Question by hunsbunstonsoffun:
What Bugs Do I Need To Watch Out For in Colorado Apartment + Killing Bedbugs, Think I Found Some?
Ok, so my boy and I just started renting our new apartment, we’re painting before we move our stuff in. So we’ve already looked at the unit 2 times, 1 before we signed the lease and after the lease.
Today was our 3rd visit, I’ve read reviews and some people complained about cockroaches and bedbugs as a problem, the rent was cheap and we’re college students, so I figured for the location it was a done deal.
The manager told me the apartment was already sprayed last week, but today we found this little bug that looks to be a bed bug, I think. I squarshed that son of a b*** as soon as I saw it, but that is when I began to notice tons of little dead bodies all over the kitchen, like ALL over! There musta been at LEAST 30 dead bodies of these little guys!
I know it’s weird they’re in the kitchen and that’s weird, but they were tiny, so I don’t think they are cockroaches. I know bedbugs are like lice and can hop on you and ride where you go, we haven’t completely moved and are still in our other apartment, I don’t want them getting in my mattress, how do I wash them out, does a hot shower work fine?
Also, do they bite dogs? I have an Italian Greyhound and she was w/ us today, do they get on dogs? Should I bathe her?
What bugs do you need to watch out for in Colorado??? I’ve lived here 12 years and never had a problem, but that was before I got my own places….
THANK YOU!!!!
Detailed thorough answers REALLY appreciated.
Best answer:
Answer by brendasmother
Could they be ladybugs? Bedbugs generally infest bedroom furniture and bedding. If in the kitchen you’re seeing 1/8-inch to 1/4-inch round tannish or orangy-brown beetles with dark spots, they’re more likely to be ladybugs. They’re attracted to warmth and can get in through the tiniest crevices, particularly in window frames.
You shouldn’t move any of your bedding to this apartment if there are really bedbugs. Once they’re present, they’re very hard to eradicate. In fact you wouldn’t really want any apartment with bedbugs in it. You would need legal help to get out of your lease for suffficient grounds, however.
But if the insects are just ladybugs, you can keep vacuuming them up and throwing them away.
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the only way for you to know for sure is to take them by an exterminators office and let them see what they are as trying to describe them is tough. Or look them up in an entomology book that has pictures and see what the course of action is. It may be lady bugs but if it is bed bugs you will know very soon as you will be bitten in your sleep and then you will have 1 heck of a problem
Okay first of all until you find out for sure DO NOT PUT YOUR PERSONAL ITEMS OR FURNITURE IN THE APARTMENT!
In addition if they are bed bugs they will latch on to any live, worm host it doesn’t matter if it is a person or an animal.
Also it can cause skin infection since when they latch on the are actually sucking your blood.
With the apartment being vacant they could be anywhere looking for a worm host.
I would suggest that you talk to the manager and tell them you can not and will not move your things in until YOU meet with the exterminator to confirm the bug type and that they are gone for good.
Bed Bugs like roaches can and will travel through walls and if the neighbor has a bug problem Bed Bugs Or Roaches will travel to your home.
If it just roaches have them do a fog inside the walls to form a barrier.
This will get that under Control and fast as well as treat you full apartment again.
If it is bedbugs, I assure you you would need to get a magnifying glass and look them up on the Internet they will show you a picture, They are very hard to see and look like a dot of a pencil to the human eye until they have feasted. One they have feasted the body gets bigger and easier to identify.
It takes an average of 3 treatments in all the base boards to kill them and must be done ever week.
Good Luck and I hope it is just baby roaches and not bed bugs since you have been to the apartment and went back to wherever you are staying.
One more thing Walmart sells Bedbug spray in the camping section in a aerosol can we used to provide this for our maintenance personnel if they needed to enter an apartment. I suggest you get some till you know for sure and spray your clothes, socks and shoes before going into the apartment.
I moved from Colorado to Alabama last year, so I’m not sure who I could contact to assist you. Here is a resource of apartments in Colorado that you can call. http://www.findanapartmentonline.com/Colorado-Apartments.html I’m sure someone can help you.