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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last summer my high school kid went to a 1 week academic based camp at a university, and the students were housed in dorm rooms.   He brought his own bedding, including a mattress pad.   After he got back I washed it, put it in a large plastic bin with a lid, and stored it in the basement.

He'll be going to a similar thing next week so I just got the bin out of the basement, and noticed a bunch (dozens) of little brown things all over the mattress pad.   I'm pretty sure they are dead bugs!  I tried taking photos but I can't really get a good enough pic--they just look like tiny brown lumps. They are definitely not alive.

I have the mattress pad in the washer on hot right now...since they are obviously dead, will the mattress pad be ok?  Or should I just trash it?   The sheets were stored in the same bin and at first I didn't see anything on the sheets...but as I've unfolded them, I'm finding some.  I guess I have the same question about the sheets--if I was on hot, and these bugs are obviously no longer alive--the sheets are ok?

I'm surprised to find these, because at last summer's camp he was the only student in his room, no roommate.   The dorm mattresses are those kind that a lot of dorms use--with a blue rubber-like outside... not like regular home mattresses.

Did the bus just suffocate in the sealed bin?  Die of starvation?   It's been about a year since I first put them in the bin (and didn't open the bin until just a few minutes ago) so there's no chance of any live ones still hanging out in there, right? The bin was in an unfinished basement storage room, stacked on top of/underneath other bins (mostly Christmas decorations) and we haven't seen any other signs of bed bugs in our house at all.

Ugh, now I feel itchy all over.

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Bed bugs can live an entire year without any blood or dead skin cells.   
They do not die of starvation.  They only die if exposed to direct heat of something like 150 degrees for an extended amount of time.   They don’t just die.  [/quote]

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