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Bed Bug Signs

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Catch them early,
Hunt them down,
Chase those bed bugs,
Out of town.

Bed Bug Signs

Bed bugs can find a cosy home in any area of the house but around 80% are found in nooks and crannies in bedrooms and most will appear in and around the bed.

These pests can reside in tiny cracks in the ceilings and walls, in furniture, on textiles and in any sheltered space.

They usually prefer to live near to a bed for easy access to their target, a sleeping person.

Bed Bugs measure less than a quarter inch in length, are reddish-brown in color and often go unnoticed until the unsuspecting host and victim awakes to find him/herself with red swellings on the legs, arms, neck, back or any areas that may have been exposed during sleep.

Let’s hope you will not find any of the signs or bed bug bite symptoms but do check for the following.

Use your powerful torch, and go on the hunt for:

• Bites on the exposed parts of the body that appeared after sleeping.
  
• Bites that itch only about an hour after the actual bite and continue to itch usually for up to one week and then calm down.
  (Some people are very sensitive to bed bug bites and thes bites can appear as pus filled bumps needing medical attention.)
• Nests of tiny bed bugs and their faecal matter and their tiny eggs in all possible bug resting places
  
• Tiny blood spots on your sheets.
  
• Small brown flecks of bed bug faeces on the sheets or floors.
  
• A sweet-smelling aroma, produced from bed bug’s glands, wafting around the room.
  
• Live bugs creeping around, usually after midnight but sometimes even during the day.

Using a powerful torch, look high and low to find the dreaded bed bug resting sites. I hope you do not find them lurking in your accommodation.

• Look at the ceilings, the cornices and corners.
• Look at the walls, the tears in the wall paper, the cracks in the plaster, the gaps in or behind the skirting boards, the light fittings and the light switches.
• Look at the floor, the cracks in the boards, in and under the carpets and their fringes.
• Look under the bed covers and pillows.
• Look under the mattress, on the mattress, (any holes?), in the mattress folds and under the bed.
• Look at the bed frame, the screw holes and the joints
• Look in your clothes and hunt for the beasties in every nook and cranny

If you find any signs or symptoms that you may have bed bugs, do get advice from your local pest control centre.

There are various DIY ways to get rid of these pests but it is aways worth a phone call to your local pest control officies to find out the best treatments available.

The bed bug exterminators will be able to tell you the best and quickest way to get rid of this most unwelcome, parasitic household pests.

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