Hotels Can Have Bed Bugs Too The resurgence of the numbers of bed bugs over the last fifteen years has been blamed on the higher number of people going on long-haul vacations and the elevated amount of immigration from Asia and Africa.. It is not that individuals carry the bed bugs home on their bodies, but bedbugs may have laid eggs in the tourists' garments or the bed bugs might have taken up hiding in the suitcases. In this way they are taken home, and being very hardy to temperature change they prosper in their new home country. If the carriers are holiday-makers, then the bed bugs could easily be unloaded into the hotel. This is how bed bugs can get spread unknowingly by humans. You see, bed bugs do not flourish in a filthy environment necessarily. Bed bugs do not mind whether you dropped a bit of potato on the floor last week and did not sweep it up. They do not feed on what we like, even if they are starving. They only feed on blood. If you live like this, then you will lure mice or rats, cockroaches and ants, but not bed bugs. It is a mistake to think that bedbugs like dirt and waste. They probably prefer it quite clean really, but they do need to have cracks and crevices to hide in, but there are plenty of those in most accomodation. They like to squeeze behind the skirtings and other woodwork. They also like broken plaster, peeling wall paper and torn mattresses. Because they are so flat, they can squeeze into virtually any gap. This means that any hotel can become infested with bedbugs, the Ritz, the Carlton, Holiday Inn - any of them. This is the difficulty for us. If it was merely run-down, dirty hotels that had bed bugs, we could circumvent them, but you simply should not judge a book by its cover. There are methods of checking your room though. Look out for small bugs that look a little like an apple seed. Look in the hems of the seats and inspect the mattress, if there are any tears in it, have it exchanged. You can also experiment by lying on the bed to warm it up and then throw back the bed clothes swiftly. You may spot a couple of fleet-footed insects running for cover. They are bedbugs. Obviously, the first thing you have to do is tell the hotel manager. If you are not satisfied that he or she is taking you seriously, move or / and inform the environmental health department of the local authority. Whether you discover bedbugs or not, they still might be there to hitch a ride home with you, so spray or dust your suitcase with a powerful pesticide before you travel
home and to be truly safe, have your clothes boil washed, because bedbugs will not survive temperatures over 45c. If you cannot organize this on the last day of your vacation, make certain you do it once you arrive home, but make sure that you do not give any insects you have brought with you a opportunity to get away and multiply. Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on several subjects, but is currently involved with the Dust Mite Pillow Cover.. If you would like to know more, go over to our website at Bed Infestation.