Bed Bugs Love Garbage

It is a misconception that cleanliness alone will rid you of bed bugs. Bed bugs feast on fresh warm blood and not on garbage or trash. It is just that keeping the house clean and uncluttered will leave fewer hiding places for the bed bug and can therefore help to curb them.

Their flat bodies allow them to vanish into the smallest of crevices, but careful examination of furniture and mattresses which normally host bed bugs would allow you to spot their presence as well as that of the eggs which they lay.

Bed Bugs In The Furniture

Old furniture or mattresses that are quite often exchanged by people or bought from garden sales or any such auction can be a source of bed bugs. So if you have made that purchase to save yourself some money, do take the trouble to inspect the piece and disinfect it thoroughly before you start using it.
Once bed bugs have established themselves in any room or home, they find it quite easy to go through to neighboring areas or rooms through cracks or ducts and find new hosts for themselves, which would also help them to proliferate further. So if you are living in an apartment block, the bed bugs can easily come to you from your neighboring apartment. If however the material separating the units is of concrete the infestation may not spread so easily. Dry wall partitions or such material can become hosts to bed bugs.B

Web bugs all over the world

Bed bugs are a worldwide phenomenon and can be found in any country. There was a brief period when developed countries were less infested, but that trend seems to have been reversed, probably due to the vast amount of traveling being done by people from all over the world. These travelers go to temporary accommodations like hotels or rented apartments where quite often furniture or bed linen and mattresses may be infested with bed bugs. They may also lurk in the closets and cupboards in these places and then just hop onto the luggage of the traveler, who without meaning to do so, helps them to spread out all over the world.

Where Do Bed Bugs Come From

Bed bugs reach their host by crawling or sometimes jump down from ceilings. The jump down when they feel a heat wave which attracts them. They would also gravitate to a spot where they feel there is a source of carbon dioxide, like in human breathing. The biting and sucking action of the bed bug is achieved by its piercing the skin on the host it is on, probably you, by using two hollow tubes. Through one of them it injects anticoagulants and anesthetics while from the other it removes the blood from the host which make up its food. The feeding time is about five minutes after which it will go back to its hiding place. Because of this anesthetic action a bed bug bite is only felt a few hours after the bed bug has had its fill. The first reaction is an uncomfortable itch. Their normal feeding cycle is every week or so, even though bed bugs are known to survive for up to a year without feeding.