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Good news about bedbugs...
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When the chap from the council came, he found that they were actually very similar (but smaller) Martin Bugs, from the housemartin nest that fell down in March, and not bedbugs after all. Unfortunately having fumigated the place we've lost all our spiders, but at least the pesticides they use are biodegradable and environmentally responsible, and anyhow the spiders will be back in no time. So all I have to worry about now is impending nits from the nursery!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thanks Cetti - rather relieved all round! The martins have nested under our eaves for a good 6 or 7 years, and livestock probably makes its way in either through the fascia, blows in through the window or falls into the loft and works its way down. It's not the first time we've shared our house with the housemartins' little chums - the other year we had swift lice, which weren't so worrying because they're species-specific and can't bite humans, whereas bugs have less specialised mouthparts and aren't so choosy about their lunch.
The odds are so heavily stacked against anything so tiny making its way down into the bedroom that the nest must have been absolutely heaving with the things - who'd be a housemartin?
The odds are so heavily stacked against anything so tiny making its way down into the bedroom that the nest must have been absolutely heaving with the things - who'd be a housemartin?
I am reliably informed that tea tree oil is every parent's best friend - and the little blighters don't like L'Oreal strawberry shampoo for kids either, apparently... littl'un has really fine wavy hair that spends most of its time looking like explosion in spaghetti factory so I'm dreading having to comb it on a regular basis! (And I'm scratching too now...)
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