Bed Bugs – Are They Coming Back From Holiday With You?

Bed Bugs – Are They Coming Back From Holiday With You? – Arriving at your holiday hotel at 3.0am, tired and frayed after a long and tiring, flight delays, airport security, noisy kids and unfriendly passport control and now all you want

Don't Let The Bed Bug Bite

to do is get fall into bed and look forward to the sunrise and the first day of your vacation.
That could possibly be the most expensive mistake you’ll make this holiday!
The bed bug (Cimex lectularious) is back with a vengeance and its food is you!
Bed bugs are small haematophagic insects about the size of an apple-pip.
They dine on the blood of warm blooded creatures and their favourite meal is human blood.
Having been virtually eradicated in the 20th century they are back and spreading like wildfire,  all over the world reports of massive increases in bed bug infestations are being made.
Some cite increasing economic migration, affordability of cheap travel and resistance to pesticides but whatever the reason, they are thriving and they love holiday makers!
They feed on human blood every 5 -10 days, emerging from their hiding places in the early hours of the morning when the tourist is likely to be in a deep sleep, perhaps aided by large quantities of the local sangria.
They sense the presence of a target initially by sensing the carbon dioxide in exhaled breath but switch to infra-red sensing of body heat when closing in on the target.
They pierce the body of their target with a needle containing two tubes, with one they pump in saliva which contains both an anaesthetic and an anti-coagulant and with the other they suck blood.
In a heavily infested room it is possible to receive up to 500 bites per night.
So how do you check if your room is infested?
Start by stripping the bed down to the mattress, turn the mattress over if possible and concentrate on the end nearest the headboard.
Look for dark coloured smear marks, live or dead bugs and spots of congealed blood.
Look in the stitching around the edges of the mattress, under the edges of the carpet near the bed and pull out and invert any bed-side drawers. Bed bugs are quite easy to see and move very rapidly when exposed. You can see photos of the bugs and their smear marks at http://justbedbugs.com
If you find or suspect bed bugs on no account stay in that room, or even that hotel, not even for a solitary or you will regret it, and certainly don’t unpack your suitcases in that room.
Get hold of your tour company representative immediately and insist on being moved to another hotel.
If you stay in a bed bug infested room you are most likely to them back to your own house as contrary to urban myth they can survive the journey home in your suitcase very indeed.
That concludes this article entitled – Bed Bugs – Are They Coming Back From Holiday With You?

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Pest Control In Manchester & Other Large Cities by Ken Chadwick

Big city pest control brings its own set of special circumstances which sometimes require a different approach to smaller and quieter towns.

Firstly the very logistics of working in a busy big city can be problematic, even the basics of parking your van near the customers’ premises can be difficult especially when equipment needs to be carried. This can lead to increased charges which have to be passed onto the customer and sometimes these can be substantial.

Premises are often open seven days a week and even twenty-four hours a day thus leaving little opportunity for the pest controller to go about his work.

This may not cause too much difficulty in routine preventative inspection visits but can cause extreme problems when infestation is detected in that often pesticides require premises to be vacated for a period of time.

Big towns & cities usually have a large number of takeaways providing food to eat on the go and often will be littered overnight with uneaten food scraps providing food for rats, pigeons and seagulls which have now moved inland.

Often daily waste collections mean that bagged food waste is put outside overnight thus encouraging rodents.

Pigeons & Seagulls are obviously a nuisance with their noise and fouling but often will take food stuffs up onto roofs and ledges causing a build up of rotten materials which produce flies and maggots.

Pigeons will often roost and nest in roof spaces for many years leading to a large build up of pigeon guano and often their droppings can make the walkways below slippery and dangerous.

Most big cities have a varied ethnic mix with a variety of shops and restaurants supplying foods from all over the world. Often these foods are imported in bulk from countries where pests such as cockroaches are endemic and these pests are then brought into the U.K. hidden away in the goods and packaging.

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of big city pest control is the resurgence of the bed bug which in recent years has seen numbers rise exponentially.

A high transient population of visitors often staying in inexpensive, high turnover accommodation means that the bugs can spread quickly throughout a city and even expensive upmarket establishments are not exempt.

The very nature of a bed bug infestation means that it is difficult and expensive to cure and news of infestation is often of interest to local press who will often carry a story about a guest being bitten, thus ruining the reputation of the establishment.

Bed bug infestations require that the infested bedroom and those adjacent be treated thus losing revenue for the establishment.