Learning About Bed Bugs

Bedbugs are flat little tiny insects that can grow to only a size of an apple seed. Although bedbugs have the brownish shell that makes them look like some species of cockroaches, they are actually not attracted to dirty places.

They are brown in nature and can get a little reddish after they feast on human blood. Baby bed bugs are white in color and a little translucent. They are even harder to detect since they are almost the same color as white bed sheets and mattresses. It seems like these creatures really know how to adapt to human living environments.

Bed bugs aren’t limited to staying only in your bed. They can actually live anywhere in your house as long as it’s a dark protected area. They usually like small tiny wall cracks, floor cracks and even cracks in ceilings.

The bugs can travel solo, but if you spot one, it usually means there’s a colony leaving in your house. The worst thing about it is that they are hard to spot. So, you can’t exterminate something that you can’t find.

Bed bugs experts say that the infestations have certain odors. It is said that they have the smell of sweet, rotten berries. And some say the room will smell like almond.

However, bed bugs will leave small reddish or blackish stains on bed sheets. So if you ever spot such stains when you enter in a hotel room, report it to the management to request for a room change.

If they won’t entertain your request, consider blackmarking the hotel and change to another one. You wouldn’t want to have the frustration and annoyance of finding a bed bug infestation in your house weeks after you come back from vacation, do you?

One last thing you should know about bed bugs is that they are world travelers and they can hitch on anything you carry and start a new colony on new places that you arrive at.