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Colgate-Palmolive : Multi-Use Oil Soap

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Colgate-Palmolive : Multi-Use Oil Soap, Trigger Spray Bottle Packaged for Commercial Market, 32 oz. -:- Sold as 1 CT : Oil soap spray formula packaged for the commercial market is the same convenient ready-to-use all purpose formula with special cleaning agents to remove finger marks, crayon and grease. The pure vegetable oil soap cleans finished wood and hard surfaces with no dulling residue. This is the traditional formula with natural orange oil. Global Product Type: Cleaners & Detergents-Multi-Purpose; Cleaner/Detergent Type: Multi-Purpose; Application: Floors; Furniture; Applicable Material: Wood; Hard Surfaces.

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Bed Bug Colony


Bed Bugs Colony

Bedbug databaseA colony of bed bugs living along the bottom side of a mattress. Bed bugs are extremely adept at hiding in hard to reach and hard to see places. They hide during daylight hours and become most active between 12am and 4am.

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Protect-A-Bed AllerZip Pillow Encasement

Protect-A-Bed AllerZip Pillow Encasement

Protect-A-Bed® AllerZip® pillow protectors are ideal for bed bug protection and also aid chronic allergy sufferers by providing a protective barrier against bacteria, dust mites and bed bugs. To fully protect your family against allergens and bed bugs, simply slide the easy-to-use AllerZip® pillow protectors over your pillows and zip shut.

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Bed Bug Discrimination


Bed Bug Discrimination

Bedbug DatabaseAll members of the bed bug family feed on the blood of birds or mammals. The bed bug, Cimex lectularius, attacks man, as does the Eastern bat bed bug, Cimex adjunctus. Other species exist that attack bats, pigeons, and rodents. Bed bugs are active only at night, usually just before dawn. During the day, they hide in cracks and crevices in walls, floors, beds, and furniture. When only a few bed bugs are present, they live close to human sleeping areas; when numerous, they can be found in many rooms of the house. A characteristic 'œbed bug odor' is frequently present in a home infested with bed bugs.

 

 

Bedbug Life cycle

When bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) have adequate available blood sources they also have a shorter lifespan. Bed bugs who feed regularly have a lifespan of ten months, while those without adequate feeding can live a little more than a year. If a blood host is available, bedbugs can live to see three generations of offspring ready willing and hungry to prey on their human hosts.

Bed bugs (females) deposit three to eight eggs at a time. A total of 300-500 eggs can be produced by a single bug. Their eggs are 1/25'³ long and curved. They are often deposited in clusters and attached to cracks, crevices or rough surfaces near adult harborages with a sticky epoxy-like substance.

Eggs typically hatch in a week to 12 days. The freshly hatched nymph is beige-colored before feeding, and then turns a reddish color after getting a blood meal. There are 5 nymphal stages for bed bugs to reach maturity, which usually takes about 32-48 days. Adult bed bugs can survive for up to seven months without blood and have been known to live in empty buildings for up to one year.

BedbugBed bugs are oval, chestnut-brown insects and are flattened from top to bottom. Adult bed bugs (Fig. 1) measure about ¼ inch in length. The mouthparts are shaped into an elongated proboscis, which, when not in use, is held directed backward underneath the body. When a bug is ready to feed, the proboscis is extended forward and the stylets within are thrust into the skin of a host. Mated female bed bugs deposit their eggs in their resting places. One female will produce about 345 eggs during her lifespan.

Bed bugs grow by molting several times. Nymphs look very much like the adults, except they are smaller and not sexually mature. There are five nymphal molts, and each nymph must have a blood meal to be able to molt to the next stage. Adults feed once a week on average but feed many times during their four-month or longer lifespan.

Bed bugs often come into a home via secondhand articles and furniture. They may also migrate between homes via wires, plumbing, or rain gutters. In addition, since warehouses, trucks, and railroad cars may be infested, common bed bugs can infest homes by stowing away on new furniture stored or shipped from these places.

The Eastern bat bed bug comes into homes in the spring with colonies of bats. They can be found in the living quarters of homes in many of the same places as common bed bugs, but the source of the infestation is located within walls or attic areas.

Bed Bug DatabaseBed bug infestations have been so relevant that even famous actors and actress are not immune to the problem. In 2006 Saturday Night Live star Maya Rudolph and her husband movie director Paul Anderson were chewed upon by bed bugs in their $13,500-a-monthSoHoluxury condo.
Also in 2006, Bed bugs made a cameo appearance on the popular series TheKingofQueens episode "Buggie Nights" and the Dateline NBC special "Bedbugs Bite". Currently there are shows on the Discovery and TLC channels which show the daily life of an exterminator and many of the episodes are filled with bed bugdrama .

