Alternative Locations Where Bedbugs Can Be Found

When it comes to pest control and extermination, the bedbug is one of the most straightforward issues out there. The name tells you much of what you need to know – bedbugs are most common in or around bed areas, largely due to their inability to fly and their desire to be near humans and other warmth sources.

At Bug Busters, however, we’re here to tell you a curious fact you may not have known before: Despite their name, bedbugs can be found in several locations besides your bed itself, and they can create all the same issues from these other locations as well. Luckily, proper residential pest control services from our team can help prevent the possibility of their infestation, regardless of the location in question. Let’s go over a few additional locations where you might find begbugs, plus how to check for them in each of these spots.

Baseboards

If you’ve noticed bedbugs in a given room but have checked the primary bed and mattress areas with no success, you should also be sure to go over the baseboards in your floor. Adult bedbugs are extremely flat, with a width less than that of an apple seed, and they can easily slide around between floorboards and into other small flooring areas.

Really, you have to consider any place where boards meet or open up as a potential bedbug living space. They’re commonly found in the areas between walls and either ceilings or floors, or even surrounding vents and registers.

Other Furniture

Bedbugs, much like mosquitos, prefer to feed on humans rather than any other organism. This means they’ll go to fairly great lengths to try and position themselves in human areas – and while the bed is one of the most common, there can be several others here as well.

Do you have a favorite couch you spend hours in every day, for instance? This could be a harboring location for bedbugs, particularly if the infestation began somewhere else and then spread. This is an important detail, in fact; if you do find bedbug infestations in areas outside the mattress, and particularly outside the bedroom itself, there’s a good chance an infestation already was present in your mattress and spread, and you should check for it right away.

Wallpaper

Based on everything we’ve learned here so far, it’s no surprise that bedbugs also love wallpaper. They’re extremely thin, so fitting between wallpaper and the wall is no problem, and they may begin to form larger nesting groups in these areas if they become comfortable and go unchecked. They’ll often find their way in through small cracks or seams in the wallpaper. For more on alternative areas where you might find bedbugs, or to learn about any of our commercial or residential pest control services, speak to the pros at Bug Busters today.