Signs of Bed Bugs
FINDING BED BUGS IN OAKLAND, CA – (510) 900-5995
Bed bugs are one of the most resilient species of insects out there. With a strong shell. and a ferociously growing population, these insects have a relatively easy time growing large in numbers, and quickly dispersing themselves around a home to find a warm blooded host to feed off of. They cause humans very much discomfort and will bite, suck the blood out of humans, and leave , they are truly the ultimate pest. Call (510) 900-5995 for help!
Bed bugs are small insects that thrive in the presence of warm blooded animals, and have taken a particular liking to living in the homes of humans, with and without pets. As a nocturnal creature, bed bugs are hardly spotted during the day, but as the night falls, and you go to bed, the bedbugs will come out and feed on the blood of any warm blooded creature that is still. They are very quick insects, and if you move in the middle of the night, they will quickly scurry away so as not to be seen.
After nights of noticing that your skin is broken, and there are visible red bumps that are on your skin, it’s not always a bed bug bite. There are tons of different insects as well as spiders that bite humans, but bed bugs are one of the most feared insects due to their difficulty of fulling eradicating from a home.
If bedbugs have recently showed up in your home (by this we mean within the last couple days), then you may have the ability to take care of them without outside help. If you were recently staying in a hotel, at another friend’s house, or some other place that had bed bugs, you may have brought them into your home, and that could mean there are few present, for now. Bedbugs are very social, and very fast reproducing creatures. So when there is just few, know that they are working to multiply their numbers, and must react swiftly, and with precision. Call (510) 900-5995
IDENTIFYING BED BUGS SIGNS
There is no peaceful way of getting bed bugs out of your home, these insects don’t play nice. On the rare circumstance that you have noticed bedbugs when there are few, the first thing you want to do is isolate them in one area, and conduct a thorough investigation in the room of where they are hiding, and locate any more. During the day, bed bugs will hide in dark areas of rooms to remain out of sight and make it to nightfall where the natural darkness protects them. Some common areas you may find bed bugs hiding will include under, and even in mattresses and box springs, under piles of laundry, latching onto clothing, hiding in or underneath furniture, underneath oriental rugs and floor mats, and the hardest place to discover the whereabouts, are within the foundation of your home. If there are any access points to baseboards, basements, floor vents, or a crack in the foundation giving them access to the outside, these are all likely areas you can find a bed bug infestation taking place. Attics are uncommon due to a bed bug’s inability to fly, unless there is a way for them to climb up and down from it. Call (510) 900-5995 to get rid of them.
While you are cleaning up the area where you saw the bed bug, make sure to take your sheets off of your bed, as well as your pillow covers, and give those a thorough inspection. Take note of the condition of these items and try to locate if you can see any new blemishes on the exterior of the fabric. In the middle of the night, while bed bugs are feeding, your small movements at night can actually crush them and that will leave behind blood stain residue on the fabric of your pillow cases, mattress, and sheets. If there are bites on your skin, carefully inspect the area where the part of your body that has bite marks on it normally is throughout the night, and see if you can see any signs of bed bug blood.
Bed bugs will also leave behind fecal matter throughout their life journey, so if you see any pieces of mush, look for other bed bug related signs as well.
Bed bugs will physically change 5 times from when they are a nymph until they become a fully grown adult They grow through a phase where they shed their skin, and leave it behind as their body grows. Although, to do so, they need a reliable source of warm blood, so if they are going through this phase, it is likely that the bed bug infestation is going to be very tough to handle since there are growing young, and a population that is likely still in it’s eggs nearby. At this point, if you see any bug shells left behind, you definitely need to call a bed bug exterminator.
If during your thorough investigation on finding bedbugs, you come across clustered spots that appear like a dust cluster, this could be bed bug eggs. Their eggs typically can survive most common treatments and chemicals that the adults cannot survive. The cautious fact that lies around bed bugs is that if you do happen to kill all of the adults in a room with a bug bomb, you are unlikely to kill the egg population. They grow from eggs to fully grown adults in 60 days, so, even when you think you may have wiped out a population, if you did not take care of the eggs, you could very well be blindsided by another oncoming bed bug infestation and have a much tougher problem on your hands.
Other noticeable signs of Bed Bugs in Oakland, CA include directly taking note of your surroundings in the middle of the night. If you feel like there could be a bug that is a pest in your home, when you wake in the middle of the night, stay still, and try to feel if there is anything crawling or biting on your skin. Bed bugs have a quick reactionary mechanism and if they sense you becoming awake and turning into a threat, they will dart away rapidly.
If you believe there to be signs of bed bugs, be sure to take care of the problem as quickly as possible, call an Oakland bedbug exterminator to inspect, and eradicate all bed bugs signs on your property. We can be reached at (510) 900-5995