Learn About Bed Bugs – What Makes Them So Harmful
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Abhishek Agarwal
Cimex Lectularius is the scientific name of the bed bugs. Entomology cites them as ancient as the human race. Scientists suggest that they may have followed our race from the ancient caves to the modern civilization of today.
These pests have almost been eradicated in the US with the use of DDT in the 50′s. However there were scientific findings that DDT are also harmful to humans so it was banned. So in the 60s, the bugs returned to popularity in conjunction with the migration of people and arrival of tourists from different parts of the world.
The population of the pests continues to grow with the population of humans on earth. The more people, the more houses and more beds to hide. It is not a question of annihilating them from the face of the earth because up to today after men have invented the internet and the ray gun, the right tool to eliminate them haven’t been invented yet.
However, be not hopeless, because current methods developed by scientists are smarter than their tiny adversaries’ minute brains. On the other hand, isn’t it being expected? It is now possible to make your home free of bed bugs. The price to pay may not come cheap.
Bed bugs are tiny little creatures like ticks but their body shape is oval and flat. They have no wings and its color is reddish brown. Their shape and size allow them to hide in tiny crevices of furniture, beds, floors, chairs, upholsteries. Their eggs conglomerate from where they hide and its color is white cream and translucent.
Bed bugs could reproduce itself 500 times in its life time and could lay eggs at 5 hatchlings per day. Their life span could stretch to one year or more.
The absence of their wings doesn’t make them less harmful. In fact their being cunning is demonstrated by that lack of tool. Bed bugs like ants could crawl through the wall and the ceiling from where they could drop onto a bed with a sleeping victim. They hunt for humans through their high sensitivity to detect humans’ temperature and the carbon dioxide that we exhale.
They are more cunning in the manner by which they feed. They choose the time when people are fast asleep at nearly an hour before dawn. They pierce the human skin with their mouth and insert two tubes. One tube injects coagulant to make blood less viscous and anesthestetics to make their feeding spot numb and prevents the victim from being disturbed. The other tube is used to suck blood. Feeding takes about 4 to 5 minutes. After filling their stomach they leave and get back to their hiding places. They could rest for a year without eating and just lay eggs. The next bed bug to climb the next day for hunting may not be the same bug yesterday. Now the victim only wakes up either it is already morning or the anesthetic already wears out. That is the only time he will feel the itchiness. So itchy he could scratch and cause infection.
The best way to eradicate bed bugs from your homes is through the professionals. Allow them to detect their hiding places or you may help them since it is best to detect bed bugs at the unholy hour of an hour before dawn. Bed bugs scamper in all directions when they detect movements and lighting. You can surprise them with silent movement in the dark and use of a flashlight to spot a potential hiding place.
Pest Control has chemical and non-chemical methods in killing bed bugs and preventing them in coming back. What the home owners could to is to maintain a clean home and repaint all the surfaces from where the bugs used to hide. Use of brighter color is preferred to discourage dark spots at home.
Cimex Lectularius is the scientific name of the bed bugs. Entomology cites them as ancient as the human race. Scientists suggest that they may have followed our race from the ancient caves to the modern civilization of today.
These pests have almost been eradicated in the US with the use of DDT in the 50′s. However there were scientific findings that DDT are also harmful to humans so it was banned. So in the 60s, the bugs returned to popularity in conjunction with the migration of people and arrival of tourists from different parts of the world.
The population of the pests continues to grow with the population of humans on earth. The more people, the more houses and more beds to hide. It is not a question of annihilating them from the face of the earth because up to today after men have invented the internet and the ray gun, the right tool to eliminate them haven’t been invented yet.
However, be not hopeless, because current methods developed by scientists are smarter than their tiny adversaries’ minute brains. On the other hand, isn’t it being expected? It is now possible to make your home free of bed bugs. The price to pay may not come cheap.
Bed bugs are tiny little creatures like ticks but their body shape is oval and flat. They have no wings and its color is reddish brown. Their shape and size allow them to hide in tiny crevices of furniture, beds, floors, chairs, upholsteries. Their eggs conglomerate from where they hide and its color is white cream and translucent.
Bed bugs could reproduce itself 500 times in its life time and could lay eggs at 5 hatchlings per day. Their life span could stretch to one year or more.
The absence of their wings doesn’t make them less harmful. In fact their being cunning is demonstrated by that lack of tool. Bed bugs like ants could crawl through the wall and the ceiling from where they could drop onto a bed with a sleeping victim. They hunt for humans through their high sensitivity to detect humans’ temperature and the carbon dioxide that we exhale.
They are more cunning in the manner by which they feed. They choose the time when people are fast asleep at nearly an hour before dawn. They pierce the human skin with their mouth and insert two tubes. One tube injects coagulant to make blood less viscous and anesthestetics to make their feeding spot numb and prevents the victim from being disturbed. The other tube is used to suck blood. Feeding takes about 4 to 5 minutes. After filling their stomach they leave and get back to their hiding places. They could rest for a year without eating and just lay eggs. The next bed bug to climb the next day for hunting may not be the same bug yesterday. Now the victim only wakes up either it is already morning or the anesthetic already wears out. That is the only time he will feel the itchiness. So itchy he could scratch and cause infection.
The best way to eradicate bed bugs from your homes is through the professionals. Allow them to detect their hiding places or you may help them since it is best to detect bed bugs at the unholy hour of an hour before dawn. Bed bugs scamper in all directions when they detect movements and lighting. You can surprise them with silent movement in the dark and use of a flashlight to spot a potential hiding place.
Pest Control has chemical and non-chemical methods in killing bed bugs and preventing them in coming back. What the home owners could to is to maintain a clean home and repaint all the surfaces from where the bugs used to hide. Use of brighter color is preferred to discourage dark spots at home.
