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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
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pretty wacky week last week, it snowed a ton here, may or may not have bedbugs although if we do for now they seem contained(?) so keeping an eye on that

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[โ€“] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

unfortunately not a false alarm

Booooo

But I'm glad they haven't spread. Are you using diatomaceous earth, chemical controls, something else, or a combination thereof? I'm deeply sympathetic; this time of year I tend to discover all the things that were damaged by pests in the spaces I'm not really managing during the off season. Here's hoping a little enhanced attention will get these issues resolved for both of us.

[โ€“] alyaza@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

whenever my dad gets to shopping (not for lack of pestering on my part), most likely the first solution will be chemical--but in the interim i'm just trapping them and drowning them as they appear, which has worked well enough because i only see one or two a day and they really stick out against our walls. helpfully they also don't seem to have gotten into any furniture or other places it'd be hard to root them out from, and we vacuumed the area they originated in which i suspect got a lot of them early