How To Detect Bed Bugs?
They have brownish flat bodies. Their physical features are comparable with roaches and ticks. They scoot rapidly across floors and furniture. The eggs are so tiny that they may look like dust. Their fecal matter resembles pepper spray. Eggs can be seen in hidden spots.
Developing bed bugs periodically sheds their skin. So their presence can be detected by the dead skin dropping on the sheets or places where they reside. These are nocturnal insects and bites humans in the early morning hours. They probe into the skin with the help of the beak present on their head. They inject an anesthetic. They suck human blood with the beak.
After having their dinner of course they saunter off to rest to digest their meal properly. Naturally bed bugs are of flat shape. They dine on blood for 5-10 minutes approximately. It increases its size by three folds and becomes rounded shape.
How to detect bed bugs by simple means?
- Make use of very bright light to find the bed bugs because they like to hide in cracks and crevices in mattress seams and furniture.
- Bed bug’s abandoned skins, their feces are the clues to detect them. Feces are smaller than mouse droppings.
- Look for the black and obnoxious smelling black gland secretion by the bed bugs.
- There can be tiny blood spots on your bed sheet showing bed bug presence.
- Check your body for the rashes or red welts to detect the presence of bed bugs in your house. You have to check your body because bed bug irritation is frequently not felt immediately after the bite has occurred.
