Bed bugs 😫 pic

[Roozy123]

AIBU to burn my flat down 😐😑

Both kids come up on spots Monday. Assumed chicken pox, didn't itch and redness went down the next day.

I wash all bedding etc the same day.
Today I thought I would double check the beds.
The kids have racing car beds that are low to the floor, slates are around 3 inches for the floor.
Pulled the mattress up, saw one teenie tiny bug.. killed it.
Then saw a couple on the carpet, under the slates. I placed a white baby wipe down and a couple travelled onto it.

I'm assuming bed bugs, baby bed bugs in the pic... I've called for fumigation for Friday midday and the kids can sleep in with me tonight, I've attached a pic.

They're bedbugs aren't they? 😑😑

They don't look like bedbugs to me. Wrong shape and colour. Bedbugs are the shape of an apple pip and brown and shiny. Also they tend to hide, especially in the day. In fact hiding is their speciality, it's why they're so hard to get rid of! So they wouldn't be running around on the carpet typically. They tend to hide in the cracks in your furniture. The best way to find them is to use the torch on your photo and a credit card - run your credit card in the gaps in the bed frame and see what you dislodge.

@GreatestHits I thought the same thing. The beds were ripped a part as the fumigation man explained the adult ones could be in the slates etc. Nothing was found.

I'm very confused and I've googled 100 times and I'm not more closer to working out what is going on.
Right now I'm still washing everything toys will be put in a boiling bath later, the room they were found in has been gutted completely.

We only found them in the carpet. I'm so confused what's happening. I assumed bed bugs as they're kind of the same shape I guess and they were mainly under the beds on the carpet there.

Oh OP! Crossing everything you get rid of whatever they are…

Bugs mostly in son's bedroom, toy boxes, drawers lots, funnily enough we got rid of those quite easily. Others in other rooms, but not many, we felt we had got rid of them and then we would see some more, it was really depressing. In desperation, went overboard on the cleaning, taking kitchen apart, found the bird! Had already arranged for bug guy out, had saved some bugs for him, said they were not bed bugs and the bird would have been their nest. They just went, it was almost unbelievable. Bug guy said to be careful at doors as they can come inside and like the damp at doors. Fingers crossed you get rid off yours.

Just remembered it was spider beatles, not carpet beatles

I've seen bedbugs. In my (limited) experience, they are dormant in the day, and run bloody riot at night. I found them on bed slats in the day. The pictures you have don't look like bedbugs to me. I would definitely buy indorex (or acclaim) and spray that everywhere. Literally kills anything creepy crawly in sight!

My sisters two little boys had those low to the ground car beds. She got them secondhand and it turns out they were infested with woodworm. Google Anobium Punctatum. It looks like whats in your photos.

@Roozy123 can confirm they don't look like carpet beetles. Those adults are like tiny woodlice and the babies are like woolly beetles. I moved into an established colony and moved out again with all my stuff washed, tumbled and bagged on leaving, and washed and tumbled in unpacking.

Carpet bugs are much bigger, around the size of your finger nail, and their disgusting larvae babies look like spikey catapillars almost 50 percent longer.

Those are almost certainly drug store beetles. They will eat dried food residue and they my have come from a bird nest outside

Your children may have just had an allergic reaction from their casings/faeces etc. Nothing a good spray of bug spray won't fix. No need to boil and dismantle everything. Just don't allow food in the bedroom and hoover every day in cracks and crevices in that room.

I had something like this happen once and it took me about 6 months of washing, steaming, fumigating, worrying and finally moving home to figure out it was rodent mites migrating from the rats that had been poisoned by the takeaway place below us. Yuck yuck yuck .

What I DO NOT recommend doing is researching this online. In my experience in the online communities abound infestations there is a fine line between the infested and the mentally ill. I never worked out whether it’s because those who are mentally ill are more likely to believe they are infested or being infested is likely to make you mentally ill. Maybe the causality works both ways. Just don’t start going down the rabbit hole and reading up on other people’s infestation stories as it’ll make you incredibly paranoid. Especially do not look into bird mites (shudders)

Thank you all for your replies.

So.. I've not slept 😬 had the kids in with me and I was SO paranoid I was looking at the seams in pillows, anything crawling on or near the kids ALL night. . . And nothing!?

I don't understand how the kids floor looked how it did (their carpet with these bugs) and if bedbugs why my room (1 metre away) has 0 in the bed!? Considering how many were on the kids carpet.

I'm washing all the kids toys as I type this... Happy happy 2021.. I've only just dealt with bloody ants and flying ants in the bathroom and kitchen! From a nest againt the building.

I can't hack much more 😐😬

Looks like a stored product beetle, sawtoothed grain beetle or minute brown scavenger beetle perhaps. They eat debris and fungus so everything needs a few deep cleans. The photos are very blurry though.

I've got do many different quotes and the cheapest is £70 for an inspection of any activity and then £320 for fumigation.

Others wanted £120 for the checks and a grand for the fumigation! 😨

I've just been in the room, checked the floor. Nothing.

