You've heard the horror stories of bedbugs hitching a ride on someones luggage after traveling and all of a sudden they have an infestation on their hands they didn't see coming! We have a blog on how to avoid bedbugs while traveling that you can check out, but in this blog today we are going to focus on where they hide so you can know where to look.
Before you can prevent bringing bed bugs home, you first need to be able to identify what a bed bug looks like.
Here are its main traits:
1. Oval and flat body
2. Squat head
3. Reddish-brown shell color
4. The size of an apple seed
5. Wingless
6. Has six legs
7. Two antennae
Where would you look for a bedbug to determine if you might have them?
According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, when not feeding, bed bugs hide in a variety of places. Around the bed, they can be found near the piping, seams and tags of the mattress and box spring, and in cracks on the bed frame and headboard.
If the room is heavily infested, you may find bed bugs:
The truth is that bed bugs can be found just about anywhere in your home. They may prefer to stay close to your bed, but as they reproduce and their numbers grow, they'll spread into other areas. Bed bugs like to live in hidden areas around your bed where light doesn't reach them. That's why they most commonly live in the seams of your mattress and in crevices in the bed frame and headboard.