Question by EFK:
If I saw just one bug in my bed, how do I know its bedbugs?
Do they come by themselves or in groups??????
Best answer:
Answer by A Local Ginger
If it’s bedbugs there will be more, its like fleas there’s never just one, check the cracks of your beds, they hide in small places. Also check yourself for bug bites.
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There would be lots of them. You’d see spots on your walls, sheets, and probably on you. I doubt that it’s a bedbug if there’s only one.
Take the sheet off all sides of your mattress. Check every inch of the crevices/edges all around the mattress. If you see tiny dark spots or dead bugs, it’s bed bugs. Keep running a check over the next week, because if you have one bug, others are probably on their way.
They come alone–and multiply like mad. They will jump into a purse, suitcase, on clothes, drapes, carpet anything–and that’s how they are showing up all over the US now.
They start as one or two and then they multiply.
It would look like this: http://www.naturalpro.net/plg/plog-content/images/facts/bed-bugs/common_bed_bug_lifecycle.jpg
http://www.why6percent.com/blog/wp-content/content/bedbugs.jpg
You would have bites that look like this:
http://www.haltpestcontrol.com/images/bed-bug-bites-2.jpg
Eventually you’ll notice reddish brown feces stains on your sheets and there will be lots of them hiding in the cracks and nooks in and around your bed, usually within 5-10 feet.
A bed bug can lay up to 5 eggs/ day everyday.
They’re most active just before sunrise, so if you get up and jump out of bed really quickly and turn on a light, you’ll see them scatter.
Bedbugs don’t travel alone. You have a computer, you have access o the Internet. Pull up some pictures of bedbugs and compare.