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Yep, the bug bomb isn't enough against bedbugs... not even the washing/bagging your clothes and getting a pro is enough sometimes. At my old apartment in Queens, one roommate brought in some old dresser that was infested and we had pros come in three times... and had to take extra measures before they were finally gone.
The thing about bedbugs is that the ones that bit you last night aren't the ones to bite you the next.. they feed once and then they burrow as deep as they can wherever they can hide and wake up to have another tasty snack about 30 days later. We had to buy a silicone gel and seal up all the cracks in the walls and moulding, toss out her old wooden dresser (too many little cracks and crevices to hide in) and vacuum her bedroom every single day. The pros also told us to keep the room cold, so we blasted the a/c in there for about a month, she slept in the living room, and every night she went in there to vacuum and spray again.
This was all after we sealed up all the cracks to trap the hiding ones in the walls and let them starve. The advice was that after about a month of this the coast would be clear... and it was. And that poor girl had about 50 welts all up and down her arms and legs.
Did you guys just bring in new (old) furniture? Or did somebody next door or downstairs just move in?
In either case (chiggers or bed bugs) it probably wouldn't hurt to head to Home Depot and buy a tube of silicone to seal up the cracks in your apartment.
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