How Do You Get Bed Bugs? How Are Bed Bugs Spread?
If you are wondering how do bed bugs get into your house and bedroom, read on to find out more about how they are spread and how to forestall infestations.
Bed bugs, scientifically known as cimex lectularius, are small parasitic insects that are regularly brown or black in color, in the size of an apple-seed. They regularly only come out at night and they primarily feed on the blood of humans when they are asleep.
Where Do Bed Bugs Live and Hide?
Typically, as the name suggests, bed bugs live in mattresses, box springs or sometimes under the linens. While the day, they hide in cracks and crevices of beds, walls, headboards, bed frames and wooden floorboards. However, they can also be found in books, carpets and even phones - basically in any place that provides them with easy access to you while sleeping.
How Do Bed Bugs Spread and How Did They Infest My Home?
In the new years, surge in the spread of bedbugs has been attributed to the growth in international travel as well as a decrease in the use of potent pesticides such as Ddt (that helped mostly eradicated these pests from industrialized nations before it was banned in the 1970s to 1980s for environmental and condition concerns.)
Bed bugs are effective hitchhikers and often spread by hitching rides on people's clothing, luggage, beds and other furniture.
They also spread through mattresses. Reconditioned mattresses, which are refurbished old mattresses, often spread bedbugs into stores and homes, resulting in an infestation. In addition, bedbugs can spread when old and new mattresses are movable together. Bedbugs are able to spread through rooms and even apartments.
How Do I Know If My House and Bed Is Infested With Bed Bugs? Signs and Symptoms
Bedbugs are small, cryptic and agile and because of their exiguous size, they are rarely seen in operation by humans. The first signs of a bedbug infestation are regularly from the bites on your body by the bugs. Bedbug bites are ordinarily painless, although they can be itchy and cause a bed bug rash. The bites tend to start as swollen wheals, then gently disappearing after a few days.
Besides the bites, there are other signs and symptoms that may indicated an infestation:
- Small bloodstains from crushed bedbugs on bed sheets or other bed linen
- Detection of dark spots of the bug's excrement on bed or walls
- An nasty musty odor in the room or house when infestations are severe
Tips to forestall and Keep Bed Bugs Out From My House and Bed?
Prevention is best than cure. It is less messy to take precautions against bedbugs than to get rid of them after an infestation.
You may take the following steps to forestall them from spreading in your homes and bedrooms:
- Use a mattress cover - a plastic or tightly woven one, to forestall bedbugs from crawling in and out
- Seal and mend any cracks on your home's face to forestall any insects from entering
- Clean your house regularly - sell out any unnecessary clutter and vacuum your mattresses
- If possible, do not buy or pick up any secondhand furniture
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