Bed Bug Control

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What Do Bed Bugs Look Like?

Bed bugs come from the family Cimicidae the 91 species in this family are wingless, obligate hematophagous ectoparasites that feed on bats, birds and mammals. Bed bugs a.k.a. Cimex lectularius wich translates from Latin to bed bug.

Adult bed bugs are oval shaped, flat, and approximately 5 millimeters in length. They are not invisible and can be spotted by even an untrained eye, they can resemble unfed ticks or small cockroaches. The adults are reddish brown in color while the immature bed bugs resemble adults just much smaller and may be light yellow. They have a pyramid shaped head with prominent compound eyes, slender antennae and a long proboscis tucked backward underneath the head and thorax. After a blood meal, the bugs may increase in length by 30 to 50 percent and in weight by 150 to 200 percent.

How Do You Get Bed Bugs?

Bed bugs sense and seek warmth, a trait that helps them locate warm-blooded hosts. They generally avoid light, hide during the day, and feed at night. Hiding places are usually within five feet of suitable hosts and include seams in mattresses, crevices in box springs, backsides of headboards, spaces under baseboards or loose wallpaper, and even behind hanging pictures. There are five nymphal stages through which the insects pass to reach adulthood. At each nymphal stage, insects must take a blood meal in order to complete development and molt to the next stage. The insects take five to 10 minutes to ingest a full blood meal. Adult bed bugs have an average life span of six to 12 months and can survive a year without feeding. When their preferred human hosts are absent, they may take a blood meal from any other warm-blooded animal, including pets.

Dispersal of human-associated bed bug species generally depends on human hosts for movement from one location to another. This may occur by way of furniture, clothing, suitcases, used mattresses, and other personal possessions. Bugs may also migrate from one apartment or hotel in walls, water pipes, or gutters.

Article source Jerome Goddard.