Seeing a single bed bug or what a customer thinks is a bed bug isn t cause for an emergency says mark sheperdigian bce vice president of technical services for rose pest solutions in troy mich.
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When a person has unknowingly brought a bed bug infestation into their home or workplace etc they ve either brought in a non fertile single bed bug or more than one bed bugs at once or a single fertile female bed bug with the ability to reproduce.
They spread by crawling between nearby locations or by being carried within personal items.
Bed bugs have a distinct body shape shell pattern and color.
Here are some tell tale signs that your bites ar.
The adult is 1 4th inch long flat.
As a single fertile female may lay four to five eggs every day for up to nine months your home may quickly become infested.
Finding even a single bed bug is sufficient cause for alarm.
One bed bug doesn t necessarily mean there is a full blown infestation in place.
Although bedbugs aren t known to spread disease they can cause other public health and economic issues.
Unfortunately the presence of one suggests there are more.
You normally don t see a bed bug they are nocturnal.
Majority of homeowners who find out about bed bug infestations do so only after they have seen one bed bug crawling on their mattress.
They are especially distinguished as an adult which is when you re most likely to see them crawling around in the open.
It is possible for a lone bug to hitchhike its way into your home or hide itself on your person.
Bed bug bites are caused primarily by two species of insects.
Only a few people are allergic to the bed bug s saliva.
Their size ranges between 1 and 7 mm.
Cimex lectularius the common bed bug and cimex hemipterus found primarily in the tropics.
About the size of an apple seed bedbugs hide in the cracks and crevices of beds box springs headboards bed frames and any other objects around a bed.
Unlike beetles and most other indoor pests bed bugs have mostly flat bodies rather than rounded or bulbous abdomens.