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| I came up with a plan for fighting the problem in the middle bedroom the morning of May 27, 2020. That same morning, we became aware that the problem had escalated to the right bedroom. I posted the plan in our household Discord on 5/29. | | I came up with a plan for fighting the problem in the middle bedroom the morning of May 27, 2020. That same morning, we became aware that the problem had escalated to the right bedroom. I posted the plan in our household Discord on 5/29. |
| ==<s>Daily</s> Status Reports== | | ==<s>Daily</s> Status Reports== |
| ===2020-05-30===
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| 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.
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| * '''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.
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| * '''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.)
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| * '''Living Room Couch''': I checked the edges of the couch cushions and underneath them; no evidence of anything.
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| ===2020-05-31===
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| * '''Left bedroom''': no live bugs found before bombing. Steam-cleaned floor/wall/loft all around head of bed.
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| * '''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.
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| * '''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.
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| ===2020-06-01===
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| Taking a break from doing a proper bug report.
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| * Left bedroom: had probably several bites between us, nothing unusual, seems less than previous nights.
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| * 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.
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| ===2020-07-18===
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| 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.
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| 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).
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| 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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| ===2022-02-23===
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| It had been weeks since the last live bug sighting, and months since anyone was bitten -- but both B and I both got bitten while sitting on the living room couch. He found a near-adult-size bug, not looking especially gorged. I'm refraining from heat-treating the couch in order to determine if there are any more (i.e. does he get bitten more overnight), with the plan to heat-treat it tomorrow in the daylight.
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| (P.S. I ended up not doing any heat treatment, but there have been no more bites on the couch since then -- so I have to think it was a single rogue, not a sign of a regrown infestation.)
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| ===2022-03-15===
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| Found two more medium-sized bugs at bedtime, after I felt a bite on my elbow:
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| * One on the pillow, right after I realized the bite was more than just a random itch; it looked fairly desiccated still
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| * One under the mattress a few minutes later, when I got suspicious that maybe I had been bitten again. This one looked much better fed.
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| It seems likely that I somehow stirred these up by moving around some of Mel's stuff in the same corner of the room I'd been in the last time a bug appeared (2/23). There were signs of infestation in a floorboard crack under a box I picked up.
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| ===2022-03-16===
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| Found one more under the mattress, head of my side, at pre-bed check. Gave the underside of the bed a heat-treatment.
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| Felt like something bit me on the back ''after'' that; will have to heat-treat the topside as well tonight.
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| ===2022-03-22===
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| Got bit several times around 1am. This morning, found 3-4 medium-sized bugs living at an intersection in the bedframe; none anywhere else. Heat-treated the area and my pillows and corner of the mattress/frame.
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| ===2022-03-25===
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| At bedtime, ''after'' looking under the mattress and the fitted sheet (finding nothing), found a medium-sized bug on ''top'' of the fitted sheet, slightly engorged with fresh blood. (Seemed like it fell from somewhere -- pillows? Heat-blasted both of my pillows, and the edges of H's.) I don't ''think'' I went into Mel's room today, so maybe I brought it in last night and just didn't notice getting bitten. (I did have my suspicions at one point, but the itch never seemed substantial enough to be a bug. Perhaps I disrupted it partway through.)
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| ===2022-03-29===
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| Got bitten on the back at least twice around midnight. Today, ran ''all'' of the bedclothes and pillows through the dryer, and turned over the mattress -- whereupon I found a medium-smol bug on the underside. Heat-treated my side of the frame and most of the mattress. Checked the mattress zipper pretty carefully.
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| ===2022-04-01===
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| I think I got bitten again last night, on the back. Will have to heat-treat tonight.
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