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Just What Are Bed Bugs?

If you wake up one morning with prickly lumps on your body, you will probably think that you had been bitten by mosquitoes or ants the night before, but there is also a possibility that bedbugs have got at you. If this occurs in your own bed, then you have problems. If you are in a hotel, go and make a complaint to the manager.

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Eradicating Bed Bugs

Bed bugs are almost certainly the most ghastly of household pests in most peoples' eyes. Cockroaches are bad enough, but they do not suck on you. Mosquitoes suck blood and are maddening, but we accept them more than bed bugs. But bed bugs suck your blood whilst you are asleep and then defecate in your bed as a thank you note.

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New York’s Latest Invaders

The most recent invaders in New York are living proof that New York does go to sleep from time to time, because that is when these little nightmares come out to get you. It used to be rats that plagued New York, now it animals small enough to live on rats in their dozens. I am talking about Cimex lectularius, the bed bug that specializes in preying on people.

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How To Recognize Bedbugs

I presume you already know that bedbugs have made a revival in the West. Bedbugs were practically totally eradicated in western Europe, the United States and Canada in the 1950's, but have been resurfacing in ever larger numbers since around 1995. It is assumed that this is due to more numerous foreign holidays and increased immigration..

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Bed Bugs – Uninvited Room Mates

Bed bugs are a constant worry, if you suspect that they are in the bed with you. In fact, it is known that when people have been bitten a lot, they can become frightened, stressed and preoccupied. Insomnia soon follows. This situation can quickly lead to tetchiness, domestic arguments and the loss of your job.

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Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite You

'Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite' is something that people said often to their children in the first half of the 20th Century. Some mothers still say it even now, but before they really meant it, because there were bed bugs - everywhere. Western cities were severely stricken with them and had been for three hundred years or longer.

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Eradicating Bed Bugs

Although people are badly affected by an infestation of bed bugs, the medical authorities declare that they are not a significant health hazard. Tell that to those who are suffering from bed bugs! Bed bugs are not known to transmit disease, that is true, but they instigate paranoia and insomnia which can have far ranging results.

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Looking At Bed Bugs Up Close

There are in fact quite a few types of bed bug, but the one that most people are referring to by 'bedbugs' is Cimex lectularius. Other species of bedbugs will extract human blood, but usually only if their favoured host, like poultry, is not around.

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Sleep Tight And Don’t Let The Bed Bugs Bite

Did your parents or your grandparents use to say 'Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite' when they tucked you up in bed as a child? You had probably never seen a bed bug and perhaps did not even know what they were talking about, but they would have. This is because anybody living prior to the Second World War would probably have been bitten quite often.

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Bed Bugs And Public Health

Bed bugs have probably been plaguing people for ever, especially in warmer countries. In fact Aristotle wrote about them in 400 BC, but they were not common in the United Kingdom until after the Great Fire of London in 1666. People deduced that bed bugs lived in wood because the bed bug plagues only commenced after 1670; they supposed that the bed bugs that had come in with timber imported to reconstruct London.

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