Bed Bug Infestation In Your Home? Best Ways To Control Bed Bugs
Bed Bugs are approximately 5 mm in length and are dark rusty brown to black in color. They are wingless. Oval shaped, they have six legs. The adult female bedbug must have a blood meal before she can lay eggs. Eggs are laid in cracks and crevices within close proximity to the host’s sleeping area so look in cracks and joints like skirting boards the gap between the carpet and the skirting boards, in mattresses especially in the pillow top section of the mattress or mattress buttons. A bed bug infection live between 45 days to one year dependent on the meal supplies and can survive several months on one large meal. Bed bugs will usually leave the safety of their hiding places just before dawn for their meal and return after a feed to the safety of their hiding places. Women tend to find more bites then men do as they will find the thinner, lighter feeling hairs on a woman's arm more appealing than the coarse hairs on most men. Bed bugs will often bite their victims in a test bite f...