Bedbug up close and personal! Seattle pest control.
by Frank
on Tuesday, 20 December 2011
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Frank
14 years experience doing pest control in the greater Seattle and Bellevue area.
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Okay, you asked for it. Here's one mean, hungry bedbug looking for you. They sense heat and smell carbon dioxide. Guess what? You and I are both carbon dioxide factories that put off a lot of heat. When we slide into bed and drift off into restful sleep, for the bedbug that's like the "Cafe Open" sign being turned on.
See that long slim proboscis, that's the mouth part, it finds an easy spot to puncture your skin and starts engorging itself on your blood. It's saliva acts as an anesthetic, so you don't feel a thing until the next day.
When you travel check around mattresses, headboards and other cracks & crevices for bed bugs, their fecal matter or cast off exoskeletons. Do not unpack and place your clothes in the dressers at hotels. Keep luggage up on table and away from the bed area. If it's summer when you get home, and you can do without what's in the luggage for a day, place luggage in large black plastic bags. Seal the bags well enough that a bed bug cannot crawl out. Put the bags in direct hot sun for a long enough period of time for the heat to build up over 120 degrees Fahrenheit and permeate through your belongings.
See that long slim proboscis, that's the mouth part, it finds an easy spot to puncture your skin and starts engorging itself on your blood. It's saliva acts as an anesthetic, so you don't feel a thing until the next day.
When you travel check around mattresses, headboards and other cracks & crevices for bed bugs, their fecal matter or cast off exoskeletons. Do not unpack and place your clothes in the dressers at hotels. Keep luggage up on table and away from the bed area. If it's summer when you get home, and you can do without what's in the luggage for a day, place luggage in large black plastic bags. Seal the bags well enough that a bed bug cannot crawl out. Put the bags in direct hot sun for a long enough period of time for the heat to build up over 120 degrees Fahrenheit and permeate through your belongings.
