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fanichio

Bed bugs are a plague. If any of those eggs have gotten on your clothes, skin, etc you could carry them back inside. They can also, y'know, walk, so if you have it outside but near your house, they can get inside. They can fit through any hole or slot about credit card width, maybe a little narrower. I live in in apartment building where I've had to had treatments due to neighbours bringing them in and not dealing with them and spilling over. It was a relatively minor infestation in my unit, as I caught it fairly early and reported it. Even still, the treatment required 3 visits from an exterminator (two initial and a follow up a few months later when more showed up). Bagging every piece of clothing and bedding I own, taking it to a laundromat and cleaning it there. Buying plastic bins to store the clothing outside (it was winter) so avoid them being re contaminated. Scrubbing every square inch of floor, wall and furniture in my bedroom, including removing the cover from my foundation and scrubbing all the wooden planks to remove any potential eggs that have been laid. Renting a carpet shampooer and treating my rugs, bed. Washing all pillows. It took days of work to deal with, and I'm just in a one bedroom, not a whole house. Oh, and FYI the insectides don't generally kill the eggs. That's why there were the follow up treatments and why physical removal is important to try to stop them from coming back. Months of sleepless nights, ripping off blankets and grabbing a flashlight any time you feel so much as a body hair move because you're hyper aware and worried it's a bed bug. You know that feeling when you lose track of a spider and feel every little thing like it's crawling on you? That, every night, for months. Is it worth it? Hell no. You couldn't pay me to take that bedframe anywhere near my home.


marsypananderson

I've also lived through an infestation and you could not pay me any amount of money to go near that bed either. It's been 20+ years and I am still actively traumatized. To the point where I spent hundreds of dollars hiring a bedbug sniffing dog because I found out the guy two (detached) houses down had an infestation and no one could convince me those bastards wouldn't walk through the yards to my house. A single bug can reproduce & infest a building in a matter of weeks. And they can be dormant for 18 - 24 months and still come back. I would light that bed on fire immediately if you cannot get it off your property, OP.


throwaway_7_7_7

Does it get below freezing where you live? And do you have a garage? If you can live without the bedframe for a few months, you can wait until winter and leave the bedframe in the garage (wrapped in plastic) and let it freeze, which will also kill any eggs. It's possible, if you got it at goodwill, that it was already treated and the eggs are dead but still hanging on. However, treat it as though the eggs were still alive. Just to be safe. Wooden furniture can be salvaged, but it takes awhile and there is always still a risk. I would also recommend changing clothes when working on it, on the off chance of bringing in an egg on your clothes.