Six Way You Can Get Bed Bugs In Your Home

How do you get bed bugs? If you do not know the answer to this particular question you must read this now!

Bed bugs continue to be a serious headache all over the USA and indeed across numerous countries in the Western world. Having an elementary knowledge of how you get bed bugs is going to make a huge difference with regards to preventing their spread.

Here are six of the most frequent ways you can get bed bugs invading your house:

1. Travel - All of us love to treat ourselves and our families to the odd holiday and many of us need to travel on business.
Unfortunately, this is the most common way in which bedbugs to find their way into our houses. These vampire pests are actually brilliant hitch hikers that can crawl into luggage and other belongings left in hotel rooms, on aeroplanes or from any other type of public transport where they may be hiding away. It only takes one traveler or visitor to have the insects on their clothing or inside their bags to cause an infestation
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2. Visitors - How do you get bed bugs from visitors? Well, I would sincerely hope that none of your friends or family would bring bedbugs to stay intentionally. Especially over the holiday season this can be a problem  when  you might have a lot of people staying over.

3. Purchasing clothing from second hand retailers - times are really hard and cash is tight for many

of us. If you do purchase clothes from this kind of outlet carry them back home in a sealed bag. Wash them at as high a temperature as the fabric will withstand and tumble dry straightaway. Hiring outfits at times such as Halloween may also be problematic and you almost certainly will never be 100% sure they have been laundered and checked before hand. In this case make sure you properly check everything before you take  it into your home.

4. Buying pre-owned furniture - could potentially be extremely high risk but again if needs must...  For a start only visit a used furniture shop which is trustworthy. Look at the furniture in detail. Couches, chairs, bed frames etc will all be quite hard to check fully. If you see any small rips in upholstery or stitching coming undone leave well alone - you will never know if indeed there are actually bedbugs inside of it. Any piece of furniture that appears to have white dust within it may have been treated for bed bugs or perhaps another kind of insect and therefore my recommendation would definitely be leave well alone. If you can, have items you do buy professionally fumigated - unfortunately this will of course increase the cost.

5. Taking in furniture from dumpsters or from the street - no matter how desperate you might be this is certainly not advisable. Truth be told there is every probability that the items ended up being left because they contain bedbugs!

6. Moving into rented houses. This really is something that happens to a lot of people - they move into a new home and in less than a couple of weeks there are bedbugs everywhere! Okay so, just how do you get bed bugs when you know you did not have them prior to the move? Quite often the last tenant has had problems, they move, the owner has just a bit of a clean up, maybe has the place sprayed then rents the property to somebody else.  Should some bugs or eggs survive and reproduce any new tenant will quickly have a huge problem on their hands.


If or when you are moving it is often a wise move to ask a pest management consultant along to check out the property for warning signs of bed bugs. Be warned, many property owners may very well object to this so ask your specialist to pose as a relative or friend so that they can have a good poke around.

Eliminating Bed Bug Eggs May Help You Eliminate An Infestation Faster

A fertilized female bed bug with access to a good food supply will lay around 3 to 4 eggs every day. If circumstances really aren't ideal she might just lay 1. Anyway, it is conceivable that a single female will probably lay around 500 eggs during the course of her lifetime - usually somewhere around 9 months this depends upon conditions like temperature etc. The minute bed bug eggs are laid where they are least likely to be disturbed therefore ensuring that they have the very best chance of hatching and maturing. When searching for bedbug eggs check out any kind of cracks and crevices, behind peeling wallpaper, baseboards, along the base of headboards etc. When an egg is first laid the exterior is covered with a sticky substance that enables it to stick to the surface upon which it was placed making it more difficult for it to be removed. The eggs of bed bugs are really very tiny measuring a mere 1 mm and are white in color. Quite often you may hear them compared in appearance to a grain of rice. At regular room temperature the young bed bugs will emerge within 7 days. Obviously if its possible to identify bedbug eggs and kill them before they hatch your infestation might be brought under control easier. Unfortunately it must be said that this might be much easier said than actually doing it. Due to their size and also color finding bed bugs eggs can be no simple task particularly if they are located on a surface that is light in color. Is actually just about possible to see them with the naked eye however the use of a magnifying glass and a flash light could make the task a little bit easier. Okay so, how do you destroy bedbug eggs? To tell the truth there is no straight-forward answer. Would you believe there are no chemical treatments guaranteed to destroy bed bug eggs in one go!. Some of these remedies won't kill any eggs because they can not penetrate the outer shell. To be fair, these products are usually manufactured to destroy mature bugs and nymphs on contact. The best way to eradicate bed bug eggs is through heat. Temperatures upwards of 120 oC will eliminate them. This is actually the main reason that it is advisable to launder and tumble dry all bed sheets, garments etc. before beginning any treatment of the infested room. Its not the laundering which will dispose of the eggs but the time the items spend in the drier As for destroying bedbug eggs with heat you have got a few options such as a commercial treatment carried out by professionals or utilizing a suitable steam vapor cleaner and doing the job yourself. You have to make certain it is one which gets to the sort of temperatures required i.e up wards of 120oC and produces dry vapor to prevent items becoming too wet and perhaps causing problems with mold. If you do go for chemical treatment methods do not forget you are going to need to apply more than one due to the fact a single treatment will not eliminate all the eggs. Therefore, further treatments are going to be necessary at intervals to eliminate bugs as they hatch out.