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===2020-05-30===
It was somehow easier for me today just to do these checks than to ask @everyone else to do them -- but either way, we need daily checks of sleeping areas if we're going to keep ahead of this thing.
* '''Left Bedroom''': Harena & I each have bites. Did not find any bugs when I checked the bed.
* '''Middle Bedroom''': still being eaten alive and seeing active infestations. I am expecting that to change after the bombing Sunday, though obviously that's not a complete solution.
* '''Right Bedroom''': Found one small bedbug at the foot of top mattress. I'm guessing it was hiding in the bedframe -- which just underscores the need to keep checking actual sleeping areas even when we have traps in place. (It had apparently just eaten -- squished red, but no stains.)
* '''Living Room Couch''': I checked the edges of the couch cushions and underneath them; no evidence of anything.
===2020-05-31===
* '''Left bedroom''': no live bugs found before bombing. Steam-cleaned floor/wall/loft all around head of bed.
* '''Right bedroom''': steam-cleaning of the loft frame flushed out a couple dozen live bedbugs and some dead ones (probably killed by the steam). Prior to that, I found several live ones, various sizes, on the upper mattress.
* '''Living Room Couch''': B vacuumed it, with help from others. No definite bugs seen; 2 stains which didn't quite match the profile of bedbug stains were found. ''Probably'' not from bedbugs.
===2020-06-01===
Taking a break from doing a proper bug report.
* Left bedroom: had probably several bites between us, nothing unusual, seems less than previous nights.
* Middle bedroom reported finding several arm-bites before going to bed.
* Right bedroom reported several bugs of different sizes on both beds. Nothing on sticky-traps.
===2020-07-18===
As expected, after that I lost the energy for making regular reports. I ''have'' been heat-treating our bed daily (at first, twice daily -- once in the morning and once right before bedtime), but the morning treatment didn't seem to make any difference.

We also were getting bites from sitting the [[CoA]] (and occasionally actually finding bugs), so doing something about that became a priority. After a couple of heat-treatments, I got to the point where it was possible to remove the giant sheet from the bed (it was helping some but also providing more hiding places; net effect seemed more cost than benefit) and trying it on the CoA -- that had to be early July, just before the Smith Family Reunion. It barely fits over the arms, but this seems to be sufficient: we haven't been getting bites from sitting on the CoA since then, and the one time we took it off for cleaning I found a bug crawling across my shirt (presumably having been trapped by the sheet the whole time and now desperate to feed).

The Couch of TV, where B sleeps, also needs heat-treatment, because he has been getting bites; I haven't had the energy to push on that.

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