Bed Bugs are little bugs that are nocturnal and feed on human blood. There are actually a lot of different kinds, including some that feed on certain types of animals like chickens. They usually live inside of mattresses and on the cots, where they have convenient access to a food source – you. They crawl out before dawn and bite you, sucking blood for about five minutes. You don’t feel anything until they safely back in its home. They will bite once a week or so, can live for a long time without feeding.
Infestation
In Kenya it was taught initially that bedbugs could be found in slum areas but nowadays almost every estate in Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret, Kakamega Kenya has been infested by bed bugs pest thus the need for fumigation pest control services once you spot a case. Signs of bed bugs pest infestation include:
- Bed bugs crawlin the spaces between walls and if your neighbors have them, you could crawl in to your apartment. Therefore It is harder for you to permanently get rid of them, since you’ve got a potential source until your neighbors take care of their own infestation.
- Travel:Many hotels have infestations. With international travel, Bed bugs will crawl into your luggage and get carried back into your home.
- Clothing:Sometimes they could get into your house by crawling onto your clothes randomly – but this is actually pretty rare.
- Used furniture or clothing:If you buy used furniture, there can be bed bugs in them
- Your Guests : Your cable guy, a plumber, or anybody who goes into other people’s houses, can carry bed bugs. Birds and bats are also most common carriers.
They can infest all places in your bedroom, most often they’re in the mattress – in the seams, the box springs, or sometimes the linens, furniture within crawling distance, carpet and in all kinds of random things, because they don’t create a nest, they just hide somewhere.
Signs of Infestation
If you wake up with itchy areas you didn’t have when you went to sleep, you may have bedbugs, particularly if you got a used bed or other used furniture around the time the bites started. Other signs that you have bedbugs include:
- Blood stains on your sheets or pillowcases
- Dark or rusty spots of bedbug excrement on sheets and mattresses, bed clothes, and walls
- Bedbug fecal spots, egg shells, or shed skins in areas where bedbugs hide
- An offensive, musty odor from the bugs’ scent glands
How we protects you from Bed Bugs
First Class cleaning services Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret, Kakamega Kenya is providing fumigation pest control and bed bugs treatment services for hospitals, hotels, guesthouse, schools, homes with the use of advance technology and latest equipment. The treatment is done by spraying insecticide, especially in the seams of mattresses, beds, all other furniture and cracks and crevices infested by bedbugs. These bed bugs are generally found in the seam of the mattress and in the cracks of the bed and spreads in the entire house. Contact us on 0721867339 or email: sales@firstclasscleaning.co.ke
