Bed Bugs Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire.
One of the most feared and least understood pests known to the world is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us dropped off to sleep at night as youngsters with the parting rhyme of our guardians in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs probably started to feed on people at around the period when we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella largely feed on bats and it is a fair chance that bat feeding species of bed bus evolved to feed on human blood when our forebears started staying} in bat infested caves.
Up to the production of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common stowaways in most low quality homes.
The later part of the 20th century saw pest operatives dealing with very few bed bug call outs indeed, their presence being generally restricted to budget holiday homes and student lodgings etc.
A lot of people confuse dust mites, which cannot be seen by the unaided eye, with bed bugs which deinitely.
Adult bedbugs are reddish brown, about a quarter of an inch in size and swollen after feeding on human blood.
Bed bugs usually feed on our blood every few days, appearing in the early hours of the morning and locating their target by detecting the exhaled carbon dioxide from human breath and when close to their target, they sense infra red heat.
Lacking a suitable human meal to dine on they can lie dormant for periods of up to 18 months.
Often the first sign of a bed bug presence are spots of blood on bed clothes and on the base of mattresses and a lot of people can react badly to their bites.
The early part of this century has seen bed bug numbers multiplying everywhere on the planet, the easy availability of overseas and economic migration have both been blamed for the resurgence.
What is certain is that that are now making a real return not only in slum quality housing but first class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough reported a doubling of bed bug infestations every year from 1995 to 2001.
One night away in an infested hotel is all it needs, they catch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Stretford Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on tubes and buses so a simple ride home on an infested tube or train can be all it takes to spread these bugs to your own home.
They are an tricky pest to deal with as contrary to popular belief they do not just live in beds. They hide in any nook and cranny anywhere close to a sleeping human target, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both tricky and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the folds of flesh on very fat people.
They are not a pest that can be eradicated by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.
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