Bugs

[Jo May]

Could all those returning from France please give their vehicles a spray of anti bedbug potion.

 

[Figaro]

I've got a few shield bugs that are hitching a lift unfortunately.
Eviction attempts continue.
I've not been anywhere near a hotel bed though thankfully

 

[PP Bear]

Yep, got to be something said over our French Colonial cousins, like what the heck is going on, are they just not bothering to clean bedding

Warning over bed bug explosion in UK – five signs they have invaded your home — The Sun

A WARNING has been issued to Brits over a bed bug explosion in the UK – these are the five signs they have invaded your home. The disgusting creatures can hide in many places around the home including bed frames, mattresses, furniture, clothing, behind pictures and under loose bits of wallpaper...

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'Traveling can increase the risk of encountering bed bugs' – How to prevent them — Homes & Gardens

Bed bugs are a nuisance to get rid of, so it's important to prevent them from entering your home via furniture or after traveling – these four steps are expert-approved

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[Jimbohorlicks]

We had ants in our van, initially from Stratford on Avon, then we picked some others up from Bridligton. We sprayed around the wheels and anything that was in contact with the ground.
Hoovered around several times and we still find the odd one.

 

[Kirsten]

Living in S o A just to let you know our gardens are one huge underground ants nest - sorry

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[Pablo19]

I work in road haulage and one of our trucks got an infestation and it was virtually impossible to get rid of the little bu$$ers. We ended up having to "bake" the truck in a paint shop every 3 weeks for about 6 months. Cost an absolute fortune. No driver (understandably) would drive it until it was declared all clear. Horrendous things.

 

[Pausim]

The UK has bed bugs too. Sky news reports they are probably just as prevalent in London as Paris.

 

[cyberyacht]

I blame those VW drivers. Never mind 42, I think the answer is 53.

 

[Dorwyn]

Ditto, more than a few they're buggy everywhere. Dozens in the battery locker, still popping out in the main cabin. We had an epic clearout a few days ago, they were between cabinets, under the rubber door seals, everywhere and they're still present. I became allergic to them. Yuckety yuck

I've got a few shield bugs that are hitching a lift unfortunately.
Eviction attempts continue.
I've not been anywhere near a hotel bed though thankfully

 

[Dorwyn]

Ps We're heading north shortly. Freeze the buggers out!

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[Grianan]

Apparently in train seats too …

 

[Figaro]

Ps We're heading north shortly. Freeze the buggers out!

I'm up near Dreux now and it's great to be able to have the door open without the fly screen.
Their sole mission in life seems to be to get into motorhomes, and they have some sneaky tactics.

 

[Pausim]

Freeze the buggers out!

Doesn’t work on bedbugs, they can go months between blood meals. They can hide in cracks and crevices, as well as mattresses and beds, so clean bedding alone may not help. They sense body heat and exhaled CO2 and can drop onto beds from above. Sleep well tonight.

 

[Sue and Rick]

The mothers produce offspring every two weeks a local bug killer manufacturer told me.

 

[Dorwyn]

I'm up near Dreux now and it's great to be able to have the door open without the fly screen.
Their sole mission in life seems to be to get into motorhomes, and they have some sneaky tactics.

It's odd, down at the house (we're parked at the top of the garden) there's no particular problem, even grandson who sleeps in a leaky attic is not especially troubled. 30 yards uphill, campervan is plastered with them! It reminds me that a year last July, we involuntarily solved the fumigation problem. We got back home, parked the camper on the drive. Thieves stole the van overnight! They must have had the fumigation problem!!

Doesn’t work on bedbugs, they can go months between blood meals. They can hide in cracks and crevices, as well as mattresses and beds, so clean bedding alone may not help. They sense body heat and exhaled CO2 and can drop onto beds from above. Sleep well tonight.

That's at least what I've been doing. No problems with bed bugs

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[Dorwyn]

Ps, in getting itchy now, thinking about them. Bed bugs I mean. Truly that is one thing about being the only ones that sleep in your own bed, not like hotel rooms.

 

[SpeedyDux]

Has anyone tried those mosquito killer plug-ins with blue tablets? They are very effective at getting rid of mozzies that hide by day, so perhaps they will also kill bedbugs.

 

[Dorwyn]

Has anyone tried those mosquito killer plug-ins with blue tablets? They are very effective at getting rid of mozzies that hide by day, so perhaps they will also kill bedbugs.

I've forgotten about them, I've got one in the locker. No blue tablets, I use them for something else

 

[Sue and Rick]

The shield bugs(stinky bugs) are attracted to the white colour. Hence they want to be in your motorhomes

 

[Dorwyn]

The shield bugs(stinky bugs) are attracted to the white colour. Hence they want to be in your motorhomes

Yep

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[Figaro]

They cover my flyscreen which is dark grey ?
But I think that's part of their stratergy, land and wait on it until it opens then dash inside.
They also seem to like to crawl into crevices where it's dark

 

[Widge]

Ditto, more than a few they're buggy everywhere. Dozens in the battery locker, still popping out in the main cabin. We had an epic clearout a few days ago, they were between cabinets, under the rubber door seals, everywhere and they're still present. I became allergic to them. Yuckety yuck

We had a problem about 9-10 years ago, dont know how they arrived, and its nothing about how clean you are, they get in everywhere A clasic place is in the beading round the mattress, but we also had slatted adjustable beds, hundreds of places to hide.

