Hello all! For the 1st time in my life, I have found a bedbug in my bed. Here is the scenario.... On 7\30, I took my adult daughter to a concert, and stayed in a Motel 6. I came home the next morning, after dropping her off at her own house. The next day, on 8\1, I went and saw a movie with my girlfriend, who only stays over on weekends, and noticed big welts on my right arm. Looked like giant bug bites, but I hadn't been exposed to and flys, etc lately, so it got me thinking because I had just stayed in a Motel 6. When I got home, I did a quick look at my bed, but found nothing. I also called my daughter, who slept in the other bed beside mine at Motel, and She says she has no bites or seen any bugs. The next day, after researching bed bugs and how they hide, and what they look like, I found one single bug, beneath my pillow top mattress, just above my head under the slip cover. I was mortified! I work in an industrial place that has very thick polyethylene sheeting, and had several rolls of it, so I immediately completely sealed the box spring and mattress in this .006mil sheeting, and mega sealed the seams with sealing tape\duct tape. The following day, I flipped the sheets up, and after looking very hard, saw a nymph crawling around, but contained under poly sheeting. This is 10 days after returning from my hotel stay. I went to Lowes, and bought a bag of DE, which had VERY high reviews for bed bugs. I then flipped mattress up on side, sliced a few holes, and with a powder bottle, blew the DE all through both sides of mattress, and then did the same with the box spring, filling it inside and out. I then sealed all slices (3" long" with several layers of duct tape to close up. Then on the mattress, I double layered the poly sheeting again, to ensure they were trapped within, with the DE, hoping to kill off all the nymphs before they breed or escape. It is my understanding they need a blood meal, ad I'm hoping the DE will kill them off as soon as eggs hatch and they dry up. I searched, vacuumed my entire room a few times, and found nothing anywhere, but the one adult bug on my mattress a few days earlier, and the nymph under the poly cover. I put a powdered DE barrier all along bed, entire room perimeter, along closet doors, bedroom door, spread all over lower bead frame(wooden frame) and legs of tables\dresser\bed. I also washed all sheets\comforter on the sanitize cycle in washer, which heats water to over 150F, then 90 mins in dryer. I haven't been bitten since the day before I covered mattress and boxs pring, and I am hoping they are actually ONLY in the bed, as it's a new infestation and they tend to stick close to blood, and since I'm the only one in the house, they needn't go anywhere else. Does anyone think that they probably ARE contained to the bed, since that is the only place I have seen them, including the nymphs? I'm guessing the nymphs will never get their first blood meal, and will dry up and die under the poly cover before anything else infests. When this is over(If ever) I am replacing the bed and box spring, but not until I know my house is clean. I also sprinkled the DE in the cracks on my couch, 40 feet down the hall, where I spend very little time, just to be sure. Please, if anyone has any input, holler at me, I'm mortified, and hope I caught it right away, and have contained\doomed them with the DE being forced where they are imprisoned. Thanks!!!!
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