Battling the Distribution of Bed Bugs

Bed bugs are non-flying insects and extremely fast runners for their size. An adult bed bug measures approximately five millimetres long and is oval shaped. They are rust brown in color and they change into a deeper red brown after their blood meal.

Because of their color they can easily be spotted with the naked eye on white linoleum, light marble floors or white bed linen, but very difficult to see on brown wooden floors and other dark surfaces.

The distribution of bed bugs is assisted by the fact that they are flat and thin and are therefore able to squeeze in very narrow cracks and crevices such as floorboard, skirting boards, power points, and brick feature walls. They are very difficult to detect because of their skilfulness in finding hiding places.

Bed bug distribution also adds up to the any pieces of information about the two main species of bed bugs that bite human beings.

First is the common bed bug - more scientifically called cimex lectularius. This kind of bed bug is found in any crevice as long as it is around room temperature. They are of greater distribution in Australia. May it be remote or urban, common bed bugs do not care, as long as they are distributed to an area that copes well with their needs.

Another kind of bed bugs is the tropical bed bug, or cimex hemipterus. This bed bug has been guessed to be distributed in the tropics a long time ago. However, it was only recently recognized by the medical entomology department. This department can tell you more information about the distribution of the cimex hemipterus in the tropics.

Bed bugs are distributed in human dwellings, bat caves and bird’s nests. In truth, the habitats that have been recently mentioned are the ones found to be most suitable for bed bugs, because their need for warmth and hosts to feed on.

However, you must always remember that bed bugs are never evenly distributed throughout the environment. They are mainly distributed in harborages.

When human dwellings is the subject, the harborages are inclusive of the crack and crevices that you can find, sometimes not find, in your house’s walls, behind your wallpaper, furniture and wood panelling, or even under your carpets.

Bed bugs can also be distributed to clothing, in bedding or even your luggage. However, much to their dismay, they do not have appendages that could allow them to cling, possibly to hair feathers or fur. This would bring you to the conclusion that bed bugs leave to feast on their hosts but once they finished they leave their hosts since they have nothing to cling with in the first place.

Adult bed bugs live exclusively as parasites that feed mainly on warm-blooded humans and animals. Since bed bugs can be distributed to poor housing conditions, then it would be conclusive that the infestations of bed bugs can be found in these places too. And if the bed bugs do get distributed to domestic premises, then the room they will most probably attack is the bedroom.

You already know of the fact that bed bugs are distributed to cracks and crevices where they most typically hide, but you probably would find this quite surprising. Throughout this essay, have you ever wondered or asked yourself why these insects are called bed bugs? It is because they love to distribute themselves in bedrooms, specifically in the vicinity of where the host, in this case, human beings, sleeps. Often they would even habitat in the host’s sleeping place itself, the bed. Its distribution in bedrooms is also inclusive of bed frames, behind skirting or wallpaper and the mattress itself.

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