Yes. They were opened.
We have a single family home, BBs found in early December. Evidence found in two bedrooms and office, possibly in living room and a third bedroom. Steamed bedframes and walls behind headboards. House was treated by PCO Dec. 18th, then, after PCO stopped returning our calls, we sprayed twice at two week intervals ourselves with Bedlam Plus and Temprid. We also dusted with Cimexa around beds, furniture, across closets, etc. We bagged everything we owned except kitchen and bathroom items. We washed all clothes and fabric and dried on hot, some items went in the Packtite, and the rest went in bags with Nuvan strips.
It's been past 55 days since we saw the last live BB. We inspect regularly and have had Packtite passive monitors on the beds for almost two weeks now. I don't know what else we can do at this point, and I am still shaken by the experience. By shaken I mean terrified they're not gone. However we can't live forever with the bags so I thought it would be healthy, mentally, for me to try to release a few bags. We can't find any sign of the bugs.
And then I found that, when I got things out of the dryer at the laundromat months ago, after washing and drying all our clothes, linens, stuffed animals, curtains, etc (there are six of us -- I have four children) my husband didn't seal the bags adequately. He put the zip tie up at the top of the bag so that there were open folds between the zip ties. Apparently it's been like this for the nine weeks since I treated the clothes.
What do I even do? Re-treat, or just retreat into a fetal position and silently weep? I know there weren't bugs in there when I put the clothes in there. However, I suppose some could have crawled in to escape the poisons. Wouldn't they then crawl out across the poisons to feed? I don't even know for sure if there were bugs in the living room, anyway (that's where the bage are stored). But I suppose after all this it's best not to leave it all to chance. I am so tired, though, and so drained. And it's so much to re-dry. It's best not to just rely on the residuals and cimexa, right?
Someone tell me what I already know I should do -- re-treat, right? Sigh. It will never end, thats what I think. Never ever.