Bed bug infestations have been so relevant that even famous actors and actress are not immune to the problem. In 2006SaturdayNightLivestar Maya Rudolph and her husband movie director Paul Anderson were chewed upon by bed bugs in their $13,500-a-month SoHo luxury condo.

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Bed Bug Distribute

Bed Bug Distribute

Bed bugs are non-flying insects and extremely fast runners for their size. An adult bed bug measures approximately five millimeters long and is oval shaped. They are rust brown in color and they change into a deeper red brown after their blood meal.

Because of their color they can easily be spotted with the naked eye on white linoleum, light marble floors or white bed linen, but very difficult to see on brown wooden floors and other dark surfaces.

Bed bugThe distribution of bed bugs is assisted by the fact that they are flat and thin and are therefore able to squeeze in very narrow cracks and crevices such as floorboard, skirting boards, power points, and brick feature walls. They are very difficult to detect because of their skillfulness in finding hiding places.

Bed bug distribution also adds up to the any pieces of information about the two main species of bed bugs that bite human beings.

First is the common bed bug - more scientifically called cimex lectularius. This kind of bed bug is found in any crevice as long as it is around room temperature. They are of greater distribution in Australia. May it be remote or urban, common bed bugs do not care, as long as they are distributed to an area that copes well with their needs.

Bedbug DatabaseAnother kind of bed bugs is the tropical bed bug, or cimex hemipterus. This bed bug has been guessed to be distributed in the tropics a long time ago. However, it was only recently recognized by the medical entomology department. This department can tell you more information about the distribution of the cimex hemipterus in the tropics.

Bed bugs are distributed in human dwellings, bat caves and bird's nests. In truth, the habitats that have been recently mentioned are the ones found to be most suitable for bed bugs, because their need for warmth and hosts to feed on.

However, you must always remember that bed bugs are never evenly distributed throughout the environment. They are mainly distributed in harborages.

When human dwellings is the subject, the harborages are inclusive of the crack and crevices that you can find, sometimes not find, in your house's walls, behind your wallpaper, furniture and wood paneling, or even under your carpets.

BedbugBed bugs can also be distributed to clothing, in bedding or even your luggage. However, much to their dismay, they do not have appendages that could allow them to cling, possibly to hair feathers or fur. This would bring you to the conclusion that bed bugs leave to feast on their hosts but once they finished they leave their hosts since they have nothing to cling with in the first place.

Adult bed bugs live exclusively as parasites that feed mainly on warm-blooded humans and animals. Since bed bugs can be distributed to poor housing conditions, then it would be conclusive that the infestations of bed bugs can be found in these places too. And if the bed bugs do get distributed to domestic premises, then the room they will most probably attack is the bedroom.

Bed Bug DatabaseBed bugs are also distributed finely in human dwellings, bat caves andbird'snests. In truth, the habitats that have been recently mentioned are the ones found to be most suitable for these said bed bugs. Why? It seems to be quite obvious. Bed bugs are distributed to these habitats because of their offered warmth and hosts they can feed on.

However, you must always remember tht bed bugs are never evenly distributed throughout the environment. You will come to notice that instead of being distributed in the environment, bed bugs are distributed mainly in harborages.

When human dwellings is the subject, the harborages are inclusive of the crack and crevices that you can find, sometimes not find, in your house's walls, behind yourwallpaper , furniture and wood paneling, or even under your carpetting.

Bed Bug DatabaseBed bugs are more usually not so prone to activity during the night, but will feed on anything during the day, especially when hunger strikes them. So, most likely, these said bed bugs would be distributed to trees and leaves and roots and absolutely anything that they can land on and strike their fancy.

Bed bugs can also be distributed to clothing, in bedding or even your luggage. However, much to their dismay, they do not have appendages that could allow them to cling, possibly to hair feathers or fur. This would bring you to the conclusion that bed bugs leave to feast on their hosts but once done with that thing they do, they leave their hosts since they have nothing to cling with in the first place.

Bed Bug DatabaseAdult bed bugs live exclusively as parasites that feed mainly on warm-blooded animals, the best example, and probably the most usual, would be human beings. Since bed bugs can be distributed to poor housing conditions, then it would be conclusive that the infestations o fbed bugs can be found in these places too. And if these said bed bugs do get distributed to domestic premises, then the room they will most probably attack is the bedroom.

You already know of the fact that bed bugs are distributed to cracks and crevices where they most typically hide, but you probably would find this quite surprising. Throughout this essay, have you ever wondered or asked yourself why these insects are called bed bugs? It is because they love to distribute themselves in bedrooms, specifically in the vicinity of where the host, in this case, human beings, sleeps. Oftentimes, they would even habitate in the host's sleeping place itself, the bed. Its distribution in bedrooms are also inclusive of bed frames, behind skirting or wallpaper and the matress itself.

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