Beware Bugs: Tips to avoid bed bugs on your next vacation
Experts offer advice for not bringing home bed bugs from your next trip
Dakota Williams, Digital content intern
Courtesy photo from Bug Out Service
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Good night. Sleep tight. And don’t let the bed bugs bite.
In honor of Bed Bug Awareness Week June 3-9, Bug Out Service has compiled a list of tips to help summer travelers avoid the pests on their next vacation.
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Bed bugs are parasitic insects that feed on blood, according to Bug Out Service. They are brown or reddish in color, oval-shaped and about the size of an apple seed.
Individuals can develop red welts and experience itching and swelling after being bitten by bed bugs, while some experience no symptoms at all, according to Bug Out.
Bug Out Service provides travelers with the following recommendations:
Inspect the hotel room or rental before unpacking
Look under sheets and around the mattress for live bed bugs
Look for reddish stains on sheets or mattresses where bed bugs have been crushed
Look for pale-yellow eggs that are roughly the size of a grain of rice tucked in the creases of the sheets and on mattress tags
Check the bed, furniture and all upholstery – bed bugs love these spaces
They can also be found in drawer joints, electrical outlets, under loose wallpaper, at the junction of the wall and ceiling and in the head of a screw
Place luggage on clean, hard surfaces and not upholstered or carpeted services
Notify management of any pests and change rooms or property immediately
Inspect and vacuum luggage upon arrival home
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