Bed Bug Facts
- Bed bugs are flat, wingless, and about one-quarter of an inch long.
- Bed bugs don’t care if a home is neat or messy, only that
people–their food source–are near. There’s no evidence that they
transmit disease.
- They have six legs, and are shiny reddish-brown. But after feeding on human blood, they appear dark brown and swollen.
- They can be seen with the human eye, but are known to hide during the day.
- By feeding on infected people, bedbugs can be infected with some
blood-borne diseases. However, there is no evidence that bed bugs can
transmit these diseases to other people.
- Bed bugs feed on human blood, and prefer to do it in the dark when you’re sleeping.
- Simply using chemical treatments will not remove the infestation.
- Bed bugs are great hiders. Favorite locations are: in the seams of
mattresses, sofa seams, cracks in the bad frame and/or head board, under
chairs, couches, beds and dust covers, under rugs, edges of carpets,
drawers, baseboards and window casings, behind light switches,
electrical outlet plates, cracks in plaster, televisions, radio clocks
and phones, backpacks, sleeping bags, clothes, behind wallpaper, picture
frames, and other dark areas.
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