Recognising Bedbugs And Maintaining Effective Pest Control In The Summer Months

1. In order to maintain a healthy and hygienicfamily Cimicidae, and it is named for the fact that its
environment, it is crucial to control the pesttypical habitats are mattresses, sofas and other soft
population, and it is often a good idea to call in thefurnishings.  With these areas in mind, adult bed bugs
experts, as specialist knowledge makes totalgrow to around 4-5mm in length, making them visible
eradication more likely, helping to prevent a repeatto the human eye, and are generally brown in colour,
attack.flattish, oval shaped and nocturnal.
One current concern for pest control experts is theThe bites of bedbugs are typically found in clusters,
global resurgence of bedbug cases.  Widely thoughttake the appearance of red welts or bumps and
to have been eradicated over the twentieth century,cause an intense itching sensation for the victim. 
there has been a massive increase in reported casesBBC One’s ‘The One Show’ recently
in the UK since the mid 1990s.  One possible reasonproduced a special report on the presence of
for this problem is the increase in international travel,bedbugs in London, and came to the conclusion that
and the swift moving nature of infestations lies in themany traditional solutions and cures for bedbugs have
fact that not only is it difficult to definitively establishceased to work effectively, compounding the need
the presence of bedbugs, but that they can also befor professional help.
found in both private and commercial properties.So at this time of year, although there is no cause
It is important to be sufficiently well informed of thefor alarm, do try to be vigilant as an early detection
causes and appearance of bed bugs to boost yourof bedbug infestations means the likelihood of
chances of early detection and therefore cure andsuccessful eradication is far greater.
future prevention.  Bedbugs are from the insect