Anyone who has ever had bedbugs knows that the problem isn’t really the damage they do, but trying to get rid of bedbugs. Most pesticides won’t kill bedbugs, which leads to complicated freezing procedures, followed by an enormous amount of laundry and buying new furniture. This week, researchers at Ohio State conducted a genetic analysis [Read the Rest...]
Bed bugs usually bite people at night while they are sleeping. They feed by piercing the skin with an elogated beack through which they withdraw blood.
Bed bugs are nocturnal. In the wee hours of the morning they visit their human victim. They hide in the beds headboard, the folds of the mattress, in the cavity of the box spring, in your luggage, in your shoes, in the ceiling and baseboard trim of the room, in the electrical outlets, dresser drawers and behind the pictures on the wall.
