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What Are Bedbugs?
Have you ever asked the question, what are bedbugs? If you, or someone you know, has ever woken up with several strange bites on their body, they too may have asked this question.
Most householders of this generation have never seen a bed bug. Until recently, they also were a rarity among pest control professionals. Bed bug infestations were common in the United States before World War II. However, with improvements in personal and living hygiene, the bugs all but vanished.
The pests remained prevalent, though, in other regions of the world including Asia, Africa, Central/South America and Europe. Unfortunately, in recent years, bed bugs and bed bug bites have also made a comeback in the U.S. They are increasingly being encountered in homes, apartments, hotels and motels. International travel has undoubtedly contributed to the resurgence of bed bugs in this country. Changes in modern pest control practice - and less effective bed bug pesticides - are other factors suspected for the recurrence.
The presence of the creatures are no longer a sign of less-than-stellar cleaning skills, especially since many seem to be coming from Europe and the Middle East, by accompanying travelers on the way back home. Unfortunately, they are virtually impossible to eliminate without the help of a professional, and are often found in locations that make them difficult to detect. Their flat-body, oval shape and reddish brown color pale in comparison to the fact that they emit an unpleasant-smelling oily secretion from two glands on their undersurface.
Often erroneously associated with filth, they are attracted by exhaled carbon dioxide, not by dirt, and they feed on blood, not waste. Bedbugs are not, strictly speaking, parasites, because unlike, God forbid, lice or crabs, they can survive away from their host. Basically, they eat and then crawl into a hiding place in the mattress or upholstery, or under the rug or the molding, or maybe into your clothes or your furniture, and sleep it off until the next time they’re hungry. They are small, even tiny insects (a small one can rest on the head of a pin and a larger on is less than a quarter inch and have four-segmented antennae that are attached to the head between the prominent compound eyes.
Bedbugs are one of the great travelers of the world and are readily transported by luggage, clothing, and furniture. Bedbugs are not very quick, so a fresh sheet offers temporary resistance, and any newly attached eggs will be destroyed. When removing the sheet, roll it down instead of pulling it off, put it in a plastic bag to transport to the laundry room, and wash in hot water right away.
By: Mumby
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