For people living in multi-unit buildings or duplex housing, the threat of bed bug infestations is real. There’s a high possibility for you to become infested when your neighbor has bed bugs.
Bed bugs travel around 100 feet an hour and inseminate female usually looking for a new place to lay her eggs, and suddenly, you’ve got bedbugs in your house.
The same is true when your neighbor has a severe bed bugs infestation, and bugs crawl over from their house. Bed bugs can spread from surrounding apartments or homes.
They are small, and they can travel through the cable's cavity, ventilation, insulation, any cracks or holes in the walls. Bed bugs can walk out of the front door of one apartment and into another in the same hallway.
Can i get bed bugs from my neighbors?
Bugs were also spread through the building when infested furniture is discarded without wrapping it in plastic. If somebody uses an infested wheelchair in the building, it is a sure way to transport bedbugs to other areas of the building.
Bed bugs can have a damaging effect on your social life. When you visit friends or they come and visit you, they carry bed bugs over. That way the infestation is expanding.
Bed bugs can stick and hide in the clothes, on the library books, inside electronics, on parcel delivery vans, on clothing, luggage, etc.
Bedbugs could be hiding in a trouser seams, in a handbag, under a lapel or neckband, in your pocket or under a flap or strap on your shoes.
They can travel on pets fur until they find a suitable food source, a sleeping human.
Bugs can lurk in a restaurant, cinema, waiting room, transport seat, taxi or the cinema, where they will seek a hiding spot. As you are dressed and sitting calm for an extended period, they may very well hide out in your clothes. The same is valid when you visit infested house for a chat or drink.
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