| Bed bugs just love this spring like weather we are | | | | feast of human blood before it goes into dormancy. |
| having. Not only are the temperatures getting warm | | | | After the dormancy this critter sheds its skin, also |
| enough for them to breed and reproduce, people are | | | | called a husk, and emerges with a larger body. First, |
| doing their spring cleaning and leaving free furniture | | | | in order to feed, it must find the way to you. |
| and mattresses on the side of the road free for the | | | | Furniture and mattresses left on the side of the road |
| taking. | | | | are a great hiding place for these bugs to hitch a ride |
| Bed bugs breed, reproduce, and feed in warmer | | | | on to its human host. |
| weather, somewhere around 70 to 80 degrees. This | | | | I can understand a person seeing a couch or chair on |
| is the kind of temperatures we are experiencing here | | | | the side of the road for free wanting to put it in |
| in the New England states now. With the warm | | | | their living room. I don't know about picking up a free |
| springlike weather upon us these parasitic creatures | | | | mattress on the side of the road for my bed room |
| are crawling out of their hiding places and looking for | | | | though. I don't think I would have done this even |
| some human blood to feast on. Once the bed bugs | | | | before I found out about how bed bugs love hiding |
| feast they will be ready to grow and multiply. A | | | | here. In most areas of the country it is illegal to put |
| female bug can produce upwards of 200 offspring | | | | used mattresses curbside, because of the bed bug |
| during here lifetime. From a small bed bug infestation | | | | problems that have ensued. The crevices of |
| a might epidemic of these parasites can flourish. | | | | mattresses and furniture are breeding grounds for |
| The Cimex lectularius, or better known as the horrid | | | | these parasites. Please reconsider picking up free |
| bed bug, goes through five stages in it's lifetime. Each | | | | furniture on the side of the road. You may be picking |
| time the bug is getting ready to grow it must have a | | | | up more than you bargain for. |