One of the most feared and least known pests known to mankind is the bed bug C lectularius. Most of us fell asleep to sleep at night as young ones with the words of our guardians in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”
Bed Bugs possibly started to dine on people at about the period we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella primarily fed on bats and it is probable that bat feeding species of bug evolved to feed on our blood when our ancestors started dwelling in bat infested caves.
Until the arrival of DDT in the early part of the 20th century bed bugs were common inhabitants in most poor quality homes.
The later decades of the twentieth century saw pest control companies called out to very few bed bug call outs indeed, their presence being usually confined to cheap holiday camps and student halls etc.
Most people mistake dust mites, which can’t be seen by to the naked eye, with bed bugs which most definitely are.
Adult bedbugs are red-brown, about a a few milemetres in size and very swollen after a feed of human blood.
In the absence of a suitable human being to feed on they can stay dormant for lengthy periods of up to 18 months.
Signs of a bed bug problems are oftenspots of blood on bedding and on the seems of mattresses and many people can react very badly to their bites.
The early part of the 21st century saw bed bug numbers exploding across the entire planet, the cheap availability of world travel and economic migration have both been cited as reasons for the return.
What is positive is that that are now staging a real comeback not only in poor quality properties but high class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
A single stay in an infested premises is all it requires, they hide in your clothing or bags. Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on trains, tubes and buses so a simple journey to work on an infested tube or train can be sufficient to bring the these pests to your own house.
They are an tricky pest to eradicate as contrary to popular notion they do not just stay in beds. They hide in any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping human, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed-side telephones etc and dealing with them is both expensive and time consuming. They have even been revealed found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the creases of flesh of very over-weight people.
They are not a pest that can be eradicated by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be required.
Phone Manchester Pest Control now on 0800 019 8382
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