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I've experienced living with bed bugs during my boarding school years. Despite getting multiple bug bites a week consistently for a couple years, I never actually got to see a live bed bug.

Bed bugs are no joke

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That's strange. Apparently, the only time I ever met any, they must have been very hungry - they crawled right at me over the open bedsheet when the light was still on. I killed the front of the first assault wave and got the hell out of that crappy hotel room.

If you could see several of them, that meant that that hotel room had TONS AND TONS of them.

Every time I wake up with a itchy spot, my mind goes directly to bed bugs. How did you know they were bed bugs and not another bug bite?

“Breakfast, lunch, dinner”. At least 2, but many times 3 bites in a line every few centimeters. But generally, there are a line of bites.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bed+bug+bite+picture&t=iphone&iax=...

Note that some people attract bed bugs, and some people don’t. One time, I woke up with 40+ bites, and my wife with none. She has never been bit in her whole life, and I have been bit on at least 7 or 8 different occasions during my travels.

Also possible she was bit, but didn't react to the bites. Not everyone does.

There’s evidence of bedbugs.

If you never saw any evidence at all then it’s more likely scabies.

multiple/week is pretty infrequent for bed bugs. I've gotten more from spiders (proportionally; I vacuumed them up after the first night)

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