Thinking about buying a new mattress?
When buying a new mattress, ask the delivery company if they will be taking away your old mattress.
Have they also taken away mattresses infested with bed bugs in their delivery truck?
Will your new mattress be delivered to you in the same delivery truck possibly bringing hitch-hiking bedbugs into, or back into your newly treated home?
And if you did have bed bugs, get mattress encasements for your box spring and mattress, just in case.
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What to do if you think you may have bed bugs.
Bed bugs are persistent. Killing an infestation requires persistence and time.
Bed bugs can hide in extremely small cracks and crevices. They can travel under a crevice the height of a credit card.
Bedbugs are rarely seen in daylight. They prefer to feed at night, but will bite during the day.
Bed bugs can live a year or longer without food (blood).
Bed bug females can lay 2-5 eggs every day.
Bed bugs hatch from eggs in aproximately 10 days. Temperature can affect egg hatching time.
After feeding five times, a female bed bug can begin laying eggs.
A newly hatched bed bug is ready for its first meal.
After being bitten by bed bugs, you may experience the phantom sensations of bugs crawling on and biting your skin. |
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Bed bugs feed for three to ten minutes.
They must have their food source (you) motionless. They sometimes bite in twos and threes, because you moved in your sleep, have to begin over. Another reason may be that they missed a vein the first attempt, and have to try again. Each time they inject you with an anesthetic so you won't feel the biting.
If I was a bed bug I would never want to meet David Cain.
With a degree in Molecular Biology and post-graduate qualifications in Biological Sciences, David is now one of the UK's leading authorities on bed bugs.
David is a bed bug killer and generously shares information with those suffering from bed bugs. Consider this book, "The" definitive resource for all things dead bed bugs.
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