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Movies may currently depict them as fun and loveable creatures which almost always embark on humorous and insightful adventures. Science may always regard them as awesome and wonderful creatures because of their characteristics and structures.
In reality however, and for sure, you will always despise them. All the descriptions are referring to bed bugs and mites.
Bed bugs and mites are very small insects that normally thrive in our home. Something must be in them that they really do love to live with people or be unlikely and unwanted transients to people’s dwelling places.
Unlike many other organisms, which scientifically, live with you in your home under a relationship called ‘commesalism’ (where their presence will not be regarded as burden), mites and bed bugs are dislike because they affect and pester people.
On their part, mites eat wood and destroy several vulnerable furniture or fixtures in your home. There are only several on limited occasions that mites are reported to bite animals or people. That is not their normal intention because that is not their thing.
Bed bugs, on the other hand, have to bite people to live. It is because bed bugs suck blood from unsuspicious and unwilling victims or hosts for nourishment.
Bed bugs have long, elongated and sharp beaks that help them pierce through hosts’ skin to enjoy the abundant reserve or resources of blood.
Usually, bed bugs go out and hunt or suck blood at night, when the unsuspecting prey is usually asleep. Bed bugs’ bites are usually negligible, you can hardly feel them. That is because bed bugs are so very small and miniscule.
But don’t worry. These bed bugs can never suck too much blood from you. A single bed bug can normally suck only a sixteenth of a milliliter of blood from you.
That amount is truly so negligible.
Managing mites and bed bugs
The discomfort caused by mites and bed bugs are so annoying that you will surely always want to get rid of them totally from your life and from your home.
That is why, since time immemorial, there are so many pesticides and insecticides that abound in the market to exterminate mites and bed bugs.
Substances that intend to control and kill bed bugs and mites normally, and more often, come in the form of sprays. It is because through this form, the protective covering or wax-like substances in mites’ and bed bugs’ skin is destroyed.
Bed bugs and anti-mites sprays have common ingredients. All of these sprays contain powderized glass or silica powder. When you say powderized, they are ground down to the tiniest, finest and smallest size possible.
But why glass and silica? We know that these 2 substances can cut through any surface. Because mites’ and bed bugs’ skins are protected and they are so hard, it will take too harsh and potent materials to cut through their skin.
Powderized glass and silica will surely do the wonder.
Sprays that kill mites and bed bugs work in a manner that the chemicals are mixed with them. After spraying, or after the mites and bed bugs are sprayed on with insecticides and pesticides, the powderized glass and silica cuts through their skin.
The mites’ and bed bugs’ skin will then be ruined. That is the time the chemical will penetrate. The system of bed bugs and mites will then be vulnerable without their protective covering.
Chemicals usually get in to dry out or take away moisture from the insides or viscera of mites and bed bugs.
Through the process, mites and bed bugs will certainly be killed.
Be cautious
However potent they may be in exterminating or killing mites and bed bugs, be sure to handle pesticides and insecticides with utmost care.
Read all labels of such sprays before finally using them so you will have extensive idea how extremely poisonous they can get.
Be careful and take note of the precautionary measures and first aid recommendations advised by the manufacturers of such sprays in case you accidentally inhaled or take in such substances.
Even if it is very important or even if it becomes your top priority to eliminate mites and bed bugs in your home, ensure you are safe all throughout the process. Don’t be exterminated along with them!
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