How Do Bed Bugs Appear? Learn How to Prevent Being Bitten at Night

Every summer, bed bugs and cockroaches are everywhere, impossible to wipe out completely. Sometimes they crawl onto the bed and bite people, and eat leftovers on the dining table, which is very annoying. And many people have no idea where these insects come from. So how do bed bugs appear? How do you prevent being bitten at night?

I. Introduction to Bed Bugs:

1. How do bed bugs reproduce?

Bed bugs reproduce by laying eggs. The eggs are usually laid in cracks on walls, bed boards, folds in wallpaper and other crevices. Usually they can lay 1 egg at a time, or many eggs. In the cold of winter, they stop sucking blood and laying eggs. Usually, nymphs can live for more than 30 days without a blood meal, while adults can usually live for about six or seven months without a blood meal.

2. What are bed bugs afraid of?

Bed bugs are afraid of the smell of eucalyptus, and also afraid of the smell of kerosene, and of course they are also afraid of insecticides. To eliminate bed bugs, you can mix eucalyptus leaf powder and eucalyptus oil with an appropriate amount of soapy water and turpentine, then apply the mixture to places where bed bugs have crawled, and it will kill them. You can also sprinkle kerosene on the edges of the bed, and after the bed bugs smell it, they will die. At the same time, other pests can also be killed. Be careful not to have any open flame to avoid a fire. Alternatively, sprinkling bed bug insecticide into the cracks of the bed can also kill bed bugs.

II. How Do Bed Bugs Appear?

1. They are brought in by people. Bed bugs can hide on people's clothes and follow them home. Generally, if bed bugs exist in the place where you work or the places you pass by, they can hide on your clothes and come home. Sometimes after coming home, they can also run to other people's homes, making them impossible to guard against.

2. They are brought home through handbags, tote bags, suitcases and the like. When traveling, if there are bed bugs in the place where you stay, the bed bugs will hide in suitcases, handbags and any place where they can hide. After you return home, they can crawl out and then keep reproducing.

3. Furniture or other items you purchase. Bed bugs, like cockroaches, like to grow in wall cracks, board seams and other places. If bed bugs are present where the furniture you buy is from, the bed bugs will hide in the gaps between boards and then be brought into the home.

In short, whether traveling or buying furniture, you should check the items to prevent bed bugs from hiding and spreading. But the most important thing is to keep the environment clean and tidy, so that bed bugs will not easily survive.

III. How Do You Prevent Being Bitten by Bed Bugs at Night?

Bed bugs are everywhere. To eliminate them and prevent them from coming out at night to bite people, you need to understand where they hide. Usually you can carefully check every corner, crack, or fold in wallpaper, and once you find them, use insecticide to get rid of them.

Method 1: Beat the bed board. When cleaning on the weekend, you can carefully look for the insects. At the same time, find a wooden stick and beat the surface of your bed. This way, the bed bugs hidden in the cracks of the bed will be knocked out, and then you can slap them dead. If there are many, you can spray some insecticide.

Method 2: Frequently sun-dry the bedding. Bed bugs like to grow in warm, humid environments, and bedding is one of their favorite places. So when the sun is strong, take all bedding items such as quilts and duvet covers out into the sun to bake, and every once in a while pat the bedding so the bed bugs fall off and then are dried to death.

Method 3: Scald with boiling water. Bed bugs are afraid of high temperatures, especially boiling water. If there are many bed bugs at home, you can boil a kettle of water and pour it on places with bed bugs, and the bed bugs will be scalded to death.

Method 4: Scald clothes with boiling water. If there are many bed bugs at home, there will also be many in the wardrobe. So when it is sunny, you can scald the clothes in the wardrobe with boiling water and wipe every corner of the wardrobe clean. This way, the bed bugs can be eliminated.

Method 5: Use quicklime. After bed bugs appear at home, you can use quicklime to block all the cracks, then sprinkle some water on it, and the insects will be killed.

Method 6: Find professional pest control personnel. After all, furniture is not convenient to scald with boiling water, so I suggest you can buy some specialized insecticides to kill the insects. Or contact a professional pest control company to provide you with professional and thorough pest control services.

Overall, bed bugs may be brought in by people, or brought back in handbags, tote bags, suitcases and the like when traveling. Therefore, whether traveling or going out, after returning home you should carefully check to avoid bringing them back and causing inconvenience to yourself. If there are bed bugs at home, you can use quicklime, boiling water, sun-drying bedding and other methods to eliminate them.