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[Anonymous No.16187160]

Any books about bedbugs slowly growing in number no matter how many the protagonist kills and sprays, finding new nests each day, finding them in his fridge, at work, entering the protagonist's dreams, following him everywhere, slowly driving the protagonist completely insane?

[Anonymous No.16187199]

>>16187160
I'll pray for you OP

[Anonymous No.16187209]

[Anonymous No.16187213]

>>16187160

An organism with a kind that could be written in Python us btfoing OP and soon to take over and replace him

Based

[Anonymous No.16187216]

I'm glad I don't deal with those little vampires.

[Anonymous No.16187220]

>>16187213

Fuck posting on a phone. Fuck touchscreen keyboards

[Anonymous No.16187267]

>>16187160
This post is concerningly specific. Maybe it's time to have your house tented anon

[Anonymous No.16187311]

>>16187213
They are smart little fuckers, they know when they're being hunted and they all scurry and go into hiding. They let off this rotten-berry smell to all their relatives to let them know to flee. Apparently they procreate by raping each other, forcibly inserting their bedbug penis into the abdomen of the female, tearing her innards apart, and she dies shortly after laying the eggs. They are the worst monsters alive.

[Anonymous No.16187339]

Literally, The Argentine Ant by Italo Calvino.

[Anonymous No.16187350]

>>16187311
Just the complete antithesis of the mammalian project, as Burroughs would say. I am starting to understand his work more deeply and how he came to this through his work as an exterminator. Apparently he could smell bedbugs and figure out where they were.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16187352]

>>16187160
Get a new bed, man.

[Anonymous No.16187353]

>>16187160
>you now remember the moment when you realized that bedbugs are real and not just something your mom used to say
gonna be a long night

[Anonymous No.16187396]

>>16187199
Fpbp

[Anonymous No.16187452]

>>16187160
Sounds like a million dollar book idea. Thank those little guys when you strike it rich.

[Anonymous No.16187473]

>>16187160
sounds kinda like Nausea

[Anonymous No.16187511]

>>16187352
I have gone through three beds, Butterfly.

[Anonymous No.16187530]

>Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there were no bugs in his hair. After he had taken a shower for eight hours, standing under hot water hour after hour suffering the pain of the bugs, he got out and dried himself, and he still had bugs in his hair; in fact, he had bugs all over him. A month later he had bugs in his lungs.

>Having nothing else to do or think about, he began to work out theoretically the life cycle of the bugs, and, with the aid of the Britannica, try to determine specifically which bugs they were. They now filled his house. He read about many different kinds and finally noticed bugs outdoors, so he concluded they were aphids. After that decision came to his mind it never changed, no matter what other people told him . . . like "Aphids don't bite people."

>They said that to him because the endless biting of the bugs kept him in torment.
At the 7-11 grocery store, part of a chain spread out over most of California, he bought spray cans of Raid and Black Flag and Yard Guard. First he sprayed the house, then himself. The Yard Guard seemed to work the best.

>As to the theoretical side, he perceived three stages in the cycle of the bugs. First, they were carried to him to contaminate him by what he called Carrier-people, which were people who didn't understand their role in distributing the bugs. During that stage the bugs had no jaws or mandibles (he learned that word during his weeks of scholarly research, an unusually bookish occupation for a guy who worked at the Handy Brake and Tire place relining people's brake drums). The Carrier-people therefore felt nothing. He used to sit in the far corner of his living room watching different Carrier-people enter--most of them people he'd known for a while, but some new to him--covered with the aphids in this particular nonbiting stage. He'd sort of smile to himself, because he knew that the person was being used by the bugs and wasn't hip to it.

[Anonymous No.16187533]

>>16187530
>In the next stage the bugs grew wings or something, but they really weren't precisely wings; anyhow, they were appendages of a functional sort permitting them to swarm, which was how they migrated and spread--especially to him. At that point the air was full of them; it made his living room, his whole house, cloudy. During this stage he tried not to inhale them.

>Most of all he felt sorry for his dog, because he could see the bugs landing on and settling all over him, and probably getting into the dog's lungs, as they were in his own. Probably--at least so his empathic ability told him--the dog was suffering as much as he was. Should he give the dog away for the dog's own comfort? No, he decided: the dog was now, inadvertently, infected, and would carry the bugs with him everywhere.

>Sometimes he stood in the shower with the dog, trying to wash the dog clean too. He had no more success with him than he did with himself. It hurt to feel the dog suffer; he never stopped trying to help him. In some respect this was the worst part, the suffering of the animal, who could not complain.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.16187536]

>>16187511
Coming from inside the house. Geez. Get it fumigated

[Anonymous No.16187545]

>>16187160
same thing but for centipedes?
I kill about 3 of these every night

[Anonymous No.16187550]

>>16187511
>>16187536
depends on how bad the infestation is. I had a minor one and took care of it with tons of cimexa and a mattress cover.

[Anonymous No.16187551]

>>16187160
That sounds very Kafkaesque

[Anonymous No.16187574]

>>16187545
i get those too. luckily they kind of just fuck off because they run so fast and at least dont leave webs around. also they are probably the best and most active hunters of other bugs

[Anonymous No.16187603]

>>16187533
Is this from something? Or did you write this yourself?

[Anonymous No.16187618]

>>16187352
Are you seriously fucking retarded? What kind of worthless reply is this? Jesus

[Anonymous No.16187634]

>>16187545
I wouldn't mind centipedes if mine weren't total retards

They crawl up the ceiling, get to the decorative molding, try to climb it, fall down, climb up again, get to the molding, try to climb it, fall down. It's funny at first, then you realize you have centipede dive bombers in your apartment and have to move all furniture out from the wall 10 inches.

Fuckin hate a centinigger. I don't mind them other than how goddamn stupid they are.

