Is this a bedbug? Please HELP! [Pic Included]?

Question

I live in NYC. I found this in my bed at about 12 pm today when I was getting up. It was in the middle of my bed and kinda moving/squirming around.

I put it in a ziplock bag. It was alive for several hours and now has stopped moving (i didn't want to kill it b/c i want it to be identified).

All the pest control places are closed right now and I don't know what to do!

Pics aren't the best quality b/c I had to use a camera phone. Please help if you can!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3182/2815532804_828eb5b688_o.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2815532694_9b0bf6c666_o.jpg

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Answer 1

Did it bite you on your finger then?  

Answer 2

Thats a rasin.

Answer 3

well, here are a few pictures of bed bugs.

http://www.nwleics.gov.uk/pest_control/i...

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/bed-...

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/images/u...

sortof looks like it.  

Answer 4

HEFTY!!!

Anyway, I think that is a bedbug.

Answer 5

very hard to tell but compare it to this... http://killgerm.com/images/photo_library...

Answer 6

It doesn't look like one, it looks more solid to me...  but here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedbug

Bugs get into beds, this little dude could be anything, however, NYC is of course, the mecca of bedbugs.

I'm gonna copy this from the article, but I reccomend you just read it:

If it is possible to create makeshift temporary barriers from the insects around a bed. Although bedbugs cannot fly or jump, they have been observed climbing a higher surface in order to then fall to a lower one, such as climbing a wall in order to fall onto a bed. Barrier strategies nevertheless often have beneficial effects: an elevated bed for example, can be protected by applying double-sided sticky tape around each leg, or by keeping each leg on a plastic furniture block in a tray of water.

Bed frames can be effectively rid of adult bedbugs and eggs by use of steam or by spraying rubbing alcohol on any visible insects, although this is not a permanent treatment. Small steam cleaners are available and are very effective for local treatment. A suspect mattress can be protected by wrapping it in disposable plastic sheeting, sealing shut all the seams and putting it on a protected bed after a final visual inspection. Bedding can be sanitized by a 120 °F (49 °C) laundry dryer. Once sanitized, bedding should not be allowed to drape to the floor. An effective way to quarantine a protected bed is to store sanitized sleeping clothes in the bed during the day, and bathing before entering the bed.

Food-grade diatomaceous earth (DE) can be sprinked under mattresses, along baseboards and on the edges of bookshelves where bedbugs hide. Food-grade DE, although harmless to mammals, including common house pets and humans, is a virtual death sentence for bedbugs. DE is a drying agent and is actually used in many dry pet foods to keep the kibble dry and fresh.

The DE particles abrade the bedbug, essentially dehydrating it of water and lipids. Neem oil (mentioned below) can be added to the DE (1 cup DE to 20 drops neem oil) in a plastic bag before sprinking it around. Other essential oils that can be added are juniper oil, eucalyptus oil, ylang ylang oil, rosemary oil and tea tree oil. The bedbugs hate the smell of the oils, and for those who don't and pass through, they will eventually be killed by the DE itself. Use 20 drops of each essential oil mentioned for each cup of DE.

Alternative treatments that may actually work better and be more comfortable than wrapping bedding in plastic that would cause sweating would be to encase your mattress and box springs in impermeable bed bug bite proof encasements after a treatment for an infestation. There are many products on the market but only some products have been laboratory tested to be bedbug bite proof. Make sure to check to see that the product you are considering is more than an allergy encasement, but is bed bug bite proof.

Answer 7

Looks like a finger to me.

Answer 8

Sorry, can't tell by the pictures.  

Answer 9

i really can't tell.

Answer 10

Sorry you have bed bugs.

Ok here what to do.

First:

An exterminator will not help if you do not treat yourself and apartment properly.

First:Go out and buy the following

1: insect bombs with pyrethrin

2: alot of large plastic black bags

3: borax powder

4:  hair lice treatment

5: thongs and clean towel and cheap clothes

6: large bottle of eucalypic oil

You need to treat everything ie you partner, clothes, curtains, hair, shoes, bed, EVERYTHING IN YOU APARTMENT . Trust me or otherwise you will have to move out. We had bed bugs and they are the worst nightmare!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok do you have carpet or floorboards, access to a clothes dryer, any pets, how big is you apartment, have you been travelling lately or allowed someone to stay that has been travelling?, do you have a lot of wooden furniture. I will post this please answer the questions above and i will keep writing in the meantime.

Firstly,

Bedbugs you need to log on the google and image bed bug bites . You need to know what you are dealing with. Bug bugs can scar you. Some people reat some dont. i broke out in bites my partner did not.  Bed bugs can live for a year without food and the female hundreds of eggs. The way to kill bed bugs is wash everything at the highest heat you can add borax powder to the wash and eucalytis to the final rinse. Note washing does NOT kill bed bugs. Second put everything in a dryer for one hour at a heat above 39, 40 to kill.

Ok , now with things you cannot put in dryer.

AFTER BOMBING YOU APARTMENT WITH INSECT BOMBS. BAg everything including the shoes you are wearing in large plastic black bags seal everything tight and put all bags in your car. LEAVE in you car for at least four days so the heat generated by the sun contained in the car will help you kill them.  Next make sure you have included everything!!!!  After bombing(make sure all electrical equipment is off)  and bagging. Go and steam all you couches etc etc. And put dichotomous earth on all your floors.

Ok make sure you have covered everthing. Have you bagged you shoes , luggage, curtains, have you lifted you bed and bombed you room. You can use borax on your floorboards as well if you would like. Next make sure you have treated all body hair with lice treatment twice. Do you have clean clothes on that has not been in contact with any of your luggage or apartment good. NOW

BOmb your house a second time!

trust me there is no overkill when it comes to bed bugs.

It took us three days of non stop work then another four to get rid of them.

Answer 11

aw its so small but i think it is  

Answer 12

idk lol it looks funny though  

Answer 13

we're really not going to be able to tell from those pictures, that could be a tic or something.  but generally i thought that bedbugs were about 2-3 times that size and lighter in color.  heres a pic of one i found online along with instructions to get rid of them:   http://doyourownpestcontrol.com/bed-bugs...

Answer 14

That isn't a bedbug, unless it's on steriods. Bedbugs are very small almost to the point that you can't see them. And the only way to get rid of bedbugs is a professional exterminater, but don't worry that isn't a bedbug.

Answer 15

yes it looks like a mite,but dude it looks cute im sorry lol