Bed Bugs Basics
You don't have to have less than perfect hygiene to attract bed bugs to your home; you simply need to be a warm body with blood, their favorite treat, flowing through your veins.
The latest statistics show that everywhere there are bed bugs! In fact, one survey of professional pest control experts conducted by the University of Kentucky and the NPMCA-National Pest Management Control Association-reported that 99 percent of them dealt with an infestation problem in 2011.
Why has the rate of infestation become epidemic? What were the places most frequently treated? Condominiums, apartments and single-family homes were at the top of the list, with almost 90 percent of the treatments.
However, bed bugs didn't limit their infestations to these places.
These vagabonds of the insect world latched on to several hosts and the remainder ended up in a variety of places.
College dorms were one of these whose infestations grew from 2010 to 2011.
That means that when your child comes home on vacation, he may bring more than just a stack of dirty laundry.
The number of infestations treated in hotels also climbed, as well as the infestations treated in nursing homes.
No matter how clean the places were, many visitors come to these areas and it only takes one to create a problem.
Schools and day care facilities were not immune to infestations of bed bugs and an increase of infestation treatment.
The same holds true for hospitals.
Of course, these are all places people go and often spend the night or at least take a nap-in the case of day care.
You might be surprised however, that trains, buses and taxis also had infestations.
Movie theatres did too.
There are even a few infestations reported in airplanes, restaurants, Laundromats and retail stores.
Everywhere there are bed bugs! These traveling bloodsuckers hitch a ride and go wherever their host takes them.
Bed bugs bite at night, leaving welts on their hosts.
It's hard to tell the difference between a bed bug bite and bites of fleas or mosquitoes, so an infestation may get out of hand before you spot any other signs.
By that time, you may have spread bed bugs to others or your child may be the start of an outbreak at school or in the day care center.
What do you look for when seeking to identify bed bugs? Aside from the bite, bed bugs also leave a scent.
They leave small spots of fecal waste on your sheets as well.
These look dark red and are small and round.
The bugs themselves look like flat apple seeds.
A professional pest control expert can identify an infestation if you think you have a problem.
The latest statistics show that everywhere there are bed bugs! In fact, one survey of professional pest control experts conducted by the University of Kentucky and the NPMCA-National Pest Management Control Association-reported that 99 percent of them dealt with an infestation problem in 2011.
Why has the rate of infestation become epidemic? What were the places most frequently treated? Condominiums, apartments and single-family homes were at the top of the list, with almost 90 percent of the treatments.
However, bed bugs didn't limit their infestations to these places.
These vagabonds of the insect world latched on to several hosts and the remainder ended up in a variety of places.
College dorms were one of these whose infestations grew from 2010 to 2011.
That means that when your child comes home on vacation, he may bring more than just a stack of dirty laundry.
The number of infestations treated in hotels also climbed, as well as the infestations treated in nursing homes.
No matter how clean the places were, many visitors come to these areas and it only takes one to create a problem.
Schools and day care facilities were not immune to infestations of bed bugs and an increase of infestation treatment.
The same holds true for hospitals.
Of course, these are all places people go and often spend the night or at least take a nap-in the case of day care.
You might be surprised however, that trains, buses and taxis also had infestations.
Movie theatres did too.
There are even a few infestations reported in airplanes, restaurants, Laundromats and retail stores.
Everywhere there are bed bugs! These traveling bloodsuckers hitch a ride and go wherever their host takes them.
Bed bugs bite at night, leaving welts on their hosts.
It's hard to tell the difference between a bed bug bite and bites of fleas or mosquitoes, so an infestation may get out of hand before you spot any other signs.
By that time, you may have spread bed bugs to others or your child may be the start of an outbreak at school or in the day care center.
What do you look for when seeking to identify bed bugs? Aside from the bite, bed bugs also leave a scent.
They leave small spots of fecal waste on your sheets as well.
These look dark red and are small and round.
The bugs themselves look like flat apple seeds.
A professional pest control expert can identify an infestation if you think you have a problem.
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