Bed Bugs – Holiday Gift Fail

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Returning from a Christmas holiday? If you or someone stayed in a hotels or motels, these can be hotspots for infestations of bed bugs, which can live happily in a bed and hitch a ride home on luggage, clothing and you. If these vampires get into your luggage and travel home with you, they can then continue their lives in your own mattresses, box springs, and furniture, causing an expensive infestation to cure. Here are a few tips on avoiding a bed-bug encounter during and after your vacation. Get out your smart phone and look-up bedbugs and examine what they look like in all their stages of life. Adult bed bugs, nymphs, and eggs are visible to the naked eye. When you first enter a hotel room, put your luggage in the bathroom while you inspect the bedding and furniture. Look under bed sheets and check the mattress and box-spring seams, especially at the head of the bed. Look for casings (old exoskeletons) that the bugs leave behind when they molt and dark, rust-colored spots (blood and feces). Stow your suitcases on a luggage rack or a hard surface or keep luggage in large plastic trash bags. When you get home or somebody that returns from a trip, you can kill any bed-bug hitchhikers by tumbling your travel clothes in a hot dryer for 30 minutes (temperatures above 49° celsius bed bugs)

gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.C. Randy Bilesky

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