Bedbugs are back. I will link up the hilarious and horrifying blog which probably cannot be topped as an infestation story. Bedbugs are tough to beat. They can go hungry for a long time and they hide well. But I bet when you are home, they do not go hungry on purpose.

In a bedbug infested home, you are the bait. Medicines in your blood should be consumed by the bedbug. I propose bedbug sufferers be put on ivemectin, a versatile drug that kills just about all arthropod parasites. The bedbugs eat, they die. You might need to stay on ivermectin for a while until all the eggs hatch.
-- bungston, Mar 13 2007

Bedbug tale http://apictureofme...004/07/bite-me.html
Rated PG for mild foul language... [bungston, Mar 13 2007]

It looks like she is allergic to the bites. Those welts look like what happens to me after some types of mosquito bite me (and they hurt like hell). Her room-mate doesn't get them? I'll bet she does, but doesn't know it.
-- Ling, Mar 13 2007


[+] For a great concept!
-- placid_turmoil, Mar 13 2007


/Bed bugs can go months between feedings/

They can if they must, but do they if there is food? I bet not. If you are there they will bite you.
-- bungston, Mar 13 2007


Could you take enough Ivermectin to make yourself poisonous to the bugs in this 'secondhand' way?

For more fun, just dose up on a convenient radioisotope. The plus is that you can then hunt down the bedbugs with a Geiger counter. The minus is that if you don't catch them in time they may give rise to two-foot-long offspring with long hairy teeth.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 13 2007


I found Max's scheme here. I wonder if it would work. People get radioisotopes for various things. Thyroid cancer patients get a big load of radioactive iodine. I bet it would be enough to make a blood-feasted mosquito detectable.
-- bungston, Jun 05 2009



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