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Bed Bug Facts
Bed bugs feed for three to ten minutes.
They must have their food source (you) motionless. This is why they prefer to feed when you are asleep.
Bites may appear in twos and threes because you moved in your sleep, or they missed a vein and have to start over. More than one bug may have bitten you.
Before feeding, they inject you with an anesthetic and blood thinner.
Bed bugs are persistent. Killing an infestation requires persistence and time.
After being bitten by bed bugs, you may experience phantom sensations of bugs crawling on and biting your skin.
Bed bugs can hide in extremely small cracks and crevices. They can walk under a crevice the height of a credit card.
Bedbugs prefer to feed at night, but will bite during the day.
Bed bugs can live a year or longer without food (blood).
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. She can lay 3-5 eggs every day for months without another meal.
A newly hatched bed bug is ready for its first meal.
Buying a new mattress?
If buying a new mattress is part of the plan, consider picking it up yourself unless the delivery company can guarantee they don't take infested mattresses away in their truck.
Will your new mattress be delivered in the same truck, with old mattresses from bed bug infested homes?
Will you add bed bug proof mattress encasements to your new boxspring and/or mattress?
Will you add protection cups to the legs of the bed frame to monitor for bed bugs?
