Question from Violet56
Can bedbugs live in a second hand computer screen? My son works for the city. He would like to replace our ancient computer screen, with a more recent model (used/second hand one). He is able to bring home, to recycle, a nicer computer screen – as each day the city picks up items (furniture, computers, etc.), which are discarded, by the citizens of this suburb, and they are then picked up by recycling companies. He has seen perfectly good computer screens. I am paranoid that there may be bedbugs in the computer screen!!! Is this possible? Thank you!!
Debra’s Answer
I did a bit of searching, but couldn’t find anything specific about computer screens. There have been cautions about bedbugs in laptop computers. Also apparently you can kill bedbugs by heating the item to 120 degrees.
If it’s really important to you to have this computer screen, you could put it in a plastic bag for a few days before bringing it in your house and see if any bedbugs emerge.
I’m not a bedbug expert, but that makes sense to me.
