Bed Bugs Chorley, Preston and Leyland.
One of the most detested and least understood pest insect species known to mankind is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us dozed off to sleep at night as kids with the parting rhyme of our guardians in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs may have started to predate on people at around the time when 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 forebears started living} in bat infested caves.
Until the arrival of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were commonplace unwelcome guests in most low quality homes.
The later part of the 20th century saw pest operatives dealing with very few bed bug call outs indeed, their presence being largely restricted to cheap holiday hotels and student housing etc.
Many people confuse dust mites, which cannot be seen by the naked, with bed bugs which very definitely are.
Adult bedbugs are reddy-brown, about a quarter of an inch in size and engorged after feeding on human blood.
Bed bugs regularly feed on human blood every seven to ten days, appearing in the hours before dawn and homing in on their target by sniffing the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when nearby their target, the heat from the body of their intended target.
Without a suitable human host to dine on they can lay in a period of dormancy for periods of up to a year or more.
Often the first sign of a bed bug infestation are spots of blood on bedding and on the base of mattresses and a lot of people can react badly to the bites of these bugs.
The early the 21st century has seen bed bug reports expoding across the planet, the easy availability of international and economic migration have both been blamed for the resurgence.
What is certain is that that are now making a real comeback not only in low quality housing but first class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough reported a doubling of bed bug reports every year from 1995 to 2001.
One night away in an infested hotel is all it needs, 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 tubes and buses so a simple ride home on an infested tube or train can be enough to spread bed bugs to your own home.
They are an expensive pest to deal with as contrary to popular belief they do not just live in beds. They live 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 laborious and time consuming. They have even been revealed 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 dealt with by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be required.
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