u/Trivic8

Hey all, I posted here 2 weeks ago noticing what looked like a bed bug nymph on my office wall the day after moving in. We suspected a hitchiker bed bug, and took a lot of precautions,

Took all our clothes to the laundromat, dried on high, left them in vacuum sealed bags

Pushed our bed away from the wall and bought interceptor cups

Got 2 spray treatments from our apartments pest control that they hire.

We saved the first specimen, pest control ended up taking it. A week later we found a 2nd nymph bug on the same office wall, unfortunately I lost this specimen.

Then yesterday, we found another nymph on the edge of the windowsill in the office, the office we have refrained from being in until we confirmed if it was a bed bug or not.

Interestingly, the day we found the 2nd bug nymph was also the day we heard what sounding like flapping and squeaking in the shutter outside the office window.

We still have no evidence of an infestation of bed bugs, nothing in our cups, nothing in our bed we've stripped countless times.

Edit: we found each bug around 6pm each time, idk if that's important but it seems important.

So Bat bug vs bed bug?

Once we captured the 3rd specimen, I manage to acquire access to a microscope to take some pictures. I will admit with the help of AI im more and more convinced this is a bat bug nymph vs a bed bug nymph. The nymph is considerably hairier than I would suspect a bed bug to be. But I am no expert. I intend on taking it to the entomology lab at my university just to get an expert opinion. But what are the redditors opinion?? Im more convinced it is a bat bug given its long hairs on the head.

Thanks for reading and thanks for your thoughts.

Also if we find more, im anticipating taking them back to the scope to analyze them as well!

TL:DR

I believe this is a bat bug nymph, not a bed bug nymph. Confirm or deny?

Hey all,

Me and my partner recently moved into a new apartment on Wednesday. On Wednesday all we did was clean, vacuum, carpet cleaning etc etc. Thursday we got all of our stuff moved in. Then friday, oh friday. I was setting up our office up stairs. Hadn't opened many boxes but on the wall opposite of me, we found this. See picture.

Immediately my partner knew it was a bed bug nymph. We kept it in a plastic bag with the paper towel. That night we vacuumed that room again.

We never had bed bugs at our old place for 4 years.

We've checked our bedding every day since then and still we haven't seen anything else. We let our leasing office know saturday when they opened cause we found it friday after they closed.

Our leasing office told us that the building hasn't ever had a bed bug problem, so we are assuming we caught a hitchiker from the uhaul we used to move.

Our leasing office is scheduling a pest control inspection, hopefully on monday.

So far, we have moved our bed and nightstands away from the wall, we have a zipped mattress protector. We just bought the leg cups and are putting them on the bed tonight. They want all of our furniture and stuff away from the walls so we have done that.

We took all of our laundry which was still in trash bags from the move to the laundromat today and washed and dried everything and have put them in sealable bags that are currently in my car.

We are deathly afraid of an infestation and are taking steps like we do have one just in case. Its really tearing our lives up. The majority of our belongings are still in cardboard boxes, we just literally cant do anything.

We are looking for advice, words of reassurance that things are going to be okay and just general feedback about actions taken and what more we can do. I truly dont think ive ever felt worse.

How likely is this an infestation? Are our cardboard boxes of our entire lives compromised? Should we throw away everything we own and just restart? We really need help. Its been 3 days and nothing else????

My deck while I was drafting was absolute TRASH, but somehow I ended up 7-2 in this power cube draft.

My last opponent did kind of punt though.

I discarded an archon of cruelty with formidable speaker and fetched for emperor of bones. Next turn I got the archon of cruelty with bones and my oppo let the archon trigger go on the stack but then responded with an Aang swift savior and airbent the archon. This let me play and land and recast archon which he then had to counter because of the prior mistake airbending the archon, when he probably should've just airbent the bones blocked the 6 damage and let archon go away forever. But he didn't do that and then I just grabbed archon again and it was nice.

A lot of my wins came from getting atraxa etbs 2-3 times in a game. I only ever had griselbrand hit the board once and booster tutor came in clutch in one game where it found me settle the wreckage and my oppo had a worldspine worm out vs my atraxa. So they just couldn't attack or block.

Also the mox jet was pack 2 pick 3, idk how that happened but oh well, I cast it twice in the entire draft and the 2nd time was after my 3rd atraxa.

Anyway here's the deck

Hey plumbers, me and my partner recently got this new water heater installed by our apartment maintenance after our last water heater caught fire and blew off the cold and hot water lines (fun day).

Apartment maintenance provided this new one from lowes the same day around 7 weeks ago.

Since then this new water heater is really loud when it is running, this loud whirring and sometimes tea kettling noise.

We had maintenance come out today to check it out and they said it was weird but to just close the door if I didnt want to hear it.

We still have consistent hot water, but given our last one well....exploded, this thing makes us anxious.

Though ill add We plan on moving within the next 3 months, because of the water heater issue and other things.

I reached out to a friend who's son is a plumber and they said it sounds like an element is going bad or dry firing.

We just want to know if we are safe and if I need to hire a private plumber and go around our apartment to be safe.

Appreciate the advice and input.

(Im also aware there isnt, a T&P pipe installed to the valve, you can see my prior post in this group that addressed this a couple weeks ago)