5mm....... why dun catch and cook it??? catch a lot so it can fill ur tummy.....
Well, if you like to eat your own blood...
5mm....... why dun catch and cook it??? catch a lot so it can fill ur tummy.....
Someone once complained of bed bugs during my time as a NSF in an active unit.encounter this during my army time,
carry the bed down to carpark put under hot sun for the whole day.
All bed bugs mate by traumatic insemination.[4][23] Female bed bugs possess a reproductive tract that functions during oviposition, but the male does not use this tract for sperm insemination.[4] Instead, the male pierces the female's abdomen with his hypodermic genitalia and ejaculates into the body cavity. In all bed bug species except Primicimex cavernis, sperm are injected into the mesospermalege,[4] a component of the spermalege,[4] a secondary genital structure that reduces the wounding and immunological costs of traumatic insemination.[24][25][26] Injected sperm travel via the haemolymph (blood) to sperm storage structures called seminal conceptacles, with fertilisation eventually taking place at the ovaries.[25]
Male bed bugs sometimes attempt to mate with other males and pierce the latter in the abdomen.[27] This behaviour occurs because sexual attraction in bed bugs is based primarily on size, and males will mount any freshly fed partner regardless of sex.[28] The "bed bug alarm pheromone" consists of (E)-2-octenal and (E)-2-hexenal. It is released when a bed bug is disturbed, as during an attack by a predator. A 2009 study demonstrated the alarm pheromone is also released by male bed bugs to repel other males who attempt to mate with them.[26]
different time, different treatment. ;(Someone once complained of bed bugs during my time as a NSF in an active unit.
"Standby Universe" (along with bed frames / mattresses and metal cabinets basically everything at parade square for inspection) next 3 days for the entire company, turnouts at 0700 hours, 1200 hours, 1700 hours respectively with multiple repeats due to people dragging furnitures.
Someone once complained of bed bugs in my NSmen unit during ICT.
Deputy Camp Commandant came and apologise to us, moved us to regular officer's bunks and contacted pest controller for fumigation ASAP.
Go check in some Cinemas here, bed bugs galore too...
I stayed at Harris Hotel Batam centre recently and was bitten by bed bugs.
Managed to kill a few bugs. The freshly bitten blood actually spilled on the bedsheet and on the ledge which I placed them on.
The duty manager at Harris hotel was shown the condition in the room.
The itch was horrible and lasted for days.
My belongings were damaged when I try to de-pest my stuff with hot water.
Hotel refuse to take responsibility. Any suggestion on what I can do?
different time, different treatment. ;(
Are they that big that you can actually catch them?
I stayed at Harris Hotel Batam centre recently and was bitten by bed bugs.
Managed to kill a few bugs. The freshly bitten blood actually spilled on the bedsheet and on the ledge which I placed them on.
The duty manager at Harris hotel was shown the condition in the room.
The itch was horrible and lasted for days.
My belongings were damaged when I try to de-pest my stuff with hot water.
Hotel refuse to take responsibility. Any suggestion on what I can do?
ricohflex said:Just wondering.
If the previous tourist at the same room in Harris Hotel Batam Centre, had full blown Aids, was bitten by these bed bugs that ingest his/her Aids infected blood. The tourist checked out and left.
Then a few hours later on the same day, you checked into the hotel and was assigned this room. Now the bed bugs bite you.
Any germs/virus that it may be carrying goes into your blood stream.
As your photo showed, lots of blood.
Theoretically can a person be re-infected/transmitted with HIV virus through bed bug bites?
Guess answer is no. Since that would be a known issue by now if it can be transmitted this way.
But even so, other things can be spread by bites from pests, bed bugs, fleas, etc...
Guess that was how bubonic plague (a.k.a Black Death) was spread through bites by infected fleas that were on rodents.
So watch out even if Aids cannot be transmitted this way by bed bugs.
This case is obviously not bubonic plague. But what if it was something else that is nasty.
You were probably not wrong to wipe out your belongings with hot water. In my view, that was not stupid.
You lost the value of the belongings that you cannot claim back from the hotel. But you may have saved yourself, your home and your family members from rampant infection by bed bugs. It would have been very costly to get pest killer company to rid your house of them.
And if the bed bugs can bring some disease infection to your family, then the trouble is potentially much worse.
Don't bring this home.
http://theweek.com/article/index/205392/americas-bedbug-invasion-by-the-numbers
HIV cannot survive out of the host and in the environment. Only through blood transfusion I.e. direct contact with the infected, will it work. It's not leishmania. It doesn't work that way.
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You can give feedback to the hotel.
How long were you there? I thought people usually only discover bed bug bites a while after, from my reading when worrying about bringing this problem home after travels. It shouldn't surface immediately? Are you sure those were bedbugs? I've never kena before though, so this is really just based on online descriptions when trying to find out how to detect bedbugs.
To be fair, it seems that bedbugs are an escalating problem and sometimes the hotels won't even know until they get feedback from customers. It could well be that the bedbugs came from one of the incoming customers and multiplied after. What did the hotel do thereafter, did they change your room?
It seems to me that the damage of belongings using hot water is your own doing, and in my view, you should not blame the hotel for that part. Cheers.
Just wondering.
If the previous tourist at the same room in Harris Hotel Batam Centre, had full blown Aids, was bitten by these bed bugs that ingest his/her Aids infected blood. The tourist checked out and left.
Then a few hours later on the same day, you checked into the hotel and was assigned this room. Now the bed bugs bite you.
Any germs/virus that it may be carrying goes into your blood stream.
As your photo showed, lots of blood.
Theoretically can a person be re-infected/transmitted with HIV virus through bed bug bites?
Guess answer is no. Since that would be a known issue by now if it can be transmitted this way.
But even so, other things can be spread by bites from pests, bed bugs, fleas, etc...
Guess that was how bubonic plague (a.k.a Black Death) was spread through bites by infected fleas that were on rodents.
So watch out even if Aids cannot be transmitted this way by bed bugs.
This case is obviously not bubonic plague. But what if it was something else that is nasty.
You were probably not wrong to wipe out your belongings with hot water. In my view, that was not stupid.
You lost the value of the belongings that you cannot claim back from the hotel. But you may have saved yourself, your home and your family members from rampant infection by bed bugs. It would have been very costly to get pest killer company to rid your house of them.
And if the bed bugs can bring some disease infection to your family, then the trouble is potentially much worse.
Don't bring this home.
Oh here we go again, another one who says that a person, who posts something disagreeable with their opinion of anything, works for that organization. As if only Harris Batam employees would disagree with you.Sounds like you are working for Harris Hotel.... Take a look at the photo in my link. Search the net and see whether it matches.
When you kill it, blood that it suck from you will spill out.
The duty manager who came up to the room, acknowledged that it is bed bug.
Nothing was done. I bath and checked out.
Hotels and guest houses are especially vulnerable to infestations because of the high turnover of occupants.