I need some practical suggestions for next steps and what I should be doing now. Thanks in advance for your tips and ideas! We had bed bugs for exactly 2 months knowing now that we got them on a trip over spring break. The sleeper didn't react to bites so we didn't know until someone else slept in there and got eaten alive. Really, how bad could they be in just 2 months?
We had a professional treat Wednesday but while waiting a week for him to come, we used EcoRaider throughout the one room that had bed bugs. We threw out the queen bed, two loveseat sofas, and the headboard, vacuumed, emptied all the drawers and cleaned all the clothes that are now bagged up, 1/2 still in the car because it was so much we had to take some to the laundry mat. The kids made big co2 detectors with sugar and yeast and set them up in the room but never caught a thing. I was just hoping the CO2 would keep them in that room until we could get things together for a plan of action.
I know it says here not to throw all that stuff out and move from the room but at the time, I didn't know. Reading here that the bugs will simply spread through the house if no one is sleeping in that one room, we bought a new bed, got mattress and box spring covers, white sheets and set up the bed so someone slept in there last night. I also bought those climb up interceptors and kept the bed away from the wall. Yesterday, I used Cimexa and lightly dusted all of the furniture, drawer by drawer and the baseboards the entire way around the room and the bed frame, too. The sleeper does not react to bites but said he saw nothing in the bed all night and no evidence at all.
The receipt from the pro says he used bedlam, pre core, exciter and delta dust. He did open up the light switches and sockets and used bellows to puff in the dust. I did not stay and watch him do the treatment so I don't know exactly what he did but he only treated the one room. That room is set apart from the rest of the bedrooms in a 2000+ sq ft house but adjacent to a large sunroom that I inspected and found nothing at all and have seen no bugs outside of the one bedroom.
I just went in to check the traps with my trusty magnifier and led flashlight and the traps are clean, nothing it them. I stand up and see TWO ADULTS on the bed! Yikes! It's daylight, early afternoon here, so what are they doing up and about and how did they get on the bed and past all the Cimexa and the climb up detectors? Is it true that if you see them in the daylight, your infestation is REALLY bad? What are the odds that they are not in the rest of the house if they are so bold in the daylight? Is it normal for them to be so slow that I could just pick them up with a tissue? They didn't even try to run away. I've only seen 4 all together, these 2 and the first two and believe me, I've hunted.
I have not seem them anywhere else but I spent two straight days doing Cimexa throughout the rest of the house "just in case" putting it in each rooms perimeter baseboards and around furniture legs, sofas, etc.. all down the hallways, inside the laundry room, utility room, all the closets, around all the other beds. I also have two other sets of those climb up detectors on the sofas but there is nothing. Everyone has to throw their clothes right into the washer and dryer when they change so nothing is being spread around but really, is this necessary? I'm exhausted at this point and tired of having the laundry running non stop.
What should I do now?! The pro is supposed to come back next Friday, 10 days after the first treatment but his stuff didn't do much I guess? Thank you so much for this forum and any tips or steps you could recommend for me at this point!