Bed Bugs As Bed Fellows
Bed bugs are a relentless concern, if you think that they are in the bed with you
. In fact, it is known that when people have been bitten often, they can become frightened, strained and obsessed. Insomnia soon ensues. This situation can quickly lead to tetchiness, domestic squabbles and the loss of your job.
This obsession can obviously get out of hand unless you do something about it soon. If you are in a hotel, then you have to tell the manager immediately. If you are in rented accommodation, then your landlord has the responsibility to keep his property pest free, but if it is your own place, you have a problem. Or at least, you can get the issue sorted out, but it will cost you.
The Latin name for the species of bed bug that only drinks human blood is Cimex lectularius and they were first written about in Greece in about 400 BC. They did not get to Great Britain in large numbers until about 1670 and by 1726, they were in Jamaica and almost certainly the United States as well.
Bedbugs were wiped out from the developed world by and large by the late 1950's due to the widespread use of pesticides such as DDT to constrain other household pests like ants and cockroaches.
Unfortunately|Regrettably, this has led to bedbugs being resistant to virtually all modern, domestic pesticides. The resurgence of bed bugs is blamed on increased foreign travel and higher levels of immigration from Asia and Africa.
It is generally believed that bedbugs only bite humans, but that is not right. Cimex lectularius only bites humans, but almost all warm-blooded animals have their own parasites, which could be called bedbugs.
Cats, dogs, deer, horses and birds (together with poultry) have their own bedbugs and these bed bugs will bite humans as well, if their favourite source of a blood meal is not around.
Bedbugs are pretty small, being about a quarter of an inch long and a bit narrower. The are very flat and thin, so that they look as if they have been ironed. They are fairly agile when empty, but slow and cumbersome when bloated on blood.
They are most often brown in colour, bur they can be almost any shade, even white, until they have fed and then there is always at least a hint of red about them.
Bedbugs need to shed their skin six times before they become adult and can lay inactive for five months without food. They are aroused by body heat and CO2 and can signal their comrades that food is about by the discharge of pheromones.
Bedbugs like to live in narrow cracks and crevices. They like loose skirtings and architraves, damaged plaster and wall paper, ripped mattresses and loose joints in timber furniture. They will even hole up, quite literally, in a the sunken-screw hole - the countersink.
Bedbug bites often look like mosquito bites, but there is no red dot and they can take longer to come up and longer to go down and like flea bites, bedbug bites are often in a line of three.
by: Owen Jones
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