How do you get bed bugs?

Many people are faced with a infestation of bed bugs. Bed bugs can be found throughout homes, apartments, hotels, and even automobiles. But where did these bedbugs come from and how do people get them? Is it poor sanitation or do they take a ride and come home with you.

The first way to get bedbugs would be bringing them home and he used sofa, mattress or other furniture. If you pick up a free mattress that may be out in somebody’s trash or you by use piece of furniture these could be ways that bedbugs can enter your home. It’s at all possible avoid used furniture but if you need to make sure you thoroughly inspect the entire sofa, mattress or other piece of furniture. You want to look at each crack and crevice in the headboards, bed frames, nightstands, and other pieces of furniture. Bed bugs will be found in the smallest cracks so inspection is very important. In the long run it may be cheaper to purchase new furniture than to pick up used furniture with bedbugs. Bed bug treatments can run into several hundreds of dollars to treat. So think twice.

Another area of concern would be going to a hotel on a business trip or vacation and then bringing them home in a suitcase or bag. So again inspection of the hotel room is vitally important. Make sure you pull back the covers and look around the edges of the mattress lift up the mattresses in the box spring to see if you can find any bedbugs. You are also looking for blood spots on the mattress or covers. When you’re searching the room don’t forget to look behind any pictures, headboards, and nightstands. The bedbugs will be located near a host so start your inspection close to the bed and move out from there. You can also carry special bed bug bags for your luggage to seal them up preventing the bedbugs to enter. Make sure you keep your luggage and clothing up off the floor and use a luggage rack. And when you get home from the hotel place your bags in the garage and bag up all your clothes and run them through a hot wash or a warm dryer cycle.

So the answer to the question how do you get bedbugs can be no simple answer. Bed bugs can be found in several locations and even some that I have not mentioned. But the best thing to do if you’re worried about bringing bedbugs home is to do a thorough inspection of anything you bring home or any place you stay. It is much better to be cautious than to be careless and bring bedbugs home.

Don’t Move! You are lying on your mattress watching T.V. and all of a sudden you see a small flat oval bug crawl across the white sheets. Bed bugs have invaded your mattress. You quickly kill the bed bug and rip off your bed sheets. There are bed bugs all over your mattress. Know you yell and scream I have a mattress with bed bugs.

When you discover your mattress with bedbugs there are several things you can do. The first thing you can do is discard the mattress and box springs. This would be ok but you still may have bed bugs.

The second treatment is treat your mattress and box spring with a pesticide for bed bugs. Before you do this please read and follow the label or seek a professional. The disadvantage would be that you would be sleeping 8 hours a day on pesticide.

The next possibility would be using a vacuum. This would be more environmentally friendly but unfortunately would not get the bed bugs out of all the cracks. Mattress with bed bugs could not be solved with this method alone.

Bed bugs can be killed by either steaming or freezing them. Both of these methods would kill the bed bugs in the mattress. These two methods will be able to penetrate the cracks and crevices better but does not have a lasting effect. That means it has no residual kill. If you don’t kill every last bed bug they have nothing after the treatment to kill any remaining bed bugs.

The last method for treating a mattress with bed bugs would be using bed encasements. Mattress covers would be the best and safest option. The covers are designed to trap the bed bugs inside and keep any bed bugs from infesting the mattress again.

Even though the mattress with bed bugs can be treated with mattress encasements, you still may need to call a professional to treat the whole room or even the house.

What are bedbugs?  Well you need to know what they are and how to identify if you have them.  If you travel it is a must to know what they look for.  Bedbugs are fairly easy to identify but not so easy to treat. You will need to know some basics like what are bedbugs, what bedbugs look like, where do bedbugs live? If you know the answers to these questions then you can protect you and your family from getting infested.

To answer the “What are bedbugs ?“ question you will first  need to know what bedbugs look like.  Bedbugs are 3/16th inch long and have an flat oval  appearance.  They can range from brown to reddish brown in color.  Bedbugs change after they have a meal.  They become plump and elongated.  Bedbugs wings are reduced to short wing pads so they are unable to fly.  

Now that you know what are bedbugs, you need to know where to look for them.  Bedbugs can be found in several locations in a room or home.  First you want to look at the mattress and box spring.  Then move to the bed frame and nightstands.  Look around the base trim and at the edge of the carpeting.  The signs that you want to look for are small red to reddish brown fecal spots on surfaces such as a mattress. 

How do you get bedbugs?  You can bring items such as used sofas or mattresses that are infested into your house.  Another way to get bedbugs  is to go to an infested hotel.  This is why you need to know what are bedbugs. If you go on a vacation you will be able to identify  any problems in a hotel room before you bring them home.  

What are bedbugs? That question should have been answered  in the above information.  Identification is very important but knowing the next step is just as important.  The next step is treatment.  Treatment of bedbugs should be left to a professional.  Seek out service from a professional as soon as you identify that you have bedbugs.