"barmy" just means crazy, mad

"as barmy as a bedbug" is from Roald Dahl's "Matilda" and is just one of many examples of his use of animal imagery for comedic effect.

It doesn't mean anything in itself, no-one would actually say this, as no-one would describe bedbugs as being crazy, and they aren't a creature associated with madness ;) unless you go mad with how itchy the bites are - I got bitten all over staying in a hostel in Rome once and it took a week for the bites to stop itching, another week for them to fade....

It's the juxtaposition of the two items which never usually appear together (unusual collocation) as well as the alliteration of 'b' which makes the simile amusing.

You could buy pesticides labeled for bed bugs, a respirator mask, and gloves, and carefully follow the instructions to treat your home. But often doing your own pest control for bed bugs means you spread the problem and make it harder to eliminate. Answer Best advice: get a professional in and make sure they know how to get rid of bed bugs. Avoid the use of aerosol or fogger based insecticides as these can disperse the problem.

That crazy Lawrence Welk!

If they sleep in their casual clothes they will probably carry them over to your house. To avoid having them ask the person to have a shower before they come over. If you do have bed bugs in a mattress you should isolate it or they will spread. An exterminator can clean them off if you need it.

No. Bedbugs don't hang around the bed but they go back to deep hiding places, under carpets cracks in walls etc. You may see other evidence though like droppings etc. Best thing to do is call your local council who'll be able to fumigate your place for free to be on the safe side.

Expose your mattresses, clothing, curtains, plush toys and furniture to direct sunlight outside, particularly afternoon sunlight when the sun is at its brightest. This will kill most if not all of adult bed bugs, nymphs, larvae and nests.

Vacuuming in every corner of the house including in the nooks and crannies of your furniture and under EVERYTHING will eliminate nests and live bed bugs.

Using duct tape, inside out on the bottom of furniture legs, bed posts, etc will trap the bugs before they can climb to the mattresses.

Usie extremely hot temperatures when washing and drying clothing and toys in the washing machine and dryer.

For toys that aren't machine washable, vacuum them as best as possible, and enclose them in a plastic bag, removing all the air (airtight) and set in sun for a few hours.

Steam cleaning is the most popular and effective way of eliminating bed bugs. If you have a household steam cleaner, steam everything from the curtains to the floors and under every piece of furniture. The intense temperatures kills bed bugs instantly.

Cover holes in walls and wooden furniture with duct tape, to trap bugs and nests, and prevent them from feeding off of hosts.

Place Lavender satchels (potpourri) around the house and especially under mattresses, around couches and other furniture, and around baseboards of house. Eucalyptus is also known to work as well at deterring spiders, earwigs, beetles, ants and other creepy crawlies from entering and infesting a home.

the short answer is currently "everywhere" because they are currently infesting people's beds all over the world and in most countries they are on the increase.

No bedbugs are extremely robust creatures and even using dried alcohol all over your home is highly unlikely to get rid of them, but could be hazardous to the health and well being of everybody living in the home.

No - if you have bedbugs in your bed the best way to deal with them is to freeze them all to death instantly by using a Cryonite unit. You can hire a cryonite unit to do this for a lot less than buying a new bed and considerably less than calling in a professional pest exterminator. Cryonite units are fairly easy to use if you follow directions.

What you need to do is go around the house to all locations where bedbugs may be hiding or breeding and use it. The Cryonite unit sends out a spray that creates an extremely cold and dry ice snow from chemical action in the spray. When this snow makes contact with the bed bugs the fluids in their bodies are automatically instantly deep frozen and so the bugs die instantly and unhatched eggs are also destroyed on contact. After using a cryonite unit there is no residue, though it might be prudent to wash your clothes before wearing them again after using a Cryonite spray on or near them.

It is parasitism because the bed bug benefits and the human is harmed

Well you will get extreme bumps that can be really big. It will also take very long to cure.

Yes, if they've been around to drink your blood for long enough to grow big. Google images of them.

Correcting above = All bedbugs are visible to the naked eye. The newly born nymphs being about a millimeter which is about a fifth of the size of an adult bedbug. The unhatched eggs are much smaller looking like and being just half the size of a grain of salt before the egg hatches but the bedbug eggs too can be seen with the naked eye unless the viewer is poor sighted. But when bedbugs come out and crawl on to you to sip your blood it will normally be dark and you will most probably be fast asleep. So you will not see them unless you happen to awaken and shine a torch on to yourself and your sheet before they escape to their hiding place.

Bedbugs apparently do not cause a communicable disease, and therefore are not considered a "threat" to the general public. It might be technically true, but what they don't tell you is that once you get bedbugs onto your clothes and body, and bring them home, you are doomed.

Bedbugs are almost impossible to get rid of from clothes, furniture and bedding, and I have heard even after 3 heat treatments, an expensive fumigation technique, they can still be a problem.

I think the public deserves the right to know when a public building has a problem with bedbugs, and should have to close its doors until the bedbugs have been removed, and an inspection done to prove so.

The association's master policy is the insurance you reference. Your master policy broker will be able to answer your question for you.

Otherwise, your tenant's policy or owner's HO-6 policy may have coverage. Again, contact your broker who can give you the answer you need.

Bed bug bites are known to cause skin rashes (effects ranging from redness to prominent blisters). People are also known to have allergic reactions to bites which can cause severe sickness or possibly death. Studies have shown that although bedbugs can host 28 human pathogens they seem incapable of passing these on to other people

Yes especially from Justin

The simple answer is yes. Most likely you will need the exterminator to come twice. The first time he will kill the living bugs. The second time he will kill the babies from the eggs that hatched. The chemicals that exterminators use do not kill the eggs. So after the first treatment the eggs are still alive. The gestation period for bed bugs is about 1-2 weeks. So the exterminator will need to come back a second time after the they have hatched. It's important to have the exterminator come back before the babies turn into adults and reproduce again. If the exterminator tells you that he can get rid of them in one treatment then find a new exterminator. It's just not true.

It's hard to say whether or not you will need more than 2 exterminations. It depends on the degree of the infestation, how well you prepped your apartment for extermination, the skill and experience of the exterminator and whether or not you live in an apartment with other affected units. If you do, then it is likely the bugs will crawl through the walls and come back.

yes and they are very hard to get out too you would have to cut them out !

some of them do but cold kills them and you have to wash your sheets in hot water

No. Diatom dust does not kill bedbug eggs. Diatoms are broken pieces of calcium carbonate. If a small bed bug goes through it, it might cut off part of it. As long as an insect remains perfectly still in broken glass, it will not affect the insect. An egg is perfectly still.

Adult bed bugs are generally reddish-brown (especially after feeding). They are a flattened oval shape and do not have wings. The insects have tiny hairs that give their bodies a striped or banded appearance. Adults can range from 4-5 mm long and 1-3mm wide when full grown. Nymphs, or baby bed bugs are generally lighter in color, and translucent. As the nymphs mature and moult, their color becomes darker.

They look a little like cockroaches but much smaller. Go to the related link below (Bedbugs or bed bugs ) to get a more precise explanation and pictures on this subject.

no, you might have to take your dog or any pet and get him or her checked out.