How do you get bed bugs?

Answer 1

The common bed bug is a small, reddish-brown insect. Bed bugs are oval-shaped with flattened bodies.

Bed bugs feed on the blood of humans and animals to survive. Unlike some parasites, such as fleas or lice, bed bugs do not live on their hosts but only visit them to feed. Bed bugs are most active at night. Their bite is similar to being bitten by a mosquito it is painless and may results in a small, red, itchy bump. However, many people have no reaction at all.

Bed bugs cannot fly and prefer to hide close to their hosts when not feeding. They can be found in apartments, hotels, homes, shelters, and student dormitories. Bed bugs can also hide on clothing or in luggage when you travel and can be brought to places like your home or hotel.

Reports of bed bug problems have been on the rise. The increase in bed bugs is thought to be the result of changes in modern pest control practices including the use of insect specific baits and gels, which do not work for bed bug control. In addition, more people are traveling abroad increasing the chance of bringing the insect back in their luggage.

Answer 2

Beds get bedbugs not people. The way they get into your bed could be from some second hand furniture you brought into your home, such as a second hand bed, or table or cupboard or anything else which a bedbug has laid eggs in a crevice or crack in that item of furniture probably without the person selling it knowing.

Another common way is if you or somebody who lives in the same home as you goes away on holiday and a female bedbug lays an egg or eggs in their luggage, which they bring back into your home and after unpacking do not see the tiny eggs which will be stuck to a hard surface somewhere inside the luggage. Another way is if a bedbug in another home very near to yours comes through the wall into your home, perhaps because it is getting overcrowded where it was.

In all such cases when you are asleep, your breath can be detected by the newly born bedbug nymph wherever the egg hatches, and it instinctively will make for the source of that breath, because it recognises it as a food source, its meal being your blood which it needs to sip to live.

So once it has found the source is you, it will climb up into the bed you are in, crawl on to you and inject an anaesthetic into you so you can not feel anything there, and then insert a tiny tube into you, through which it will suck blood out of you.

Once it has completed its first meal off you in that bed, it will crawl off you and make its base very near to where you sleep, the most likely place being in the folds of your mattress. It is likely to come back for more meals off you on subsequent nights while you are asleep, while it goes through five different moulting stages before it becomes an adult bedbug. Then if its a female it can start laying more bedbug eggs, so in time your bed will become infested as more and more bedbug nymphs get born, unlesss and until you have discovered you have a bedbug problem in your bed and taken steps to get rid of them.

Answer 3

You get bedbugs because they need to siphuman blood to survive. So they always make their base in or near anybody's bed, so they can come out when you are asleep to feed themselves off your blood. It is all very nasty solet me explain it in detail what happens. There are various ways that bedbugs can first get into the home you live in. One of the commonest ways is when people go on a holiday they may stay somewhere, like in a hotel in a hot country, where there is bedbug infestation. Bedbugs lay up to 12 eggs every night somewhere. So while staying there a bedbug may lay its eggs in the person's luggage or clothing in their room. So when the person travels home without them realising, the eggs come home with them. When the person gets home they will leave their luggage or the clothing somewhere in the house. Another way bedbugs first get into a home is if the resident buys some item of second hand furniture or a second hand mattress or second hand bed. There may be bedbug eggsin that item which thereby come in with the furniture into the new home without the buyer realising. Yet another way bedbugs may get into a previously uninfested home is when neighbours have them, like in an adjacent apartment or next door house. The bedbugs may detect the breath of people sleeping there and if there own area is getting very over crowded they move into that home instead of feeding where they were. Once the eggs hatchin the home and nymphs are born they all have the capability to detect your breath when you are sleeping. As soon as they sense this they crawl from wherever they are towards the breath source which is your bed. When they find it they climb up or else jump down on to your bed where you are asleep. Later they do not go back to where they first were, but set up their new home very close to where you sleep. So your bed has now become their area of operation. This operating base may be in your mattress or in the bed's construction or else in furniture or in the floor or wall very close to your bed. So once one of these situations has happened when the bedbug finds you in bed they usually crawl on to your arm or leg. Once there the first thing they all do is to inject an anaesthetic stored in all bedbugs bodies into you. This makes the part of that limb go numb. So you can not feel anything. The bedbug then injects a tiny tube into you and starts sucking,rather like a vacuum cleaner does, so a tiny amount of your blood slowly gets pumped out of you into its mouth. Consuming its meal of your blood in this way takes it a total of about 5 minutes. But you do not feel anything while it is feeding on you because of the anesthetic it has put into you. Once the bug's meal has been completed, the bedbug then crawls away and finds a new hiding place very close to where you sleep. Meanwhile the anesthetic wears off so you will only now start to itch madly where it had its meal, and may then scratch like mad to obtain relief. When you wake up you may see red marks on you where you have scratched, but you will probably not realise what caused them. Meanwhile unless it gets disturbed during day time, the bed bug very fat with your blood in its stomach sleeps in its new hiding place all day. It is nice and near so can return for another meal on subsequent nights. So unless action is taken to exterminate them each bedbug nymph will become an adult bedbug after four blood meals off you. Then female adult bedbugs will continue to have meals but will now also lay eggs in or near your bed, up to 12 per day. Each egg may become a new bedbug when it hatches. So it is likely in time bit by bit that bed will become more and more infested with new nymphs and then new adult bedbugs over coming months. So more and more bedbugs will crawl out of their different hiding places into your bed for a meal. You will get more and more nasty bite marks all over you from different bedbugs having meals while you are asleep. This is called a serious infestation! So with large numbers of bedbugs now all over your home if somebody visits your home a bedbug looking for somewhere to lay its eggs may sometimes go into the shoe or the pocket of the visiting person and lays bedbug eggs in there. So when that person goes back to their home they take the bedbug eggs with them to their home. So as described above new nymphs then hatch out in their home at night and detect the breath of people asleep in their beds in that home so make for them to have their first meal. So in time that home too becomes infested, unless of course action is taken to exterminate all the bedbugs before a major infestation occurs.

