Characteristics and Methods to Get Rid of Bed Bugs

Bed bug bites severity is based on the person it bites. Some do not find any difference but for some others the infection ranges from itching to swollen or infected skin.

To get rid of bed bugs, we need to take some important steps. We have many homemade remedies to eradicate them from home. If the number increases, we can see bed bugs in our bags or even in cloths. So it is important to get rid of them as quick as possible.

Characteristics of Bed Bugs:

• Bed bugs are too small and they can hide and adjust into extremely tiny spaces which makes finding them itself a difficult process.
• Although we find, it is not easy to catch them because they move fast and reproduction of the female is about 200-500 eggs in its life span.
• But bed bugs do not have wings and they cannot fly.
• Next important issue is that hunger is easy for being bed bugs, they can live up to 550 days without eating but they search for blood.
• Bed bugs have resistance to pesticides and insecticides.
• Bed bugs live in dark and they are not happy with sun.
• Bed bugs have flattened body to make them move in tiny areas very easily.

Methods to Get Rid of Bed Bugs:

• We have to check for bed bugs in our mattress and bed covers as often process.
• Vacuuming with mini Vacuum that can reach tiny spaces that cannot be reached
• Vacuuming carpets three times a week and the vacuumed bags have to be removed and cleaned far away from home.
• Used luggage can be cleaned before bringing it to a bedroom.

We can call professionals Pest Control Adelaide Company to manage our home and make it bug free. Sealing all the holes in the home and pasting wallpaper with the glue helps professionals are good in this process.

• We can heat the bedding using dryer at 120 degree temperature to sterilize the bedding from bed bugs. We can even dry our beds in hot son in a sunny day.
• We can use insecticides after cleaning to stop its new arrivals.
• We can use ordinary torch lights to find them. Professionals use pyrethrum flushing unit to find the bed bugs.
• While vacuuming, we can use stiff brush to remove bed bugs with stubborn legs from different kinds of fabric.
• We can also use steam blowers on our bedding to kill the bed bugs fast. Bed bugs cannot withstand temperature above 50 degrees.
• We can wash our clothes, bed sheets, bedding clothes with warm water and we can use drier to remove bed bugs. If necessary we can wash the whole load twice.
• Discard affected beds and clothes.
• We can grind the crystal silica gel and spread all around in bedroom, even near the bed. The silica gels gets stick to their body and dehydrate them.

Precautions to be Followed to Get Rid of Bed Bugs:

• We can avoid purchasing second hand beds from market.
• If we are a frequent traveler, we can put our clothes and other materials in a washing machine and use hot dryer before entering home to avoid bringing bugs from outside the home.
• We can through away our old mattress and beds and get a new one instead going for an expensive cleaning treatment.
• We can use a double sided tape in the legs of the bed to ensure that bed bugs are trapped when they invade in a clean bed.
• Better to cover beds with plastic or zip lock covers to avoid infection
• When we see black spots in our bed it is a sign of bedbug’s presence in our bed using anti bed bug covers, safeguard our beds.
• We must check for bed bugs in sofas, upholstered chairs, night stands, dresses and edges of curtains, wall carpets also.