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 preclude infestations.
Bed bugs, scientifically known as cimex lectularius, are small parasitic insects that are commonly brown or black in color, in the size of an apple-seed. They commonly 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 anywhere that provides them with easy passage to you while sleeping.
How Do Bed Bugs Spread and How Did They Infest My Home?
In the modern years, surge in the spread of bedbugs has been attributed to the growth in international trip as well as a decrease in the use of potent pesticides such as Ddt (that helped mostly eradicated these pests from advanced nations before it was banned in the 1970s to 1980s for environmental and health concerns.)
Bed bugs are sufficient hitchhikers and often spread by hitching rides on people's clothing, luggage, beds and other furniture.
They also spread straight 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 straight 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 dinky size, they are rarely seen in performance by humans. The first signs of a bedbug infestation are commonly from the bites on your body by the bugs. Bedbug bites are commonly painless, although they can be itchy and cause a bed bug rash. The bites tend to start as swollen wheals, then moderately 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 obnoxious musty odor in the room or house when infestations are severe
Tips to preclude and Keep Bed Bugs Out From My House and Bed?
Prevention is great 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 preclude them from spreading in your homes and bedrooms:
- Use a mattress cover - a plastic or tightly woven one, to preclude bedbugs from crawling in and out
- Seal and heal any cracks on your home's surface to preclude any insects from entering
- Clean your house commonly - sacrifice any unnecessary clutter and vacuum your mattresses
- If possible, do not buy or pick up any secondhand furniture
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