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The exterminator has come and gone.
Sep. 1st, 2007 02:09 pm
We sent him off with enough basil, rosemary, and tomatoes to make a very nice pasta dish.
Of course, he managed not to kill any of the bedbugs that were actually on my bed. This doesn't upset me as much as the italics might indicate - to kill bedbugs, most people use residual pesticides, because they can't possibly get into every little crack to find all of them. So you have to sleep in your bed as bait for several nights to get the little critters to come out, crawl over the pesticides, and die a painful death.
But it still was upsetting to find out all the many places bedbugs were hiding. In a knot on the wood (I tore it off, doused it in 409, and baggied it into the outdoor trash). In the crack between my bed and the thingy that holds up the mattress. Under my headboard shelf (this one made no sense to me, as I have no mattress on the bed right now (the thing that holds up the mattress was worthless, so we tossed it) but then I remembered that my mattress is actually slightly too large for the bed (it's a twin on what is really a child's bed - the difference is tiny, but just enough that my mattress has to slide under the headboard to fit - and yes, that does make changing the sheets and flipping the mattress difficult, thanks for asking) and really they were *on top of* the mattress)... everywhere they could snuggle in together in a teeny tiny space, there they were.
I need more 409. I'm going on a bedbug hunt, gonna catch a big one... and some little ones... and their little eggs too! (Does 409 kill the eggs as well?)
Of course, he managed not to kill any of the bedbugs that were actually on my bed. This doesn't upset me as much as the italics might indicate - to kill bedbugs, most people use residual pesticides, because they can't possibly get into every little crack to find all of them. So you have to sleep in your bed as bait for several nights to get the little critters to come out, crawl over the pesticides, and die a painful death.
But it still was upsetting to find out all the many places bedbugs were hiding. In a knot on the wood (I tore it off, doused it in 409, and baggied it into the outdoor trash). In the crack between my bed and the thingy that holds up the mattress. Under my headboard shelf (this one made no sense to me, as I have no mattress on the bed right now (the thing that holds up the mattress was worthless, so we tossed it) but then I remembered that my mattress is actually slightly too large for the bed (it's a twin on what is really a child's bed - the difference is tiny, but just enough that my mattress has to slide under the headboard to fit - and yes, that does make changing the sheets and flipping the mattress difficult, thanks for asking) and really they were *on top of* the mattress)... everywhere they could snuggle in together in a teeny tiny space, there they were.
I need more 409. I'm going on a bedbug hunt, gonna catch a big one... and some little ones... and their little eggs too! (Does 409 kill the eggs as well?)
