![]() Before any professional treatment for bed bugs, make sure you bag up and throw away any rubbish or unwanted items in your room, and place all your other items in one spot for the pest controller to inspect. Decluttering - If your bedroom's full of bric-a-brac, books, and other clutter, you're providing bountiful bug hideaways.Combining with a broader treatment of the room using insecticides or heat, this method allows you to keep using your mattress, ensuring a good night's sleep without the risk of getting bitten. Meanwhile the bed bugs trapped inside the encasement will eventually die of starvation. Mattress encasements - These special impermeable covers with zippers seal around your mattress and box springs, ensuring no bed bugs can get in, or out.Some people recommend using special water-soluble laundry bags that will dissolve when put through a hot cycle. Just be careful to seal them in a bag before transporting to your washing machine, so they don't get spread around your house. Putting infested bed linen and clothing through a hot machine wash is an easy and effective way to eliminate bed bugs and their eggs. Heat - Bed bugs can't survive temperatures higher than 45☌.How to get rid of bed bugs?įortunately, you don't need a wooden stake or holy water to get rid of these little bloodsuckers! The following techniques have been shown to instantly kill bedbugs: These veritable insect vampires only feed every 3 to 7 days, spending much of their time digesting their last meal out of sight in their hidey holes. Bedbugs live what’s called a cryptic lifestyle, meaning they spend much of the day in hiding, then come out after midnight, detecting human hosts by exhaled CO2 and body heat. Considering their skill for stowing themselves away in your stuff (bags, boxes, clothing) with their uncanny ability to survive for a year without feeding, you can see how they easily spread from place to place (including your home). They can also be imported in second-hand furniture. Where do bed bugs come from? Bed bugs love being around congregations of people, why they’re often associated with hotels and other accommodation. They cause intense itchiness, usually the morning after being bitten. They mostly occur on the arms and legs, are about 2 to 4 millimetres in diameter, and can look just like a mosquito bite. These little suckers’ preferred diet is human blood, which they extract from their sleeping host by biting into the skin until they tap into a capillary space that allows them to fill up on the crimson fluid.īecause it might take a few goes for the bed bug to ‘strike oil’, so to speak, their bites often occur in curved-shaped clusters. When bed bugs move into your home, they are literally making you their meal ticket. You may also notice their pinhead-sized small eggs. Their faeces appear as dark brown smudges. As parasitic insects like fleas, they feed on blood, thus the reddish stains. If you have a bed bug infestation, the likely signs will be rust-coloured stains on your bedding due to the bed bugs being crushed. While you probably won’t see them, you might detect their musty odour. They tend to hide during the day, nestled in nooks and crannies like curtain folds, drawer joints, chair seams, and of course, in your bed. Adult bed bugs are about the size of an apple seed, with an oval-shaped reddish brown body.
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