[Anonymous No.16187642]

>>16187634

[Anonymous No.16187645]

>>16187530
>>16187533
i had typed
>sounds like scanner darkly
before looking it up since i had only seen the movie recently and havent read the book.

>>16187603
its a philip k dick book which his a good kinda-animated movie adaptation, starring keanu reeves. just type "scanner darkly putlocker stream" in duckduckgo and youll find it if u care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc03l3zt3t4

[Anonymous No.16187654]

>>16187545
I see lots of centipedes, but I let them be. They don't bother me or suck my blood. When they see me, they scurry away. I have this feeling that they kill the bedbugs, but I think it's unlikely. I get a lot of bugs, but pretty much only kill winged insects (alongside bedbugs and ants), because they're flying around all night and making noise and acting unpredictably and troubling me.

[Anonymous No.16187670]

I lived in an apartment that was infested with them. Every time the exterminator sprayed, I'd get more bites a week later. Other tenants had bites on their arms, but they didn't seem to care.

There is no hope, OP, you have to find a new home, and completely disinfect your belongings before you move into your new place.

[Anonymous No.16187671]

>>16187634
>>16187160
the solution: Diatomaceous earth. pour it everywhere. they cant cross it without dying. so if you pour a little dirt, kind of spongebob sea-bear circle around yourseelf and your bed and your walls they wont beable to go there

[Anonymous No.16187675]

>>16187671
damn i wish i knew about this 2 years ago

[Anonymous No.16187688]

>>16187574
>>16187634
>>16187654
I’m just scared of them, the way they crawl so fast irks me and I’m always greeted by them when I wake up on my ceilings and wall. I have been just slapping these fuckers with my bare hands and wiping their blood off the wall. If they would stay out of my room I would be happy but they seem to love it since I have a mold problem with my air conditioning vents that gives it a musty smell and attracts them.

[Anonymous No.16187691]

>>16187311
Had roommates who somehow got bedbugs, think from the neighbours. They started putting all this dust around before even telling us or getting tested to see if they were bedbugs. I basically flipped out on them after they refused to stop using the shit until we figured out if it was bedbugs (wanted to just spray the whole fucking place first instead of having them scared into everyone else's rooms). Told them I'd throw their shit out into the street when they refused.
Everyone in the house thought I was wrong, but what does lit say?

[Anonymous No.16187695]

>>16187675
>Diatomite is of value as an insecticide, because of its abrasive and physico-sorptive properties.[17] The fine powder adsorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of the exoskeletons of many species of insects; this layer acts as a barrier that resists the loss of water vapour from the insect's body. Damaging the layer increases the evaporation of water from their bodies, so that they dehydrate, often fatally.

>Arthropods die as a result of the water pressure deficiency, based on Fick's law of diffusion. This also works against gastropods and is commonly employed in gardening to defeat slugs. However, since slugs inhabit humid environments, efficacy is very low. Diatomaceous earth is sometimes mixed with an attractant or other additives to increase its effectiveness.
literally kills them with insta type 15 diabetes hypotension. they just get dizzy with it and die on the spot

[Anonymous No.16187702]

Well while this thread is here whats the best mostly petsafe way to get rid of those tiny nigger ants. Keep eating my cats food

[Anonymous No.16187706]

>>16187160
I brought some home from a hotel a few years back, it was winter so I just drained the pipes, turned off the heat and let them freeze to death. had to do it once more, apparently the eggs are a little more tolerant of the cold.

[Anonymous No.16187713]

>>16187671
>Diatomaceous earth
Going to pick some up but I honestly don’t even know where to start with these guys because they are in so many places

[Anonymous No.16187730]

>>16187702
dish soap and water in a spray bottle. find where they come from and just drench them. theres things you can get at the store that are like viruses that they take back to the queen and it kills them insta too. also if you want to lock down a living space like its an insectoid ADX Florence: diatomaceous earth is pet-safe and kills them insta. you can coat under your door and your window, etc, and they cant cross it. like for all times

[Anonymous No.16187749]

>>16187713
probably best to kill all the ones you find in your room and then pour it over the entry-areas to the room, under door, etc. then at least you wont get woken up by a kamikazing centipede and only have to worry about them in the rest of the house. the stuff is safe even to pets, can technically eat it tho dont go inhaling it

[Anonymous No.16187824]

>>16187671
I have some of that, but I haven't sprayed it yet. I hope this will work. I read an article about it being ineffective and un-scientific.

[Anonymous No.16187918]

>>16187824
haven't sprayed it? i know DE doesnt kill bugs when its wet, so if you sprayed it you would have to wait for it to dry. i just pour the shit like its flour around baseboards, which is where ants normally come from

>it being ineffective and un-scientific.
id be interested to see that article, DE isnt an arcane practice. from the wiki
>Diatomaceous earth is widely applied for insect control in grain storage.[21]
>n order to be effective as an insecticide, diatomaceous earth must be uncalcinated (i.e., it must not be heat-treated prior to application)[22] and have a mean particle size below about 12 μm (i.e., food grade – see below).
>Diatomite is of value as an insecticide, because of its abrasive and physico-sorptive properties.[17]
>Arthropods die as a result of the water pressure deficiency, based on Fick's law of diffusion.

its not going to get rid of a bed bug problem or anything since its not really used like that since it has to be dry to be effective. its a preventative thing unless you have the balls to just pour it all over your house like ur doing gardening. but i dont think that would be healthy

[Anonymous No.16189047]

>going through a lending library near my apartment
>find a copy of a book I've wanted to read for a while
>"Oh nice, lemme check this out"
>open the book and riffle through the pages to check the quality
>half a dozen bedbugs fall out
>some of them are still alive
>the lending library was torn down a short while later

That fucked me up, fellas. I haven't trusted a lending library since