What are Bed Bugs?

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Under everyone’s mattress hides parasites. Bed bugs are one of the most common insects in North America. However it is only in the recent years that bed bugs were categorized as pests. Bed bugs now thrive in hotels, restaurants, shelters, homes, apartments and motels.  So, what are bed bugs? These are tiny, brown, flattened insects that feed on an animal’s blood. There are certain types of bed bugs that have a preference for humans. The common one, classified as Cimex lectularius, found in our homes, is the insect adapted to living with humans. Bed bugs can be mistaken for ticks in their adult stage. They do not fly like cockroaches but they are agile and can move really fast over walls, floors, and other types of surfaces. What makes them a pest is that bed bugs are very resilient. They can live without food (blood) from their host for up to a year. This means these parasites can lie dormant, just waiting for an unsuspecting victim to arrive. The bed bug’s nocturnal behavior makes it hard for people to identify if they have one on their furniture. Eliminating them is also a problem. If people cannot see where the bed bugs are, it can be hard to determine if they were all killed when pesticide is applied. Bed bugs are great hiders and usually come out to feed on a blood meal in the middle of the night. It is not confirmed if bed bugs are aware that their hosts are asleep when they feed, but their habits suggest that they can more or less sense if the host is in a relaxed state.

Symptoms & Signs of a Bed Bug Infestation

Symptoms of being bitten by bed bugs are different from one person to another. There are people who have no reaction to bites from these bed bugs. Some experience an itchy, swelling bump on the skin where the bed bugs had their fill. Others have leave inflamed welt marks on their victims.  Bed bugs feed on their hosts by piercing the human skin with long beak, which they use to suck the blood. Much like fleas and mosquitoes, their bodies become engorged in three to ten minutes without the victim noticing. Perhaps it is their patience in getting the blood meal that makes it hard for human to realize what is happening to them. There has been no documented case of a disease passed on by bed bugs so it is dismissed by science. The extent of their damage to their hosts is limited to itchiness and swelling from their bites. The real problem with bed bugs is infestation. They can produce three generations in a year. Female bed bugs place their eggs in very secluded areas, like in the folds of mattresses, and deposits eggs of up to five a day. Because of this their numbers continue to grow without the human’s knowledge. Soon they spread around the house and an infestation occurs. These infestations can cause anxiety and loss of sleep. How do you know if your bed is infested with bed bugs? Answer three simple questions to find out:

1. Do you wake up to find an itchy and swelling welt on your neck, face, arms, shoulders, etc when you had none before sleeping?
2. Does your mattress have dark stains and spotting?
3. Do you wake up to see small reddish brown spots on the sheets, pillowcases or walls?

If you answered, “yes” to two out of three questions above, then it is likely that you are lying in a mattress full of bed bugs.
One way to get rid of them is to throw away your mattress and spray your home to kill any live bedbugs that do not live on your mattress and any others as they hatch. Using pesticides on the bed and around your house can be dangerous for the owner. That is why we recommend that you use Bed Bug Terminator.
Eliminating an entire home of bed bugs can be tedious. It requires patience and determination. That is why we have Bed Bug Terminator which is proven to kill in case studies.

How to Use Bed Bug Terminator

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• Remember your larger bugs will of course cause larger bites and sores on your skin and scalp, unless you become allergic to the bite which will be much more serious and lead to infection. The larger bites will probably come from Bed Bugs and some forms of mites (there are many kinds of mites)

• Our products “JUST CONTROL THE BUGS” so if you have sores you must treat them with some form of medicated ointment, ask your doctor about that. Our products kill the bugs so you don’t get any more bites and sores.

• BED BUGS: Spray the  BEDBUG TERMINATOR in every room in your home that you detect BED BUG ACTIVITY. Mattresses, box springs, under and over… bed frame, head board, foot board, carpeting, sofas, chairs, closets, floor boards (the entire perimeter of the rooms). Inspect your furniture, baseboards, curtains, pictures, especially furniture you may have just gotten from somewhere else (this is one of the more common ways that the Bed Bugs arrive on the scene). Spray the solution everywhere you think the bugs can be hiding and repeat every day for a week then every other day for another week. The trick is to spray them as the eggs hatch.

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