bedbug control

 Bed bugs are widespread and have been found in houses, apartments, hotels,  schools, hospitals, dormitories, airplanes, and movie theaters. They  use their straw-like mouth parts to suck blood from warm-blooded animals  such as humans, bats, and birds. Adults are oval-shaped, flattened  front to back, and wingless. Bed bugs hatchlings are so small they can  pass through a stitch-hole in a mattress. At maturity, they are 4-5 mm  long and 1.5-3 mm wide. They are light brown when hungry but after a  feeding on blood, their abdomen looks bright red, red-brown, or  blackish. Bed bugs may be mistaken for small cockroaches but unlike  cockroaches, which scavenge human food, bed bugs feed only on blood.  They remain hidden during the day and actively feed at night. Their  bites are painless but the bite wounds can be extremely itchy for days  later. 

 Bed bugs have three stages in their life cycle: egg, nymph, adult. Adult  females lay eggs on rough dry surfaces near their hiding places, either  singly or in small clusters. One to four weeks later, the nymphs hatch  from the eggs and seek a host animal from which to feed. As nymphs eat  and mature, they outgrow their skin, grow a new skin layer (exoskeleton)  beneath it, and shed the old one, a process called molting. Following  each molt, the nymph is a little larger. After the fifth growth-molt  cycle, usually 4-6 weeks later, the bed bug reaches full size and is an  adult. The process of changing body forms while maturing is called  metamorphosis.