One of the most feared and lesser known pests known to mankind is the bed bug C lectularius. Most of us fell asleep to sleep at night as children with the words of our parents in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”

Bed Bugs may have started to feed on people at about the time we started living in, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella largely fed on bats and it is possible that bat feeding species of bug evolved to dine on the blood of human beings when our ancestors started dwelling in bat infested caves.

Before the invention of DDT in the early part of the 20th century bed bugs were common inhabitants in most poor quality homes.

The later decades of the 20th century saw pest control operatives dealing with very few bed bug infestations indeed, their presence being generally confined to cheap holiday lodgings and student accomodation etc.

A lot of 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 quarter of an inch in size and very swollen after feeding on human blood.

In the absence of a suitable human meal to feed on they can lie dormant for lengthy periods of up to 18 months.

Signs of a bed bug infestation are usuallyspots of blood on bed-sheets and on the seems of mattresses and many people can react extremely badly to bed bug bites.

The early part of the 21st century has seen bed bug numbers exploding across the whole globe, the easy availability of world travel and economic migration have both been cited as reasons for the comeback.

What is positive is that that are now staging a real comeback not only in lower quality housing but high class hotels, schools and even hospitals.

One night stay in an infested premises is all it requires, they secret themselves 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 journey to work on an infested tube or train can be all it takes to bring the these bugs to your own house.

They are an tricky pest to deal with as contrary to popular notion they do not just hide in beds. They live in any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping human target, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed-side telephones etc and eradicating them is both expensive and time consuming. They have even been revealed found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the creases of flesh of very over-weight people.

Bed bugs are not a pest that can be tackled by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be required.

Telephone Manchester Pest Control now on 01772 837727







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