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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bedbug in my life. I feel like that’s more of an american thing

by MagicMoonlight 3y ago

creativenolo 3y ago
Your lucky (at least from my journeys in the UK/EU)
- hutzlibu 3y ago
  Strangely I am from europe and traveled extensivly here in europe, but so far I only encountered them in australia, in a backpackers hostel. But that might have been a reason, why I prefer my own tent now, instead of hostels when backpacking .. you never know who slept before you in that room and like others said, getting rid of bedbugs is not easy.
- bearmode 3y ago
  Never seen bedbugs in the UK, never known anyone with an infestation either. They're extremely uncommon.
  - creativenolo 3y ago
    I think generally they are uncommon. But I knew of a good few people who have had the misfortune of having them. Just because you haven’t doesn’t mean the don’t exist. Google bed bugs London.
kennyadam 3y ago
When I was renting a flat with a couple of other guys, one of them called me one day on the way home from work and said they had discovered bedbugs (this is in the UK). I'd never really heard of them aside from the old "night night, don't let the bedbugs bite" saying. It turns out they are a psychological terror! Every night you know that you're going to fall asleep and have your blood sucked out by loads of little bugs. The council pest control guy who came out made us empty all the rooms, heat treat all of our clothes and then keep them double bagged in sealed plastic bags and once a week he would come round and spray the flat in chemicals and then we would need to put the beds back together and go to sleep as the only way to get the bedbugs to come out and encounter the poison was to lure them out to feed on us. It affected me mentally for months and months and I'm always paranoid now whenever I go anywhere new like a bus, train, cinema, someone elses house, etc that I'm going to bring them back home with me. They are no joke.
- Alifatisk 3y ago
  > It turns out they are a psychological terror! This, I cannot express this enough. These little monsters will tear your mind apart. It took me years to recover and I am still a little paranoid every now and then.
- that_guy_iain 3y ago
  My pest control guy told me that I had to keep living in my apartment and sleeping in the same sport otherwise they would just spread throughout the apartment and take longer to kill. I still get the feeling every now and then one of the fuckers are climbing on me.
  - kennyadam 3y ago
    Yeah, when we were told we needed to just keep sleeping in our beds, it was so unsettling. For months I just didn't sleep under any covers because I couldn't handle the thought of them creeping around under there and I would wake up constantly throughout the night to the fear that I was being bitten... months after we'd seen the last one too. Whenever I'd vist my parents, I'd have a double bagged load of clothes that I'd keep in the boot of my car and I'd run them through high heat dryer cycles daily and change into them in outside the house after thoroughly checking myself for bedbugs. It took me years after moving out of the flat to get my head back to normal. Awful. Awful. Awful.
pg314 3y ago
A Google search of 'bedbug' and any major city in Europe will return plenty of hits.
jve 3y ago
I always wondered whether bedbug == flea (which jumps). You squash flea and they are no more... I suspect its a different thing, as it appears bedbug swarms.
- bearmode 3y ago
  They are different things.
baby 3y ago
You should check that famous youtuber’s video on the bug. It looks like they’re hard to notice as they only come out for 10min every night and you can’t feel them.
- lathiat 3y ago
  Mark Rober. A really good watch: https://youtu.be/2JAOTJxYqh8 https://youtu.be/2JAOTJxYqh8
ChrisRR 3y ago
You don't tend to see them unless you're looking for them, they live in the crevices in your bed and mattress
Findecanor 3y ago
The horror stories I've heard have been people finding bugs at home after a hotel stay. You can't always know if the hotel you're staying at has bed bugs. But you could reduce the risk of taking them home with you by always keeping your bags a distance away from the hotel bed, so the bugs won't be likely to hide there. I've never encountered signs of bed bugs when travelling but it is a simple rule I follow, just in case.
that_guy_iain 3y ago
I got bed bugs last year in Germany. I was soo wtf that I originally thought they were fleas from my dog so just got him treated for fleas. A month or so later I found one and identified it as a bed bug. I tried for a month to get rid of them, that didn't work at all. It took about 4 months once I got pest control out. It seemed like a standard job for him.
yodsanklai 3y ago
I travel quite a lot and I've occasionally seen bed bugs in hotels in France, Indonesia, Thailand. But it's true that I never heard of bed bugs infestation until I lived in NYC in 2009 (and my whole building had issues with them), there was a peak of infestations at that time. Visible on Google Trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bed%20bug%20NYC&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bed%20bu... I read somewhere that some bedbugs may be more resilient than others so that may explain.
sneed_chucker 3y ago
I first encountered them in Poland

