A few days ago our new helper of ~2 weeks showed us this:
They’re bed bugs.
I had to google them, I’d never seen bed bugs before. Our new helper said she’d found all those in the helper’s room so, from the simple fact that even cockroaches aren’t tha-at bad in the sense they do not puncture your precious offsprings’ skins with mouth parts that hit their blood stream (how freaking terrifying is that?!) I frantically called the pest guys. (The company btw is really called Pest Guy.)
They came, taped all the cracks under the doors, and proceeded to spray and fumigate our entire apartment for the next 5 hours. We moved the fish and the lobster tanks and for good measure also the dog into the lobby. When we got back, our home looked like this:
They turned the entire place upside down, not just going after mattresses, but exposing all the (fabric) contents of our drawers. Bed bugs, they explained, are a lot harder to kill than cockroaches.
And so when the dust settled, we cleaned. And cleaned. And cleaned and cleaned……
(And after the dust settled, we realised our new helper had left almost all her now contaminated luggage in an area the pest guys overlooked…. next to all our clean laundry :D)
AND SO the pest guys came back……. And this time almost all our fish didn’t survive. The lobsters for the moment are still waving their claws maniacally about at the kids every time they give the tank a tap to make sure they’re still alive.
Yikes! Looking at the dead bed bugs gave me goosebumps!
Did you or the pest guys catch/see any live ones?
I didn’t, the pest guys didn’t say either, but our helper says she found a couple live ones before and after the first spraying… our huge housing area, though supposedly affluent, is riddled with bugs because the high rise means everyone is in close proximity and every once in awhile someone moves in with a fresh onslaught of cockroach eggs in their curtains for e.g… Another very well-known and relatively affluent development had a very bad cockroach problem when they were building an MTR station nearby as well… Bugs easily travel short distances to infect neighbouring areas and so in our case our reception were very happy we blew the entire place – twice – the moment we found bugs. We threw out the helper’s bed and frame too..