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How to Identify Bed Bugs? What are the Stages of Bed Bugs? What are Home Remedies for Bed Bugs? Be sure to buy a product that has been tested for bed bugs and is strong enough to last for the full year without tearing. This reduces the number of bed bugs. While freezing can kill bed bugs, temperatures must remain very low for a long time. Home freezers may not be cold enough to kill bed bugs; always use a thermometer to accurately check the temperature.

Putting things outside in freezing temperatures could kill bed bugs, but there are many factors that can affect the success of this method. Special equipment and very high temperatures are necessary for successful heat treatment. Black plastic bags in the sun might work to kill bed bugs in luggage or small items, if the contents become hot enough. To kill bed bugs with heat, the room or container must be even hotter to ensure sustained heat reaches the bugs no matter where they are hiding.

Bed bugs are good hitchhikers. If you throw out a mattress or furniture that has bed bugs in it, you should slash or in some way destroy it so that no one else takes it and gets bed bugs.

Thorough vacuuming can get rid of some of your bed bugs. Call A recent study on bed bugs provided evidence that bed bugs are attracted to certain colors when they seek harborage sites or when foraging for a blood meal. In general, beg bugs preferred red and black, rather than yellow, orange, green, lilac and violet. The authors suggested that bed bugs avoided yellow and green colors since those colors resemble areas of intense lighting , rather than darker reds and blacks.

Female bed bugs prefer harborages with shorter wavelengths such as lilac and violet. The proportion of eggs laid by females was significantly greater under blue, red, and black harborages compared to other colored harborages tested. Males prefer harborages with longer wavelengths such as red and black.

The preference for orange and violet harborages is stronger when bed bugs are fed as opposed to when they are starved. Bed bugs might mistake red and black colored harborages for their other bed bug buddies since bed bugs prefer to harbor in clusters, rather than individually. Lone bed bugs prefer to be in black harborages while red harborages appear to be the optimum harborage color for bed bugs in more natural mixed aggregations.

Bed bug nymphs preferred different colored harborages at each stage of development, which is indicative of their developing eye structures and pigments. First instar nymphs showed no significant preference for any colored harborage soon after hatching; however, by the fifth instar, nymphs significantly preferred red and black harborage, similar to the preferences of adult bed bugs.

So, why is color preference important? This research establishes the potential relationships between color and bed bug behavior, plus gives bed bug pest management professionals the opportunity to greatly improve monitoring and trapping tools.