Bed Bugs: What are they? How can I prevent? · History of bed bugs Bed bugs have been around for...
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Bed Bugs:
What are they?
How can I prevent?
Presented by:
Pendleton County and Kenton County
Extension Services and Three Rivers
Health Department
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What is a bed bug?
• A blood-sucking insect
• Most active at night
• Usually feeds at night
Adult bed bug feeding on a human
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What do bed bugs eat
and drink
Blood……
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History of bed bugs
Bed bugs have been around for
thousand of years.
• Their original origin in unclear
• Originally it was a problem
associated with wealthy
• Problem was enhanced by fire
and heated homes
• Can be found in literature dating
back as far as 400 B.C.
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Are bed bugs a health
hazard?
Bed bugs do not transmit disease, but
they:
• Cause secondary infections after
people scratch their bed bug bites
• Result in stress, loss of work, loss of
sleep, and financial burden
• Are unwelcome in our homes and
workplaces
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Bed bug life cycles
Bed bugs at various stages of growth
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How big are bed bugs
Adult bed bugs
are ¼ inch long
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Bed bug behaviors
• Hide in cracks and crevices,
often in groups
• Cannot fly, jump, or
burrow into skin….they crawl
• Hitchhike on bags, furniture,
wires, or pipes.
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Common sites they hide
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Bed bug life cycle
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One bed bug, Half a year….Stopping one bed does a lot!
One
pregnant
bed bug
500
9,600
31,700
January
June
May
March
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Signs of bed bugs
• Bites
• Blood spots
• Shed skins
• Dead bed bugs
• Live bed bugs
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Bites…..
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Can be confused with…..
• Ticks
• Cockroaches
• Other bug bites
Tick
Cockroach
Nymph
Bat Bug
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Blood spots……
• Blood spots are bed bug
droppings
• Bed bugs cannot be confirmed
by blood spots alone
• Live bed bugs must be found
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Shed skins….
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Dead Bugs……
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Life bed bugs…….
A group of bed
bugs feeding
Crawling back to
hiding full
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So now what……
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PREVENTION BEGINS
WITH YOU!
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Keeping Bed Bugs At Bay
Behavior modification is ESSENTIAL!
• Housekeeping
• Travel
• Clothing and Furniture Shopping
• Visitors
• School
• Work
• Laundromat
• Movies
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Changing How We LiveReduce clutter
Eliminate items under beds.
Use white storage bins.
Launder bedding regularly
and inspect mattress and
box springs.
Use a HEPA vacuum
utilizing attachments for
hard to reach locations and
discard bag in a sealed
plastic container or wash
canister.
Vacuum regularly-it may
help you detect a problem
early
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Prevention when Traveling
Use a Flashlight to check:
• Mattress
• Headboard, nightstands, dressers
• Baseboards and floor
• Nail or screw holes
• Closet
• Luggage rack
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Find Evidence?
• Report it to the management
• Ask for another room in another part of
hotel
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Modify Behaviors
• Use luggage stand
• Place your bag on the stand away from
the wall.
• Keep luggage in your bag
• Do not place your suitcase on the bed
• Place your shoes in an open area
• Launder all clothing.
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Don’t take any HOME!
INSPECT the Luggage
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Upon Returning Home
• Unpack immediately on a hard surface
and directly into plastic bags or washing
machine
• Launder all clothing in HOT water and dry
on High
• Place any luggage that can be laundered
in the dryer
• Vacuum and seal luggage in a bag - place
in a hot car (above 125 or in below
freezing temps for 30 days—stay off
carpets!. Suitcases should be carefully
inspected and vacuumed—freeze if
possible.
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SHOPPING• Avoid bringing used
furniture into your home.
• If purchasing new
furniture do not have it
delivered to your home.
• Launder all garments
immediately after
purchasing
• Keep shopping bags out
of the bedroom
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Visitors to Your Home
• Be conscious of who visits your home and
where they are coming from.
• Provide an area (or container) for visitors
to store belongings
• Inspect and thoroughly clean areas where
visitors stored their belongings once they
leave.
• Ask that backpacks and luggage be kept
off of carpet
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School
• Inspect child's backpack
• Do not allow backpacks to be placed in
bedrooms, on upholstered furniture, or on
carpeted areas
• Limit cloth materials taken into the facility.
(blankets, stuffed animals and backpacks)
• Launder cloth items upon their return to
the home immediately.
• Store shoes in white plastic tubs
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Working in Bed Bug Ripe
Conditions
• Wear dedicated clothing and shoes that
can be bagged in the vehicle
• Do not sit on the couch or lay a hand bag
or backpack on furniture.
• Inspect your clothing and the bottom of our
shoes immediately after leaving but before
you get into your vehicle.
• Keep hand bags and personal items in a
desk drawer
• Hang jackets on a hanger in the office or
cubicle.
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If You Find a Bug in Your Office
• Catch it in a plastic bag for positive
identification.
• Be discrete (bed bugs can cause mass
hysteria in an office)
• Contact the building maintenance
personnel immediately.
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At the Laundromat
• Use white plastic baskets to transport
clothing
• Do not set your laundry basket on the floor
or on top of the washer when it is not in
use
• Inspect laundry basket before putting
clean laundry into it
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At the Laundry
Do not set your basket
anywhere near the
seating areas or trash
cans.
Inspect any chairs in
the seating area of the
Laundromat before
sitting on them.
Fold your clean
laundry at home or
inspect folding table
prior to use.
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Public Building Concerns
• DO NOT become a hermit!
• Limit items that you carry with you into
public places.
• Do not set coats or bags on the floor or
upholstered furniture.
• Upon returning home- shoes may be
inspected before entering and clothing can
be laundered immediately.
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Prevention and Detection is
Crucial!
• Complete a thorough inspection of each
room or hire a pest management company
to do an inspection.
• Purchase high quality mattress
encasements for your mattress and box
springs.
• Catch the bed bug and preserve it in a
plastic bag for positive identification
• Try to isolate the location
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DO NOT PANIC!
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Resources
• Virginia Department of Agriculture and
Consumer Sciences. Bed Bud Prevention
Methods Retrieved Jan.2011 from
http://www.vdacs.virginia.gov/pesticides/be
dbugs-facts.shtml
• Environmental Protection Agency. Bed
Bugs (2010). Retrieved September 30th,
2010, from
www.wpa.gov/pesticies/bedbugs/
• New York State IPM Program. Bed Bugs
are back! An IPM answer. Retrieved from
www.nysipm.cornell.edu
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Resources continued
• Environmental Protection Agency. Bed
Bugs (2010). Retrieved September 30th,
2010, from
www.wpa.gov/pesticies/bedbugs/
• New York State IPM Program. Bed Bugs
are back! An IPM answer. Retrieved from
www.nysipm.cornell.edu
• ENTFACT-636~Michael F. Potter,
Extension Entomologist, University of
Kentucky College of Agriculture