School is almost out for the Christmas holidays and many people will travel to foreign lands seeking the sun and hot weather. Because airline tickets are becoming so cheap many people are travelling to area that harbours many insects including bed bugs. These insidious creatures will travel anywhere or do anything to din on you or your family’s blood. Bed bugs will take a ride from us or anything that we travel with. Although they don’t hop, hurdle or fly, these little blood suckers have an uncanny ability to hitch a ride and turn the final destination, your home, into bed bug infestation. Also at this time of year, people turn to second hand furniture stores to upgrade their homes. Second-hand furniture has now become a major player in spreading bed bugs. Bed bugs like to dwell in second-hand furniture such as sofa, love chair, stereo cabinet, and just about anything found in your home. Once a new bed bug gets into your house, it doesn’t take long for it to start building its own family. Bed bugs need to feed on human blood and at night are attracted by carbon dioxide we exhale. Similar to mosquitoes, they have really sharp thin straw-like mouth that they use to impale through our skin and feed on our blood. Their saliva contains an anticoagulant and anaesthetic so the blood doesn’t clog up and we don’t feel the entire operation.
Go Green Pest Control owner Randy Bilesky is a long-time South Delta resident. Trained and certified, Bilesky has first-hand knowledge of the pest problems that local homeowners and business owners encounter.
