Bloody mistakes quickly return around the world, reaching epichemic levels. Any temperature below 48 ºC provides a thriving environment for bed bugs. Below are 3 ways to prevent infection by bedbugs.
A. Understand the pest habits
Learn to identify bed bug
Blood bugs are parasitic insects that feed on blood. They belong to any type of the genus Cimex and are members of the family Cimicidae (Cimicids). Cimex lectularus, the most famous of the Cimicidae family, prefers human blood. The insect is also called the red coat because of its reddish brown color.
His body has short golden hair. His head is short and wide with a pair of compound cone-shaped eyes. It has 2 antennas segmented into 4 parts. Its thin proboscis is held close along the ventral surface of the head and prothorax. All members of the Hemiptera family, the scientific name for true mistakes, have beaked, piercing companies.
He has no wings. She has a pair of upper and lower jaws, called the stylet beam, which develops overtime into a three-segment beak, which allows it to take blood. Insects have a flat oval structure with 6 well developed legs.
Its claws are designed to raise a rough vertical surface, such as paper, wood, and cloth. Before feeding about 1/4 inch. It tends to hide near the bed and spread to other areas when the population grows.
Know how bedbugs can get into your home.
They can get into your home in three ways:
1. Person - someone physically takes them to the house in personal belongings or luggage
2. A thing - they get into a house in used furniture, equipment, clothing, or other used items
3. Forced invasion - they crawl from a nearby apartment through the hollow walls, service line, heating channels or mail trays into your home.
These pests can be found in cinemas, schools, universities, stores, on ships, airplanes and other public transport, hotels, dormitories, protected premises and other public places.
Moving home is another way they can get into boxes, especially if you hire vehicles to move their belongings. Delivery vehicles are a source of infestation bed errors, because many use the service.
Know where the sleeping bugs are hiding in the house
1. Pests love to stay close to their owners' resting place - a bed. They love to hide in the mattress, frame and drawer.
2. The flat oval structure of the pest allows it to enter the cracks and crevices in the furniture, between the joints in the floor and other objects when they are not protected.
3. Ingredient harms in warm conditions. It is known that it enters computers, DSL ports and other electrical equipment.
B. Do not allow bed bugs to enter your home
Traveling is the most common way of collecting pests in your luggage and personal items. If you travel abroad, check the hotel room often before unpacking your luggage.
1. Examine the headboard and wall behind the backrest.
2. Pull off the sheets and find blood stains on the mattress. Inspect along seams, tufts, folds, under tags and crevices in the mattress.
3. Inspect the edges of the box spring and in the seams of bed linen.
4. Examine furniture made of wood and upholstered furniture, especially along the crevices and seams.
5. Do not put your luggage on the floor. Use the trunk or store a suitcase in the bathroom until you look around the room.
Shopping is another way to collect them in your personal belongings. Consider these shopping tips to prevent bed bug infection.
1. Carefully inspect the seams of clothing before installing them.
2. Do not place clothes on soft seats or on carpet in a fitting room. Hang your clothes on hooks in the fitting room.
3. Place all purchased items in bags. Seal the bags tightly before leaving the store. Wash or dry your clothes before wearing them.
Public transportation is another way to collect pests in your personal belongings. Consider these tips.
1. Use vehicles in good condition. For example, use a taxi that does not have holes in the seat.
2. Inspect the seat and along the fold when you enter the car.
3. Do not use a connecting line or other compartments if possible.
4. Use a clothes hanger.
5. Check your clothes and shoes on the bed as soon as you get out of the car.
6. Buy some bed linens if you travel regularly.
C. Prevent the spread of bugs in your home
If pests invade your home, act quickly to limit the invasion.
1. Vacuum the mattress and box spring to remove bedbugs and eggs.
2. Handle the mattress and box spring.
3. Cover the mattress and box spring with zippers for at least a year. Seal any scratches on the cover with adhesive tape.
4. Slide the bed away from the wall.
5. Use upward interceptors, traps or other surveillance devices to create a barrier between the pest and the host.
6. Make sure that bed linen, skirts and blankets do not touch the floor.
Hygienic and unhygienic methods
1. Rinse the bedding and clothing for at least 30 minutes. Set the temperature at the temperature point limit (60 ° C).
2. Kapkov cracks along the baseboards
3. Sealing holes in which pipes or wires pass through the wall
4. Reduce interference in the room.
5. Fill the cracks in the floorboards, furniture and frame
6. Repair the peeling wallpaper and tighten any switch covers.
A crib lap error has a number of health effects, including psychological effects, skin rashes and allergic reactions. Bedbug bites can cause a number of skin manifestations. The more you learn about the pest, the better you must prevent infection in your home.
