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Bedbugs are small, flat and have oval-shaped bodies. They have six legs and two antennae. Bed bugs can not fly and have short, golden coloured body hair that can make their bodies appear to be striped. Adult bed bugs are reddish-brown in colour and approximately 5-6mm in length. After feeding, bed bugs can swell to upwards of 10mm and get fatter and darker in colour. Bed bug nymphs are approximately 1-4mm in length (the of the head size of a pin) and are white or a golden colour until they feed.

Bedbugs are most active at night and bite any exposed areas of skin while an individual is sleeping. The face, neck, hands, and arms are common sites for bedbug bites. The bite itself is painless and is . not noticed Small, flat, or raised bumps on the skin are the most common sign; redness, swelling, and itching commonly occur If scratched, the bite areas can become infected A peculiarity of bedbug bites is the tendency to find several bites.. lined up in a row. Infectious-disease specialists refer to this series of bites as the "breakfast, lunch, and dinner" sign, signifying the sequential feeding that occurs from site to site.

Bedbugs live in any articles of furniture, clothing, or bedding, so they or their eggs may be present in used furniture or clothing. They spread by crawling and may contaminate multiple rooms in a home or even multiple dwellings in apartment buildings. They may also be present in boxes, suitcases, or other goods that are moved from residence to residence or from a hotel to home. Bedbugs can live on clothing from infested homes and may be spread by a person unknowingly wearing infested clothing.

Everyone is at risk for getting bed bugs when visiting an infected area. People who travel frequently and share living and sleeping quarters where other people have previously slept are at a higher risk of being bitten and or spreading a bed bug infestation.

Life Cycle & Biology of a Bed Bug: Eggs, Nymphs, Adults Time of the Cycle Eggs take about a week to hatch. Bed bugs are most active when their living space is just under body temperature, so a room temperature that is about 80 ° Fahrenheit is hospitable. After hatching, the nymphal stages begin and if there is adequate food, temperature, and humidity of about 75%, bed bugs will thrive. They can produce several generations per year, so egg to egg can be timed in just a few months.

The bed bug injects the host with two feeding tubes, one for injecting anticoagulants and anesthetic and the other for withdrawing blood. They are attracted to carbon dioxide and secondarily to heat. They normally crawl onto the host but have been known to drop on a host from overhead. They feed for approximately five minutes before returning to their hiding place.

The most active time for bed bugs is at night, right before dawn but they have been observed feeding during the day.

Bed bugs lay around 1-5 eggs per day with a total of 200-500 in their lifetime; which is slightly less than one year.

The answer is "No." A fogger, or bug bomb, or whatever you want to call does not kill bed bugs. Bed bugs do not like them and they may kill some but these store-bought exterminators will not eliminate them all. At least 50% of my clients try foggers before they call us. How do I know they did not work? ... They call us.

Typically furniture and personal belongings do not need to be disposed of, except in some rare cases with extremely high levels of infestation.

Sleeping with the lights on has not been shown to be effective in preventing bedbug bites.

When an infestation is particularly large, the scent glands on the insect emit a "sickly sweet" odor. Do not use this as the only means of determining if bed bugs exist. The absence of this odor does not indicate there is no infestation.

Each bed bug extermination job is different and requires an on-site estimate. It is best for us to see the severity of your bed bug problem so we can effectively solve the problem. However, most customers find our prices to be comparable to the costs of our competitors who repeatedly apply unhealthy pesticides.

Typically, no treatment is required for bedbug bites. If itching is severe or if an allergic reaction to the bites occurs, topical steroid creams or oral antihistamines may be used for symptom relief. Secondary bacterial infections that develop over heavily scratched areas may require antibiotics .

We know that "bed bugs cause a variety of negative physical health, mental health and economic consequences. Many people have mild to severe allergic reaction to the bites with effects ranging from no reaction to a small bite mark to, in rare cases, anaphylaxis (severe, whole-body reaction). These bites can also lead to secondary infections of the skin such as impetigo, ecthyma, and lymphangitis. Bed bugs may also affect the mental health of people living in infested homes. Reported effects include anxiety, insomnia and systemic reactions "CDC-EPA Joint Statement On Bedbugs