What does bedbug eggs look like were do you find them?

Answer 1

They are not too easy to see with the naked eye. A bedbug egg looks likea grain of salt except it is very slightly bigger. You will usually find them stuck to something hard in or near your bed or else something that has been near to a bed, such as in a crack in wooden floorboard, or in the crevices of your mattress or wooden surface under mattres or perhaps in the wall or furniture by your bed. They are particularly likely in such placves as dormitories where there are a lot of beds with different people asleep in close proximity But also it is important if you stayed in a hotel somewhere and have reason to believe there was a bedbug infestation there, check your luggage, as a common way bedbugs first get into people's homes is from eggs laid in their luggage while on holiday, such as inside your suitcase or holdall. Even if you leave the luggage after unpacking some way from your bedroom. So when the eggs hatch a newly born bedbug nymph will immediately detect the breath of somebody asleep. even if that is as far as 50 metres away from the bed and on a different floor. Once it gets a sniff of that breath it will immediately make for the source climb or jump into the bed and try to get its first meal by inserting its sucking tube into you. You will not usually feel anything because it injects an anesthetic into you the effect of which only wears off after it has completed its meal and gone to its new hiding place. Once it has had its first meal, it will usually find its hiding place very close to where you sleep, which may be in your bed or near it, so that it can come back for more meals off you in your bed during subsequent nights while you are again asleep. After 5 meals a nymph will become an adult bedbug and may then breed and so more and more eggs will be laid near your bed and that is how you may get a serious infestation. Also if you do vacuum up any eggs, be aware they can still hatch either in your vacuum cleaner or even in the bin where you deposit the contents and so may still be able to come in and feed on you. A good spray with an insecticide is thus a wise precaution after hoovering up any.

Answer 2

The eggs are almost too small to see with the naked eye. they are white but only show well on a dark surface. The bugs are a reddish brown, very slow moving and easily seen-especially the adults. they are bigger than fleas. They have fat round abdomens like a ladybug but flatter with distint rib pattern on abdomen. Their droppings look like roach droppings-black dots. they molt (shed skin) between instars so cast skins, and droppings are signs as well as the live bugs. They always live near the bed and like cracks-seams on mattresses and inside box springs, even furniture near bed is suspect. They also like to line up in crack at bottom of headboard wall where carpet meets wall.