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Reducing the spread of bed bugs through education and early detection
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Bedbugs or Cimex lectularius are a pest of exposure.  They can easily be spread from location to location by contact.  They are not connected with home or personal hygiene and can literally affect anyone.


Although not life threatening nor disease transmitting they are an unpleasant pest to deal with and can produce emotional and psychological symptoms beyond the physical bites.


They tend to be most active at night while we rest but they are not nocturnal they are just more active at night when there is less risk of being spotted..

About Bed Bugs

The definitive signs of an infestations of Bed Bugs are:

The Signs of an infestation
Live Insects
Faecal Traces
Cast Skins
Gallery Gallery Gallery

Clicking on any of these images will take you to a gallery of definitive signs of a Bedbug infestation, this page may take some time to load due to image size needed to clearly display the pictures.

Non definitive signs

Infestations can also be accompanied by:




What to do if you have an infestation

If you have an infestation of bedbugs it is important that:


What is the life cycle of bed bugs?
Bed Bugs Life Cycle - source BedBugBware.com

The Diagram beneath is a representation of the life cycle of bed bugs illustrating the changes in size, colour and appearance as they develop from egg to adult.


The image is taken from the book Bed Bug Beware - an easy to understand guide to bed bugs their prevention and control by Richard Strand and David Cain.


This image may be reproduced for public education purposes copyright free, commercial use MUST be licensed from Xenex Associate Limited

To help you confirm an infestation prior to treatment starting we have developed an inspection confirmation check list in conjunction with BedBugger.com.  It is designed to help you ensure that an infestation is confirmed through identification of the physical signs of bed bugs.

Confirming an infestation check list
Bed Bug Beware - An easy to understand guide to bed bugs their prevention and control.  Now available from online book stores and www.PestFreeHome.co.uk  in the UK www.USBedBugs.com in the USA
iPhone / iPod touch app - Bed bug identifier

User of iPhone and iTouch’s  systems can now purchase an app to help identify bed bugs and learn how to check hotel rooms for signs of activity.


Further details are available here:

Bed Bug Museum

As unlikely as many sufferers may find it, bedbugs have not always occupied a position of loathing and hatred in society.  In the past they have been the subject children's books, adult literature, games and even confectionary.  Over the years we have collected a number of artefacts which are documented in our museum gallery below:


Bedbug artefact museum

The information on this site is provide free to help people clearly understand the nature of bedbugs and their resurgence in modern society.  To help us keep this information updated and accurate we only ask that you help to “spread the word and not the bedbugs” so that others can be helped and we don’t need to waste money on advertising.