http://bedbugger.com/forum/ Bed bug support forums en Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:20:10 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/summer-time-vs-winter-time#post-59601 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:55:42 +0000 BugsInTO 59601@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>Slightly different take on summer vs winter temperature. In Canada, winter temperatures should stop outdoor overland bedbug migration. Once we have our first snowfall and it blankets the laneway between our house and the rooming house next door, I will give a sigh of relief, at least until March. </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/summer-time-vs-winter-time#post-59539 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:33:55 +0000 spideyjg 59539@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>Caveat, in a climate controlled home obviously the season and outside temp is rendered irrelevant but on a raw biology basis temperature is a factor in insect activity.</p> <p>Jim </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/summer-time-vs-winter-time#post-59533 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:52:58 +0000 spideyjg 59533@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <blockquote><p><cite>jaimie - 18 minutes ago <a href="http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/summer-time-vs-winter-time#post-59532">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;</a></cite><br /> Although most of the research I've read online says that temperature shouldn't make a difference, I've experienced seasonal problems with bedbugs.</p> <p>Have the bedbugs reduced their activity because of the cold or migrated to a warmer place? We live in a multifamily unit.<br /> Or I am still getting bitten but not reacting the same because of the cooler weather?<br /> -Just as a side note, to save money we don't do much temperature control: just fans in the summers and we usually keep the heat around 60 in the winter.-</p></blockquote> <p>You have been reading bad research. Temperatures have a huge effect. BBs stop development above 99 and below about 55. Metabolism slows also with colder temps.</p> <p>Jim </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/summer-time-vs-winter-time#post-59532 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:32:07 +0000 jaimie 59532@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>Although most of the research I've read online says that temperature shouldn't make a difference, I've experienced seasonal problems with bedbugs.</p> <p>I live in New York. My roommate &#38; I first got bites 2 summers ago in July &#38; August. We suspected bedbugs, but only had a few bites over the course of the summer and couldn't find any signs of infestation so we thought we were ok until this summer.<br /> Beginning in June (about the time it finally got really hot again) I began to get bitten (about 5 new bites a week) My roommate didn't have any bites (or at least reaction to any) but his girlfriend got eaten alive and they found signs of infestation in his bed and I found bedbugs in my room. We treated the apartment with cleaning, heat, and Diatomaceous Earth, and put bedbug barriers on the bed, and all of our belongings in large ziplocs bags or sealed plastic containers.<br /> As we started to treat I saw a reduction in the number of times I got bitten, but the bites didn't completely stop until the first cold spell of September, and I haven't been bitten since then, even when the temperature came back up to the 70s for a week or two.</p> <p>From everything I've read (and I'm obsessed of course, spending hours on the internet researching) the temperature shouldn't have that dramatic of an effect on bedbugs. But I don't know what to attribute the change to. </p> <p>Is it possible that we finally killed the last of the bedbugs coincidently with the change in weather? I'd love to believe this but am paranoid it's not the case..</p> <p>Have the bedbugs reduced their activity because of the cold or migrated to a warmer place? We live in a multifamily unit.</p> <p>Or I am still getting bitten but not reacting the same because of the cooler weather?</p> <p>-Just as a side note, to save money we don't do much temperature control: just fans in the summers and we usually keep the heat around 60 in the winter.- </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/summer-time-vs-winter-time#post-6245 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:31:12 +0000 bed-bugscouk 6245@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>There is also more travel in the summer months and thus more exposure events although I did not see much of a slow down this winter just gone other than people saying they wanted to treat after Christmas due to the expense of the holiday season.</p> <p>I would also think that there is a link between bite response and air temperature and air quality although that is something for the clinicians to research.</p> <p>David </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/summer-time-vs-winter-time#post-6206 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:45:12 +0000 parakeets 6206@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>Bedbugs have a range of temperatures where they are more likely to "feed and breed" (the temperatures humans are comfortable at, too, 50's to low 90's), but it takes very extreme temperatures to make them act dormant, and even more extreme temperatures to kill them. The temperature of inside climate controlled buildings doesn't differ that much from winter to summer. Yet we've seen on these boards that people do observe what you're talking about -- a lessening of bedbug activity in January-March and lots more bedbug bites in June and July. There are even seem to be less people joining and posting on the Yahoo boards in mid-winter than during the warmer months. </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/summer-time-vs-winter-time#post-6198 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:58:43 +0000 ihateBB 6198@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Does Bed Bugs go to "sleep" in the winter like cockroaches?</p> <p>I have noticed that a lot of bugs aren't around in the winter and they come out in the summer, like flies, mosquitoes, etc.... is Bed bugs the same? Do they stay dormant and only come out in the summer?</p> <p>thanks! </p>