Monday, November 17, 2008

To Kill Bed Bugs - You Must Find Them

Now I have already gone over some ways on how to kill bed bugs, but how do you really know that you have these disgusting blood sucking insects visiting you early in the morning a couple of hours before sunrise? The first sign of that you may have bed bugs is that you have insect bites on your body, this could or could not be bed bugs, if you are noticing bumps that were not there before you went to sleep, then you should start being concerned as to if you really have bed bugs in your house or apartment, or wherever you are sleeping at.

So now you suspect that you may have a bed bug problem, but just insect bites alone will not determine this, you don’t even know for sure that the bumps you have are even insect bites or bed bug bites. Every ones skin reacts to bed bug bites differently, so you will have to do some deep searching around your room. First place I would look for some traces of bed bugs would be on the mattress of the bed. Take off all of the sheets, and closely examine the crevices that are in the mattress, if you see a bunch of black spots, this could be a very good indication that you may have a bed bug infected mattress. The black spots could either resemble their eggs or even blood stains, you should be checking your sheets to if they are that of a light color, look for any kind of little blood trails.

The second place I would look, to find a trail from bed bugs would be in the corners of the ceiling, especially if you have popcorn style ceiling, this gives them and excellent place to hide and lay their eggs, you may even see a couple of shedding of skin from maturing bed bugs, so if you check all of these things, then there is a very good chance that you may have a bit of a bed bug problem. From this point you can either take the necessary steps that I have explained in previous posts on how to kill bed bugs, or you can call your local pest control. They will have to come inside your home and do a major fumigation to once and for all get rid of bed bugs in your household, and sometimes this can be expensive.

On another note, if you live in an apartment complex, and you discover that your apartment is infected with bed bugs, in most all cases it is the apartments responsibility to treat the problem immediately. Although all scientific studies that have been done prove that bed bugs do not carry or transmit any dangerous diseases, the bites you receive from bed bugs always have a chance of getting infected from the irritation and scratching at them, so yes it is the duty of the landlord to solve the problem immediately, in most cases. Either way you can either move to a different location to live, or you can make a stand and kill bed bugs, the choice is up to you.

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