#Bedbugs

[great-and-small]

Please enjoy some valentine greetings from the animal world- if you decide to pass them out to coworkers/classmates make sure you have enough for everyone ❤️

1. Satin bowerbird

2. American alligator

3. Prairie vole

4. Marine flatworm (genus Pseudobiceros)

5. Bedbug

6. Galapagos hawk

[pngblog]

u are quite literally the coolest and sweetest for taking all these png requests. can u make some pngs of just ur favorite things?

Thank you very much!! Hmmm I really love creepy crawlies! So here's some of those!

[animentality]

[pickingbelovedoffthesofa]

Devil’s Minion is the goat because you can just spitball ideas about Armand being a shapeshifting bedbug infestation that haunts Daniel’s bed with your bestie and it’ll snowball into something so ridiculous but also so tender.

[bonnie5644]

BRING MY GAYS BACK PLS BRO.. I need fanart of them NOW😞

[conkreetmonkey]

So can you get diseases or bedbugs from picking up pieces of clothing you find abandoned in the wild while just walking around town? Is there like a process for de-bugging and disinfecting them that goes beyond just tossing them in the wash, maybe with some bleach? Is it at all unadviseable? Is this a thing people do?

I see like 5 abandoned jackets, hoodies, work gloves, hats, you name it, every time I go for a walk (meth town, dumping your shit in random parking lots is the norm around here apparently), and I always just think "man, like 90% of this stuff just needs dried up and cleaned and it would be perfectly good, or at the very least could be scrapped for materials. Feels like an awful waste to just leave them to rot." But at the same time, I am paranoid about bedbugs (you'd be stupid not to be ngl).

Any advice? I'm of course not talking about stealing obviously lost hats or mittens, those I prop up in obvious areas near where I found them, as is considered polite. I'm talking about jackets found by dumpsters or on the curb. Stuff that was clearly discarded.

[destielmemenews]

Paris has had seasonal infestations every summer, but the trend has been steadily increasing each year. Over 1 in 10 households experienced bedbugs from 2017 to 2022.

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[asongoftearsandfandoms]

Sometimes I wish the Blue Rinse from the beginning of Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception was real, because some of the apartments I've had, I would have taken the pets and plants out of my unit and Blue Rinsed to kill all the roaches and bedbugs.

[stone-cold-groove]

Mexican Brand Insect Fluid package label - 1915.

[khepiari]

LawLu Fic Idea number: I have lost count!

Entomologist Luffy x Doctor Law on first date.

Thanks to Paris’ bedbug crisis and this tweet thread, and countless more tweets about bedbugs scaring people, I can’t help but think about weirdo X weirdo LawLu on first date. Time to write another entomologist Luffy fic. Sadly I can’t my laptop is broken and I am still sick. 🤒

A fic where both idiots are set up on a blind date. And the moment Law sees Luffy, he is attracted but then Luffy tells him he studies insects and can entertain Law with never ending trivia about bugs, insects and other such creatures. Law being little smug bitch asks Luffy about bedbugs on whims.

Once Luffy begins sharing fascinating and equally creepy bedbug lore on first date with Law, it is game for the doctor.

Since Law is a little weirdo nerd, he will immediately become interested and intrigued. In learning new things lies his true joy.

So they chatter away about bedbugs like it’s the most beautiful creature on the planet while everyone else in the restaurant is horrified and grossed out by their unhinged conversation.

Link to bedbug twitter thread:

https://x.com/blgtylr/status/1709056123079180734?s=46

Yes, I know bedbug crisis is scary, but I am South Asian. And I can’t help but judge the situation with very amused and biased lenses.

Like how does an entire city let a situation grow out of hand? Did you not learn anything from the Black Plague?

[ancientstuff]

Thanks for spreading that particular piece of joy, Romans

[queer-biological-science]

Queer bio fact:

Male bed bugs have what I like to call a terrifying knife penis. They insert it somewhere into the body of the female, and the sperm migrates to her ovaries to fertilise the eggs. Bed bugs are not very good at telling between males and females and guess by size, so a male bedbug will try and mate with another bed bug who is smaller than him, and it sometimes could be male (poor twink bed bug)

[deerspace9]

"evangelion is about trauma" actually a misconception all the mental health issues are the direct result of Misato's bedbugs

[nyan-b1nary]

PSA that Totally Doesn't Have Anything To Do With My Job Today(TM): Please get acquainted with what bedbugs and bedbug bites look like, as well as prevention and removal strategies.

Heat is the only way to reliably kill them, as the chemicals usually only kill ~12% of a bedbug infestation.

Contrary to the name, they do not merely stick to beds; they can be found all over the house but prefer cloth surfaces that have a lot of contact with people.

If you suspect an infestation, look for either actual bedbugs or their spotting in flaps and corners, especially near the head of the bed and backs of the couch.

Below are pictures.

Pictured below is an adult bedbug. They are flat, smaller than a grain of rice, and brown with the signature ribbing on the thorax.

Pictured below is a site of infestation, including their spotting of a cloth surface. This is their feces, which is just the leftovers from blood.

Please do not be afraid or too grossed out to do your own research. If I remember correctly, Mark Rober has a pretty good video on the topic.