Thursday 5 April 2012

Some Facts And Information About Bedbugs.

1....As in all cases the bed is always 70-80% of the problem ... the easy part if you know you have to bring the fight to the bed to knock off that much of the problem. The other 20 or 30% is the difficult part, and where most guys fail if they don't hunt down these areas and treat them accordingly to kill bugs on contact.

2....Learn the classic signs of bed bugs
    
Live samples - notoriously hard to find as they tend to hide in cracks and crevices
     
Cast skins - easier to find as they are often on the outside around hiding places
     
Fecal traces - black marks that look like a felt tip pen dab

3....Bed bugs can travel up to 30 m

4....Life cycle

Eggs - The bed bug eggs are white and about 1 mm long, and almost impossible to see on most surfaces. The female bed bug lays about 200 eggs in her lifetime, at a rate of about 3 or 4 per day. The eggs have a sticky coating and are deposited in cracks and crevices, behind woodwork and similar hidden locations. They hatch in 6 to 17 days.

Nymphs - Newly hatched nymphs feed as soon as food is available. A bed bug goes through five moults before it reaches full maturity.

Adults - Adults usually live for around 10 months, but can live for a year or more. In a home, where the environment is conducive to their reproduction (their ideal breeding temperature is between 21° to 28°C), bed bugs can breed year round. Bed bugs are wingless and cannot fly or jump, but are able to enter into extremely small locations in the home because of their flattened bodies. Bed bugs can live for several weeks to several months without feeding, depending on the temperature. They can go without feeding for 80 to 140 days;
older bed bugs can go without feeding longer than younger ones. Adults have been known to survive for as long as 550 days (over a year and a half!) without feeding. 

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