• Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      191·
      27 days ago

      Bedbugs can’t survive heat. 1 hour over 100F or a few seconds at 200F kills them. Depending on what you have available, either throw your clothing in a dryer on high for an hour or use a steamer that goes over 200F to rid them. Alternatively placing them in a black garbage bag in a parked car for a day if it’s hot out will also do it. Depending on what is infested, some plastic totes to stage things that haven’t been treated yet can greatly limit their ability to re-infest while you’re treating stuff, and re-treat within a week if you’re not certain (their life cycle is about a week, so treating the same item twice in a week kill get any that survived before they can multiply again)

      • Mr Fish@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        26 days ago

        Another option is freezing it. For stuff that’s hard to wash or heat sensitive (usually sleeping bags or pillows) chuck it in the freezer for a week.

        • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
          7·
          26 days ago

          Mom mad me take my sisters bed outside cause she suspected be bed bugs. We checked the bed and saw nothing. Just One night at freezing temp and you can see ALL of them littered on the bed. It was disgusting. Had to wipe them off and bring it back inside.

    • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      17·
      27 days ago

      Don’t forget to put all your clothes, bags, and other belongings in the freezer for a week when you come home.

      I sheltered two people during the storm surge last year and I think they brought in bed bugs, though I didn’t wait long enough to properly confirm other than the itching and bite marks. In other words, the floor still has “bubble marks” from when the varnish started cooking during my week-long extermination craze.

      Edit: Image from the glorious happening. Heater was usually placed on a box to keep it elevated. I tried to keep the room above 70°C.

        • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          27 days ago

          Thank you, and it absolutely is, but I’m lazy and haven’t yet found a proper solution for hosting images.

          I sometimes host smaller images like the above on Catbox, but Imgur, Catbox, and other similar sites feel just as clunky and unfit as Discord. At least to me.

            • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              3·
              26 days ago

              Hmmm, seems much the same as catbox, except that you need a click more to get the image link but gives you more options in return.

              What I’m really interested in would be a (preferably) self hosted solution which allows one to share either single images or albums with visible (but non-obscuring) labels, and where one can easily flip through images in an album. Also needs batch upload (can be by FTP, the method doesn’t matter much). I’ve tried Pixelfed half a year ago, and while I really wanted to like it, it didn’t really have proper albums and labels at the time.

              Hosts like Postimages and Catbox are fine, I guess, much like Discord is “fine, I guess”, but I don’t want to spam the host by uploading an image 50 times for 50 different posts, and no way that I’m gonna check all previously uploaded images whether I’ve already uploaded the one I need.

                • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                  2·
                  26 days ago

                  I somehow remember that it didn’t fit last I tried it, but playing around with the demo, it feels like it’s fills all the holes.

                  Thank you, I’ll try setting it up and see how it goes.

    • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      11·
      27 days ago

      Take an aspirin, they hate the taste.
      50 mg a day keeps the bedbugs at bay.
      I do it every time I’m staying overnight at hotels, in particular.
      Obviously, medical supervision is advised if you intend to do this for a long time, let’s say, more than 2 weeks.

    • Tyfud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      26 days ago

      Only tiny couches. Full sized couches took millions of years to evolve to that size.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
    93·
    27 days ago

    I feel like, if one hasn’t seen this comic before, that it would be helpful, somehow to have an indication that these are indeed Bed Bugs. And yet this comic has been reposted so many times that the vast majority already know.

    • meowMix2525@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      27 days ago

      Counterpoint: The punchline is so blindingly obvious that explaining the joke would ruin it

      • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
        5·
        27 days ago

        I’m sort of amused to think they had been calling themselves “Bedbugs” all along, but never really having any direction in life until this very moment. I’m not a great historian, but I seem to recall in some previous post of this ancient comic the word bedbug was in there, somewhere.

    • P1nkman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      27 days ago

      Never seen it before, and I got it as bed bugs straight away. It’s in the punchline.