Bedbugs

After extensive research. None. That actually work on their own. Bed buds spread fast and their tricky little creatures so if you find out you have them it's best to get on top of it asap. I'd recommend Hot Shot Bed Bug and Flea foggers & Spray. The best spray would be the gallon size container of Hot Shot bed bug and flea spray it has a little spray gun attached to it. You can find it at home depot for approx: $10. However keep in mind that alone will not work. I would recommend using that in conjunction with the bed strips if you have an infestation in your bed. In addition to DE (diatomaceous earth). That should do the trick.

It's more of a masking /repellent than a contact spray with no residual. Bedbugs are hardy. If you want a good aerosol, try ECOPCOACU or ECOPCOARX (acronyms)-they are both chemical free (plant/food oils) but kill them instantly. I've seen them on Ebay. The only diff is ARX has residual other doesn't. The tough part is the box springs, you should get a slipcover for the mattress set or consider replacing if they are inside or they could come back.

Nothing. It might hurt. I've been bitten and it hurt but it was more of a surprise than anything else. There will be no lasting effects. And they DO NOT sting as some people may think. They have no stinger.

That depends directly on the individual that was attacked. The resulting severity of the bite is different with each person. When a BedBug "bites" you what happens is the nasty little creature secretes a couple of chemicals at the point of the bite. One is ananesthetic that stops you from feeling the pain of the bite and waking up. The other is an anti coagulant to make sucking your blood easier for them. How each individual reacts to those chemicals is what determines the severity of the bite and the time it will take to go away.

What you see as a bite is an allergic reaction. In some cases that reaction can be very dangerous and has even been known to bring on asthma attacks.

Bed bugs can be extremely hard to kill. Some pesticides, including those you can buy at the store, will kill any bed bugs that they actually touch. However, getting rid of hidden bed bugs is almost impossible that way. The best way to kill them is to heat the room they are in to at least 115 degrees F and hold it there for a minimum of 4 hours. The bedbugs cannot survive that much heat for that long.

There are a wide range of chemicals that can be used to kill bedbugs. Several of these options are nontoxic to pets. If you have pets, it is best to look for one that says on the bottle that it is pet-safe. If hiring an exterminator, ask what you need to do to minimize risk to your pets.

Most chemicals used to kill bed bugs, lice, and scabies are not harmful to humans or pets, and are 100% safe to use. Be sure to read all the documentation that comes with the product you choose, and follow all recommended precautions when using these types of products.

From what I've read, they can live/hide in wall cracks and furniture. They live were the food (read YOU) are. They don't have to be inside a mattress that just seems a convinient place for them.

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There are not many black bugs that will be on beds other than bed bugs. Sometimes people are not allergic to the ed bugs and will not break out of bitten. The bugs could possible be book louse since they are black and small.

Don't! It's the worst thing you can do!!

I have these things in my apartment and I am just getting professional treatment now. It takes 40 days because I have to be the bait, sleep in my bed every night and GET BITTEN so that they will climb on my bed-frame which has been sprayed with a professional pesticide that causes them to die slowly and not be able to lay eggs.

The REASON I have to have my apartment treated like this (and it's unbearable) is that I used 2 smoke bombs in the rooms where I was being bitten, and they caused the bugs to scatter throughout the room.

Now there are a few of them hiding all over the place, it's a nightmare!

If you have a small infestation just vacuum and clean and if you can try and isolate your bed (double sided carpet tape around the outside of the sheet), you might be alright.

Otherwise, I know it's expensive and it sucks but really, call a reputable pro because, I've spent a year trying to beat these things on my own and it's ruined me. Save yourself the aggravation and sort it out now with someone who really knows how to get rid of them.

Yes they can harm anybody.

Please clean your child and its possessions properly. It is disturbing that a newborn is dealing with bedbugs.

Yes. Bedbugs may lay their eggs in somebody visiting's clothes, such as in a pocket or seam, or perhaps a live bedbug will crawl in there without the person knowing. When the person gets back to their own home and perhaps takes the clothes off and leaves them lying about, either the eggs will hatch or the live bug will try to find a new source of food. In either case it will smell the breath of somebody asleep and make for that bed, so that could mean the start of an infestation in that home.

