Bed Bugs – How To Check If Your Hotel Room Has Them
Bed Bugs – How To Check If Your Hotel Room Has Them
Bed Bugs – How To Check If Your Hotel Room Has Them – You arrive at your holiday hotel at 3.0am, tired and frayed after a long and arduous journey, flight delays, airport security, fractious children and surly passport control and now all you want to do is fall into bed and look forward to the morning and the first day of your vacation.
The Bed Bug
That could be most costly mistake you’ll make this holiday!
The bed bug (Cimex lectularious) is back with a vengeance and its food is you!
Bed bugs are small haematophagic insects about the size of an apple-pip.
They feed on the blood of warm blooded creatures and their favourite meal is human blood.
Having been virtually eradicated in the 20th century they are back and spreading like wildfire, all over the world reports of massive increases in bed bug infestations are being made.
Some cite increased economic migration, availability of cheap travel and resistance to insecticides but whatever the reason, they are thriving and they love holiday makers!
They feed on human blood every 5 -10 days, emerging from their hiding places in the small hours when the tourist is likely to be in a deep sleep, perhaps aided by copious quantities of the local sangria.
Bed Bug Bites
They sense the presence of a host initially by tasting the carbon dioxide in exhaled breath but switch to infra-red sensing of body heat when closing in on the target.
They pierce the body of their target with a needle containing two tubes, with one they insert saliva which contains both an anaesthetic and an anti-coagulant and with the other they draw blood.
In a heavily infested room it is possible to receive up to 500 bites per night.
So how do you check if your room is infested?
Start by stripping the bed down to the mattress, turn the mattress over if possible and concentrate on the end nearest the headboard.
Look for dark coloured smears, live or dead insects and spots of congealed blood.
Bed Bugs & Their Smear Marks
Bed bugs are quite easy to see and move very rapidly when exposed. You can see photos of the bugs and their smear marks at
If you find or suspect bed bugs on no account stay in that room, or even that hotel, not even for one night or you will regret it, and certainly don’t unpack your cases in that room.
Get hold of your tour company representative immediately and insist on being moved to another hotel.
If you stay in a bug infested room you are very likely to transport them back to your own home as contrary to urban myth they can survive the flight home in your suitcase very easily indeed.
If you have problems with bedbugs call 0800 019 8382
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Pest Control Manchester – Here at Manchester Pest Control we offer a full range of residential & commercial pest control.
Manchester Pest Control offer a rapid, discreet value for money service 7 days per week including wasps’ nests destroyed for just £29.50 unless you live in the post areas L. Ch, or CW in which case it is £39.50 and those prices are fixed by Manchester Pest Control for 2009 unless specialist access equipment such as a scaffold is needed.
Don't Let The Bed Bug Bite
Later in the season when the new queens are emerging it may be necessary to carry out additional work such as a fogging treatment to the roof space or attic but that is unlikely to be needed before the new queens start to emerge in mid-September. Until then £29.50 is a fixed price.
Pest Control Manchester also specialise in dealing with infestations of ants in the house and in most cases we can remove the infestation and issue a three year guarantee subject to satisfactory site survey.
See our articles on ant infestation for further details (on the right hand side bar of this page). We cannot give costs for this over the phone as we need to see the property.
All other pests are dealt with 7 days per week and we can usually provide a same day service for Pest Control in Manchester although in a busy summer this may vary.
If you have ants in the house we recommend dealing with them before June as that commences our busy period and until then we have a discount on our normal prices.
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