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One should never travel Because one sometimes brings back from our peregrinations tiny, invisible and silent enemies, who have traveled gratis in our luggage, and adore to plant their fangs at night in our soft bodies. Attention, the bed bug invades us!

If you notice mosquito-like bites in the morning, as they wake up, itchy, or even turn into painful skin lesions, maybe the little beast rages in your mattress. Observe your bedding: if you are infected, you will see on your sheets small black spots and trails of blood.

The parasite, called Cimex lectularius, is oval in shape, brown in color and about 7 mm in size. He lines every 3 to 7 days. His favorite meal: you! Or more exactly your blood. The female lays about fifteen eggs per day, which explains the difficulty of getting rid of it.

If the phenomenon is not new, (we have noticed for 15 years an increase in bed bugs, whether in individual or collective habitats, hotels, residences, retirement homes ) Is at this time of year, at the beginning of the school year, which he attacks in number (return of holidays, therefore), and that we must react.

To limit the infestation, wash your clothes at 50 minimum, vacuum bedding, sofas, clothes, and put the bag of the vacuum cleaner in an airtight bag. Then wash the vacuum cleaner. Plug cracks and cracks in the walls, baseboards. If you still do not get rid of it, check out a bug borer.

Finally, to console you, know that in California, researchers are working for you. A team from the University of California is working on an ancestral solution from central Europe: the properties of a local bean, with sticky leaves that were once surrounded by beds to trap mini-vampires. A kind of natural velcro, an ecological insect trap that interests our scholars.

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A vampire under our sheets: bed bug alert! - The Quebec Times