Bed bugs are tiny parasitic insects that like fleas or mosquitoes live on the blood of animals or humans.
Do bed bugs usually stay in one room.
They have insecticides that both kill bugs on contact and that stay inside furniture and cracks to kill bedbugs in the long term.
Much of what you ve heard about bed bugs isn t true.
What are bed bugs.
Bed bugs cimex lectularius are small flat parasitic insects that feed solely on the blood of people and animals while they sleep bed bugs are reddish brown in color wingless range from 1mm to 7mm roughly the size of lincoln s head on a penny and can live several months without a blood meal.
The eggs are laid in dark places at the edges of the mattress box spring crevices bed cracks and a stick on any hard surfaces especially the wood.
Do not wrap items in black plastic and place in the sun.
Bed bugs mature fast and the females are responsible for laying the eggs at a rate of four to seven eggs a day and usually after a blood meal.
They only come out to feed once every three to seven days usually from one to.
The bed bugs go through a three stage lifecycle which is the egg nymph and adult.
Some people will try leaving all their lights on at night hoping the bedbugs will stay hidden like cockroaches.
Storing stuff under the bed gives bed bugs many new places to hide.
But the trick is keeping bed bugs in one place long enough to take the heat till they re dead.
My step daughter however has no bites at all.
Bed bugs can spread from one room or apartment to another through door frames windows or holes or cracks in the walls ceilings and floors.
Pest control companies can also use whole room heat treatments.
Do not move things from room to room.
This makes it more difficult to get rid of bed bugs.
All this will do is make you more sleep deprived.
Bedbugs spend most of their time hidden away.
It will not get hot enough.
A hair dryer can be a reliable tool for flushing bed bugs out of cracks and crevices though.
I looked up pictures of bed bug bites and this is what it looks like.
They can contaminate wood furniture by laying eggs in cracks and recesses and when that furniture is moved these eggs which can stay viable for years may hatch in a new location.
My step son came home from school today with a bite on his arm a couple on each leg one on his stomach and a couple on his back.
