Bedbugs in student accommodation

[Bugbeds]

DD has discovered a bug... is worried that it is a bedbug. Does anyone have any experience of this and what I can suggest to her?

She needs to take a photo to try and identify it - unlikely to be a bed bug as they're not large enough to be easily visible. More likely silverfish. Then contact her accommodation office/landlord.

Unfortunately she flushed it down the toilet. She sent me a video (!) but it's hard to identify from what she sent me.

@titchy

She needs to take a photo to try and identify it - unlikely to be a bed bug as they're not large enough to be easily visible. More likely silverfish. Then contact her accommodation office/landlord.

Bedbugs are easily visible! We had an infestation around 3 years ago!

There's loads of information about identifying them online. She will have bites.

If they are bedbugs they're not particularly harmful to health, just annoying. And they're pretty hard to get rid of. Be grateful that it's somewhere she can easily move out of. Check the agreement she has. And be very careful about what she brings home, or takes on to her next place.

Suggest to her that she strips her bed and runs a key around the edges of the mattress, at the seams.

Bed bugs are bigger than you think. Especially if they have been feeding on someone. They then can't get back inside the mattress.

Is it halls or a private rental?

Once she has evidence I would be asking for them to supply a new mattress

Thanks all. Accommodation manager thinks it was a ladybird. Panic over.