Bed bugs Control Services
How Do Bed Bugs Spread?
They’re usually carried into a home or business on clothing, or in luggage or furniture. Given their size, bed bugs are well adapted to travel.
Also, by buying second hand furniture make it even easy to transport a large number of bed bugs and bed bugs eggs to your home. If you get your hands on second hand furniture, there are high chances to get them their if the owner of the furniture never took care of their property before letting them go.
Maident Fumigation and Pest Control can treat items before you bring them into your home.
Overnight accommodation
Spending a night in a hotel with an infestation is another most common way of spreading bed bugs.
Check for blood stains on bed linen and other common signs in your hotel room when you arrive.
To secure yourself, either find another hotel or motel for the night if not possible then It may be necessary to launder, fumigate or treat belongings before returning home to ensure they are pest-free.
Bed bug control in Nairobi
Bed bugs are the not so good pests to come across as they are good disturbers of good nights causing harsh nights due to their bites. You just wake up with bites on your back and tired due to the body trying to defend for itself while you are asleep.
It isn’t always easy to identify bed bugs or know there’s a problem. They remain hidden in tiny cracks and crevices during the daytime either in your bedding or in the wooden things around. Often the first sign of bed bugs is bites that appear on your body after you wake up.
It’s difficult to confirm presence of bed bugs just by looking at your bites.
How you will confirm the manifestation of bed bugs in your home.
- Small dark spots - Small dark blood spots on bedding known as 'faecal pellets'.
- Live insects - despite being small (adult are only 4-5mm long) it’s possible to spot live bed bugs and shed skins.
- Sweet scent - An unpleasant, sweet, sickly scent.
- Dark/black stains - on the mattress and surrounding area from bed bug excreta.
If you’ve started to notice miniature blood stains appearing on your bedding, then there’s a possibility you could be suffering from a bed bug infestation. Please note that there are many reasons why blood spots may display on bedding – however, if combined with other major signs of bed bugs then it is a clear indication of an infestation.