So bizarre as yest there were loads, even hoovered up I assumed some would be back with the amount I saw.
Called the council, they told me they won't come out for that service at the moment.. told me it sounds 100 percent bedbugs and went on to tell me what spray to purchase 🤨

I'd have a go with Indorex first and use the company as a final resort.

You've had loads of replies, but I wanted to add my recent experience, incase it helps you.

We had bed bugs earlier this year. Worked out that my partner must have brought them back after staying in holiday accommodation whilst visiting his family - that was the only place either of us had been, because of lockdown.

Found a random bug on the wall one day and squashed it - and was full of blood. Did a bit of investigation on the internet, and eventually moved the (divan) bed - underneath was pile of bed bug skins/exoskeletons and some of them moving around by the skirting board - they like the dark .

Called a pest control company, they said yes it sounds like bed bugs and recommended that we put all clothes and fabrics in black bags, tie them up until ready to wash @ high temperature.

Divan bed was moved out of the house immediately and the pest sprayer came in, did the bedrooms (edges of carpet and in wardrobes) and came back some time later (can't remember exactly - 3-ish weeks) to re-spray.

In the meantime, we washed EVERYTHING, steamed things that couldn't be washed and even froze something small items (like my sentimental soft toys etc). Any large/difficult items went to the dry cleaner.

The divan bed mattress/base was full of bugs, so that got broken up and disposed of, after being left some time in the garage. We also put a couple of rugs and a bean bag type thing into the garage, where they are still languishing.

We also got "bed bug mattress covers" from a company on Ebay - which is basically a cover that zips up all around the mattress, like a jacket - theoretically stopping the bugs from getting in. Also got some little traps that sit under the beg legs - again, theoretically to stop the bugs from climbing up.

It was pretty stressful, but fingers crossed, we haven't seen the bugs since!

@MrsPelligrinoPetrichor It's so much money.

I was thinking to get them out to tell me what they are, then if bed bugs fumigate!
If not bed bugs, deal with it myself.

It's a hard one as I don't really want to pay the £70 to be told its bed bugs and have to them spend £320.
But, I also don't want to spend the £320 and it was something I could have dealt with!

If that makes sense... I'm very tired lol.

@chatw0o0 Thank you, also... Great job getting rid!

It's bizarre as I've not seen ANY on bedding, the beds, covers etc!?

So far, only on the carpet and when I lifted the mattress a couple small bugs on the slates. But 98% on/in carpet.

It's very stressful as I have 0 clue what they are for sure and so bloody expensive to find out!!!

I'm moving soon, so it's just pure stress and money being paid out, I could have done without! 😣

I've been washing clothes and bagging them, all toys have been I hot bath over night, beds are gone!

Indorex is about a tenner for a huge can,get it from Amazon. It will kill off everything in the room you'll find flies ,moths and all sorts.

Use it, if it doesn't work then call the company.

I had a huge flea infestation, I mean it was so bad I wanted to move! Bloody cat brought them in and his flea spot on didn't work. Indorex sorted it within a week, amazing stuff.

They don't look like bed bugs. They look too black/dark and the wrong shape. I've seen bed bugs in the flesh and they don't look like that.

I was backpacking in my 20s so experienced them a couple of times. I'm no expert but the ones I saw looked a darker brown and their back segment was more rounded. If it is them they are unfortunately very hard to get rid of. You need to tumble dry everything you can soft furnishing wise on a high heat (Washing things in the machine doesn't kill them - I've seen them emerge alive from the washing machine!). They will live in the seams on your mattresses and wooden bedframes are terrible for them hiding in the cracks. Skirting, tiny gaps in your walls they'll hide in there too 😬. Your best bet if you can afford to is chucking out your wooden bedframes and mattresses so you can be sure they aren't hiding in there and obviously get pest control to fumigate. You need to be very careful as they will live in anything so try not to move things to other rooms (my friend found them in the book she was reading!). Tea tree oil spray on any soft furnishings that can't go in the dryer would work too. I found them living in the zip on my backpack, it couldn't be tumble dried so I soaked it in tea tree oil and sat it outside in direct sunlight for 2 days (I was in Australia granted). You have my sympathy, they really are awful!

The bed bugs my daughter had were on the bed sheets, on pillows and loads in the wooden bed frame. They seemed to like the bare wood crevices rather than the painted parts. The wooden bunk bed was changed for a metal one, bought mattress encasements and furniture leg interceptors.

I definitely don't think they're bed bugs, they don't look like it from the other pictures you've shared and they do tend to get EVERYWHERE very quickly. They love wooden furniture so you'd expect to find them hiding in a crevice of the bed or something, not just on the carpet. Hope someone can identify them for you and that they're not too difficult to get rid of, whatever they are!

indorex is marvelous stuff, i kept getting bitten on my feet and ankles every night. Bought Indorex sprayed skirting boards, carpet and mattress. Slept in another room for a couple of nights moved back in my room, never been bitten again.