How to Get Rid of Pesky Bed Bugs
April 18, 2010
When you become aware of unwanted and undesirable guests near or besides your bed, then you better act accordingly. Bed bugs are a pesky bug that feeds off blood. They are difficult to get rid of, so if you have them you must take the proper steps to get them out of your bed and out of your home forever.
Bed bugs usually come into your home by traveling on luggage, bedding, furniture or other items that may have been in an infested place. Once they have found their way, it is really tough to drive them out.
It takes time and patience to get these bugs out of your home. They are night lovers and it is difficult to trace them during the day time. They can also live for a long time, over a year, without food. Contributing to their hard to rid nature, bed bugs lay around 300 eggs and it only takes ten days for them to hatch. They survive on the blood which they suck from your body.
The only way to trace out that your home is bug infested are the bites and wounds on your body. At times you would also notice dead bed bugs, spots of blood on the floor or blood colored stains.
To get rid of bed bugs you have to follow a step-by-step plan.
Any item that can be laundered needs to be bagged and put in the dryer. Other items should be wrapped in plastic and placed in a hot area for a few days or in the freezer for two weeks. Larger items should be vacuumed and the vacuum bag should be thrown out immediately. Many professional agencies resort to steam cleaning so as to wipe out all traces of bed bugs.
Specialized pest control services need to be hired so that all possible traces of bed bugs are completely wiped out. If the bed bugs have totally infested your bedding, then it become practically impossible to treat the bedding or mattress with pesticides, the best way is to throw out the mattress far away. The treatment process to get rid of bed bugs needs to be repeated until the bugs are completely gone.
Bugs breed in unhygienic and damp conditions and hence it is imperative that special care be given to cleanliness by making sure you undertake cleaning and vacuuming regularly and frequently.
Now that you have learned how to get rid of bed bugs, do find out how to get rid of other pests:
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