Bed Bugs Trafford, Manchester and Cheshire.
One of the most detested and least understood pests known to science is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us fell asleep to sleep at night as children with the words of our guardians in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs probably started to dine on man at about the period when we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella mostly feed on bats and it is probable that bat feeding species of bed bus evolved to feed on human blood when our ancestors started dwelling} in bat infested caves.
Until the arrival of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common unwelcome guests in most poor quality homes.
The later years of the 20th century saw pest control companies having very few bed bug call outs indeed, their presence being largely restricted to budget holiday hotels and student lodgings etc.
A lot of people confuse dust mites, which aren’t visible to the unaided eye, with bed bugs which certainly.
Adult bedbugs are reddish brown, about a quarter of an inch in size and swollen after a feed of human blood.
Bed bugs usually feed on a target’s blood every few days, coming out in the hours before dawn and locating their target by detecting the exhaled CO2 from human breath and when nearby their target, they sense body body heat.
In the absence of a suitable human host to feed on they can lay in a period of dormancy for periods of up to 18 months.
The first signs of a bed bug problem are spots of blood on sheets and on the edges of mattresses and many people can react badly to the bites of these bugs.
The early the 21st century has seen bed bug reports explode all over the planet, the easy availability of overseas and economic migration have both been blamed for the resurgence.
What is certain is that that are now making a real return not only in low quality housing but high class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough reported a doubling of bed bug infestations every year from 1995 to 2001.
One night away in an infested bed is all it requires, they hitch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Stretford Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on all kinds of transport so a simple trip to work on an infested tube or train can be sufficient to bring the infestation to your own home.
They are an difficult pest to eradicate as contrary to popular notion they do not just live in beds. They hide in any nook and cranny anywhere close to a sleeping human, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the creases of flesh on flabby people.
They are not a pest that can be dealt with by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be required.
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