Bed Bugs Signs on Bed: 6 Easy Ways To Know Their Presence

Are you having some unwanted pests in your bedroom and are not sure about their variety, if these insects are cockroaches, fleas, spiders or bed bugs? Now you want a proper guide on identifying these insects by their signs, in this article we have explained all the signs and information about bed bugs.

If you ever find signs of bed bugs in your bedroom then immediately call a pest control professional who can properly manage and eradicate them. 

Introduction

Bed bugs are reddish brown wingless small parasitic insects which commonly feed on the blood of humans and warm blooded animals. Bed bugs are hitch hikers which live as hidden unwanted guests in your home. Bed bugs always remain hidden and commonly come out of their locations at night or at day when their prey is near them.

Here are two main pieces of bed bugs:

1. Climex hemipterus
2. Climex lectularius

Bed Bugs Identification

Bed bugs are commonly confused with other insects although they have many differences from all of them. Differentiation or identification of bed bugs from other insects become easier if we know about their properties such as following:

• Bed bugs are small wingless flat rounded insects which are reddish brown at adult or old age but have cream colour at birth.
• The size of bed bugs is of apple’s seed and commonly are 6mm long.
• Their eggs are white, sticky with unpleasant odour.

Common Signs of Bed Bugs at Your Bed

If the infestation of bed bugs starts it becomes difficult to get rid of them so along with structural properties of bed bugs it is necessary to know about physical signs of bed bugs to control or manage them at required time. It is crucial to find them before they find you.

Following are five major signs of bed bugs in your bedroom:

1. Dark Spots or Stains

The dark and black dots on your bed sheets, mattresses, bedboards, pillows, and blankets is the sign of bed bugs’ presence. These spots look like ink dots or ballpoint stains but these are fecal or extracts of bed bugs or whenever they are being crushed leave spots.

If these spots remain for a few days it will become difficult to wash or clean these stains.

2. Live Insects

The presence of one or more live insects on your bed is the main sign of the presence of bed bugs in your bedroom. These insects can be seen by the naked eye but it is challenging to detect or catch them as they hide very quickly. 

3. Blood Spots

Sometimes when you wake up in the morning you see blood stains on your mattress. These stains are due to bed bugs. When bed bugs bite your body or suck your blood at night they leave blood spots on the mattresses. Sometimes unconsciously a night you crushed bed bugs which leaves blood and extracts of bed bugs on your bed.

4. Unpleasant Smell

The most common sign of bed bugs’ presence is a silky smell which is produced by their scent gland in the form of pheromones. This smell is rusty like a wet towel.

5. Exoskeleton of Bed Bugs

The exoskeleton of bed bugs is white in colour with translucent skin. Bed bugs shed their skin or outer shell many times during their growth which leaves evidence of their presence in your bedroom. Sometimes you also see broken legs of bed bugs on your bed which also shows the presence of bed bugs.

6. Eggs or Egg Shells

You are cleaning your room and find many small white grains of rice sized egg collection under your mattress or sofa foam. These are actually eggs of bed bugs. Bed bugs place their eggs in favourable warmth which becomes an indicator of their presence. After the birth of the bed bug, shells of their eggs were left on the bed as proof of their presence.

How And Where to Look For Bed Bugs?

To check bed bugs presence first you should have a torch, a rigid paper, isopropyl alcohol in your hand so that you can easily find bed bugs with a flashlight and can sanitize the infestation place with alcohol. Use sticky tape to trap them, vacuum to suck them or a hairdryer to flow them away.

You can easily find them on the following sites:

• In the seams, folds os stitches of sofas or couches
• At the joints of drawer or other furniture
• At folds of curtains or your clothes
• Under wallpapers or photo frames
• In boxes or books
• At the headboards of your bed
• At your mattress or blanket
• Inside the pillow cover
• In cracks of the wall or inside electric sockets

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How You Can Make Sure These are Bed Bugs Bites?

Bites of bed bugs are similar to that of other insects,you may be confused about which insect that bites you. Following are some signs of bed bugs bite with which you can identify whether it is bed bug bite or of some other insect:

• There will be clusters of 3-5 bites together on your neck, legs, arms, or shoulders.
• These scars on your skin will be small, itchy with darker purple skin.
• These signs mostly you see in the morning and itchiness and welt will appear in the next few days or weeks usually.

Summary

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FAQs

Does Bed Bugs Presence Make Your Home Dirty?

Yes, bed bugs make our homes dirty because they leave many annoying things behind them. Bed bugs leave their dry skin, exoskeleton, egg shells, fractured legs, blood stains, fecal extractions etc. All this mess created by bed bugs sometimes never gets removed from bed after washing and it becomes a source of germs which can cause annoyances.

How Much Extent Bed Bugs Can Damage Your Health?

Bed bugs never directly cause diseases to inhabitants although they become  vectors for physical and mental health issues. Continuous increase in the population of bed bugs and stress about their removal or elimination makes you an anxious person, in this way they damage your health as slow poison. 

What Smells Attract Bed Buds?

Bed bugs are attracted towards humans natural odour, carbon dioxide released by humans, heat produced, dirty laundry, and sweat smell. Their prevention includes making the laundry clean without mess or clutter. 

What is The Behaviour of Bed Bugs?

Behavior and habits of bed bugs includes:

• Biting of their host at night time.
• They always want to live in hidden spaces or spots.
• Bed bugs are attracted towards their host.
• Hitchhiking is the main property of bed bugs they love.

Bed bugs have no wings to fly although they also do small jumps.