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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How To Get Rid Of Bed Bugs

So I have heard the hype about bed bugs and how they live in some apartments, and a lot of the time you can’t do anything about it, and a lot of people ask themselves, how do I get rid of bed bugs? I mean who wants to move into an apartment, and the first night or two that you sleep there you find out that you are not living alone. You eventually find out that you are the main course meal for your roommates, the ones that never show themselves, the ones that you rarely see, and when you do get the chance to see them, they are dead. The reason that I hate these little blood suckers so much, is because they leave these little bites on you all of the time, and its just the fact that there are tiny blood sucking bugs crawling on you why you are sleeping, is just plain disgusting.

There are many ways that your house or apartment can get an infestation with bed bugs, but here is my personal story on how I think my apartment got infected with these dang little bugs that have nothing better to do than to feed on me once every couple of days. I did a nasty thing, I worked at an apartment complex and a lot of times people that move out leave some stuff behind, like furniture, and sometimes complete bed sets. This was a brand new bed set that somebody had and it was a king size. I was an idiot and decided to grab it, I was financially unstable and I really needed a mattress to sleep on for me and my girlfriend, I was really sick of sleep on the carpet with just some blankets and a few pillows.

So about a month or so after I had my “new” king size bed in my room, my girlfriend and I had started noticing some weird insect looking bites on our body, which I found out were bed bug bites. Then just a few days after that we had seen a bed bug, yes, bed bugs can be seen with the naked eye, and they look disgusting. After about a few weeks we got tired of giving free rent to bed bugs, and on top of that we got sick of our bodies being on the front buffet line for free, so we immediately trashed the mattress. Of course I didn’t know much about bed bugs at the time, and I thought that by just getting rid of the mattress full of bed bugs that they would be gone forever, and for good. Then I started reading up on them, and began to see the light, they can hide anywhere, between cracks and crevices, behind outlet plates, in your clothes, basically anywhere that is inconspicuous. Bed bugs will live, if you don’t kill them all, they will come back, bombs and spray don’t work, you need to kill them all, to do that you have to find them. So how do you find bed bugs? There are many ways that this can be done, here I will explain how to get rid of bed bugs. Go to your local bed store or whatever, and get yourself a dust might mattress cover, doing this will prevent the bed bugs from getting into your mattress and laying eggs, this is the first step that I had taken when I started noticing bed bug bites all over me. Luckily for me, it wasn’t that bad of a situation, meaning it wasn’t a major infestation, to test out just how bad, or not bad, my bed bug problem was, I decided to make my bed and mattress almost impossible for them to get to.

First thing I did is I went to the hardware store and I bought some double sided tape, the strong kind, cost about 20 bucks but well worth it to find out how many bed beds you really got crawling around waiting to take a bite out of you. Then I pulled the bed and mattress about 8 inches away from the wall, this way the bed bugs couldn’t get to me from the wall, knowing that they love to hide up in cracks in the ceiling, especially if you have pop corn ceiling. Then I went to the frame of the bed and wrapped the double sided tape around all four legs, and just for some extra protection I wrapped the double sided tape all the way around the bottom base mattress. Now if I don’t let my sheets hit the ground while I am sleeping and I don’t push the pillow 8 inches to the wall, the bed bugs have no way of reaching me. Remember, bed bugs are wingless insects, so they cannot fly, not only that, they are not very mobile at all, so they don’t stand a shot in hell of getting to me. The next morning I closely examined the double sided tape, and sure enough I had found a couple of stuck, soon to die bed bugs. That is one of many ways on how to get rid of bed bugs.