Bed Bugs Under Wood Floor

Hardwood floors have endless miles of cracks and joints that bed bugs like.

Bed bugs under wood floor.

Bed bugs are a dark red to brown color but they can be light brown if they haven t been feeding. Bed bugs live inside and like to feed at night. If you have a bare tile or wood floor consider using a damp cloth or map to. The older the floor gets the bigger the cracks get and the more bugs they contain.

Floorboards with cracks in them especially under the bed make good bed bug harborages. Bed bugs are on the comeback primarily because of an apparent resistance to pesticides and because of more travel by people around the world. Hotel and motel rooms become infested and guests inadvertently spread the bugs. Therefore they are usually found near beds.

Sprinkle it in cracks and joints of a bed frame and in any contact points where bugs could hide for example where wood meets the floor and where a bed platform meets the mattress. The least desirable floor in my estimation is hardwood. The unfinished wood in the cracks are preferred substrates and hiding spots for bugs. However bed bugs are far more likely to live in your mattress and bedding.

Bed bugs are small reddish brown insects with flattened bodies. Look for them in mattress seams box springs and headboards under loose wallpaper behind light switch plates in the seams of upholstered furniture and under carpeting near baseboards. They only grow to be about 3 16 inch long and feed on blood.