Bed Bugs Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.
One of the most feared and least understood pest insect species known to man is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us dozed off to sleep at night as youngsters 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 people at around the time we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella largely feed on bats and it is probable that bat feeding species of bed bus evolved to feed on man when our forebears started living} in bat infested caves.
Before the invention of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were commonplace stowaways in most slum quality homes.
The later part of the 20th century saw pest controllers having very few bed bug problems indeed, their presence being largely restricted to budget holiday homes and student lodgings etc.
A lot of people mistake dust mites, which cannot be seen by the unaided eye, with bed bugs which most certainly.
Adult bedbugs are reddy-brown, about a few milemetres in size and swollen after a feed of human blood.
Bed bugs usually feed on human blood every seven to ten days, appearing in the early hours of the morning and homing in on their target by smelling the exhaled CO2 from human breath and when close to their target, they sense infra red heat.
Lacking a suitable human host to dine on they can lay dormant for periods of up to a year or more.
The first signs of a bed bug infestation 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 part of this century has seen bed bug infestations multiplying all over the planet, the easy availability of overseas and economic migration have both been put forward for the resurgence.
What is certain is that that are now making a real return not only in lower quality housing but top class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough cited a doubling of bed bug infestations every year from 1995 to 2001.
One night stay in an infested premises is all it takes, 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 all kinds of transport so a simple ride home on an infested tube or train can be all it takes to bring the infestation to your own home.
They are an tricky pest to deal with as contrary to popular notion they do not just live in beds. They hide in any nook and cranny suitably close to a sleeping target, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been revealed 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 eradicated by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be required.
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