Bed Bug Bites in Bury, Bolton and Radcliffe in 2010

One of the most feared and least known pests known to science is the bed bug C lectularius. Many of us dropped off to sleep at night as young ones with the words of our elders in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”

Bed Bugs probably started to dine on human beings at around the time we started living in, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella predominantly fed on bats and it is likely that bat feeding species of bug evolved to dine on human blood when our ancestors commenced sleeping in bat infested caves.

Up to the production of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were common guests in most poor quality homes.

The later decades of the twentieth century saw pest control professionals called out to very few bed bug infestations indeed, their presence being largely confined to cheap holiday lodgings and student accomodation etc.

Most people mistake dust mites, which can’t be seen by to the naked eye, with bed bugs which certainly are.

Adult bedbugs are reddish, about a quarter of an inch in size and very engorged after dining on human blood.

In the absence of a suitable human host to feed on they can lay dormant for lengthy periods of up to 18 months.

The initial signs of a bed bug problems are oftenspots of blood on bedding and on the seems of mattresses and some people can react extremely badly to their bites.

The early 21st century saw bed bug infestations booming across the entire planet, the cheap availability of international travel and economic migration have both been blamed for the return.

What is positive is that that are now making a real comeback not only in poor quality properties but high class hotels, schools and even hospitals.

A single stay in an infested premises is all it takes, they stowaway in your suitcases or bags. Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on trains, tubes and buses so a simple ride home on an infested tube or train can be sufficient to bring the these insects to your own home.

They are an difficult pest to deal with as contrary to popular notion they do not just live in beds. They live in any nook and cranny conveniently close to a sleeping human being, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed-side telephones etc and eradicating them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been discovered found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the creases of flesh of very over-weight people.

They are not a pest that can be tackled by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be needed.

Phone Manchester Pest Control now on 01772 837727

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