Why are bedbugs so hard to get rid of???

Why are bedbugs so hard to get rid of???

Written by Abet Tonny

Over the past years, bedbugs have developed 15% thicker skin. The skin helps bedbug prevent entry of chemicals targeted at killing them. An insecticide must first penetrate the skin of a bedbug before killing it. A thicker skin thus means insecticide penetration into the insect body is greatly reduced. Thicker skin of bedbug has made insecticide ineffective in controlling bedbug.

Bedbugs have also developed special substances called esterases and oxidizes. These substances are enzymes that breakdown common insecticides into useless substances that can't kill them. This also makes insecticide useless and ineffective.

Hardy, small and plate-like body structure makes bedbug adept at squeezing and vannishing into tiny places. This enables bedbug escape the insecticide spray.

Another important thing is that dull colour of bedbug makes it hard to recognise a bedbug attack/infestation in your house or room. Bedbugs are brownish to dark in colour. Failing to recognise the attack fast means bedbugs are left to multiply at their will.

Appreciate that bedbug multiplies so fast. A female lays up to 500 eggs every after a month. And in its total life time, a female bedbug produces over 3000 offsprings. Now with each egg maturing very fast into adult and starting to reproduce, one pregnant female bedbug can light up a massive infestation in your house, apartment or room in only 3 months.

The other numbing reality is that bedbug spends upto 550 days -more than a year without eating. This reveals why common practice of abandoning your room or house for some time so bedbug can starve and die doesn't work.

Finally, the clingy character of bedbug makes it hard to avoid bedbug. I mean it is so easy to pick a bedbug from a friend's room, pubic means like taxi or hotels.