Summer is Coming and so are Bed Bugs

Bed bugs don’t hibernate. They will bite you all year long, but they become more active in the summer months. As soon as those first warm days of spring appear, bed bugs will sense that love is in the air and start to procreate more often. The average female will lay up to 500 eggs in her lifetime. She will have a blood meal, that means you are dinner, and then go into hiding with a male and then lay her eggs. Approximately two weeks later, she repeats the process.

As each successive batch of eggs hatch, dozens more bed bugs are coming out to feast on you. At first, you might shrug off the bite, but as the population increases and the size of the bed bugs and the size of the blood sucking increases, you will start to suspect something is up.

From my experience, the peak season for bed bugs is from June to November with September and October being the peak months. Summer is winding down and people are starting to realize that the rash they have been experiencing has only gotten worse. By this time, they rule out mosquitos, spiders, laundry soap, allergies and start searching for signs of bed bugs. The hung is easy as the population has expended and left numerous signs of poop and shell casings. You might even see one crawl across your sheet in the pre-dawn hours.

Time to call Adrienne at Bed Bugs Dead Bugs. We specialize in heat treatments with equipment designed especially for bed bugs.