No that is unlikely though not totally impossible. You see the point is people do not have bedbugs and do not normally carry them around with them. Beds and homes do have bedbugs. But can I explain this better. The bedbugs will stay in hiding places in your bedding or near your bed and only come out at night when somebody is asleep in that bed to feed or else if they get disturbed, such as when you make your bed or tidy your room. When they come out at night, you will then get bitten because your bed is the problem not you. People's beds are in close proximity such as in a dormitory of a barrack room, then bedbugs in one person's bed do often move across to the neighbouring person's bed. In private houses or apartments too if one person sleeping in that home gets them in their bedroom and it gets infested, some bedbugs may in time move to other bedrooms in the same home and feed off the person using that bed, and so that bedroom may also become infested in time. The point to understand is bedbugs will multiply over a period of time if you have them anywhere in your home and they find people when asleep by your breath and that is what attracts them to you. So it is most important to get rid of them just as soon as you know you have a bedbug problem anywhere in the home. Do nothing and the problem will just get worse and worse as the months go by, and thenif somebody comes to visit that home they could end up unwittingly with a bedbug laying its eggs in their clothing and import it into their home. So your visitors home gets an infestation due to your negligence in not dealing with the problem.

Lots of animals do. Mammals, mainly (except dolphins, whales, and orcas) and arachnids (spiders, 8-legged creatures). If you're looking for types of animals:

Dog

cat

pig

platypus

hamsters

rats

mice

cougars

lions

tigers

bears

spiders

scorpions

ticks

fleas

There's lots more, but this is a VERY obvious question.

Well sort of - but be aware the word "contagious" is rather a misnomer. I think you mean if you are staying by yourself in a hotel and there is a bedbug infestation affecting your bedroom which results in female bedbugs laying their eggs in your holdall which you then unwittingly take back to your home, and then when the bedbug nymphs eggs hatch in your home will the bedbugs necessarily come to you to feed in your bed rather than to other people's beds also living in your home. The answer is they may be attracted by the CO2 breath when asleep ofwhoever's bed happens to be nearest. That may or may not be your bed or else somebody else's bed in your home. Once they have found food (i.e. a bed with somebody asleep in it) they can feed off, that will usually become their base very near where that particular person sleeps. But if several people sleep in very close proximity bedbugs may alternate on different nights to feed off different people's blood in the same bedroom or dormitory. If the bedbugs in one person's bed then multiply and become an infestation, that problem will very likely spread into other people's beds in that home or sometimes in nearby apartments or homes as well.

Bed bug bites do not commonly cause serious reactions in humans. But, they are annoying enough to cause stresses in our lives as well. Some people that have experienced bed bugs in their home have problems with sleeping in their beds. They may feel anxiety and worry about the bed bugs, even knowing that they are not going to cause a great deal of damage to them. This fear can lead to insomnia as well. At an extreme level, bed bugs can cause things like distress and alarm. At some times, it can also cause delusional parasitosis as well. Here, a person becomes delusional, thinking that they see and feel the bed bugs on their skin. The amount of blood that you will lose because of the bed bug is a very small amount and will likely not affect the host at all. They probably will not notice any feelings caused by this problem. Also, bed bugs are not known to cause any type of disease. They are not known to carry and transmit diseases either. This is unlike that of a mosquito that can transmit a disease to its host. They have been known to carry what is called pathogens for the plague and for hepatitis B, but this is just from the immunities that they have built up from these diseases over the course of time. The bed bug bite that does cause a serve reaction or one that leaves a welt on the skin can become infected if the individual scratches at the area and by doing this, supplies the necessary bacteria to cause the infection in the skin of the host

Yes, when trying to differentiate a bed bug from a tick, I took a picture of the bed bug. When the light flashed, the bed bug crouched down. I thought it was my imagination, so I continued to flash the camera light and every time it crouched down in defense. Then, I smashed it with a plastic spoon and it died. You have to burn ticks

Hey - bed bug bites tend to be on upperbody and flies lower body

Yes bed bugs can be eliminated speaking from my experience. I've had bed bug infestation before on my mattress. Bed bugs do bite and they will leave a flat large red mark on your skin. Bed bugs are nocturnal so they will come out at night when you are sleeping and during the day they will hide in cracks and crevices of your room or in your mattress. They can come into your home by cracks and crevices from apartments or from the outside, they can be brought in by your luggage if you went on a vacation. You will need to treat bed bugs multiple of times because they all wont be killed at once, believe me, I know.

