Bed bugs can be a source of trouble if you have them in your room. You might be worried about how to quickly get rid of them. If you are suspecting that there might be bed bugs in your room, there are simple steps you can use to check if there are any bed bugs by using this DIY method. Read on and you will learn how to recognize signs of Bed Bugs in a Room.
Can you see Bed Bugs?
Sometimes, it can be hard to identify a bed bug, despite the ongoing epidemic. There have been lots of enlightenment programs by the University of Minnesota online about the difficulty in determining a bed bug as well as their different life stages.
You can have a clue about the different stages of a bed bug on the website of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). But remember that bed bugs are nutritional. Hence, you might find it challenging to identify bed bugs during the day with accuracy.
It’s easy to see bed bug bite like a mosquito bite. And most people hardly notice that a bed bug has bitten them. A mature bed bug has the size of an apple seed of about five millimeters. They are flat, without wings, and have a reddish-brown color. And they can swell up after feeding on blood. After feeding, their color turns to a bright red and only return to a reddish brown after a few days.
Evidence of Bed Bugs in a Room
Bed bugs are very good at hiding from the view of humans, but they forget to clean up their traces of blood stain. And this is the most visible evidence that there might be bed bugs in your room.
There might be bed bugs in your room when you notice some skin of bed bug on the mattress. You could also find some fecal spots and blood stains on your bedding and mattress.
If you think there are bed bugs in your room, you should take the sheet from the bed and inspect the edges. Inspect the bed spring for signs of bed bugs in their various stages from the immature egg stage to adult bed bugs. Here are other common symptoms of bed bugs:
Bed Bugs Molted Skin
Whenever bedbugs feed together, they shed off some of their skin or shells so they could grow bigger as they feed. This is a process called Molting. They will molt for about five times throughout their maturity stages. In places where there is an outbreak of bed bug epidemic, there will be thousands of bed bug molted skin in the place. The shells will be in different sizes according to the maturity stages of the bed bugs, and the shell will be like a bed bug itself.
Fecal Spots
Fecal spots are digested and infested blood on the surface of sheets and other places where they can be spotted easily. These fetal stains do not even need to be tingled with blood because they have undergone digestion and they have become dark brown or even black.
Symptoms of A Bed Bug Bite
A little bite on the skin is not enough to indicate a bite from a bed bug. This is because it might look like that of a mosquito. And most people don’t even notice the symptoms on time. You should watch out instead for symptoms such as: raised, red welts, a rash in a area, as well as burning and itching and lines of bites.