Also unless you are allergic you dont tend to notice the bites until you discover that you have a big problem, one thing that was helpfull for us was having floorboards and rugs rather than carpets.

We tried various comercial products that were expensive and not very effective. In the end we resorted to using.

Diatomaceous earth​

Often used as insecticide for poultry, it is finely crushed mico fossiles it is very sharp for tiny insects and it causes lesions and they dehydrateand then die, so dont use it near bees or other pollinating insects, sprinkle it in all the nooks and crannies where they might hide, we stood the legs of our bed in tins and put a layer of the earth in the bottom, we also put it into an old washingup liquid bottle so we could squirt into places (dont breath it in). It is a but messy but not too bad to clean up afterwards.

The worst thing is that it is a long and stressfull process, you don't see any for a couple of months then spot one, it was over a year before we were happy that we had got the last one.
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[Widge]

We had a problem about 9-10 years ago, dont know how they arrived, and its nothing about how clean you are, they get in everywhere A clasic place is in the beading round the mattress, but we also had slatted adjustable beds, hundreds of places to hide.

Also unless you are allergic you dont tend to notice the bites until you discover that you have a big problem, one thing that was helpfull for us was having floorboards and rugs rather than carpets.

We tried various comercial products that were expensive and not very effective. In the end we resorted to using.

Diatomaceous earth​

Often used as insecticide for poultry, it is finely crushed mico fossiles it is very sharp for tiny insects and it causes lesions and they dehydrateand then die, so dont use it near bees or other pollinating insects, sprinkle it in all the nooks and crannies where they might hide, we stood the legs of our bed in tins and put a layer of the earth in the bottom, we also put it into an old washingup liquid bottle so we could squirt into places (dont breath it in). It is a but messy but not too bad to clean up afterwards.

The worst thing is that it is a long and stressfull process, you don't see any for a couple of months then spot one, it was over a year before we were happy that we had got the last one.
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Ignore the bit of a link at the bottom a cut and past error.

 

[Dorwyn]

We had a problem about 9-10 years ago, dont know how they arrived, and its nothing about how clean you are, they get in everywhere A clasic place is in the beading round the mattress, but we also had slatted adjustable beds, hundreds of places to hide.

Also unless you are allergic you dont tend to notice the bites until you discover that you have a big problem, one thing that was helpfull for us was having floorboards and rugs rather than carpets.

We tried various comercial products that were expensive and not very effective. In the end we resorted to using.

Diatomaceous earth​

Often used as insecticide for poultry, it is finely crushed mico fossiles it is very sharp for tiny insects and it causes lesions and they dehydrateand then die, so dont use it near bees or other pollinating insects, sprinkle it in all the nooks and crannies where they might hide, we stood the legs of our bed in tins and put a layer of the earth in the bottom, we also put it into an old washingup liquid bottle so we could squirt into places (dont breath it in). It is a but messy but not too bad to clean up afterwards.

The worst thing is that it is a long and stressfull process, you don't see any for a couple of months then spot one, it was over a year before we were happy that we had got the last one.
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Luckily my problem was just stinkbugs!

 

[Devon Sue]

The shield bugs(stinky bugs) are attracted to the white colour. Hence they want to be in your motorhomes

We got an infestation of shield bugs from a campsite near Agen, we must have exterminated getting on for 100 of the blighters. Our van was black!

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[Widge]

Apparently in train seats too …

I am not saying they aren't on public transport and in cinemas, but i doubt the validity of a lot of the reports and videos on social media, it is a "hit" culture, pick a subject in the news, find a nasty video online, pretend its what you saw, and with in an hour you have 1,000s of hits making your advertisers very happy.

 

[Tombola]

Was in a condo apartment in USA once and a knock on the door.
Local council, bringing a dog round sniffing all beds to check for bed bugs, wow, never heard of that one

 

[Widge]

Was in a condo apartment in USA once and a knock on the door.
Local council, bringing a dog round sniffing all beds to check for bed bugs, wow, never heard of that one

I have heard of that method for checking out hotel rooms.

 

[Tombola]

I have heard of that method for checking out hotel rooms.

Yeh this was a complex type thing too. Part of licence rule I belive

 

[VXman]

I've got a few shield bugs that are hitching a lift unfortunately.
Eviction attempts continue.
I've not been anywhere near a hotel bed though thankfully

Picked up loads of sheild bugs at the last campsite we were at in Montenegro. Last night before going to be I pulled the window screen down. Loads of sheild bugs fell onto my hands and onto/around the bed! Some live some dead.

Spent the next hour searching. We found 15 in, around and under the bed area!!!! Slept a little uncomfortably last night.

Yesterday, my wife got a small usb fan we use for cooling in hot weather. She aimed it at her face and switched it on. There was a sheid but in it!!! not for long. She was showered in bits. And, my didn't that fan smell afterwards!!!