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@BobbyBriggs
Oh you're not wrong. As you may infer, my knowledge of them stems from bitter experience. A former flatmate had a massive infestation in her room that had become so bad that her net curtains were black from the bugs and their mess. She and her gf were 'immune' to the bites - i.e. they didn't itch or swell at all, so they just carried on living in there oblivious. It was only when the bugs had nowhere else to hide in her room that they spread to another flatmate's room, she got bitten, and we discovered the problem. It would have cost hundreds and hundreds to get pest control in to deal with such a massive problem, so I took it upon myself to sort it. Nine months later they were all finally gone. If you miss just one then a few weeks later there will be another shedload of offspring. Those foggers etc are useless because the bugs will just run away and hide in the skirting boards or other hideaways. The only solution is painstaking dismantling of everything and continual repeated treatment. Every fortnight we would strip her bed and kill all the ones we found - wish we'd had a steamer actually because that would have quickened things up a bit.
I'd use my knowledge to set up a pest control business if I could bear the sight (and smell - they stink like almonds when they're loads of them) of a bb again.