Bed Bug Bites in Leigh, Atherton and Tyldesley in 2010
One of the most detested and misunderstood pest species known to the world is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us fell asleep to sleep at night as children with the words of our guardians in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs most probably started to dine on people at about the period when we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella mainly fed on bats and it is likely that bat feeding species of bed bus evolved to feed on human beings when our forebears started sleeping} in bat infested caves.
Up to the invention of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common stowaways in most poor quality homes.
The later years of the 20th century saw pest controllers dealing with very few bed bug infestations indeed, their presence being generally restricted to low quality holiday camps and student housing etc.
Many people confuse dust mites, which aren’t visible to the naked, with bed bugs which deinitely.
Adult bedbugs are reddy-brown, about a quarter of an inch in size and very swollen after a feed of human blood.
Bed bugs usually feed on our blood every seven to ten days, coming out in the early hours of the morning and finding their target by smelling the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when close to their target, they sense body body heat.
Without a suitable human meal to dine on they can remain in a period of dormancy for periods of up to a year or more.
The first signs of a bed bug infestation are spots of blood on bed clothes and on the corners of mattresses and a lot of people can react badly to bed bug bites.
The early part of this century has seen bed bug reports growing all over the planet, the easy availability of overseas and economic migration have both been blamed for the resurgence.
What is positive is that that are now making a real comeback 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 premises is all it takes, they catch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on tubes, trains and buses so a simple journey to work on an infested tube or train can be enough to spread the infestation to your own home.
They are an expensive pest to deal with as contrary to popular belief they do not just live in beds. They infest any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping human, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both laborious and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the folds of flesh on grossly over-weight people.
They are not a pest that can be dealt with by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.
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