Pest Control in Nottingham and Derbyshire.
Bedbugs are on the increase, often using luggage and second hand furniture to reallocate. These are nocturnal insects relying entirely on humans to survive by feeding off your blood. During daylight hours bedbugs hide in bed bases, mattresses or cracks and crevices in walls and furniture directly where the host sleeps. Use Abm Pest Control to actively control your bedbugs.
Dark blood spots on bedding along with itching bites' will indicate an infestation.
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Professional control is recommended, with a thorough inspection and treatment of all harbourages.
A bedbug feeding on my hand, note the pulsing of blood.
Bedbugs are little carbon dioxide detectors, and find you when you are most still. This is where CO2 clouds form to give your presence away.
Cimex lectularis
Common name: Bedbug
Length: Approx 6 mm at adult stage.
Colour & description: Are pale brown when unfed but brown when engorged with blood. Oval but flattened unless recently fed. Are wingless with a short head and long slender mouthparts.
Habits & habitat: Nocturnal parasite with all stages feeding on mammalian blood. Hide by day in cracks and crevices in beds, furniture, behind skirting boards emerging when hungry to find food.
Life cycle: up to 200 days
Reproduction rate: Following insemination females produce 2-3 eggs per day for life (several hundred eggs in her lifetime).
