Recently, I had a chance to spend a mother/daughter weekend in Columbus, Ohio. I was excited for the overnight getaway, but also paranoid. Actually, it’s much more accurate to admit I was pretty freaked out.
My anxiety was all about bedbugs.
Columbus is a hot bed (pardon the pun) for bedbugs. Other cities are infested, too – you can check out reported infestations at The Bedbug Registry.
Once my mom and I checked in to our hotel, I yanked back the sheets and checked the mattress covers – no sign of bugs. When we finally settled in later in the evening, I had such a hard time getting to sleep. Of course, I was in a strange place and had a hard time getting settled, but I started getting all sorts of phantom itches. And then I woke up all through the night, feeling itchy.
I woke up early the next morning, still feeling itchy. I searched my body for bug bites … and found nothing. When I got home and discovered I received a package of BedbugLogic prevention and treatment spray from the Logic Product Group, I was thrilled.
Logic Product Group manufactures three different kinds of natural, non-toxic products: BedbugLogic, LiceLogic, BarkLogic Tick and Flea Protection. All three are made with organic ingredients that prevent pests.
Bedbug basics
BedbugLogic Prevention Spray is necessary for travelers – I had a good reason to be concerned about bedbugs. You do, too.
Unconcerned about dirtiness or cleanliness, bedbugs are attracted to warm-blooded mammals. They hide out in places like beds, furniture, curtains, bedding, rugs, wallpaper, baseboards, and moldings. Because of their flat bodies, they hide easily in cracks, crevices, and upholstery seams. Bedbugs hitch a ride on luggage, handbags, clothing, people, pets, and packages. They can lurk in most public places: hotels, movie theaters, stores, buses, trains, taxis – even on public benches.
Once a bedbug travels to its new home, it typically waits until night to move around and feed off of the blood of its host. Bedbugs are attracted to warmth and carbon dioxide. Once a bedbug finds a host, it gets to work. According to Logic Product Group, “the bedbug pierces the skin of its host with two hollow tubes called proboscis. With one tube, it injects its saliva which contains anticoagulants and anesthetics. With the other, it withdraws the blood of its host. The host will not feel the bite while it is occurring due to the anesthetic the bed bug has injected, but the host will feel the effect of the bite later or even a day or two after the fact.”
Because of this bloody feeding, spots of blood on bedding, sheets, and mattresses can be a giveaway that bedbugs are at work.
Bedbugs can multiply quickly – female bedbugs lay up to five tiny eggs a day. And once the eggs hatch, bedbugs can live up to a year and a half without a food source. However, bedbugs live an average of ten months.
Adult bedbugs, with brown, flattened and oval shaped bodies, can’t jump, fly, or move very fast.
What to do?
Bedbug infestation is not a problem that will go away on its own. It needs to be treated. While some methods involve high temperatures (more information will be shared on Monday), BedbugLogic Protection and Treatment Spray is a safe and simple way to treat and eliminate bedbug infestation – it destroys bedbugs on contact.
To try the BedbugLogic spray for yourself, you can purchase it on Amazon
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You are right about Columbus being a hot bed of bed bugs! We actually had bed bugs at our house about a month ago, and went through the whole ordeal. I am posting about it on my site this Wednesday, August 15, and how we got rid of them naturally, without pesticides.
My two cents after going through this personally, is that the sprays that kill bed bugs on contact (90% alcohol also works)do NOT end an infestation. Bed bugs lay eggs quickly, and the sprays do not kill the eggs. You often don’t see the bed bugs at all because they can live in your walls, baseboards, behind wallpaper, etc. so it is impossible to spray all of them. The sprays don’t work as a preventative measure, either.
That being said, there are two natural ways to kill them completely without pesticide spray (which also is an incomplete way to get rid of them as they also don’t kill eggs). Please come check out my article this week and read how! http://www.livingcrunchy.com
Love the giveaway!
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