You can look for bed bugs in the crevices of your mattress and on the lining underneath your mattress. They will also be in your sheets, pillow cases, and fabrics. Bed bugs can also be found in your box springs and on the joining parts of your bed frame and head board.

After I treated my mattress and box springs, I used Allerzip Protect-A-Bed mattress encasement, Protect-A-Bed box spring cover and Protect-A-Bed pillow case to prevent future bed bug infestation. These encasement, box cover, and pillow case prevents moisture from building up and traps the bed bugs causing them to die from lack of food and hiding place.

I treated for bed bugs 3-4 times in 2 weeks. I repeated the process again. I used this spray called Steri-Fab and sprayed it on my mattress, on box springs. I vacuumed my mattress and box spring after I allowed it to dry. I also used dust, which is a pesticide dust into the cracks and crevices of my home which will prevent them from coming into my home.

bed bugs survive by eating human blood

I had an exterminator, used sprays and fogger stuff. --> None of them worked, but Bed Bug Powder. You simply apply the powder on the bedding items after cleaning them up with a steam cleaner or washing them with hot hot water. The Bed Bug Powder is natural powder that contains no chemical, so it is of course safe to humans and animals.

Yes,Respiration(in this case breathing) happens in allliving Organsims.
As do all insects, they breathe through spiracles- a row of small holes on both sides of their abdomen. They do not have lungs like us. Instead, they have accordion-like "book lungs" which sucks air in and out . You can see it in action if you catch a large insect like a grasshopper or cockroach. You will see the abdomen moving in and out very rapidly. That's the insect breathing. The flea does the same thing, but it's so tiny that you couldn't see it. Kinda cool, eh?

Wakening one morning to find arms and legs and other parts of your body covered in itchy red welts is distressing but then finding that they have been caused by bed bugs can be devastating, making you feel unclean. However, the fact of the matter is that bed bug infestations have risen dramatically since 2007.

The main concern is that if you find you have a problem how do you get rid of bed bugs? You could call in a professional company and leave everything to them but that is very expensive or you could use insecticides or other chemicals in an attempt to deal with the bed bugs by yourself. Whichever you decide on the faster you act the less likely the infestation is to get out of control.

The first step you need to take is to remove bed linen, clothing, soft furnishings, shoes etc. which may be infected - remember bed bugs will hide out in the most obscure places in the day time, only coming out to feed at night. Place all of these items in plastic bags and seal them whilst in the infested room to prevent the transfer of bugs to other areas in the house.

Wash bed linen and other washable items on a hot setting in the washing machine. There may be items which cannot be washed, these can be either put in a hot tumble dryer for about 10 minutes or placed in the sun whilst in the plastic bags - for a couple of days or until the bugs are dead. Bed bugs cannot withstand cold either so if it is cold you could still put these items outside.

Always clean down any work surfaces with which these items have come into contact. Be sure to use disinfectant.

Once everything is washed and dried or decontaminated place them into clean plastic bags and reseal them for protection.

The biggest task of all is completely clearing and cleaning the room from top to bottom. Firstly get rid of any clutter such as news papers, magazine etc. Bag them, seal the bags tightly and dispose of them.

Your first weapon in the battle to get rid of bed bugs is the vacuum cleaner. This is fantastic at lifting bugs, eggs and larvae from carpets, curtains, mattresses and the box spring. Its many attachments allow it to get into cracks and crevices where the bed bugs are likely to hide out in the day time. NB Remove the bag from the vacuum immediately, place it in a sealed bag and dispose of it.

The second weapon you should consider using is a steam cleaner - you can hire these easily or there is a large range available from Amazon - this will get rid of bed bugs missed by the vacuum as they cannot with stand high temperatures.

Finally the whole area must be treated with some kind of solution to ensure that there are no living bugs, eggs etch left.

Insecticide sprays are widely available, the problem is that whilst some are effective the bed bugs have built up resistance to others. The biggest concern however is the safety of these chemicals. They pose danger to the health of humans and animals alike and should ideally only be used by professionals - which as I mentioned before comes at a high price!

There are quite a few non toxic sprays available to buy either on-line or at your local store. These are completely safe to use in houses where there are children and pets. Again, the problem is that the effectiveness of these can vary.

One which I have used personally and which is 100% natural and EPA approved is a product called Bed Bug Bully. It worked quickly and was very effective and I even got a free sample! Find out more at Treatment For Bed Bugs.Com