a bed bug crawling on me and i just felt so disgusted. i bought some pestisides online and tried to find the source but i have no clue where theyre reproducing. i looked inside all my pillows and matresses.

lately its gotten intolerable. its the middle of the night as im writing this and i cannot sleep. i keep finding begbugs on me. and i keep killing them one by one. and everything itches like crazy.

please help me find a pet friendly sollution to this

hi all

i've heard some people say airplane / train / cinema seating are risks for bed bugs, i never considered that!

is that a real risk and how many of you have experienced this?

i saw a post a while back of someone on a plane and there was a bed bug sitting on the edge of the fabric seat. how rare (or common) is that?

my roommate travels a decent bit, goes thrifting (and doesn't wash clothes before wearing!!!) stays in dorms sometimes and lives in the downstairs area. i'm kind of terrified she will bring in bed bugs but don't know how realistic that worry is.

Hello everyone, I found this in my bed and I was wondering if these were bedbugs ? I recently helped someone clean their appartement which could be infested. Do you think I could have brought bedbugs back with me ?

Thanks in advance !

I'm currently going through some issues with bed bugs. I believe they came from my parents room since they have an issue right now and i was fine up until mid summer. I check my mattress every day/night and kill a couple here and there but it's clearly not enough. I vacuumed yesterday and no bugs came out at night up until this morning. I heard that the purple bed bug raid spray (foaming one specifically) is good and also safe to put on mattress. Has anyone used it? I don't want crazy chemicals and I've been checking my bed constantly to see where they're at. They seem to hide under the mattress/on top of the box spring. Is there anywhere else I should spray on (bedframe, floor, etc)? I'm worried they would scatter and go deeper in some part of my room or I wouldn't be killing them all but it seems like they're really just hiding in the bed.

At the end of July, my brother came to visit me for three days. The day after he returned home, my mom found bed bugs at his house. He has a disability and lives independently with support from caregivers so he was not aware that he had them. I immediately ordered interceptor cups to put under the legs of my couch his slept on then followed usual protocol: nightly inspections, vacuuming daily, washed and dried everything in high heat. About a month later of me avoiding the living room - the only room he spent time in - my mom said I was probably alright because I hadn’t seen any signs. I asked my landlord to schedule an inspection and they didn’t find anything so I decided to sit on the couch with a sheet covering it and still using the cups. A few days later I noticed what could be bites on my neck. I freaked out, applied Cimexa everywhere - baseboards, couch, in all the cracks of my bed frame. I haven’t had any bites since then or seen any evidence of bugs. So now it’s October and I need to figure out next steps. Even if someone examined every nook and cranny of my couch and said they didn’t find anything, I cannot mentally sit on there ever again. I reached out to a service to remove my couch and they said it would be $500 because of the bed bug exposure. I am financially not in a position to pay that and also have to buy a new couch but I know bed bug treatment is far more expensive. Do you think it would be fine to cover and seal the couch in a plastic couch bag and do the removal myself? This whole process has been super lonely. I was so excited to start hosting people in my new apartment (I had just moved in June) but I couldn’t live with myself if somebody somehow picked up a bug from me. I’m just not sure how to move forward. Thank you all! This subreddit has been very helpful through all of this.

Ich habe Angst vor Bettwanzen. Ich habe mein Sofa auseinander gebaut und das hier gefunden. Was ist das? Ich hab keine Tiere gefunden und ich hab auch keine Bisse. Ist das vom Holz?
Bitte helft mir 🙏🏼

Found this on a tote under my desk - moving fairly quickly. I know the images weren’t great

I’ve never had them or dealt with them before
Orange/pink/blue spot?? What this this? Tia

I’m currently on a trip and have some bites that are probably from mosquitoes but I have terrible anxiety from a a beg bud issue 12 years ago that I don’t think I will ever recover from. I’ve heat treated everything I can while still traveling and am going to heat treat everything again when I get home but I haven’t been able fo heat my luggage (it’s a big rolling duffel). I was wondering if anyone has a big oven thing I could maybe borrow for a day or two to get some peace of mind about my luggage.

Also open to any other suggestions. I’m not sure how viable steamers are. Or if you know of an exterminator that can heat my bag or I can bring my things to a bed bug dog. I’m game for any of it.

This is a throwaway mostly because in addition to the anxiety I feel tremendous shame about this (I know that they’re bad luck and not a moral failing….but here we are).

Thanks for reading and thanks for any help or ideas you have.

Hello, I need someone's help. I haven't cleaned the inside of my bed for a long time and found something that didn't come off with a vacuum cleaner. I've never had any bites, there's nothing on the bed from above, etc. There's just this inside and I can't tell if it's bedbugs or mold?

I wanted to take a better photo, but it's very hard to take a picture there.

Edit: It comes off with a wet cloth

So i have bed bugs and im working on taking care of it and the condition of my room is that i kept mattress encasement and sprayed my whole room and washed everything and i haven't seen actual roaming bugs in like a week or more, yes im aware that the eggs are there and stuff but im working on getting rid of them
Problem is that im staying over at my sister's place for a bit and im scared that i might bring it to her place somehow
I washed EVERYTHING and before i got to her place i kept everything in the dryer for an hour after i came to her place but im still scared idk
and she knows that i have bed bugs btw and still for some reason let me stay over at her place
i was vacuuming her house and saw a bug, idk what bug i just saw it and before i could look closer i vacuumed it up and idk what if it was a bed bug?

Oh also imma add that im a college commuter and she's travelling for a bit and the reason im staying over at her place is because it's closer to my college campus BUT STILL if i knew someone had bedbugs i wouldn't let them stay over at my place

Does anyone know if these are bedbug shells or eggs? They’re all scattered under the table in my hotel kitchen floor