Bed Bugs Wigan and Leigh.January 26
One of the most detested and misunderstood pests known to man is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us dozed off 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 most probably started to dine on human beings at about the time when we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella primarily fed on bats and it is likely that bat feeding species of bug evolved to feed on human blood when our forebears started staying} in bat infested caves.
Before the production of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were commonplace guests in most low quality homes.
The later part of the 20th century saw pest control companies dealing with very few bed bug call outs indeed, their presence being generally restricted to cheap holiday hotels and student housing etc.
A lot of people mistake dust mites, which cannot be seen by the unaided eye, with bed bugs which deinitely.
Adult bedbugs are reddy-brown, about a quarter of an inch in size and very swollen after feeding on human blood.
Bed bugs regularly feed on a target’s blood every few days, appearing in the early hours of the morning and finding their target by detecting the exhaled CO2 from human breath and when close to their target, the heat from the body of their intended target.
Lacking a suitable human meal to feed on they can stay in a period of dormancy for periods of up to a year or more.
Bed Bugs
Signs of a bed bug presence are spots of blood on bedding and on the corners of mattresses and many people can react badly to the bites of these bugs.
The early the 21st century has seen bed bug reports multiplying all over the planet, the easy availability of overseas and economic migration have both been given as reasons for the resurgence.
What is positive is that that are now making a real return not only in slum quality housing but top class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough cited a doubling of bed bugs problems every year from 1995 to 2001.
One night away in an infested premises is all it requires, they catch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Stretford Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on transport of all kinds so a simple trip home on an infested tube or train can be sufficient to bring the infestation to your own home.
They are an difficult pest to deal with as contrary to popular belief they do not just live in beds. They hide in any nook and cranny anywhere close to a sleeping human target, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both tricky and time consuming. They have even been revealed found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the folds of flesh on grossly over-weight people.
They are not a pest that can be successfully tackled by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.
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26 Jan 2012 | 3:15 pm | Uncategorized
