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Bedbugs are small, wingless insects that feed on the blood of people and animals while they sleep. They are easily moved from room to room on infested objects. Bedbugs cannot easily climb metal or polished surfaces and cannot fly or jump.

Adult bedbugs can be as long as 10 mm. They have an oval, broad, flat body and a short, broad head. Adult bedbugs are brown, but darken to a blood red colour after feeding. Young bedbugs are shaped like adults, but are smaller (1.5 mm long) and lighter in colour. They also darken after feeding.

Bedbug eggs are white, about one millimetre long, and are almost impossible to see on most surfaces. The female bedbug lays at least 200 eggs in her lifetime, at a rate of about two to four each day. The eggs have a sticky coating and are laid in cracks and crevices, behind woodwork and other hidden locations. They usually hatch in 6 to 17 days.

Bedbugs come out at night to feed, attracted by the carbon dioxide we exhale. They will feed on both people and pets. Bedbug bites may not be noticed right away because bedbugs typically feed at night when people are asleep.

Bedbugs prefer locations where they can hide easily and feed regularly, like sleeping areas. Their flattened bodies allow bedbugs to hide in extremely small locations: under wallpaper, behind picture frames, in electrical outlets, inside box springs, in mattress pads, and in night tables.

Newly hatched bedbugs feed as soon as food is available. Bedbugs can live from several weeks to up to a year and a half without feeding. Older bedbugs can go even longer without feeding.

Adults usually live for around 10 months, but can live for a year or more in a home where the environment is good for reproduction (with temperatures ranging between 21C and 28C).

A bedbug bite can take as long as 14 days to appear, depending on the person. While bites can happen anywhere on the skin, they are often found on the face, neck, arms, legs, and chest.

Some people do not react at all to the bites, while others may have small skin reactions. In rare cases, some people may have severe allergic reactions. To avoid infection, try not to scratch the bites and keep the bite sites clean. Using antiseptic creams or lotions, as well as antihistamines, may help. Talk to your health care provider for advice.

For more information on pesticide use and regulation, contact Health Canada's Pest Management Information Service.

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There are hundreds of different types of household pests, many that are easy to spot and others that are not. You may have been invaded by ants in the past or seen cockroaches scurrying away when you turn the lights on; you may have found mice or rats. All these bugs are large enough to see with the human eye, and just like bed bugs Toronto they are not necessarily interested in how clean your home is.

If you think rats you think sewer, if you think cockroach you think of the garbage cans, and if you think of bed bugs you will think of cheap motels. However, just because you have pests in your home does not mean that your home is not clean, or that you necessarily stayed in a hotel that was not clean. Bed bugs are pesky little mites that will go unnoticed in even the cleanest of hotel rooms; that is until you start to itch at night.

Bed bugs are very tiny, they have no wings, and instead of being black in color like many pests, they are actually light brown. What this means is that they are often hard to spot and unless you have a really good eye you may never see one even if you know they are there. Their eggs are around the size of a poppy seed, and these may be easier to spot; however bed bugs hide in crevices and this is where they will generally lay their eggs.

Bed bugs have the name they do as during the night they will come to your bed and feed off your blood, leaving red itchy marks. You may wake in the morning to find that you have been bitten, or you may find little blood stains on your sheets; at first you may think that you have been bitten by fleas from a dog or cat. There is absolutely nothing to be ashamed about if you find bugs in your home; but when you do you need to act quickly.

If you think your home may be infested, it is important that you call on your bed bugs Toronto team to ensure a correct diagnosis. These pesky mites are not just hard to spot; they are hard to get rid of too. As they live in crevices and are tiny, it is impossible to eradicate them without professional help. If you are experiencing bites and itching at night and have recently stayed in a hotel or travelled abroad, you need to call in your bed bugs Toronto experts to get a real diagnosis on the situation.

Once the presence of bugs has been confirmed by your bed bugs Toronto expert, you need to ensure that they are eradicated by fumigation and that you take all the other necessary steps such as steaming all your soft furnishing and ensuring your suitcases are not harboring bugs. Ask the advice of the professionals and you can be bug free in no time at all.

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