If you have been looking on the net for information about bed bugs removal then you may already be aware of a couple of things about them. They are wingless, they are oval shaped, and the color of them can range from red to brown depending on how long it has been since they last fed. They do not need to eat everyday – nor do they need to eat every week. They can go up to a year without feeding – but how do bed bugs reproduce? Like many insects they lay eggs – and they can lay a bunch of them too as they mature pretty darn fast. If you want to be successful in bed bugs removal then you are going to have to learn the life cycle of them. Knowledge is the key to successfully removing bed bugs from your home.
Just think about this for a second before I tell you how many eggs an adult female can lay. When a bed bug is first hatched – it is known as a nymph. How long it will take to grow into an adult will depend on how often the bed bug feeds, and it is almost impossible to starve a bed bug to death unless you leave the house for a couple of years, which may do the trick, but you must also remember that bed bugs can live without food for a year or more and they feed on animals too, such as dogs, cats, bats, etc.
From the time that the bed bug hatches, it will only need to feed about 3 or 4 times before they are mature enough to lay some eggs. That is it, can you imagine how quick the reproduction cycle of bed bugs can escalate? The female bedbug can lay anywhere from 200 to 1100 per year – so this is why it is so important that you must find and destroy the eggs when going through an extermination.
The eggs though are a lot smaller than a fully grown adult bed bug so there are some cases when it can make it more difficult to find the eggs than the bed bugs itself. They will lay the eggs in dark spots – these dark spots are the hiding spots, and one thing that bed bugs know how to do better than many other insects that crawl around this planet, is hide. They are the exceptionally great when it comes to hiding, and they will put the same effort into their eggs when they are laying them to ensure that their population lives on.
The eggs and bed bugs are not that hard to kill, the hardest part of the whole process is finding them. If you see a bunch of small black dots in an inconspicuous space such as in cracks of a mattress or up in the corner of a pop corned ceiling then you may have found a batch of future bed bugs. Extreme heat will kill them – steam iron, boiling water, or you could attempt to squash them. There are many pesticides that are available on the market these days that can kill bed bugs, just make sure that they do not effect your pets if you have any as many of them are dangerous, due to the ability for bed bugs to adapt to modern bug sprays that may kill ants and roaches, but the bed bugs and their eggs can adapt much better making it just that much more difficult to get rid of once and for all.
So now you are aware of how fast bed bugs can spread you know the importance of getting rid of them as quickly as possible. The less there are the easier the task will be – the more there are the harder it is going to be to get rid of bed bugs – so do not hesitate if you find out that you home has been infested. Get on it quickly or you could be tossing out mattresses and other furniture.