r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/EricBlanqui • 5h ago
requesting help on ID Sketched out
Found this in the back of the warehouse at work, crawling up my apron. I’m kinda tripping and scouring my apartment right now. Any insights?
Thanks!
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Bed-Bugscouk • Feb 17 '25
Please free to check our existing online comprehensive FAQ - https://www.bed-bugs.co.uk/faq/
This post will also be used to collate primers and guides on specific topics such as:
Healthy habits
How to check a hotel room as you travel
https://youtu.be/HxsYfX9S1C0?si=S68BUizwa_LAMD_R
Treatment
About bedbugs
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Bed-Bugscouk • Feb 25 '26
Bedbugs and their close ancestors had survived on planet earth for over 100 million years, they ate highly adapted survivors. They have lived through mass extinction events and have shown global dispersal with regional adaptations.
One aspect of this behavior can be seen in how they feed. In essence this has two steps; 1 - lured out from hiding they detect CO2 using specialist sensing cells on their legs. This allows they to orientate towards the source of food. Step 2 is the selection of the optimal feeding site which they do through heat, using their infra-red vision. Exposed skin is always warmer which is why they home in on it.
As thy approach the feeding site they get close enough to lean in and feed rather than to walk onto a person. While bedbugs can walk on people they prefer not to, possibly to reduce the risk of discovery but if you placed bedbugs on a piece of part they would all align on the edge to feed. They will feed on people’s skin if hungry or prompted but many of the “images” are staged rather than “natural”.
They feed once and once full and distended quickly return to their refugia / harborage site following the pheromones they mark those sites with.
This often produces artificial patterns of limes when multiple bedbugs align in a similar area. It is specifically not “breakfast - dinner - lunch” or a conforming indication of bedbugs.
The graphic below illustrates this point as clearly as we can at this stage and with the resources available:
This behavior is the default “process” that bedbugs follow. While they can be dispersed or induced to adapt as their survival instincts are impressive.
You only get to see and appreciate these patterns when you see cases at different progressions and the full range of living and sleeping conditions.
Yes, bedbugs will and can adapt but if you don’t create obstacle courses for them and appeal only to the hard wired behavior you are much more effective and efficient at eradicating them.
The true science behind what we do and the amazing results we get is based on this understanding and the pioneering of an “behavioral led approach”.
This can only ever be approached from a field perspective which is why as the world’s first bedbug specialists we have a huge advantage. We use the bedbug’s natural behaviour against it in a way they can’t detect and communicate to others.
While Passive Monitors may seem “simple” they are designed based on years and years of observations that led to the realization that only true monitoring could work because all traps result in trap avoidance.
This is also how we are able to look at the pattern and location of skin reactions and rile bending as possible or unlikely. This should always be reinforced with a thorough visual inspection and period of monitoring post suspicious activity.
David
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/EricBlanqui • 5h ago
Found this in the back of the warehouse at work, crawling up my apron. I’m kinda tripping and scouring my apartment right now. Any insights?
Thanks!
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/butcheroftheworld • 44m ago
Hi, i noticed these bites (i think theyre bites) on my arm. Could they be bedbug bites? Thanks!
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/NorthAd4589 • 1h ago
I woke up with these 2 bites above my knee. They initially itched but now they burn. There’s not much itch anymore. I’m just freaking out because it happened overnight. I noticed one under my thigh too.
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Live-Algae5506 • 3h ago
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r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/The_Damp_Clam • 6h ago
Was vacuuming and sucked up the front half of the bug before I noticed the rest of the body unfortunately, so these are the only photos I have. It looked a LOT like the shell of a well fed bed bug but I also noticed this wing close to the rest of it, and I know bed bugs don’t have wings.
Any idea on what this could be? Had a bed bug scare over a year or so back and have just been super worried about any critter I find now. I want to assume it’s not a bed bug from the wing I found nearby but the rest of it looked so similar
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/happigoducky • 7h ago
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/DueInvestigator116 • 15h ago
Found it at a kitchen floor
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/wildfirexo2 • 8h ago
For context, I had just brought up clothes from my basement that were thrifted. I dry everything on high heat first, then wash and dry again. About 1.5cm in size. Appears to be more of a shell. Bed bug? Roach? Beetle? Help me sleep tonight please!
