Rob commented on Contact us

Can you add to this website a section on the actual bites that people get. I have read on other sites that there is a breakfast, lunch, and dinner bite that is three marks in a row on the body. I am curious if that is accurate information or if it is another myth.

@__Rob
Yes, that is interesting.

Bedbug bites vary a lot from one to the others and it looks mysterious like a myth, a half thruth  people repeat. Below are a variety of bedbug bites and you will be surprised to see that some of them do not look like bedbug bites at all and are generally mistaken for something else.
Bites are different at every stage of bedbug growth and change as we become more allergic to them. One word can describe all of these variations and it is posology. The best way to understand it is by analogy. Tylenol, it is  a poison that can kill you, yet, we use it as medication to ease up pain and symptoms of various ailments. Two Tylenol will give you relief from something that bothers you, like a headache. It might work or not depending on the severity and causes of the pain. Since it can also harm you, we must follow posology, the instructions on the bottle on how many you can take daily and also over longer periods of time.
Most manufacturers will recommend taking two pills, once in the morning, two more in the middle of the day, two more in the evening and lastly two more at night, for a maximum of eight pills a day, and that quantity will cause you no harm. Of course prolonged use of even that small quantity is not recommended and if the pain or symptoms subsist after 5-7 days, you should consult a physician. There are safety factors in those instructions, usually 3 to 1, and that can be verified (not recommended) by taking 24 pills instead of 8. Twenty-four Tylenols will make you feel sick and might send you to the hospital, so don’t try it. More than 24 pills is a serious overdose and can kill you, so again just take my word for it and do not experiment it, instead, you can always check it by asking a Doctor, a Nurse or a Pharmacist.
Now, the bedbug injects saliva upon feeding to keep blood from coagulating and make your skin numb so we  do not feel the bite. A bedbug bite varies from five to fifteen minutes.  The longer the bite, the bigger the swelling. Reactions and swellings depends on the quantity of bedbug saliva injected.
At the very beginning of an infestation, there is  only one bedbug that will feed once and will not bite again for a few days. Five to seven days depending on the room temperature, all insects rate of metabolism are  in direct relation to temperature. Colder is slower and warmer is faster.
Bedbugs do not drill into veins, their rostrum is not long enough to reach them, and draw only some of the blood from capillaries. We have blood everywhere in our bodies as cutting ourselves anywhere will make us bleed, Bedbugs bite anywhere as soon as they reach exposed or bare skin.
Bedbugs have needle-like mouth parts to drill in the skin and lap blood in that area. When blood diminishes, they pull out, move sideways and drill a short distance away. Adults usually bite three times and it forms the crescent “breakfast-lunch-dinner” mark that people associate and is the bites of a single bedbug. But it is not limited to three bites, it could be more if the bedbug does not find enough blood in all three of its bites, and drill a fourth or fifth time. Or it could be less if the bedbug hit a spot where there is ample supply of blood.

One lone adult bedbug leaving 2 to 5 red itchy swellings about once a week. If it is a female, it will find a place nearby, on the sides and underside of the mattress, mostly in the corner where it will not get squished by the movements of the bed. The red streaks we see on bed sheets are squished bedbugs that did not make it to a safe hiding place so it can incubate some eggs and lay them a week or so after. When the eggs hatch, another week or so later, around ten tiny near transparent 1 mm replicas of the 5 mm adult bedbug. will also start to fed on our blood.

Their bite is much different than their mother’s. Instead of the typical 3-bite meal of adults, they feed together and leave +/- 10-15 tiny bumps swelling the skin in the same area and looking and feeling like a rash, the more we touch it, the more it itches, but does not look like bedbug bites at all.

At first, we usually have a few bites spaced by days, merely an annoyance, questioning what it is and dismissing it as casual like maybe a mosquito bite or something of little importance. If the adult female bedbug bite is relatively always still the same, the bites of the nymphs keep getting more pronounced and more far apart.

The size of a bedbug bite is directly in direct relation to the amount of saliva injected by bedbugs. Smaller bedbugs inject less saliva than an adult, and all bedbugs take as much blood as their abdomen can contain. A smaller bug injects less saliva, draw in less blood, producing a smaller swelling. Smaller swelling close together makes a patch of skin looks like a rash. The more saliva we get, the more reactions we have. Posology, a word that deserves reflexion.

Actually, it does not matter what type of bite you have, what matters is that you stop them. There is only one thing that can stop all bedbugs and stop all bites at once, and that is a bedbug shield. A physically impenetrable barrier to stops all and any bedbug bite.

No matter if you have a single bedbug or a thousand, tiny almost indiscernible bites or major ones like most of what is on the net. At the first sign or suspicion of a bedbug, put the bedbug shield on the bed and without blood the bedbug cannot molt or lay eggs. The shield will not only stop bedbug bites but keep the infestation from growing at the same time. If you have only one bedbug, you will not get one or ten more from the hatching of eggs and nymphs will not be able to molt.
Do it yourself, it will not cost you more than a few dollars and will avoid all those different types of bedbug bites. You will never know what pain it is to have a major infestation because with a bedbug shield on the bed, the infestation will not grow and will not multiply to that point, bedbugs stuck under the shield will never be able to feed and will die of starvation.

The best is that besides using absolutely no poison, nobody  makes profit from you. Other than the few inexpensive materials you will find in a local store, the trap is free. The key to getting rid of bedbugs is to stop and keep them from feeding. Under a bedbug shield, the bedbug dies of starvation. It is merely a matter of time while we sleep soundly without a bite.

The traps on the floor are only there to catch bedbugs in the room and on the floor.

It is the shield that protects you from bites.