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Excellent suggestion, spideyj! I'll second the seal them up part. Many PCOs won't treat without an actual bug or bugs as proof, and as people here can tell you, catching these evil beasts can be hard. (I apparently had very laid back California bed bugs who were more than happy to be caught. I caught two myself, and the various PCOs caught another two, and I had casings. The PCOs were positively thrilled when I handed them ziplocks. PCOs actually seem to really like dealing with people who have a clue, so you'll probably get on your PCO's good side if you hand them a bag with nymphs and/or eggs.) Many people here have spent a lot of time cursing because they did the most obvious thing you do with a gross bug--get rid of it--and then spent a long time trying to catch another one.

So seal them up and hold onto the bag! Don't toss it no matter how much you get freaked or grossed out!

I suck as identifying things from photos, so you also might find David's description of the eggs helpful:

http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/a-about-the-eggs

I get the sense that the eggs are smaller than sesame seeds, which is why I like the measurements in the post I gave you a link to. I suck at scale (if you say they are ovals, I picture things the size of advil caplets, but BB eggs are much smaller).

PS--I also stored the ziplock in the freezer because watching them crawl around freaked me out. The freezer won't kill them, but a friend taking a bio class in college stored her bugs in the freezer when they had to do a bug collection. Between the time she caught them and the time she killed and pinned them, they lived in ziplocks in the fridge. (I joked that if she'd waited another month, I could have gotten her some bed bugs, in multiple stages of life, for plenty of extra credit). I think the freezer makes most bugs a little more sluggish.

Just make sure to seal the ziplock. I double bagged it to be sure.

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