BED BUGS AMONG US
Sometimes referred to as "red coats", "chinches," or "mahogany flats," bed bugs are appearing in great numbers in all parts of our society. From upper income homes, hotels, businesses, apartments, even hospitals. Infestations reports are up 5000 percent, due to international travel and the loss of DDT as an insecticide control product.
Bed bugs are a broadly flattened six legged insect with greatly reduce front wings. Adults are usually brown in color and the size of an apple seed. After feeding the body is often swollen and red in color. Bed bugs have never been implicated in the spread of disease to humans but are suspected carriers of leprosy, oriental sore, Q-fever, and brucellosis.
The two bed bug species important to man are the Common Bed Bug and the Tropical Bed Bug. Both of these species can be picked up and spread here in Southwest Florida and the U.S.
The nightmare begins when a bed bug finds its way into your clothing; it usually happens at a hotel but can start anywhere. Once bed bugs have been found in your home it has nothing to do with poor hygiene. It only takes one bed bug to hitch a ride on your clothing (furniture, suitcase, etc.) to infest your residence. A female bed bug will lay approximately 200 eggs during her life span at a rate of one to twelve eggs per day. Within six to seventeen days bed bugs nymphs emerge from the eggs and take five molts, approximately ten weeks, to reach maturity. What's worse is that bed bugs can live up to one year without any further blood feedings. Some species of bed bugs are adapted with mouthparts that can feed with pain. They inject an anesthetic to numb you so you don't feel the bite and an anti-coagulant to thin the blood to feed better.
Bed bugs are most active at night and are extremely shy and wary so their infestations are not easily located. They can be located in mattresses, box springs, pillows, bed frames, head boards, loose wall paper, sofa seams, chairs, rugs, edges of carpets, end tables, dressers, baseboards, window casings, receptacles, cracks in the wall plaster, televisions, radios, clocks, computers, phones, sleeping bags, picture frames, clothing, and any very small dark crack or void. Heavy infestations can be located by reddish brown spotting around entry and exit points of their hiding places make from excrements of the bed bug and a distinctive foul order from the oily secretions around the infested areas.
Once an infestation has been found, you need to take quick action to prevent further infestation of the bed bugs.
Collier Pest Control, Southwest Florida Pest Authority, has methods to rid your home of bed bugs. Both use vacuum extraction and insect controlling materials to eliminate and control the bed bugs in all of their hiding areas. One method asks you dispose of all heavily infested furniture and bedding to rid your home of bed bugs. The other method in-corporate a control heat treat method to encase all infested furniture and bedding in a heat chamber to rid the home of bed bugs, plus treating the rest of the hiding areas with our proven control materials. Both methods are successful in ridding your home of this most unwanted pest.
If you live in Naples, Fort Myers or anywhere in Southwest Florida call Collier Pest Control for a full explanation of both bed bugs control methods or any of our services. Don't let unwanted pests spoil your beautiful Southwest Florida lifestyle. Remember Florida does not have to be shared with insects. (University of Florida and Bad Bed Bugs.com)
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