A review of Bed Bugs in Prestwich,Whitefield and Swinton in 2010
One of the most detested and least known pests known to science is the bed bug Cimex lectularius. Many of us fell asleep to sleep at night as young ones with the words of our parents in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”
Bed Bugs possibly started to predate on people at around the time we started sleeping in, bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella predominantly feed on bats and it is likely that bat feeding species of bug evolved to dine on our blood when our ancestors started sleeping in bat infested caves.
Up to the popularity of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common guests in most poor quality homes.
The later half of the 20th century saw pest control operatives reporting very few bed bug problems indeed, their presence being generally confined to cheap holiday hotels and student lodgings etc.
Most people mistake dust mites, which can’t be seen by to the naked eye, with bed bugs which very definitely are.
Adult bedbugs are reddish, about a a few milemetres in size and very engorged after feeding on human blood.
In the absence of a suitable human target to feed on they can stay dormant for long periods of up to 18 months.
The first signs of a bed bug problems are usuallyspots of blood on sheets and on the seems of mattresses and some people can react very badly to their bites.
The first decade of the 21st century has seen bed bug numbers expand across the whole world, the cheap availability of world travel and economic migration have both been cited as reasons for the return.
What is definite is that that are now staging a real comeback not only in poor quality homes but high class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One night stay in an infested bed is all it needs, they hitch a ride in your clothing or bags. Pest control professionals are also now seeing cases of transport related bed bug infestations on trains, tubes and buses so a simple ride to work on an infested tube or train can be enough to spread the these pests into your own home.
They are an tricky pest to eradicate as contrary to popular opinion they do not just stay in beds. They live in any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping person, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed-side telephones etc and eradicating them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the creases of flesh of very over-weight people.
They are not a pest that can be eradicated by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.
Telephone Manchester Pest Control now on 01257 230637
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