Why bed bugs

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Bites can take up to 14 days to become visible but often appear within several days. Bedbug bites are larger than fleabites and do not usually have a red dot at the center. The bites tend to be raised and red.

Most people who are bitten show no symptoms at all and often do not know it happened. This makes it more difficult to prevent or identify potential infestations. Some individuals, however, may become ill and nauseous.

It is possible to get scars and skin infections from scratching the bites. Very rarely, people might have an anaphylactic reaction to bedbug bites. It is possible but rare to have an asthmatic reaction to bedbugs. They may get into a new home as stowaways when luggage, furniture, and bedding is moved in.

People should be careful when purchasing second-hand furniture and should never purchase used mattresses. A careful visual inspection should allow a person to detect bedbugs or their droppings.

Even vacant and seemingly clean homes may have bedbugs in them. They can survive for over two months without any food. It is also believed they can move from apartment to apartment through hollows and holes in the walls and the tubes through which wires and pipes run. It is possible to encase both the mattress and box spring in a protective cover, as some people do for allergy relief.

Some pest control firms sell them, as well as a number of retail outlets. Click here for a range of products that can help to protect a bed against infestation. Once encased, any bedbug trapped inside and prevented from feeding will eventually die. Some people keep their new beds encased, as it prevents the bugs from getting into the crevices in the mattress and makes it easier to keep the surface clean and bug-free. When traveling, avoid putting luggage on the bed to reduce the risk of bringing bedbugs home in a suitcase.

Some experts point to different housekeeping practices that emerged after World War II — people were using vacuum cleaners more, and so on. Or in the United Kingdom, they were able to reduce bedbug numbers before the war, in the s, because they completely tore down all these tenement buildings and rebuilt them. BP: So how did bedbugs make a comeback?

It wasn't simply because we banned DDT in the s , was it? BB: No. Some people still say the only reason we have bedbugs now is because we banned DDT [after concerns about its threat to wildlife]. The bigger problem is that bedbugs were becoming resistant to DDT, and that was starting to happen way before the ban occurred.

DDT and other pesticides work on the nervous system of insects — often by screwing with their ion channels and leaving them open so that it fries the nervous system. But how did they become so widespread? BB: The idea is that pockets of resistant bedbugs evolved somewhere in the world, probably in more than one place. Then in the s and s, you have this huge increase in air travel both domestically and internationally — it got cheaper through the deregulation of airlines in the US and a set of new treaties in the s.

That probably helped spread these resistant bedbugs. One hypothesis is that it started in Eastern Europe. BP: So what is it that makes bedbugs so tenacious and hard to kill? Is it just this pesticide resistance? They're cryptic insects, and they hide during the day, which makes them hard to detect with the human eye.

But the resistance is definitely a problem. There are other factors, too. Also, bedbugs can spread very easily in cities — because to get rid of them you have to work with other people sharing living space or sharing walls.

That can be incredibly difficult. What is it that makes them so hellish? But he just might not have been allergic. It can also be expensive when pest control companies are called in. Just remember - bed bugs are more of a nuisance than a health concern and, with vigilance, you can avoid or deal with infestations. Navigation menu. What are bed bugs? Bed bugs are small, flat wingless insects that are reddish-brown in color and approximately one-quarter inch long, before feeding about the size and shape of a small apple seed.

They hide during the day on beds mattress seams, box springs, bed frames, headboards and in cracks and crevices of walls, floors and furniture. They come out at night. They do not fly or jump, but they can crawl rapidly. How can bed bugs get into my home? They can come from other infested areas or from used furniture.

They can hitch a ride in luggage, purses, backpacks, or other items placed on soft or upholstered surfaces. They can travel between rooms in multi-unit buildings, such as apartment complexes and hotels. How can I avoid bringing bed bugs into my home?