Bed Bugs Blackpool, Southport and The Fylde.
One of the most hated and misunderstood pests known to science is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us fell asleep to sleep at night as youngsters with the parting rhyme of our parents in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs may have started to feed on man at around the time we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and C pipistrella mainly fed on bats and it is a fair chance that bat feeding species of bugs evolved to feed on human blood when our ancestors started sleeping} in bat infested caves.
Up to the production of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common guests in most low quality homes.
The later part of the 20th century saw pest control companies having very few bed bug infestations indeed, their presence being generally restricted to cheap holiday camps and student accomadation etc.
Many people mistake dust mites, which aren’t visible to the naked, with bed bugs which most certainly.
Adult bedbugs are reddish brown, about a few milemetres in size and very swollen after a feed of human blood.
Bed bugs usually feed on human blood every seven to ten days, emerging in the early hours of the morning and finding their target by sniffing the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when close in on their target, they sense body body heat.
Without a suitable human meal to dine on they can lay dormant for periods of up to a year or more.
Bed Bugs
Often the first sign of a bed bug problem are spots of blood on sheets and on the corners of mattresses and many people can react badly to their bites.
The early the 21st century has seen bed bug infestations multiplying all over the planet, the easy availability of overseas and economic migration have both been blamed for the resurgence.
What is known is that that are now making a real fightback not only in slum quality housing but high class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough cited a doubling of bed bugs infestations every year from 1995 to 2001.
One night away in an infested bed 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 journey home on an infested tube or train can be enough to bring these bugs to your own home.
They are an expensive pest to eradicate as contrary to popular notion they do not just live in beds. They hide in any nook and cranny suitably close to a sleeping human, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both laborious and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the folds of flesh on very fat people.
They are not a pest that can be tackled by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.
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