Science in Action!

[unforth]

Well, today, after not seeing a single bug since this started (the roach in my kitchen doesn't count), I caught two bed bugs in the space of 20 minutes - both meandering on my sewing (of all places!) while I was sitting on my couch. Both have now been securely sealed into a glass pyrex bowl, awaiting the time in the future when I may need to produce them as legal evidence of my infestation. See, according to what I've read, evidence of bites (which I have, since I took pictures of them) doesn't constitute proof, but actual physical bugs do, and so I had resolved to contain them as soon as I could, if only I could see and catch them. Both of the ones I captured are juveniles, which doesn't, I fear, bode well for my future - or for my couch, which now has a much greater chance of not surviving this infestation.

Difficult times lie ahead, I fear...

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I also kind of wish my landlord warned me. Sadly, though, landlords in NYC are (by and large) evil money grubbing corporate monstrosities, so I'm not all that surprised that they didn't. Now that I've got the dead bugs in a jar, though, I'm in a much better position to fight tooth and nail for the replacement of any furniture I'll have to throw away.