Answer 4

"You" do not "get" bedbugs, bedbugs find you and adopt your bed!. The way they find your bed is by your breath when you are asleep which they can detect over a range of 50 metres or more. When they detect your sleeping breath they will instinctively come straight to you in your bed. When it bites you and sucks blood out of you will not normally know even if you are awake. This is because bedbugs always inject a kind of anaesthetic into their host (you in thie case). they also inject other stuff that slows down your blood flow when you bleed. They do this before they insert a tiny tube and then start to make you bleed there and your blood comes out of you through the tube into their mouth as their meal. They are normally on you for a total of around 5 minutes having their meal then leave you, usually while you carry on sleeping, They do not return to where they came from when engorged with your blood but instead find a nearby hiding place almost always within a few feet of where you sleep. This may be in your mattress, in the bed's material, in the walls, in the floor, in furniture or even in books or your computer or radio set or anything else in or near your bed. Only after the bedbug has completed its meal and is safely there will the anaesthetic effect start to wear off and then you will probably start to itch like mad and feel a need to scratch yourself to obtain relief from where the bedbug bit you where there will be a nasty looking red rash. But everybody is different, some people never even notice after they have been bitten, some suffer acute irritation and pain, it varies from person to person. But either way the bedbug has gone so the victim will no longer be able to kill it, unless he or she finds its hiding place, which can sometimes be very difficult. So once this has happened to you in that bed, you then have an ongoing bedbug problem in that bed. As long as you continue to use that bed, as it is likely to come back to you for more meals on future nights and females may lay more and more eggs so you could well get more and more bugs in that bed from then on if you do not take any action to get rid of them from the whole home where you live.

Answer 5

Places Where Bed Bugs Can Be Found

• In Beds, including mattresses, box springs and bed frames.
• In curtains and cracks in wallpaper.
• Dressers and end tables or any furniture.
• Most commonly found in places where people sleep.
• Bed bugs can live for months without feeding, so they can also be found in vacant houses.
• They live in crowded living areas in all kinds of sanitary conditions.

Ways That Bed Bugs And Their Eggs Can Spread

• Moving furniture, bedding and other items from one residence to another.
• Moving suitcases, boxes or other goods from a hotel to your home.
• Buying and wearing infested clothing.

How to Prevent Bed Bug Bites

• Examining hotel beds and mattresses for signs of infestation.
• Inspecting anything new or second-hand that you bring into your home (including luggage from your last trip).
• Having a professional exterminator inspect your new home before moving in.

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Answer 6

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