How does a homebug look like? What do bugbite bites look like?

Bedbug is a common name for insects, numbering 40 thousand species. Most of them have nothing to do with man. Some species are harmful to crops, even useful ones: they eat caterpillars and aphids. From early spring until late autumn, representatives of this suborder of insects from the squad of half-wings bask in the sun, delighting our eyes with colorful "dresses". Everyone knows, for example, what a bug-soldier looks like. But there is one kind, the contact with which everyone remembers as a nightmare.

Acquaintance with the bug

In most cases, a person does not immediately realize that he has communicated with this insect. He does not know what a bug looks like, but he senses traces of his presence "on one's own skin." If several days in a row you wake up and find traces of bites on your skin, it's worth thinking about. It can be a bug.

He is very small. The Bedbug is a bloodsucking insect (eco-parasite). Has a highly developed sense of smell, which allows you to quickly and effectively find the victim by smell (usually a person, but sometimes there can be an animal). Sucks blood every seven days. But it multiplies in a geometric progression. And all his relatives together can poison the life of not only a large family, but even the inhabitants of a multi-storey house.

At the beginning of the last century bugs were not a curiosity. After they were poisoned with pesticides and other poisons, they almost disappeared. But not all. Probably, the surviving representatives adapted to the first generation pesticides and no longer react to them. Now the bugs again began to appear everywhere. And not only in poor areas, but also in modern new buildings.

Appearance

How do bugs (photos) look homemade, or bedding, or linens?

These are different names for the same insect. It has a corpuscle, flattened from above and below, without wings. The body of the bug does not contain water. The length depends on the amount of blood drunk. This is about him said: "Fed hungry is not a comrade." Having eaten, the bug grows not only in width, but also in length. Hungry reaches only 3 mm, full - 8 mm. By the way the bug looks, you can judge whether he has eaten a long time. On this depends its color. It ranges from dirty yellow (hungry), scarlet (only full) and to dark brown (a long time ate). The contours of the body also depend on the amount eaten: hungry - oval, full - round.

Let's see how the bugs look (photo). Domestic vampires have a body covered with hairs, which can only be viewed under a microscope. Females are larger than males. The bug has a proboscis that pierces the skin. In the small jaws there are two channels. One - for the introduction of poisonous saliva with analgesic, the other - for sucking blood.

How does a bed bug look like satiety? He is very different from the hungry. Well-fed - slow, seemingly round. Hungry - flat and brisk: in search of food, he can climb to the ceiling and plan down on the victim, like an autumn leaf.

The body of the bug consists of segments, which helps it stretch when eating and avoid mechanical damage. Crushing a hungry bug is almost impossible. A well-fed is very easy, even with a weak push.

Stages of development

Bedbug for his life goes through several stages:

• egg;
• larva;
• Adult animal (imago).

The female lays 5-12 eggs a day (there can be up to 500 eggs per life). Attaches with a special secret to the surface. Egg milk-white color, a form resembling a grain of rice, but much less - up to 1 mm. Not afraid of cold and poison. Therefore, when processing an apartment by means of bugs, eggs remain intact.

What do larvae of bedbugs look like ? They look like an adult bug, but smaller and much lighter. Therefore they are called nymphs.

Appears larva from the egg in a week. It immediately begins to move and is ready for use of blood. At first, the nymph is transparent, so you can see through the skin the blood drunk by it. The larva fades five times (resets the shell), each time first drinking blood. After the molt increases in size. After 6 weeks, the larva becomes an imago. If the conditions of development are unfavorable, then the process is delayed up to 4 months.

The bug actively lives a year and a half. But if the temperature in the room drops below 18 ° C, it can fall into a hibernation (anabiosis) and starve for another year and a half. How does a bedbug look like in anabiosis? It will become thin and transparent, almost dry, seemingly dead. But this impression is deceptive. After raising the temperature, the bug comes to life, finds food and continues its life cycle. Do not tolerate frost below -15 ⁰С and heat from 49 ⁰С.

Where do bugs live?

Where they are difficult to find and neutralize: inside the furniture, under the skirting boards. Hence the answer to the question: "What does the furniture bug look like?" This is another household name.

They also hide in books and electronics. In old things, crevices of walls and floors. In the cells of animals. They live in dirty and clean rooms.

In the habitat of ticks are imago, larvae, their skins, eggs and excrement.

Therefore, if you do not know how bedbugs look homemade, you need to carefully examine the secluded places in the bedroom and look for these congestions.

Ways of penetration into the house

• Through the cracks in the walls, ventilation hatches. Adult bug in a minute passes 1 m 25 cm, larva - up to 25 cm. Can overcome in search of food up to 30 m.
• With old furniture.
• With any interior items, if they were in a bug-infested room.
• In the clothes of family members or guests.
• Clutching at the pet.

