“Bed bugs are too small to see” You can actually see adult bed bugs fairly easily. An adult is about ¼-inch long, the size of an apple seed. Nymphs are smaller with a newly hatched nymph being about the size of the head of a pin. Older nymphs get progressively larger. The white, cylindrical eggs
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Unfortunately, there is a link between bed bugs and holiday travel. Bed bugs will hitch a ride from hotels or other houses to your home.
VIEW MOREYou’re excited about moving to a new place. If you’ve had a bed bug problem in the past, you definitely don’t want to move any bed bugs or eggs into your new home and face a repeat of that scenario. Or, you may never have had to deal with a bed bug problem, but you’re
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What Do Bed Bugs Look Like? – Bed bugs are oval, flattened, wingless, and about the size of an apple seed when fully grown. Bed bug eggs are tiny, white and cylindrical. When bed bug nymphs first hatch, they are almost clear and become more brown as they get older. A bed bug that has
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To keep up with pests in the news, I subscribe to an online notification service called Google Alerts. I was wondering why there were suddenly so many news items about bed bugs in schools. Then I remembered, kids are back in school and the same thing happens every year about this time. It makes sense.
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You’ve always hated making your bed. When you were small, mom made you do it. She implied that you would be a better person for having done so, you (and she) could take pride in your accomplishment. Maybe so, but mom didn’t know she was setting you up to spend your nights with pests. Now
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When getting rid of a bed bug-infested bed frame, mattress, or box spring, you must take steps to make sure that no one else picks them up for use. If he can, your son should take the items to the dump himself. Otherwise, he needs to do what he can to destroy the furniture and render it unusable. Many communities require that citizens do at least one of the following:
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Two other situations to be cautious about are rental furniture or rent-to-own furniture, and renovated mattresses sold by retail stores. Rental furniture can be infested with bed bugs while it sits in the home of a customer, or as it sits in the warehouse or a delivery truck (if not handled properly). When it is delivered to a new customer, bed bugs may be delivered as well. This is rare, but it happens.
VIEW MOREBed bugs hide during the day in cracks and crevices and move out at night to feed on a sleeping person (or pet). It follows, therefore, that they will hide during the day as close as they can get to the bed: in the bed frame, in tufts, folds, and around stitching on mattresses and box springs, and behind headboards. As the bed bug population increases, some bed bugs are forced to move farther out to find hiding places in dressers, bedside tables, behind baseboards, behind pictures on walls, even in shoes and clothing.
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