{"id":112,"date":"2023-08-15T07:31:37","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evisionsem.net\/staging\/securepestservices\/?post_type=service&#038;p=112"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:38:09","slug":"bed-bugs","status":"publish","type":"service","link":"https:\/\/evisionsem.net\/staging\/securepestservices\/service\/bed-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"BED BUGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Beg bugs<\/strong>&nbsp;are about 1\/4\u201d to 3\/8\u201d long (about the size of an apple seed), brown to reddish blood-sucking insects with a flat, oval-shaped body. Bed bug young (nymphs) are smaller and translucent white-yellow in color while their eggs are tiny (about the size of a pinhead) and milky white in color. The female bed bugs deposit 1 \u2013 2 eggs daily and can produce up to 500 eggs (one bed bug per egg) in its lifetime. Nymphs undergo five molts (leaving behind a tannish shell known as cast skins) before reaching maturity which generally takes about five weeks. They need a blood meal in between each molting stage. Since bed bugs are very resilient, they could survive several months without a blood meal especially at cooler temperatures. They have the potential to live up to a year without feeding at 55 degrees F or less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Where Bed Bugs Hide \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;Bed bugs are very secretive by nature and prefer to hide in dark cracks and crevices especially close to where people sleep or spend a lot of time at rest such as seams around mattresses and box springs, wood frame of box springs, on bed frames, behind head boards, on ceiling\/wall junctions, top along baseboards, behind pictures on the wall, couches, chairs, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Evidence of a Bed Bug Infestation \u2013<\/strong>&nbsp;Despite their secretive nature, bed bugs eventually leave evidence behind. Evidence includes seeing the actual live bed bugs, dark blood spots on bedding and\/or any of the above mentioned hiding places, cast skins and egg or egg shells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":113,"template":"","services-category":[18],"class_list":["post-112","service","type-service","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","services-category-pest-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionsem.net\/staging\/securepestservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionsem.net\/staging\/securepestservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionsem.net\/staging\/securepestservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/service"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionsem.net\/staging\/securepestservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evisionsem.net\/staging\/securepestservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"services-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evisionsem.net\/staging\/securepestservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services-category?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}