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Bed bug control was perfected in the 1940s. When successful insecticides became available to pest management professionals, the bed bug was wiped from North America. People born after 1945 were unfamiliar with the insect. Since the mid 1990s, the common bed bug has reappeared and resurged as a pervasive urban pest in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and many other regions.
Bed bugs are now commonly found in schools, hotels, motels, apartments, and condos. Many institutions have bed bugs, as well, including nursing homes, hospitals, clinics, drug rehabs, dormitories, shelter housing, prison, and detention facilities. The transportation sector is also affected including, trains, planes, buses, airport terminals, subway, moving vans, and delivery trucks.
If you suspect that you have bed bugs in West Palm Beach, don’t wait to call a professional. Bed bugs breed rapidly and can be very difficult to combat. O’Hara Pest Control’s proprietary bed bug treatment not only kills bed bugs but guarantees that they stay gone.
Bed bugs are commonly found in schools, hotels, motels, apartments, and condos. Many institutions have bed bugs as well, including nursing homes, hospitals, and detention facilities. The transportation sector is also affected as bed bugs have been found in trains, planes, buses, airport terminals, subway, moving vans, and delivery trucks.
Bed bugs have tiny, flat bodies that allow them to hide in dark and damp crevices as thin as the width of a credit card. Although they do not nest like other insects, they do tend to gather in groups in their preferred hiding spots which include:
These creepy crawlers are most active in the evening when they are least likely to be seen. They bite down on any exposed area of the body and feed from three to ten minutes until they become filled with blood and crawl away. Their bites are painless at first, but then swell and become itchy welts on the skin.
Bed bugs are highly evolved ectoparasites. They have glands in their heads that secrete anticoagulants and other compounds through their mouthparts to keep the host’s blood vessels dilated. This reduces the blood’s tendency to block the blood flow through the mouthparts.
If you’ve never had a bed bug problem before and are suddenly seeing these creepy crawlers appearing between your bedsheets, chances are they came from elsewhere. Bed bugs are known to cling onto clothing or luggage when you travel or visit other infested locations.
The most common signs you have bed bugs are the red marks or itchy welts that develop on exposed areas of your skin when you sleep. Other common signs of bed bugs in West Palm Beach include:
The best way to prevent bed bugs in West Palm Beach from reaching your home is by identifying how they get to your house in the first place and keeping an eye on the areas they like to inhabit. If you travel frequently, thoroughly check your luggage before you return because bed bugs are prolific hitchhikers. Another effective preventive method is keeping things tidy and your pets clean. Bed bugs like to hide in clutter. The less of it there is, the safer your home will be.
Bed bugs have been shown to carry MRSA and are associated with a variety of other negative mental and physical health effects. The dangers of bed bugs in West Palm Beach come in the form of:
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