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There are horror stories about bedbugs in luggage making it into your home but from researching when I thought I might have them its a pretty low probability. T

There are horror stories about bedbugs in luggage making it into your home but from researching when I thought I might have them its a pretty low probability. There seems to be a critical mass needed and most infestations where people are getting bites every night there is actually a huge disgusting colony somewhere around the bed that is never cleaned. With your apartment I bet there was a pretty unsanitary tenant before you.

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CTDOCodebases 3y ago
I had an experience where I believe a single bed bug somehow made its home in my home. I was getting occasional bumps on my skin that looked like bites. At first I got worried and threw a bunch of my possessions out and inspected my bed area but then I just wrote it off to mosquitos. A few months later I was outside my house and felt something on my neck. After slapping it I came to the conclusion it was most likely a lone bed bug. Not everyone reacts to the bites severely so some just write it off as mosquito bites or a rash like me. Also in order to get an infestation from a hitch hiking bedbug one of the following conditions must be met: 1. A male and female bedbug must both hitch a ride together and later successfully reproduce. OR 2. A pregnant female must hitch a ride. OR 3. There must already be a single bedbug present at your address and the hitchhiking bedbug must be of the opposite sex. These two bedbugs must go on to successfully reproduce. Keep in mind also that the hitchhiker must make it all the way home to the residence and not wander off somewhere before hand. Hotels and people who travel to decent hotels are quite aware of bedbugs too so the chance of encountering bedbugs and taking them home from there is quite low. e.g doing simple stuff like not leaving your luggage on or near your bed mitigates a lot of risk.
- nicoburns 3y ago
  > Not everyone reacts to the bites severely so some just write it off as mosquito bites or a rash like me Some people don't react to the bites at all. Which is one reason why it can be hard to get rid of them. It's hard to even tell if they're there if you don't react to the bites.
hombre_fatal 3y ago
Yeah, despite how hard bed bugs are to get rid of once you have them, that Airbnbs aren't constantly plagued with bed bugs shows that spreading them probably isn't as simple as just moving luggage through a place that has them. You probably have to not just get some passengers in your luggage but also park the luggage in a place in the infected location where they actual fester, sleep, and lay eggs. It's somewhat reassuring.

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CTDOCodebases 3y ago

I had an experience where I believe a single bed bug somehow made its home in my home. I was getting occasional bumps on my skin that looked like bites. At first I got worried and threw a bunch of my possessions out and inspected my bed area but then I just wrote it off to mosquitos. A few months later I was outside my house and felt something on my neck. After slapping it I came to the conclusion it was most likely a lone bed bug. Not everyone reacts to the bites severely so some just write it off as mosquito bites or a rash like me. Also in order to get an infestation from a hitch hiking bedbug one of the following conditions must be met: 1. A male and female bedbug must both hitch a ride together and later successfully reproduce. OR 2. A pregnant female must hitch a ride. OR 3. There must already be a single bedbug present at your address and the hitchhiking bedbug must be of the opposite sex. These two bedbugs must go on to successfully reproduce. Keep in mind also that the hitchhiker must make it all the way home to the residence and not wander off somewhere before hand. Hotels and people who travel to decent hotels are quite aware of bedbugs too so the chance of encountering bedbugs and taking them home from there is quite low. e.g doing simple stuff like not leaving your luggage on or near your bed mitigates a lot of risk.

nicoburns 3y ago
> Not everyone reacts to the bites severely so some just write it off as mosquito bites or a rash like me Some people don't react to the bites at all. Which is one reason why it can be hard to get rid of them. It's hard to even tell if they're there if you don't react to the bites.

hombre_fatal 3y ago

Yeah, despite how hard bed bugs are to get rid of once you have them, that Airbnbs aren't constantly plagued with bed bugs shows that spreading them probably isn't as simple as just moving luggage through a place that has them. You probably have to not just get some passengers in your luggage but also park the luggage in a place in the infected location where they actual fester, sleep, and lay eggs. It's somewhat reassuring.