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Exterminating Bed Bugs

By Owen Jones


Although people are severely affected by an influx of bed bugs, the medical authorities proclaim that they are not a serious health hazard. Tell that to people who are suffering from bed bugs! Bed bugs are not known to pass on disease, that is true, but they instigate paranoia and insomnia which can have far ranging consequences.

On top of this, bed bugs are very problematic to get rid of from one's home. The difficulty is that bedbugs are almost completely resistant to insecticides. This is because they have a thick waxy coat which prevents chemicals from attacking the insect. Bedbugs are like a cross between a beetle and a tick.

Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to eradicate an infestation of bed bugs on your own. Bedbugs are susceptible to heat, so you can steam clean your house to get rid of bedbugs, but the only guaranteed method is to call in professional pest controllers.

If you believe that you might have a bedbug infestation, there are several items that you must look out for. Firstly, the bugs themselves: if you have a lot of clutter in your rooms like heaps of newspapers, heaps of ironing or clothes, move them and be on the look out for insects running for cover. Bedbugs are really quite shy animals.

Look in your bed sheets. Look for specks of blood - your blood - and excrement - the bedbugs' excrement, which looks like brown smears. You may also see shed skins - skins that the bedbugs have shed as part of their growing process, like a snake does.

Bed bugs live in beds, clutter, clothing, cracks, ripped wallpaper, damaged plaster, under carpets and anywhere that is narrow and safe. They love to conceal themselves behind skirting boards, so sealing these up with mastic is a decent idea.

The best method to be clear of bed bugs is not to have them in the first place, but this is easier said than done, because there is a real epidemic of bedbugs in the West. Nearly all western cities are experiencing a plague of bedbugs and have been since the mid-Nineties.

Bed bugs do not only live in homes. Bed bugs live everywhere: not just in poor homes, not only in dirty houses and not just in houses even. A bedbug can be picked from anywhere where individuals congregate, because bedbugs move about by hitching a lift on a human carrier. You can pick up a bedbug on a bus, in a taxi, at the cinema, in your doctor's surgery or in a hotel.

This is quite frightening, because it suggests that you can never be safe from bed bugs. If you hang your coat up in a cloakroom or travel on public transport, you have a very high risk of picking up a bed bug and one bedbug can lay 300 eggs. Then you are really in trouble.

Not only that, but bedbugs can go without food for a year, like fleas can, so if you move into a 'new' apartment or house, these insects could be lying dormant waiting for you to give them a wake-up call.




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