Bed Bugs Warrington, Knutsford and Lymm,.
One of the most reviled and misunderstood pest species known to science is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us fell asleep to sleep at night as children with the parting rhyme of our parents in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs most probably started to feed on human beings at around the time when we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella primarily fed on bats and it is a fair chance that bat feeding species of bugs evolved to feed on man when our forebears started dwelling} in bat infested caves.
Before the arrival of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were commonplace stowaways in most low quality homes.
The later part of the 20th century saw pest controllers called out to very few bed bug problems indeed, their presence being largely restricted to low quality holiday camps and student lodgings etc.
Most people confuse dust mites, which aren’t visible to the unaided eye, with bed bugs which deinitely.
Adult bedbugs are reddish in colour, about a quarter of an inch in size and very swollen after a feed of human blood.
Bed bugs typically feed on human blood every week or so, coming out in the hours before dawn and locating their target by sniffing the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when close in on their target, the heat from the body of their intended target.
Without a suitable human host to feed on they can lie dormant for periods of up to 18 months.
The first signs of a bed bug problem are spots of blood on sheets and on the base of mattresses and many people can react badly to the bites of these bugs.
The early part of this century has seen bed bug reports growing across the planet, the easy availability of overseas and economic migration have both been blamed for the resurgence.
What is known is that that are now making a real comeback not only in slum quality housing but high 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 requires, 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 transport of all kinds so a simple trip home on an infested tube or train can be sufficient to spread the infestation to your own home.
They are an difficult pest to eradicate as contrary to popular belief they do not just live in beds. They infest any nook and cranny suitably close to a sleeping human target, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both tricky and time consuming. They have even been revealed found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the creases of flesh on very fat people.
They are not a pest that can be successfully tackled by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.
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