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bedbug in my life. I feel like that’s more of an american thing

creativenolo 3y ago

Your lucky (at least from my journeys in the UK/EU)

hutzlibu 3y ago
Strangely I am from europe and traveled extensivly here in europe, but so far I only encountered them in australia, in a backpackers hostel. But that might have been a reason, why I prefer my own tent now, instead of hostels when backpacking .. you never know who slept before you in that room and like others said, getting rid of bedbugs is not easy.
bearmode 3y ago
Never seen bedbugs in the UK, never known anyone with an infestation either. They're extremely uncommon.
- creativenolo 3y ago
  I think generally they are uncommon. But I knew of a good few people who have had the misfortune of having them. Just because you haven’t doesn’t mean the don’t exist. Google bed bugs London.

kennyadam 3y ago

When I was renting a flat with a couple of other guys, one of them called me one day on the way home from work and said they had discovered bedbugs (this is in the UK). I'd never really heard of them aside from the old "night night, don't let the bedbugs bite" saying. It turns out they are a psychological terror! Every night you know that you're going to fall asleep and have your blood sucked out by loads of little bugs. The council pest control guy who came out made us empty all the rooms, heat treat all of our clothes and then keep them double bagged in sealed plastic bags and once a week he would come round and spray the flat in chemicals and then we would need to put the beds back together and go to sleep as the only way to get the bedbugs to come out and encounter the poison was to lure them out to feed on us. It affected me mentally for months and months and I'm always paranoid now whenever I go anywhere new like a bus, train, cinema, someone elses house, etc that I'm going to bring them back home with me. They are no joke.

Alifatisk 3y ago
> It turns out they are a psychological terror! This, I cannot express this enough. These little monsters will tear your mind apart. It took me years to recover and I am still a little paranoid every now and then.
that_guy_iain 3y ago
My pest control guy told me that I had to keep living in my apartment and sleeping in the same sport otherwise they would just spread throughout the apartment and take longer to kill. I still get the feeling every now and then one of the fuckers are climbing on me.
- kennyadam 3y ago
  Yeah, when we were told we needed to just keep sleeping in our beds, it was so unsettling. For months I just didn't sleep under any covers because I couldn't handle the thought of them creeping around under there and I would wake up constantly throughout the night to the fear that I was being bitten... months after we'd seen the last one too. Whenever I'd vist my parents, I'd have a double bagged load of clothes that I'd keep in the boot of my car and I'd run them through high heat dryer cycles daily and change into them in outside the house after thoroughly checking myself for bedbugs. It took me years after moving out of the flat to get my head back to normal. Awful. Awful. Awful.

pg314 3y ago

A Google search of 'bedbug' and any major city in Europe will return plenty of hits.

jve 3y ago

I always wondered whether bedbug == flea (which jumps). You squash flea and they are no more... I suspect its a different thing, as it appears bedbug swarms.

bearmode 3y ago
They are different things.

baby 3y ago

You should check that famous youtuber’s video on the bug. It looks like they’re hard to notice as they only come out for 10min every night and you can’t feel them.

lathiat 3y ago
Mark Rober. A really good watch: https://youtu.be/2JAOTJxYqh8 https://youtu.be/2JAOTJxYqh8

ChrisRR 3y ago

You don't tend to see them unless you're looking for them, they live in the crevices in your bed and mattress

Findecanor 3y ago

The horror stories I've heard have been people finding bugs at home after a hotel stay. You can't always know if the hotel you're staying at has bed bugs. But you could reduce the risk of taking them home with you by always keeping your bags a distance away from the hotel bed, so the bugs won't be likely to hide there. I've never encountered signs of bed bugs when travelling but it is a simple rule I follow, just in case.

that_guy_iain 3y ago

I got bed bugs last year in Germany. I was soo wtf that I originally thought they were fleas from my dog so just got him treated for fleas. A month or so later I found one and identified it as a bed bug. I tried for a month to get rid of them, that didn't work at all. It took about 4 months once I got pest control out. It seemed like a standard job for him.

yodsanklai 3y ago

I travel quite a lot and I've occasionally seen bed bugs in hotels in France, Indonesia, Thailand. But it's true that I never heard of bed bugs infestation until I lived in NYC in 2009 (and my whole building had issues with them), there was a peak of infestations at that time. Visible on Google Trends https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bed%20bug%20NYC&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=bed%20bu... I read somewhere that some bedbugs may be more resilient than others so that may explain.

sneed_chucker 3y ago

I first encountered them in Poland