@Lustig Andrei,
Yes, they will freeze. But it depends on which article you read about how cold it has to be. Some say below freezing 32 degrees. Another said below 0 degrees. And still another said if you open the windows and set up some fans, that will do it.......or turn the air conditioner on. Well, there are other horribly scary things written about bed bugs and how to get rid of them. But the exterminators mostly say that they'll come out with a sniffing dog and a light and do an inspection and then, if they find them, it costs a minimum of $1,000.00.
And I would have to pay it too because it turns out that only DDT will kill em and it's banned in the U.S., as we all know, or other equally deadly toxic-to-humans kinds of poisons and sprays. No, the $1,000.00 pays for a heat treatment, which has to be repeated three times.
I suppose in Texas, all a person would have to do it haul their mattress and box springs and bed frame out on the side walk behind the house all Summer. But, I think most neighborhood associations would object........and besides where would one sleep in the mean time? Besides they can get into the walls and behind framed pictures and in the folds of drapes, not to mention the mattress, etc. Yuck
All this because I went uptown to the posh (yes, spendi, POSH) hotel and I now have a few red bite looking things on various parts of my body. They look like the photo of bed bug bites, but they don't exactly follow the same pattern. Finally this afternoon late, I talked to one kind exterminator type person who said that I hadn't been back home from the hotel long enough for the little suckers to have matured and multiplied in enough numbers to be biting me already. He says that these are most likely the bites I got in NY at the posh hotel. It can take up to 12 days for the bites to show up. Amazing.
Anyway, after last night's mad, thorough and fastidious washing, drying, steaming of the box springs and bed frame and vacuuming, my room and bed are so clean a bed bug wouldn't dare try to grow up big enough to bite me much less procreate. The exterminator guy said that I very likely didn't bring the little suckers home with me since I didn't put my suit case on the bed at the hotel, etc...........
That's enough about bed bugs, unless someone else has something more to add.
And fm, I'll try asking spendi very nicely to breath on them if they do dare to show up anytime now or in the future. But I somehow think he'll refuse. Anyway, he's afraid to come to our shores because he's afraid some gun fanatic will shoot him.
