Say Goodbye To Bed Bugs: The Most Effective Control Solution For Your Roseville Home

How much do you know about bed bugs? Here are a few quick questions. See how many you have the answers to. Are bed bugs large enough to see with the naked eye? Do bed bugs live in your yard? Do bed bugs jump? Do bed bugs choose to live in dirty homes? Okay. Let's see how you did.

Bed bugs are tiny insects, but not so tiny that you can't see them. An adult bed bug is 1/5 of an inch. They are almost exclusively indoor insects and cannot live in your yard. They do not jump like fleas but crawl like cockroaches. As for living in dirty homes, bed bugs don't choose where they live. They are carried from one place to another by humans. When they get to a new home, they do what they did in the last. They search for food, hide from view, and grow a population.

How did you do on this short test? Are you a bed bug expert, or do you have a lot to learn? One reason bed bugs are such horrible houseguests is that Roseville residents don't really know much about these insects. A lack of knowledge can lead you down a long and frustrating road of failed DIY attempts. Today, we're going to get you up to speed. We'll look at all of the essential facts you need to get rid of a bed bug problem, starting with how to perform a bed bug inspection.

If you'd rather have someone perform an inspection for you and apply a treatment that will get the results you want, remember that your Neighborly Pest Management team is always available to assist you with pest problems in Roseville. Contact us at any time for advice or service options.

Visual Clues: Identifying Bed Bugs By Appearance

It can seem like bed bugs are invisible to the naked eye. The reason for this is that they are surprisingly adept at hiding from view. Bed bugs avoid the light if possible. You'll have to look in dark cracks, crevices, and voids to find them. They're also attracted to extremely tight spaces. You can examine an entire mattress and fail to find bed bugs because they hide in seams, underneath labels, in the gaps around vent grommets, or inside a tiny fabric hole. Worse, you may see a bed bug and not realize it. Let's start by looking at why this is the case. Then, we'll discuss other visual clues to look for in your home.

Do you know what a bed bug looks like? If you've seen a picture of a bed bug in a news report, you will likely know that bed bugs are reddish-brown and shaped like an apple seed. That is what adult bed bugs look like, but a nymph looks quite a bit different. When a bed bug first hatches, it is entirely pale. If you catch one of these newly hatched nymphs feeding, its abdomen will appear bright red because you'll see the blood inside. So, a baby bed bug can look like an insect with a pale head and thorax and red abdomen. Why is this important to know? It is because the young bed bugs are more likely to come out of hiding in the evening to bite you before you go to bed, and it is this stage of the bed bug development that you're most likely to see, not the adult stage.