Suu VS Bedbugs, the epic battle.

[Suu]

True. It doesn't seem like they're very interested in my plastic bins at all though, fortunately, but I'm not taking ANY chances.

I also took the plunge and notified EVERYONE who's ordered costumes from me in the past few months. The response I actually got has been very positive, and I got a lot of big "thank yous" for being honest. No reports yet, but I'd rather customers be happy and warned than get the fuckers and have to deal with them as well. No new shipments are going out until I am 110% sure their order is bug free. They will be heat treated and packed for shipment off-site.

[Suu]

Ugh, I gotta get outta here. It's pretty obvious from traces of DE up and down the stairs to the mattresses outside and across the street that my whole house if not the whole fucking block has them.

I'm doomed.

[Suu]

I didn't get bit last night. I consider this a big deal. I think it's pretty safe to say that I'm winning so far.

[East Coast Hustle]

OK, apparently I need to know everything you know as far as what works and what doesn't. The building my apartment in PDX is in has reportedly been infested. I'm moving in january anyway, but I want to know how to make sure that the stuff I bring with me is not contaminated so that I don't promptly re-infest my new digs.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Just jumping in on the DDT thing... Sjaantze was very active in Raptor care during the 90's including a long stint at the World Bird Sanctuary. She seems convinced that the data supports DDT as being a Very Bad Thing for raptors... esp those that eat fish. Most of the people claiming its bunk base their argument on early studies on quail and chickens who don't respond to DDT (well DDE actually) in the same way as raptors.

Yes, it affects the fish-eating birds, mostly, which is why bald eagles, osprey, and peregrine falcons were so badly affected.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

OK, apparently I need to know everything you know as far as what works and what doesn't. The building my apartment in PDX is in has reportedly been infested. I'm moving in january anyway, but I want to know how to make sure that the stuff I bring with me is not contaminated so that I don't promptly re-infest my new digs.

[East Coast Hustle]

I know. I am never renting an apartment again.

[Suu]

Get a Packtite. That's what I'm doing when I move. It cooks your belongings to like 140 degrees and kills the bugs and their eggs.

[East Coast Hustle]

that is exactly what I needed to know. Thanks Suu!

[Suu]

Just remember to take your belongings out of the Packtite and put them into air tight bags. Ziploc makes big bags you can use.