It’s a fact. Bed bugs are here. I mean the bed bugs are back. And they are here to stay. And if you think they are really not that much of a serious problem. Well wait until your house is plagued by even one female bedbug that happened to hitch a ride on your luggage from your trip. This single bug could lay dozens of eggs each day. And up to 500 eggs in her lifetime. With your house as the breeding ground of course. So imagine the extent of bed bug infestation in your house a few months from now.
Bed bugs are tiny weeny insects that normally thrive in people’s homes. What is it that they really do love to live with people? That they still manage to linger and come uninvited? Bed bugs are hard to eliminate. And while a bed bug spray can be used to kill them, the chemicals you will be using may also have the potential to endanger you and your family's life.
Bed bugs are crafty crawlers that have to bite people to survive. It is because bed bugs feed on blood from unsuspicious and unwilling victims for survival and nourishment.
Bedbugs have long, elongated, sharp beaks that help them pierce through the host’s skin to enjoy the flowing, warm blood of people.
They are usually the most active at night. They hunt their victims at night, when they are unsuspecting and are usually asleep. Bed bug bites are normally negligible, you can hardly feel them. That is because aside from their minute size, bed bugs have certain enzymes in their saliva that act like anesthetics so you won’t be feeling anything while they’re feeding on you.
No worries. Bed bugs can never slurp buckets of blood from you anyway. Normally, a single bed bug can only lap a sixteenth of a milliliter of blood from you. That amount is so negligible.
On bed bug control
The discomfort caused by bed bugs are so maddening that you will surely always want to totally eliminate them from your life, your family, and your home. No wonder more and more homes are seeing the benefits of having bed bug dogs for detection.
Reason why there have been lots of pesticides and insecticides that have entered the market for the purpose of bed bug extermination.
A bed bug spray is the most common line of defense people use once they detect bed bugs inside their homes. This and other forms of pesticides work to destroy the wax-like protective covering of the bed bugs.
Pesticides usually use similar if not exactly the same ingredients. All of these sprays contain silica powder or powderized glass. By powderized, it means that the glass or silica crystals have been ground down to the tiniest and smallest particle possible.
Why use glass and silica? Apparently because these two substances are effective in cutting through any surface. Bed bugs are such hardy creatures that their skins are so hard and protected, it would take extra strong and powerful chemicals or substances to be able to cut through them.
Once you’re done spraying the bugs with these substances, the powderized glass and silica cuts through their skin. Easy as that.
And once the skins have been damaged, then that’s the time the chemical will get in. The system of bed bugs will then be very vulnerable without their protective covering.
Chemicals normally get in to dehydrate or take away the moisture from the insides of the bugs. Leaving all the bugs for dead.
Precautionary Measures
However potent they may be in killing or exterminating bed bugs, be sure to handle pesticides and insecticides with extreme care.
Read all labels before finally using them so you will have an idea how extremely poisonous they could be.
Also pay attention to the precautionary measures and first aid tips listed on the label of such sprays in case you accidentally inhale or take in such substances.
Sure bedbug elimination would be your priority for now. But make that number 2 priority. Your first priority should always be your safety as well as that of your family’s.
