The indication of Bed Bugs in Palm Beach, FL
If you live West Palm Beach, you’ll perhaps agree with us that bed bug infestations remain to be a grave concern to the residents of the area. The persistent seriousness of the pest issue is mainly attributed to the lack of knowledge concerning these bugs by a significant proportion of the people who live here.
Coming across people who have no idea about how a bedbug looks like is not a surprise. Otherwise, if people know about the common bedbug signs to look for, it will be easy to control the pest problem at an early stage before it becomes a serious menace.
Here are a few signs that could suggest the presence of bed bugs in West Palm Beach:
#1. Live, tiny bugs
Bed bugs are tiny crawling insects that are most active during the night although some can be seen during the daytime when they are too hungry to wait any longer. Some people confuse bed bugs with cockroaches or ticks but if you are keen, you’ll realize that it is easy to distinguish a bedbug from a tick cockroach. An adult bed bug in brownish and has a flat body which becomes engorged and reddish for a few days after feeding.
The bug is tiny, with a size similar to that of an apple seed. A young bedbug is shiny white or cream and if of course smaller than an adult. If you see such bugs near where you sleep or relax, especially under a mattress, along headboard or inside cracks and crevices of your bed or any other household furniture, they could turn out to be bedbugs.
![adult bed bugs and fecal stains on mattress](https://palmbeachcountypestcontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Signs-of-Bed-bugs-Adult-Bed-Bugs-Bed-Bugs-Fecal-staining-300x75.png)
#2. Red bumps on the skin
Since bedbugs feed on animal or human blood, they wait until you are asleep to suck your blood. Fortunately or unfortunately, you may not feel any pain when a bedbug is sucking your blood, but you may later, perhaps after a few minutes to weeks, develop an itchy red bump on your skin. The swellings are more likely to be on the exposed areas of your body such as the face, neck, hands and/or arms.
![bed bug bites on jaw](https://palmbeachcountypestcontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Bedbug_bites.jpg)
#3. Mottled bed bug shells
Bed bugs shed their exoskeleton as they mature, for the shell to accommodate their enlarging bodies. You will mostly find these shells in places where these bugs hide after sucking your blood. These places include beneath your mattress, along headboard, in the cracks and crevices of your furniture, especially bed and seats and in bookshelves, among others.
![bed bugs and their nest](https://palmbeachcountypestcontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/bed-bug-nest.jpg)
#4. Black spots
Bedbugs defecate in their hideouts or while sucking blood from a host. Although bedbug food, blood, is red, the fecal material is normally black since the blood has already been digested before being discharged.
Since bed bugs are tiny, their feces are small as well as that’s why they’ll look like a dark spot made by a marker pen. The bedbug fecal spots are normally concentrated in a certain area, especially near your bed. Another thing about these stains is that they don’t flake off when rubbed but instead, they smear upon wiping with a wet rag.
#5. Bloodstains
Blood stains on your clothes, seats or beddings can also be a sign of bed bugs in West Palm Beach. Although the stains could be as a result of something else, they can also be caused by bedbugs which have been crushed accidentally.
#6. Bad Odor
An area with heavy bedbug infestation usually has an unpleasant smell which some people describe as that of like coriander while others say that it is similar to that of moldy shoes or wet moldy clothes. The smell most likely comes from bedrooms since bedbugs are mostly found there.
It is paramount to contact a licensed bed bug exterminator Palm Beach County in case you come across these bed bug signs in your home or commercial area for a thorough inspection to determine if there’s a bed bug infestation.