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Bed Bug Facts by Universal Pest & Termite
- Bed Bugs can live for several months without a blood meal. This means they can linger in furniture, bags and suitcases for a long time until they are near a human host again.
- After feeding, bed bugs move to secluded places and hide for 5-10 days.
- Bed bugs can feed on the blood of any warm-blooded animal. Their most common targets are humans.
- Bed bugs will get inside your clothes. This is how they move long distances. It is also the main reason for domestic infestations.
- A bed bug is only able to survive that long if it is an adult and spends an entire year at a temperature of 10 °C.
Where do bed bugs hide?
When they are not feeding, bed bugs hide in a variety of places. They can be found around the bed near the piping, seams and tags of the mattress and box spring. They can also be found in the cracks on the bed frame and headboard.If the room is heavily infested, you may find bed bugs in any of the following areas:
– In the seams of chairs and couches, between cushions, in the folds of curtains
– Inside drawer joints
– In electrical receptacles and appliances
– Under loose wallpaper and wall hangings
– At the junction where the wall and the ceiling meet
– In the head of a screw
When it comes to bed bugs, not every situation and household is the same. Bed bugs can live in your carpet, clothing and even your baseboards. Some people believe that just by getting rid of an infested box-spring or mattress will take care of a bed bug problem. Unfortunately, this is only part of the battle. Our inspectors are trained to look for activity in all parts of the bedroom or house.
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Were Bed Bugs Hide
Bedbugs may enter your home undetected through luggage, clothing, used beds and couches, and other items. Their flattened bodies make it possible for them to fit into tiny spaces, about the width of a credit card. Bedbugs do not have nests like ants or bees, but tend to live in groups in hiding places. Their initial hiding places are typically in mattresses, box springs, bed frames, and headboards where they have easy access to people to bite in the night.
Throwing away your mattress may be a bad idea. There are several reasons why:
- Mattresses are expensive. Throwing one away and getting a new one isn’t always an option.
- To throw away the mattress, you would have to pick it up and drag it outside. Doing so could spread bed bugs around your home, or give them to your neighbors.
- Bed bugs don’t only live in your mattress. They can live in, wall cracks, and floorboard cracks. You would still have bed bugs after you’re done.
- Because there are still bed bugs in your room, buying a replacement mattress because of bed bugs would be a bad idea. The new mattress would become infested.
Bed Bug in Your Furniture
Having bed bugs hidden and laying eggs within your furniture can be a terrible feeling. Your first instinct might be to toss your furniture outside so that you can get rid of the bugs, but you should know that this is not always the best solution. First of all, simply getting rid of your furniture is probably not going to get rid of the bed bug infestation. As a matter of fact, in the process of carrying your furniture through your home so that you can get it out the door, you could cause bed bugs to fall off of your furniture so that they can infest other parts of your home. Additionally, you also have to worry about someone else picking up your furniture; for example, if you live in an apartment complex and put your bed bug infested furniture out by the road, you have to worry about one of your neighbors potentially picking it up and taking it into their own unit.
Bed Bugs Characteristics
Adult bed bugs appearance is light to reddish-brown, flat and oval-shaped, with no hind wings. Bed bugs have segmented abdomens with microscopic hairs. Adults grow to 0.16–0.20 in. in length and 0.059–0.118 in. in width.Newly hatched bed bugs, or nymphs, are almost translucent or lighter in color and become browner as they get older. A bed bug nymph of any age that has just consumed a blood meal has a red, translucent abdomen, fading to brown over the next several hours, and then to black within two days as the insect
Why Get Bed Bugs Treatment?
Numerous problematic health effects may result from bed bug bites. Some include but are not limited to skin rashes, psychological effects, and allergic symptoms and reactions. Bed bugs are what is know as disease vectors meaning they can carry any pathogen.After realizing your home may be infected with bed bugs, the first thing to do is to consult a doctor and notify them of any bed bug bites. Use soap and water to wash the bites as is highly recommended. This will help prevent skin infection and help reduce itchiness. If the bites itch, apply a corticosteroid cream to the bites.
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