eek them out. Go to bedbugger dot com and search the forums for the term "false positive" for more information.

So, if you're here to see if 151 Second Avenue is bedbug free, I can tell you that at least our apartment is.

y) clear of such things the day before; and even lifted my shirt to show him. He looked at my welts and said "if you got that overnight, then it's not bedbugs. The number of bedbugs it would take to bite you that badly, that quickly would be visible to you. They'd be crawling all over the place." Which, they are not.

He then did a quick search of my bed and mattress, seeing nothing in his superficial search, and again added that the number of welts I have, particularly as they arose in such a short time, would mean we have a ton of bugs; which his superficial search revealed we most certainly do not.

He told me to see a dermatologist, and left without charging.

As he's staking his rapidly growing and already quite substantial reputation on his quick assessment assessment and rapid dismissal, I'm inclined to suspect he's correct.

So, if bedbugs do turn up, I'll surely be back. But rather than make public record falsely of my building being infested, let it be known where this matter stands. The dogs of thebedbuginspectors.com say we DO have bedbugs, John Furman (who is easily Goodled) emphatically says we do not based on my bites alone.

I'll return if anything changes, but I'm really hoping it doesn't.

d have a positive ID on bedbugs, please report of them here.

r calling the building manager to see if he'd heard of any bedbug incidents in the building, which he insisted he hadn't, and then said "have you been traveling lately?" To which I responded, no. In fact, these days, as I work from home and it's winter, I barely leave the house. My roommate goes out to work during the days, but nowhere more thiexotic. The fact is, I already know these things can come from anywhere. Anyway, I proceeded to book a recommended bedbug detection company, who uses bedbug sniffing dogs. Today, 3/5/10, the dog came, he sniffed, and he found 'em. Where you'd expect 'em, on the couch, the chair, and in the beds. I've not informed the landlord yet, and do not know what their response will be. We're planning on going pro as those on the internet, with hard-earned experience, seem to insist self-treatment isn't worth it. Just spend the money and do it right from the outset. I'm posting this here to avoid a patently unfair "patient zero" stigma within our building (assuming my landlord was telling the truth when he said no one else had complained). But I do want any neighbors possibly dealing with this to know they're no alone.