Sorry to blow up the board, but just one more question.
I live in a small space, have decent amount of stuff, not a ton of storage. and especially no way to get a dresser up to my place. My storage methods leave lots of places for harborage.
Last night I thoroughly checked my mattress and the top of the box spring and found no sign of bed bugs. Now, they could be inside the box spring and I honestly am not sure I can manage to inspect the box spring myself. But they could also be about 9000 other places in the apartment.
Not convinced it's bed bugs, but at this point I am getting bites (they are actual bites) showing up every other day, and not spending tons of time outside, so I'm a little suspicious. I do home visits in high risk areas - just learned a client's child has them at her place and does visit the mom often - as well as my mother was concerned she has them so it's not out of the question I could have encountered them.
What should I best do? I read that David is at times thinking that interceptors encourage spread, which I have a lot of attractive spaces for that. But then, if they're not on the bed, and I mostly sat on the bed as bait, then it might catch them on the way to the bed, no? Whereas a passive monitor might not capture that?
If I can't find signs as winter approaches, or if I find them and am treated, best believe I will be changing lots of the above but it's unfortunately what I have to work with at the moment.