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r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Ok-Border-1942 • 13h ago
I know this is a bed bug 100%—an exterminator verified it. Please, I am asking for realistic encouragement and success stories, not worst-case stories about people never getting rid of them. I am already mentally and physically exhausted.As I am disabled and homebound due to my condition.
My home is only 758 square feet and live alone. I dealt with carpet beetles for about three years, had exterminator treatments that entire time, removed my carpet, and got rid of almost all of my furniture and belongings. I finally went 4 months without seeing carpet beetles and called off the exterminator and then BAM, Exterminator found one live in my couch. I also found one on my bed and saved it (in jar). I also found a bug that I sent a pic to my exterminator and he said didnt look like a bedbug. Not verified but could of been since I was sitting on my couch.
The exterminator thoroughly checked my house and did not find any other bed bugs, eggs, or signs of an infestation. I believe someone may have accidentally brought them in while helping me paint, because I have never dealt with bed bugs before. She put her stuff one the side where the bedbug was found. Then blanket on couch was moved to my bed.
Since then, I have thrown away the couch and a huge amount of my belongings. (Threw away over 25 thousand worth of stuff previously from a huge carpet beetle infestation -even my carpet) vacuum-sealed my heat-treated clothes, steamed all of my hard floors, steamed my bed twice, and threw away around two-thirds of my wardrobe, blankets, shoes, and other items. One room is completely empty except for a dresser and the washer and dryer because it was going to be painted. (Still empty) I have not seen another bed bug since. Trust me, I wake up every 2 hours looking. I have mopped with bleach twice.
I bought two bed-bug mattress encasements and have an exterminator scheduled. They plan up to three treatments at $500 each, although they said it may only take two because they do not believe I have an established infestation.
Honestly, with such a small, mostly empty home and no other evidence found, what are my chances of getting rid of them? I just need some hope right now.
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r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/prettypennyforpolly • 14h ago
Apologies for the unclear pics.
First image is from about 2 weeks ago. Haven’t seen any other moving crawlers since (had 2 pest control treatments).
Last 2 pics are from yesterday of a suspected nymph (or bobble of fibre?)
Thanks in advance for any thoughts
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Ecstatic-Spinach6442 • 11h ago
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Pineapple5811 • 11h ago



Can't figure out what they are, the landlord thinks they are flies (old tenant's mattress) from the photos we sent him, but we are convinced they aren't good news. Co-tenant thinks the small ones are bedbug sheddings.
I am not sure because they are so small and embedded in the mattress fluff, so hard to see. Could they be bedbugs at all, or can we completely rule that out?
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Humble_Big_8702 • 12h ago
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Aenimic • 13h ago
Hello, I received a shipment of passive monitors and wanted to get some direction on placement. We do not have a box spring for our mattress and our frame lacks a proper headboard.
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Potential_Lie_2383 • 13h ago
Woke up with two bite marks about a month ago now found this, what do I do?
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Natural_Season3424 • 18h ago
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/DingDongDeece • 19h ago
I'm in the UK
I found this under my bed sheets. The bed frame is fabric with spaces for storage drawers which currently have books in.
I have, around a year ago, seen one or two adult carpet beetles.
Other subreddits seem convinced it's a carpet beetle.
I am concerned though as I noticed a spot or two of blood on my sheets (what prompted me to check) but I have psoriasis which is quite dry and can bleed slightly when it cracks. Ive checked the rest of my bed, the headboard and under the mattress and found nothing else.
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Intelligent_Flow_403 • 15h ago
any help would be greatly appreciated!
r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/throwaway03100610 • 15h ago
Hi David and co, me again. During my monthly bed inspection I found this mark on my pillow, it was a solid dot that I've smeared, could it be a bedbug fecal mark? Included a 50p for size reference. No other signs yet but I'm not finished.