Bed Bugs Information & Biology

Signs of a bed bug infestation include bites on your skin, small blood stains on your sheets, and the presence of bed bug shells or fecal spots in your bedding or furniture.

Effective treatment for bed bugs often requires a combination of methods, including heat treatment, insecticides, and thorough cleaning. Professional pest control services can provide the most effective solutions.

Bed bugs are small, reddish-brown insects that feed on the blood of humans and animals. They are often found in bedding, furniture, and other areas where people sleep or rest.

They are relatively easy to identify when discovered. Adults are brown to red-brown in color, flat and oval in shape. Nymphs (immature young) are translucent (clear) in color and their abdomens darken once they’ve had a blood meal. Bed bugs can move quickly when discovered in daylight since they are sensitive to light due to being primarily nocturnal. Bed bugs are known to be lazy feeders, essentially falling off of their hosts when they’ve filled their needs. They crawl slowly back to their hiding places which are usually in or around beds or furniture where people spend large amounts of time. This would be like if you slept next to your refrigerator so you could get up and eat and go right back to bed. Furniture can be difficult to inspect because of the way it’s manufactured but it’s important to know that bed bugs can live clutches of their eggs in the smallest of areas or openings.

Bed bug victims sometimes experience red bump-like marks where the bites have occurred but this is not in every case. Some people show no signs of bites at all. We have seen cases where a husband and wife share a bed and the wife has bite marks but the husband has none even though his side of the bed has the most activity. When bed bugs excrete the consumed blood, it will darken when exposed to the environment and will appear as black spots or smears on the bedding.