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Do bugs crawl out of windows ?
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Praying Newprey
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Wed Mar 11 2009 12:19:37
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I am new to this. I got bugs from secondhand bathroom furniture. Anyway they tell me to keep the bedroom cool, it snows here this time of year. The bugs may die. The trouble is I'm worried that the bugs will crawl out of the window to the house next door. This is what we call here in uk terraced housing . should ikeep it closed?
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losingit
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Posted 12 months ago
Wed Mar 11 2009 13:51:10
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Ahhh, no, opening the windows will do nothing except keep you cold. BBs don't crawl out windows to get to the neighbours. But they can and will go under adjoining walls, vents, ducts, pipes etc.
And the temp outside won't affect the ones you have inside your place.
Call a reputable PCO and let them do their stuff. Get some special bb 'encasements' for your mattress AND boxspring. Read the FAQs to get some info. But call a PCO, they (the bugs, not the PCOs!) breed like rabbits in spring.
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spideyjg
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Posted 12 months ago
Wed Mar 11 2009 14:43:11
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Praying Newprey - 2 hours ago »
I am new to this. I got bugs from secondhand bathroom furniture. Anyway they tell me to keep the bedroom cool, it snows here this time of year. The bugs may die. The trouble is I'm worried that the bugs will crawl out of the window to the house next door. This is what we call here in uk terraced housing . should ikeep it closed?Close the window because all you are doing is shivering. Non-arctic cold is not going to phase BBs. Keeping cold may slow down their metabolism and consequently development but will not kill them.
They will crawl wherever through tiny cracks and an open window isn't going to matter much.
Whoever told you these things hasn't a clue about BBs.
Jim
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Hi,
I can confirm that the UK does not get cold enough to have any effect on bed bugs other than to slow them down. To get your house cold enough to have an effect of killing the bed bugs would require you to replace the central heating system afterwards because it would be destroyed.
Bed bugs are more likely to spread between terraced rows at the floor board level in my experience and usually requires an advanced infestation or in appropriate treatment regime to cause them to spread.
If you are keeping the area occupied there is a very low risk of the bed bugs wanting to move to the outside of a building. I have more commonly seen they take highly convoluted routes through buildings rather than passing outside (too many predators out there).
Encasements and covers are not common in the UK at present although one of the largest UK companies has just started to sell them but I cant recall which brand (controversially I do not agree with them as a treatment method).
If I can help please PM me.
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Praying Newprey
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Posted 11 months ago
Sat Mar 28 2009 7:58:37
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I haven't quite got the hang of posting messages . So ill post here . To ask dave ,are the local rural council services any good in the uk at controlling these pests ? ! At the moment I seem to ha ve them in the upstairs part of the house . None downstairs , there was one but it s stopped biting. Petroleum jelly divides the two areas.
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Praying Newprey
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Posted 11 months ago
Wed Apr 1 2009 10:51:01
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Its OK now i've figured out how to PM him personally
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Praying Newprey - 4 days ago »
I haven't quite got the hang of posting messages . So ill post here . To ask dave ,are the local rural council services any good in the uk at controlling these pests ? ! At the moment I seem to ha ve them in the upstairs part of the house . None downstairs , there was one but it s stopped biting. Petroleum jelly divides the two areas.Missed this put picked up on PM and answering the points here as well to share with everyone.
There is a section on my site about selecting professional pest controllers, it details questions to ask and information to help evaluate their response. It is only by asking those questions and listening to the answers can you work out if they know what they are doing with bed bugs. It is simple not possible to say that A type of person is better than B type of person without investigating.
You are more likely to be good at dealing with bed bugs if you have experience of dealing with them case after case. The more cases you study the more likely you are to pick up the skills that are needed to do this job which are generally different from your standard pest control set of skills.
I do not have a whole UK infestation map yet but can tell you that this is a problem that is still very much localised to large UK cities, areas of high international travel or "high season" tourist locations. Thus finding experience outside of major metropolitan areas is harder at present than we would like it to be. To put this into perspective based on data we do have in our average busy month we deal with more cases ourselves in London than occur on average in a year in the 60 miles around the UK's second largest city.
I have personally dealt with in the region of 11,000 cases now which is more than I believe anyone else in the world but then again I have been doing only BB's since 2005 and mainly BB's since about 2002. Its frightening to think back on some of what I have seen over the years but hey if anyone ever has a spare 6 hours when they are in London the 8,000+ images makes a long but amusing slide show.
David Cain
Bed Bugs Limited
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