Bed Bugs and Fleas have one purpose and that is to bite and drain you of your blood.
Yuck eh!!!
They look sort of similar, but there are differences.
They are both very very small, more tiny than small.
They both bite you.
Like all critters of the biting ilk, they both will bite you to provide for their eggs and new young critters they produce to bite you more...
Surprisingly most people that think they have been bitten by Bed Bugs have actually been bitten by Fleas. Meaning bed bugs have had a bad rap to some extent. Never-the-less they, both the Bed Bug and the Flea create a bad itchy experience for you. The itching is caused by the anticoagulant they put into you to prevent you from bleeding...
Bed bugs like fleas are attracted to body heat and carbon dioxide (that part of our breath air we breathe out). We are a natural feeding place for both of them. But Bed Bugs and Fleas both attack us in very different ways.
Okay to begin, Bed bugs do not live in beds, period!! The will live near the host. They will live under the bed, in the cracks in walls, in electrical wall sockets or anywhere hidden, but not usually in the bed with you..
They are nocturnal and are incredible so tiny that they are very difficult to see. Then sometime before daylight about usually about two hours or actually just before it gets light they climb the walls to the ceilings above you and drop towards you. No parachute needed it's just a free-fall to their waiting feast (yes you).
They work their way into you, past blankets and night wear to reach their target and your skin, and then they gorge on your blood.
Fleas are not climbers at all, but jumpers and can easily jump from the floor onto your bed and you.
Once there they too work their way through blankets and bed clothes to their target and your skin to gorge on your blood.
Nice eh!
So how do you know here as to whether you have been bitten by bedbugs or fleas. That is if you want to know.
Bed bugs bite in a loosely straight line pattern, while fleas have no pattern at all and will bite you all over the place.
When I have been told by people that they have been bitten by bed bugs, I always ask about that pattern. Most people just say "I have a bite and it must be a bed bug bite.
"Um really,"is my answer.
Well for one thing both Bed Bugs and Fleas just don't ever bite you once. You will be bitten at least 6 to 8 times by one bed bug or flea, and never just once. So if it is just one bite, it is most likely that you have been bitten by something else. Maybe a spider.
Bed bugs are everywhere and will travel with you wherever you travel to.
People think that Bed Bugs live in dirty places and associate bed bugs with low class housing or yes less developed countries.
NOT TRUE...
In both the USA and Canada it is well known that bed bugs hide out in movie houses and you can get bitten there. They have also been found in all sorts of high rise building and fancy hotels even.
There are all sorts of products and remedies for getting rid of Bedbugs or Fleas.
Coming up next:
How to prevent Bedbug and Flea bites.
Yuck eh!!!
They look sort of similar, but there are differences.
They are both very very small, more tiny than small.
They both bite you.
Like all critters of the biting ilk, they both will bite you to provide for their eggs and new young critters they produce to bite you more...
Surprisingly most people that think they have been bitten by Bed Bugs have actually been bitten by Fleas. Meaning bed bugs have had a bad rap to some extent. Never-the-less they, both the Bed Bug and the Flea create a bad itchy experience for you. The itching is caused by the anticoagulant they put into you to prevent you from bleeding...
Bed bugs like fleas are attracted to body heat and carbon dioxide (that part of our breath air we breathe out). We are a natural feeding place for both of them. But Bed Bugs and Fleas both attack us in very different ways.
Okay to begin, Bed bugs do not live in beds, period!! The will live near the host. They will live under the bed, in the cracks in walls, in electrical wall sockets or anywhere hidden, but not usually in the bed with you..
They are nocturnal and are incredible so tiny that they are very difficult to see. Then sometime before daylight about usually about two hours or actually just before it gets light they climb the walls to the ceilings above you and drop towards you. No parachute needed it's just a free-fall to their waiting feast (yes you).
They work their way into you, past blankets and night wear to reach their target and your skin, and then they gorge on your blood.
Fleas are not climbers at all, but jumpers and can easily jump from the floor onto your bed and you.
Once there they too work their way through blankets and bed clothes to their target and your skin to gorge on your blood.
Nice eh!
So how do you know here as to whether you have been bitten by bedbugs or fleas. That is if you want to know.
Bed bugs bite in a loosely straight line pattern, while fleas have no pattern at all and will bite you all over the place.
When I have been told by people that they have been bitten by bed bugs, I always ask about that pattern. Most people just say "I have a bite and it must be a bed bug bite.
"Um really,"is my answer.
Well for one thing both Bed Bugs and Fleas just don't ever bite you once. You will be bitten at least 6 to 8 times by one bed bug or flea, and never just once. So if it is just one bite, it is most likely that you have been bitten by something else. Maybe a spider.
Bed bugs are everywhere and will travel with you wherever you travel to.
People think that Bed Bugs live in dirty places and associate bed bugs with low class housing or yes less developed countries.
NOT TRUE...
In both the USA and Canada it is well known that bed bugs hide out in movie houses and you can get bitten there. They have also been found in all sorts of high rise building and fancy hotels even.
There are all sorts of products and remedies for getting rid of Bedbugs or Fleas.
Coming up next:
How to prevent Bedbug and Flea bites.
