Tips for Preventing Bed Bugs

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No one wants bed bugs inside their home and while it can happen to anyone, there are a few things that everyone can do to prevent bringing these little creatures home with them. Thankfully, all of these tips are easy and fairly inexpensive too. 1. Look Carefully in Hotel Rooms…

Tips if You Hear Your Apartment has Bed Bugs

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Bed bugs may be tiny little insects that cannot jump or fly, but they can infect an entire building quite easily. They can be transported through an apartment building via a neighbouring unit, during the moving process, or on second hand furniture and mattresses. If you find out that your…

How to Tell if You Have Bed Bugs

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You wake up one morning to find a few bug bites on your face or you wake up to see a bug scurrying across the bed. Does this mean that you have bed bugs??? Before you jump to any conclusions and condemn your house, you may want to look for…

How Bed Bugs Get into Your Home

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Bed bugs are insects that can hide in the smallest cracks and crevices inside your home. You may be able to find them inside your mattress, in the corners of your bed frame, behind your baseboards, in the outside corners of your dresser drawers, and amongst any pile of clutter….

What do Bed Bug Bites Look Like?

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Signs and Symptoms of Bed Bug Bites Bed bugs come out at night when it is dark and they feed on human blood. This is why you will find that you have bites in the morning when you wake up. The bites are red, raised, and are usually found in…

The History of Bed Bugs

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C. lecturlarius are more commonly known as bed bugs, but no matter what you call them, they aren’t really the type of insect that you want inside your home. The ancient Romans called bed bugs Cimex, which meant bug. Of course, lecturlarius means couch or bed, so that is where…