Often the owner of the apartment does not know how the homebugs look, they do not notice their bites, that's why they do not fight with them. In this case, their numbers increase rapidly. Through the cracks the bedbugs penetrate into the neighboring apartments. The hosts, after discovering unexpected guests, try to destroy them. But they come again and again, and their flow does not dry out.

How and when bugs bite

A canal in the jaw produces an anesthetic. A person does not feel a bite and does not react to it. The bug begins to suck blood. One session of a meal with a nymph lasts 3 minutes, an adult specimen lasts 8-10 minutes. Having eaten, the bug crawls into the habitat and digests the food. After 15 minutes, the place of the bite begins to itch. But there is already no insect nearby. You can not notice that there was a bedbug here. How does the bed look like in the morning? On it there are drops of blood from the crushed bugs that did not manage to escape. The stains darken by morning. Day "bloodsuckers" is not visible. At night (from 3 o'clock in the morning) bedbugs go out to hunt. The proboscis punctures the skin and soft tissues until a capillary is found.

Nymphs do not know how to inject an analgesic, so the prick is heard right away. But their proboscis is very thin, and the bite can be inconspicuous.

If there are too many bedbugs, and they are hungry, they can attack with electric light and even during the day. There is an opinion that the more they bite people with delicate skin and do not like the smell of tobacco.

How do bites of bed bugs look like?

After biting one individual, a path of several punctures remains, located one from the other at a distance of 4 cm. From each hole, the insect drinks a few drops of blood. If bedbugs to you are only populated, there may be several bites, which makes it difficult to diagnose. But usually a few dozen tracks.

Each of the bites is similar to a mosquito, but with a clear restrictive feature. The site near the site of penetration quickly swells and turns red, it starts burning and itching.

The distance between the bites can be several millimeters. Then they merge into a continuous swollen and itchy stain. How does a bug bite look like? The photo below shows: in its place are formed red knobs with liquid.

Bedbugs bite the skin, not covered with clothing: arms, legs, neck, bare back. They can not bite the fabric like a mosquito. And open areas will always be found. After all, the bug works noiselessly. Even pussy, like a mosquito, you can not hear from it.

A few hours later the tumor goes off, the bites cease to itch. By evening, they usually remain barely noticeable points. But when combing, which is very likely, blisters can remain for several weeks.

Bite damage

• Pain and itching do not give at night easy to sleep, during the day - to work.
• Allergic reactions occur with increased sensitivity. The temperature may rise, Quincke's edema may occur, and sometimes anaphylactic shock.
• If there is infection in the wound, there is a high likelihood of ulcers.
• If a small child is bitten by bugs for a long time, anemia may develop.
• These insects carry the pathogens of typhus, smallpox, tularemia, hepatitis, tuberculosis. Some scientists believe that bedbugs can infect humans with them. But science has not been proven.

How to find out that bugs appeared in the apartment

To understand who bites you, you need to find it. About 70% of people, mostly men, do not react to bedbugs. The substance introduced by the insect does not act on them. But bugs bite everyone. If you found small dark spots of blood on the bed in the morning, you need to be alert. It may well be bedbugs. To check, at night it is necessary to sharply turn on the light and carefully examine yourself, the sheet, the walls near the bed.

Appeared from some unknown place the sharp smell of almonds or raspberries may also indicate the presence of bedbugs.

Differences from other insects

Often bugs are confused with cockroaches, lice, ants. After all, most of them, fortunately, almost never occur.

Main differences:

• Bugs do not have nests, the ants have;
• Cockroaches have wings, there are no bedbugs (more precisely, there are, but underdeveloped);
• Bugs bite the open part of the body, lice - closed;
• Other insects do not smell.

How to distinguish bug bites

Do not always can even doctors. But there are a number of differences.

• Mosquito bites are not so painful. Traces from the bedbugs are redder, are placed by paths and groups.
• The tick during a bite sits in the wound for a long time, burying it with its head and filling with blood; The bug runs away.
• Bites of bees and wasps are more painful.
• Bugs bite at night and indoors.
• With allergies on the red spot, there is no trace of the proboscis.

Bedbugs bite everyone and always. They can move from an apartment to an apartment, from old furniture to a new one. They are not easy to see, but even harder not to notice. As you can see, bugs - insects are unpleasant. Their neighborhood brings not only painful sensations from bites. Recognizing that these creatures are crawling around you at night can cause depression or a nervous breakdown. The bugs themselves will not go away. So you need to try to get rid of them. Knowing what a bug looks like, it's easy to find the location of the parasite. Destroy better with the help of special tools. Now there are effective drugs that do not have an unpleasant odor and are practically harmless to humans. The procedure can be done independently or refer to professionals who are engaged in disinsection.