Bed Bugs Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.
One of the most feared and misunderstood pest species known to man 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 feed on human beings at around the period we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella largely feed on bats and it is probable that bat feeding species of bed bus evolved to feed on man when our ancestors started sleeping} in bat infested caves.
Until the production 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 controllers having very few bed bug infestations indeed, their presence being largely restricted to low quality holiday homes and student housing etc.
Many people confuse dust mites, which aren’t visible to the naked, with bed bugs which most certainly.
Adult bedbugs are reddish in colour, about a few milemetres in size and swollen after dining on human blood.
Bed bugs regularly feed on our blood every few days, emerging in the hours before dawn and homing in on their target by detecting the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when nearby their target, they sense body body heat.
In the absence of a suitable human meal to feed on they can remain in a period of dormancy for periods of up to 18 months.
The first signs of a bed bug problem are spots of blood on bed clothes 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 expoding everywhere on the planet, the easy availability of world travel and economic migration have both been argued as reasons for the resurgence.
What is known is that that are now making a real return not only in cheaper quality housing but first 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 bed is all it takes, they catch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Stretford Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on all kinds of transport so a simple ride to work on an infested tube or train can be sufficient to spread these bugs to your own home.
They are an difficult pest to deal with as contrary to popular belief they do not just live in beds. They live in any nook and cranny suitably close to a sleeping human, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both difficult 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 overweight 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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