There are bedbugs living in my laptop???

Ok, I'll bite and resuscitate this year-old thread.....

And how do propose we fumigate the Mac? Dunk it in Neem oil? Powder boric ACID on its circuit boards?

Both do sound attractive....

...... to Apple's new equipment sales profit margins!

I've heard of this occurring with a friend of a friend who owns a white MacBook.

There is currently no pesticide that can kill bedbugs, there was once, but it was outlawed, banned or discontinued due to ill effects on children or something like that.

Your solution is to have the machine completely dissected and all bedbugs killed and any eggs also. Any areas that can't be dissected can be sealed up hopefully to trap them inside.

You cant heat the machine to the desired level to kill them, nor freeze it as both will do permanent damage to the machine itself. You can't drown the machine in water neither.

Any infestation also requires simultaneous treatment of house, car and all material possessions or they just come back again and again.

Since they need to feed on your blood, usually working with a exterminator they ask you not to use poisons or whatever to try to drive them away, rather they like to use your bed (and you) as bait and thus catch them in traps etc. in a war of attrition as they need to feed 5 times before they can breed another batch.

There are bed bug traps you can buy online and web sites like Bedbug.com that provide pictures thus you can trap them yourself and prove your point or not.

Good luck in your mission, it's a hard one to solve. 🙂

julianne201 wrote:

I've found evidence of bedbugs actually living inside my laptop,

I don't know how to open up my laptop to see if my theory is correct. Should I just call an exterminator or what?

Evidence = You're sure.

Theory = Not sure

They were calling your laptop home and they return by smell of their own excrement, since you put the machine in a bag they now will find another home.

If you put the bed post traps on, under the posts, move your bed away from the wall and keep covers/blankets/sheets off the floor, they are forced to use the bedposts to come and have a blood meal, thus get stuck in the traps.

Of course you have to remove all your sheets/pillows and carefully examine the matress/boxspring and frame for any bugs or eggs first. Change your sheets more often.

Supposedly if you use powered boric acid (fine like talcum powder) spread on a hard floor around your bed, they crawl through it and it gets on them, then they clean themselves and thus injest the poison. But you can't do that if you have children or animals.

Learn all you can about them, they feed at night or come out when it gets dark, unless they are disturbed or really hungry, then they will come out in the daylight for a feed.

The live for many months between feedings too, are a real problem.

Supposedly a doctors prescribtion for parasites also kills bedbugs too, but it's not proven effective for that yet.

You sound like you have a heavy infestation, I feel sorry for you. 😟

One hotel I know, they got painters in and caulked every crack in the place thus reducing places they can hide and sealing any inside to die.

They seem to like electronics for some reason, likely because it's a good place to hide and warm.

If you can get a Phillips #00 screwdriver, you can pop the bottom pan off the Mac and peek inside to confirm or disprove infestation. Turn it OFF and use this as a guide: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2009+Lowe r+Case/1333/1

Just don't touch any component or cable. If found, maybe a local computer shop with adequate antistatic equipment can help with blowing, brushing and coaxing the buggers out. But I'm pretty sure they do not find the inside of a computer all that attractive.

ds store,

there are several pesticides which can kill bedbugs; the main problem is that resistance is developed quickly to a given pesticide type, so exterminators typically use multiple types of pesticides to prevent a given infestation building up resistance to one type. One particular pesticide is only used in the States in industrial and commercial buildings because of its toxicity to children. A less toxic alternative is cold-pressed neem seed oil. (julianne201, the neem tree is Azadirachta indica; unfortunately, I don’t know what its Italian name is.)

Boric acid and diatomaceous earth are effective as dessicants — they dry out the waxy outer coating of bedbugs, so that they’ll die of dehydration.

Courcoul,

in the specific case of a Mac, NeckBoneG’s answer of dichlorvos strips would likely be best. However, that by itself would not eliminate the infestation. Please note that my reply was to ds store, who’d suggested that there were no pesticides currently on the market which can kill bedbugs.

I hope that you’ve found your bite satisfying.

Nuvan is all you will need.