How to Know if it's Bed Bugs?
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Determining if you have bed bugs can be challenging due to their buggy behavior. The information on this site should help you in determining if you have bed bugs and what to do next.
What are some symptoms of bed bugs?
Acting quickly to identify and treat bed bugs is the best way to get rid of them sooner rather than later.
Bed Bug Bites
Bites or unexplained welts that are appearing in frequency on a daily or weekly basis; small blood spots on the sheets, black marker dots on your sheets or pillow cases (bed bug excrement-your blood), obvious molt castings, and actual bed bugs. Since bed bugs are primarily nocturnal, you could go months with mysterious bites and not know why or where they are coming from.
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How long would it take to see signs of bed bugs?
This depends on you, and the bed bug(s). Did you bring one from a hotel, movie theater, or coffee house into your home, or did a small herd of them migrate from a connected apartment into yours?
Typically, however, there is one, and that one if a female will bite you until she reaches adulthood and then will begin laying 3-5 eggs a day and when they reach adulthood in about 5 weeks, the females will begin laying eggs of their own, which will hatch in about 10 days or so. So now you have a bed bug factory with eggs being laid every single day, and two months later you've got a nice infestation on your hands.
Have your home inspected if you suspect bed bugs
Have an inspection at the earliest date you suspect it could be bed bugs. Either you will find out you do not have bed bugs or that you have identified you do, and will have treatment before the population explodes.
Tips
- Don't throw away your mattress. Inspect, steam and encase it.
- Don't start throwing out tons of your possessions. There are ways to treat almost everything. You can put things you can't treat right away in giant XXL Zip Lock Bags.
- If you are going to throw things away, put them in double sealed black heavy-duty trash bags and bring the bag to the stuff instead of the stuff to the bag.
- Don't spread bed bugs around your house further by moving infested items and shaking bed bugs all over your home, building or car.
- If you decide to get rid of your bed or furniture, wrap and tape everything in plastic sheeting.
