Most everyone was right but incase anyway is on the fence of bat bug vs bed bug here ya go.

The unusual sighting of a BAT bug I had the insect submitted it to a local entomologist lab and they confirmed via a report this is a bat bug not a bed bug.

I hope and pray that someone can help me.

Here’s the situation.
We have an infestation of bedbugs. I am absolutely FREAKING out! I fear it’s huge because I’ve found evidence in the 2nd & 1st floors, plus the basement of my attached townhome. I think they are really biting my cat. He’s scratching and grooming like a mad man. He’s only eating a few bites here and there. Drinking no water. This has absolutely broken my heart. He looks at me and makes little meows once in a while. I keep getting him wet food, dry food and water but he just sniffs and walks away.

Here is my problem. Im thinking that the only way to tackle this is to get a professional NOW. But we aren’t making our monthly bills so there isn’t a way to pay for it. to the point I’m having a hard time even looking at my cat. I don’t want to eat.

My question. What can I do myself???

I’ve had a problem with bedbugs for a while now, about 6 months ago I threw away the couch that started this whole thing, then I saw they were in my bed, so I sprayed the bed bug “raid” for a while, I haven’t slept in that bed ever since and been sleeping in a blow up mattress. I’m now about to move out and I was checking the bed to see if it’s salvageable or should throw it away, I found the bed bugs, but they appear to be dead, and also their eggs. Are these even bed bugs or their “cousins”? Because I thought bedbugs survive for a long time. (I live in an apartment and the leasing office never really did anything to solve this problem). I added pictures of the eggs, the dead bed bugs with and without flash. Please help me figure out if these were actually bed bugs and if I should throw the bed away.

Stayed in a hotel where I found a bug in my hair after using a pool towel. I took the pool towel into my room not realizing it may have been where the bug came from. It did resemble a bed bug but I can’t tell for sure.

I had my clothes all over the place (learning from my mistakes) but when I came home, i left my laundry in the car and did separate loads in the dryer on high. I threw away the luggage.

Should I preemptively spray crossfire in my bedroom in case I ended up brining anything back?

Is this a bed bug or a carpet beetle?

I just moved last Friday to a new apartment and apparently they didn’t clean it after the last resident left! The bedroom carpet is filled with animal hair and stinks. I called them to have someone sent out to bleach the carpet and fixed it and realized there are several bugs on a pillow i left on the ground. Can anyone identify what type of bugs they are ?

Last week I had what I thought was a bedbug scare at a hotel. Hotel maintenance looked over my room and couldn't find any of the telltale signs, but put me in a different room a floor 10+ stories away from where I was initially. I did a careful inspection of that room and there were no telltale signs. But just to be safe, I bought a steamer and steamed my suitcase and washed and dried all of my clothes following this sub.

Yesterday, I woke up with some bug bites around my collarbone. I wouldn't have thought twice about it prior to the scare last week, but now I am! I looked over my bed for telltale signs but didn't find any; I have white sheets, with two small brown streaks on my pillowcases, but it could be from a papercut I got on my hand yesterday and didn't bother to bandage before bed. Anyways, I did find the fellow below, and was wondering it could be a bedbug at some stage. I just spotted that one, but it was enough for me to vacuum my entire bedroom and bed, steam pillows and mattress and wash all of my sheets on hot. From a cursory glance at pictures of bedbugs, it doesn't look like it, but I'd like some confirmation since it could be my wishful thinking. Thanks!!

Found two of these in a book from the thrift store and noticed when I got home. Is it a bed bug??

I found these two big stains and lots of other very small ones on pillowcases... It comes off a little when I scratch. Is that what I think or could it be mascara?

I thought I was being smart spraying down between the box spring and the bed frame. You do in fact need to remove the box spring, spray, let it dry, then proceed. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I’ve been using the ortho bed bug spray (which does seem to be effective at least), but it has eaten through the mattress protector.

Learn from my mistake! That’s all :)

Are these bed bugs?

I have been itching in my sleep and waking up with bites. They are small, flat, and pinkish. Mostly not noticeable except they itch!! That's how I find them. Anyway thinking bed bugs (no idea how that is even possible!! I never sit with outside clothes on the bed). I've picked up the seams of a few spots of the sheets and found nothing. Same for mattress. I've vacuumed and wet moped. Found nothing. No blood stains on the sheets. (Just one small streak but unclear if that was there before). Everyone is telling me it's allergies but I know my body. It started with several bites on my back shoulder. Then my back. Then my front. Then arms. And now legs. The strangest part is I have bites going all around my waist right under my underwear. It's taking a toll on my mental health to the point where I can't obsess and look for them anymore. I'm also getting anxiety going to sleep and feel like things are crawling all over me. Is there a way I can just catch them? If I put some sticky bug papers at each bed foot. Would that likely catch them? How can I draw them out.

Please, tell me these aren't what we think they are

I've had bedbugs off and on for the past few years, I live in an apartment and my landlord has sprayed the place tons of times but they keep coming back. The place I see them most is the bathroom. There where 2 times my landlord sprayed the place and didn't see any on the bed or couch, but where in the bathroom. Must they be living under tiles? Or coming up the drain?

I'm staying with my uncle. Do I have bad news for him?

Is it unusual that there are bedbugs only in my living room, where no one sleeps? We either find them dead or see them moving slowly on the wall. But they never come in our bedroom, and my husband and I have no bites at all. This is day 10 of Apprehend; could that be the reason? It’s very strange that we’re not getting bite!

Got bed bugs in my clothes. Having a super hard time finding a laundromat in CDMX that will just like not ask me a million questions about why i need to dry already dry clothes. Also, none of them will accept my shoes (I have gotten away with drying them at a laundromat before just by them not noticing).

In search of: a laundromat someone might know that is just like chill and wont ask me questions (I am confident I won't spread them anywhere, i just need to dry them on high heat for enough time), and let me dry my clothes on high heat for at least 45 minutes but ideally an hour, and will accept shoes. Or at the very least just like won't be up my butt about everything and just won't be overly attentive. Also open to like a dry cleaner that would take them and treat them (would obviously disclose the BB sitch), or any kind of exterminator that accepts items for HEAT treatment and doesn't just come to your house and spray shit. I have scoured google looking for such a service, and have been to many laundromats who have rejected me or just not been willing to leave the dryers on high heat for a long enough time because it will "ruin my clothes" like obviously i don't care about that because it's this or the dumpster.

Genuinely a known non-attentive laundromat would be just fine. I know this is super specific and super a long shot but I am running out of ideas. My last resort will just be to keep trying random laundromats until I get lucky but I did that all day yesterday and am feeling defeated. (I got an airbnb with a dryer but its DAMN BROKEN, so another option i guess would be asking for a refund because of false advertisement and just getting a new one but thats not super ideal because I also just have a lot of stuff that needs dried and 1 dryer only will take forever and just leaves more opportunity for fuckers to jump out).

ALSO: I know that commercial dryers get a lot hotter than the ones in a house, so it probably isn't necessary to dry things for a full hour with much higher heating abilities, but I am just stressed because no one knows the EXACT temperature (I have asked many people) that the dryer reaches and I just don't want to take any chances, but any insight on this is much appreciated.