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.