Bed Bug Infestation – Disgusting!

I remember my husband and I woke up one morning, and we were covered in these red, annoying bites. I thought that poisonous spiders had bitten us, and I was intent on going to the hospital, but he just wanted to stay at home and brush it off. It turned out he was right, but we didn’t know for weeks afterward what it was. The bites just stayed with us through, and that really frightened me. I knew it couldn’t have been ants, and I knew it wasn’t spiders, because we would have been poisoned and in some serious trouble by now. I reasoned that neither ants nor mosquitoes could get to us in our bed, so I really had no clued what it could have been, or what was causing my severe itching. I was flummoxed. My husband was scared too, but he didn’t care as much about it as I did. Either way, I called the best pest control Killeen guys because they had a solid reputation in our town, and they came to our house promptly. I am so glad I called them too. They explained to me exactly what was going on. You’re going to find this very interesting.bedbugs

They told me that bed bugs were biting my husband and I, and that’s why we were seeing the bites in the morning after we had woken up from a night of sleep. Bed bugs are known to pester the Western nations more and more. Bed bugs are hammering countries like Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. They used to just afflict developing countries, but more and more developed countries are starting to see them, and the results are not pretty. People are waking up covered in red, big, itchy, and annoying bites, just like my husband I did. It’s so hard to deal with these pesky little bed bugs because, like so many others, we didn’t know what they were at first. They are parasitic, small, and flat insects that stick their little proboscis into a person and suck out all the blood that they can handle. Their saliva is very irritating, and it causes an allergic reaction. In the case of my husband and I, his bites were noticeably less severe than mine. That’s probably why I was so worried. I was scared because they swelled up to about the size of a quarter. They were very big and itchy too. Mine were actually bulbous. They looked just hideous. I learned from the guys at “ZXY Pest Control” that all bed bug bites have different reactions in people. That’s because people are different, and they’re going to react differently to the allergic response from the bed bug bites.

The guys at “ZXY Pest Control also told me that bed bugs are experts at hiding themselves. That means that they’re very hard to find with the naked eye. You really have to call the guys like at “ZXY Pest Control” to get rid of them. Otherwise, you’re going to leave your home open to them for years on end, and you’ll lose lots of sleep and productivity to the worrisome nature of those little, itchy bites. See, the tiny flat bodies of the bed bugs let them fit into the tiniest of spaces and just stay in there for extremely long spans of time. They don’t even have to have a blood meal during that time. That’s what makes them so dangerous. They can go for months without eating. That means it’s nearly impossible to get rid of them unless you really call the pest control guys. Bed bugs usually get from one place to another when people travel, but they can move up to 100 feet at nigh on their own. They can hide in furniture, bedding, folded clothes, overnight bags, and the seams and folds of luggage. Most people don’t realize that they’re transporting bed bugs when they move from place to place, but they are actually moving them around when they travel.

The guys at “ZXY Pest ControL” also told me that everyone was at risk of getting bed bugs when they visited an area that had been infested. However, any person who travels a lot and shares their sleeping and living quarters where other people have been before has a much higher risk of getting a bite or spreading around the bed bug infestation.

The folks at “ZXY Pest Control” told me that bed bugs don’t usually pose a serious threat, but bed bugs can pose a threat in the sense that they are annoying. Their bites can be so red and annoying that they’re unsightly or cause you to get so distracted from the itching that you can’t even work. The best method for treating a bite is to stop scratching the area and to just put on antiseptic cream or lotions, and maybe take an antihistamine. I wouldn’t have learned any of this information if the guys at “ZXY Pest ControL” hadn’t come over. They were very understanding, and the guys told me that that this happens to lots of peoples’ homes and that it’s not that uncommon. It’s just a fact of life to get a bed bug infestation every once in awhile. However, that being said, it didn’t used to be that way, and the bed bug infestations have gone up dramatically in recent years. Plus, the bed bugs won’t be coming back since I got help from the folks at “ZXY Pest Control”, and they’ll be coming back again on a regular basis to make sure those bed bugs never come back into my home and do any disruption.

I am goinng to be embarrassed about that I had bed bug bites, I later found out. It doesn’t really matter about how clean the living conditions are, or where you live, or how often you have a maid clean your house, and I had a maid come over every month, but it’s more about bed bugs just being there. There’s not much you can do about it. The only thing you can do is just call a local pest control service, and have them come on a regular basis. That’s really the smartest thing you can do. Otherwise, you don’t have many options.

So, after this horrible incident, my husband and I were much relieved. We learned that we didn’t have some bizarre illness, or that some poisonous spiders were biting us at night. We learned that while bed bugs can carry up to 28 known pathogens, that they have never been shown the capability in studies to pass those pathogens onto humans. Luckily, for us, it wasn’t more serious bugs. These bugs were pretty mild compared to some of the deadlier bugs it could have been. The problem with bed bugs, though, is that they’re so pernicious, and you can’t see them. They hide so well, and there are so many of them. It’s not like just having one bug or two that bites you, maybe with a really bad effect. These bugs tend to last longer, and they can cause lots of bites to crop up all over your body. That’s a pretty devastating thing when you don’t know what’s going on, like we didn’t.

One of the best decisions we ever made was calling the guys at “ZXY Pest Control” because they relieved our fears, got rid of the bed bugs, and also uncovered lots of other bugs that had been lurking in the shadows, so to speak. It was so nice to be able to get rid of those bed bugs once and for all, but, more importantly, we got rid of so many other bugs that could have caused massive damage, not only to us, but to our house as well. For instance, the cockroaches were buzzing about in the walls, and there were termites brewing about, trying to get started on some of our wood. If we hadn’t called the “ZXY Pest Control” guys when we did, we would have run into some serious problems with the bugs that had been building their homes in our house. It would have been extremely hard to have to deal with them over a long period of time. Not only could our food have been munched down on by bugs of various kinds, and been terrible to eat, but our whole house could have had a massive termite infestation. It was a good idea that we called “ZXY Pest Control” when we did so that we got the real, good information when we did, but also that we got those other particularly pesky bugs removed from our house, the ones that could have caused real damage. You don’t want to wait until you have a problem to call “ZXY Pest Control”. You want to call them as soon as you can because preventive maintenance is the key to getting rid of bugs. Plus, you are not trained to spot the most dangerous bugs in your home.

Dealing With Cockroaches

Anyone who has ever had to deal with cockroaches in the house knows how difficult they can be to get rid of.  Personally, they don’t freak me out that much, but when my girlfriend sees a cockroach t is panic attack time!  She usually runs around trying to jump on every object she sees.  I tell her that it would be much quicker to just step on the bug and squash it.

But alas, she is really freaked out by these little buggers so it gives me a choice…Head down to Lowes and try to get rid of them myself?  Or should I call a pest control company?  I feel like i I call a company, they might not do anything different than what I would have done anyways.  That is the problem with calling pest control companies, or any kind of service company that does home services.  If you are handy, you can usually do the work yourself and save a lot of time and money.  Sure it costs time to do it…But I’m not sure it isn’t quicker to just get it done yourself rather than waiting around for the guys to show up.