Feb
18
Protect-a-bed bed bug proof mattress protectors covers a good way to prevent bed bug problems
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One of the most reviled and misunderstood pest species known to science is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us dropped off 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 most probably started to dine on human beings at about the time we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella mostly feed on bats and it is probable that bat feeding species of bed bus evolved to feed on human blood when our forebears started living} in bat infested caves.
Until the invention of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common unwelcome guests in most slum quality homes.
The later part of the 20th century saw pest controllers dealing with very few bed bug infestations indeed, their presence being mostly restricted to low quality holiday homes and student lodgings etc.
A lot of people mistake dust mites, which aren’t visible to the naked, with bed bugs which deinitely.
Adult bedbugs are reddish in colour, about a few milemetres in size and swollen after a feed of human blood.
Bed bugs regularly feed on human blood every few days, coming out in the early hours of the morning and locating their target by detecting the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when close to their target, the heat from the body of their intended target.
In the absence of a suitable human meal to dine on they can lay dormant for periods of up to 18 months.
Bed Bugs
Signs of a bed bug presence are spots of blood on bedding and on the edges of mattresses and many people can react badly to bed bug bites.
The early part of the 21st century has seen bed bug reports explode across the planet, the easy availability of world travel and economic migration have both been put forward for the resurgence.
What is certain is that that are now making a real fightback not only in lower quality housing but top class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough reports a doubling of bed bug reports 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. Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on all kinds of transport so a simple journey home on an infested tube or train can be all it takes to spread 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 conveniently close to a sleeping human target, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the folds of flesh on grossly over-weight people.
A way of stopping bed bug infestation is to equip your bed with Protect-a-bed bed bug proof protector mattress encasements.
Protect-a-bed bed bug proof protector mattress encasements prevent bed bugs from gaining access to your mattress.
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They are not a pest that can be eradicated by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.
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