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Understanding Bed Bugs and Their Extermination

In the most populated city of the United States, New York, the presence of bed bugs has become quite a problem. They are seen everywhere from hotels to residential homes. These are blood-sucking parasites that come out in the night and bite into your skin. This could result in severe infection and pain at the place of the bed bugs bites.

A bed bug could be both male and a female, both are bloodsuckers. When completely fed, it appears different from a bug that is unfed. They are generally flat, mahogany or rusty red in color and oval shaped. These bugs can absorb a good amount of blood in a single feeding, which is seven times to their own body weight. So this bug turns fat when he is fully-fed and appears red, plump and elongated than its actual size. It has four-segmented antennae placed on the head and conspicuous eyes. Just beneath the head there is a three segmented beak. Although bed bugs have short wing pads, they can not fly. Bed bugs can live for up to a year. A pregnant female bug can lay 1 to 12 eggs in a day and about 400 to 500 in a lifetime.

The bed bug emerges at night from its hiding place to feast on its host which could be humans, hogs, family pets and birds. The blood feeding takes three to ten minutes and unfortunately all this goes unnoticed by the victim. In no matter of time, their haven becomes filled with the molted skins, feces, and old egg shells of the native bed bugs. These bugs have a smell like ‘stick bug’ which is caused by the excretion of the bed bug.

Since bed bugs are flat looking and oval in shape, they can easily conceal themselves in box springs of beds, crevices of mattresses, chairs, sofas, headboards, floor boards, sofas, pillows, cracks, under carpets, bookshelves, radios, under carpets, etc. Bed Bugs may cause allergic skin reactions and anemia with a rash. The bites could further cause itching and bacterial infection in some other cases. Although this bug has been related with over 25 diseases, however their conveyance from one place to another has not yet been proven.

It usually becomes extremely difficult to exterminate nocturnal pests, also because they are flat insects which are small in size. Also they hide in places which cannot be accessed easily. Generally people think that pests appear in the areas which are not properly sanitized, however contrary to this notion, bed bugs can abide almost anywhere you may or may not have thought of. Although precautions could be taken in the form of keeping the areas in your house less cluttered.

There are many shops and web stores which offer pesticides which are far more efficient than any chemical pesticides and are made up of organic substances. It has been noticed that over the years, bed bugs have established resistance to many chemical pesticides. However with the use of new organic methods, you could now exterminate bed bugs in such a way that they would not be able to develop resistance to these organic pesticides. Using organic substances could be highly effective on bedbugs and they do not have any kind of ill effects on humans or the environment which is an additional advantage.

Big bugs are commonly known as bed bugs NYC now-a-days, since they are found almost everywhere in New York City, be it homes, offices, hotel rooms and other suburbs in New York which are Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Nassau County. Select the best web shop that provides the best extermination services for bed bug NYC. It is advisable to use this environmental friendly organic pesticide to kill bed bugs. Use organic pesticides and protect yourself and keep the environment safe.

About the Author

The author of this article is associated with Green Eco Environmental and works for exterminating bed bugs New York across New York and other places in the US.

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