Bed Bug Mattress Encasement Advantages
by Elizabeth on Oct.18, 2011, under Bed Bug Information, Connecticut Bed Bug Information, New Jersey Bed Bug Information, New Jersey Bed Bug News, New York Bed Bug Information, New York Bed Bug News, Uncategorized
If your house, rental property, hotel, or motel becomes infested with bed bugs one of the first precautions from getting bitten by these nasty little parasites is to find a good quality bed bug mattress encasement so that the bugs can’t get to you in your sleep and feed on your blood. A good quality bed bug mattress encasement should be made of a strong and durable plastic so that it will last for years. This bed bug mattress encasement should also have a zipper with small teeth so that the bed bugs can’s sneak out of it. There are some bed bug mattress encasement’s out in the market that have wide teeth in the zipper and these are almost useless. These mattress encasement’s for bed bugs are a great first defense for bed bug control and also a great way to help make the infestation extermination process much easier.
It is believed that bed bugs thrive in dirty environments, such as, unkempt homes and seedy motel rooms. This is not true. bed bugs can thrive anywhere there is a source of food, meaning your human blood. If you have or think you have a bed bug problem that is coming from your bed this mattress encasement will contain it. If the bed bugs are locked in your mattress, with no way to get out, they will eventually die from lack of food.
Bed bug eggs are very small and a translucent white color, they are extremely hard to spot with the human eye. Once laid in your bed, these eggs will hatch into nymphs. Bed bug nymphs are very small also, being about 1/16th of an inch. These parasitic nymphs look just like adults, but a smaller version, kinda like a mini-me bed bug adult. It takes about 5 weeks for the nymphs to become adults. During this time the nymphs go through 5 molts to reach adult size. A molt means that the bed bug nymphs shed their old, smaller skin, kind of like a snake does to make room for growth. The bed bug nymphs and adults, for that matter must feed before each molt. Their food is you, human blood. The female bloodsuckers produce about 5 to 7 eggs a week, they can lay up to 500 of these eggs in a lifetime. Bed Bugs can live, without food, for almost a year.
