So it has been 3 whole weeks more or less, since my last update. Since then, I have continually dusted the areas around my bed frame with Silicone Dioxide once a week to top up our barrier, and we now live out of the clothing baskets in the porch so that we do not allow the bugs any safe harbour in our wardrobes.
In total, I have been bitten twice since the heightened defence; one on my arm and once on my finger. My partner has been a little less lucky and they managed to get him 3 times. However, the bites were completely isolated and seemingly less ferocious than before. We might have actually managed to lower their numbers with the manic cleaning.
I’d like to imagine that the dust is doing its business, slowly drying the critters out so that they die off before being able to breed more. It’s too early to imagine being bug-free at this point, it’s almost like one of those lingering nightmares where just as you think it’s safe to go back to bed again, they give you a nasty reminder that they are still very much around.
We have still been unsuccessful in locating their hideout, however I think that the possible hiding places have been reduced greatly since the big clean and so I’m secretly hoping that perhaps they will just move outside and away, or die out completely. We will have to see how things go for the next few weeks.
Fingers crossed.
