1. Recognizing the Appearance of Bed Bugs Bed bugs exhibit a variety of appearances throughout their lifecycle, which ranges from 1 millimeter to 4-5 millimeters in size. Initially, they are a light yellow color, gradually transitioning to a darker brown. These oval-shaped insects have horizontally striped outer shells, tiny heads, and even smaller antennae. Their flat bodies resemble apple seeds. 2. Understanding Bed Bug Eggs Bed bug eggs are small, white, and can be easily overlooked by the human eye. Freshly laid eggs appear transparent, while those near hatching resemble pearls. Approximately 1 millimeter in size, bed bug eggs are difficult to spot in dark rooms and are similar in…

Dealing with bed bugs can be stressful and even anxiety-inducing in some cases. If you don’t know what to do about them, they are just going to spread in your house endlessly. Fortunately, we are here to show you a few solutions that can solve your bed bug problem once and for all. There are a couple of really good recipes for bed bug sprays that you can prepare at home. We are going to show you what you need to buy, how to mix them together and how to use them. Then, you can finally start killing those insects and expect them to be gone in a few days.…

Although there is barely anything dangerous about bed bugs, they are an absolute nuisance to deal with. If they were dangerous, we would have realized that a long time ago. Bed bugs were around us since tens of thousands of years and without causing much harm. In fact, bed bugs want us to survive because human blood is the real deal for them. It is what they live for and also why they do their best to get close to us. They don’t want us to get sick either, because they want their portion of human blood to be fresh and nutritious. However, this is not to say that bed…

If there is wooden furniture or any elements made of wood in your house, then bed bugs are surely going to hide there. Those little nuisances always do their best to find the smallest of gaps, crevices and cracks to hide at. There can be loose screws, loose upholstery or simply gaps between elements where bed bugs can group up. Throughout the day where there is not much for these insects to do, they are going to look for these spots.   They are as small as grains of rice with reddish-brown coloration. If there is a single bed bug in front of you, you can easily miss it. Their…

Hitchhiking is a form of traveling, and bed bugs are nothing but hitchhikers. People are constantly moving from one place to the other and these insects want to stay close to us as much as possible. This is something that has not began recently. It has been happening for thousands of years. Bed bugs have always been living around us, waiting for us to go to sleep so that they can feed on our blood. Bed bugs can end up in your car, purse, backpack, luggage or even on your clothes. They stay there until you arrive home, then they spread and pick their hiding places. They can travel a…

Bed bugs are tiny, reddish-brown insects with the one and only life goal to feed on fresh blood. They live around us and they do their best to invade our households. Us, humans are their main targets since thousands of years and they are willing to feed on the blood of other warm-blooded animals too. Bed bugs are really good at hiding. In fact, they are nocturnal and prefer to hide throughout the day. They are patiently waiting in bedrooms until people lay down to get some sleep. That is their opportunity to feed, biting exposed areas of skin and laying eggs around the place. But how long do bed…

Bed bugs can be met nearly all around the world. Moreover, you can come across them not only in dirty poor places, but in rich spots as well. The most difficult thing is to spot them at all. That’s why you should pay attention not to searching for bed bugs themselves, but to spots, that they leave. The most eye-catching aspect is appearance of bed bugs bites. Some people, though, can confuse bed bugs bites with other insects. To avoid such mistakes, here is a quick guide about how to identify bed bug bites and to check if you have them or not. Note, that these are just recommendations, but…

If you come across bed bugs infestation some day, you will be definitely pissed off. They always bring a lot of problems starting from light inconveniences and ending with insomnia and different health problems. Your only wish would be to find the exact place where bed bugs are living and get rid of them eventually. But the problem is that you would be probably in need of different tools and chemicals. All of them are not free, and often such stuff can cost really much. Don’t forget, that bed bugs can harm your mattress and bed, for example, and sometimes you will need to repair them or to buy a…

Bed bugs are common all over the world, though there are different types of them existing. Some of these types do not differ in terms of struggling with them, but it is good to understand the differences anyway. Some of these types can be met anywhere, while others live in a special region, such as South American and Asian countries, for example. In this article you can find main information about bed bugs in United Kingdom. Which types of them are there? How to struggle with them? What is the situation with home insurance covering bed bugs issues in Great Britain? The answers to all these questions can be found…

Bed bugs are common all around the world. Though in some places there are more of them then in the others. Mostly they are spreading across developed areas, such as Australia, USA, and European countries. There are different reasons for such a spreading of bed bugs. Some of them are overcrowded of cities, internationalization of the world (travelling across the world, in other words) and extermination of cockroaches at houses, which area natural predators to bed bugs. Speaking of reasons, good to mention The Sydney 2000 Olympic games as well. Due to that, lots of areas near Sydney was infested. One more reason is that there was either nothing or…