How Quickly Bed Bugs Spread
WouterMany people don’t understand how quickly bed bugs spread. These insects are small and can travel up to 20 feet in just five minutes. This makes them easy to move from one room to another, and it can be difficult to detect their presence until you have them all over your home. This is because bedbugs can crawl on the surface of your clothing, furniture, luggage, and other items that you bring into your home.
The rate of spread is a factor of how much your home has been infested. In a matter of minutes, bedbugs can spread from one room to another, and their populations can grow to hundreds or even thousands. The life cycle of one bedbug is so short that their population can multiply as fast as six to seven times in just three months.
Unlike most pests, bedbugs do not have wings. However, this doesn’t mean they can’t spread. They can travel several feet in five minutes by getting into human clothing and luggage. They can also enter your home through cracks in the walls, floors, and door frames. You should avoid these areas if you want to prevent bedbug infestation in your home.
Fortunately, bedbugs aren’t dangerous to humans. However, they do make people very uncomfortable. Bedbugs have been around for over 3,000 years, and have been used for medicinal purposes by many cultures throughout the world. In ancient times, the Greeks and Romans even used to burn bedbugs to kill snakebites and leeches. Then, in the 1940s, the pesticide DDT was developed that was effective at eliminating bed bugs for 30 years.
