Bed bugs were not a problem many years ago when DDT was still in use. Nowadays, since many powerful insecticides have been banned, bed bugs are making a strong come back.
Also, frequent international travel has brought bed bugs into the U.S. from other countries. Hotels across the U.S. no matter whether it is a 1 star or a 5 star hotel, have infestations of bed bugs.
Bed bugs can hide anywhere. They can hide in your clothes, luggage, mattress, furniture, or in cracks and crevices in your home. Usually they will hide close to their food, which is you, so they stay in the mattress.
When night falls and you are sleeping, bed bugs come out and feed on you. You will not feel the bite when they are feeding because they excrete an enzyme into your body similar to that of a mosquito.
If you want to kill bed bugs, then you would need to be able to find all the places where the bed bugs are hiding. If you left one bed bug alive, they could still mass produce.
To kill of the bed bugs in your mattress, you may want to buy a mattress encasement. This encasement closes off your mattress to the rest of the world and thereby traps the bed bugs inside. Doing this eventually starves that bed bugs to death but it could take at least 6 months.
To get rid of bed bugs hiding in places other than your mattress, you will have to do some searching. Look at every possible crevice in your home around your bed.
If you do not feel up to it or you do not know where bed bugs typically hide, then call the exterminator. Exterminators know where the bed bugs reside and have the potent insecticides to kill bed bugs.
Henry has been a professional exterminator for many years. For further information on how to kill bed bugs at home, please visit his website.
