Quilt Bug

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10:01 in the morning MT, Monday, January 28, 2008

OMAHA, Neb. - Angie Rempe finds looking at itself fixedly the ceiling where that she goes. The this is a nervous habit, been born to live with the bed insects for eight months. "The good night, stretched sleep, not to leave the bed insects bite. I do not say that more," the woman of Lincoln said.

Rempe, his husband and four children transferred to an apartment of Lincoln in the month of June. She said before July, the family scratched with the inexplicable brands that resembled the mosquito mouthfuls. An inspection of the matelas revealed a discovery terrifying.

"The time discovered us that they were, the bed insects had clothed totally the sewings of the matelas," said Rempe.

She finds now the insects of bed in the baseboards, the placards and in the fissures in the ceiling of his apartment.

The bed insects are the flat and brownish insects that nourish humans. The adult insects of bed are thumb of un-quart in the size. They do not spread the disease, but psychological impact to think about these night visitors disconcerts.

"If it falls on me, I will scream," said Rempe, looking at recently the insects of bed crawl of a hole in his texturized ceiling.

The bed insects can live in the occasion furnishings, especially in the frameworks of bed and the matelas. They put eggs cuts it of a head of pin, and the insects of adult bed can remain sleeping in a wall without the nutrition for even to a year.

"I saw the bed insects on the childlike ones before. My sister remained here one and had it a ramp in his ear," said Rempe.

According to the health experts, the United States saw an increase in the infestations of insects of bed in the hotels, the apartments and the houses the latter years. The experts said that the pesticides like DDT, that checked the population of insects of bed in the past, no longer are sure for the humans.

Last week, the officers to New York, Kentucky and Ohio held the urgency meetings to form groups of work to instruct people of the eruptions of insects of bed tormenting inhabitants in the growing numbers.

New York treats infestations of insects of bed in the dear hotels, with the involuntary guests taking the bed insects to the house with them, arranging in the luggage or the clothing.

The cleanliness does not enter in game in an infestation. The bed insects can be found in the apartments of low level rent and the houses of fine top. The only condition is these bed insects have something to eat.

"The bed insects nourish only while sucking blood. They are parasites," said Ogg of Barb, the educator of extension of UNL.

The directors of property of Lincoln and Rempe are at the quotation on that is responsible of the infestation of insects of bed. But the two work together to exterminate the plagues. Ogg said that the authorized exterminators must use insecticide every little of weeks until the not inspections longer reveal proof of insects of living bed.

The small places of chestnut in the pieces on the wall indicate crud of the insects of bed, a revealing sign of a possible infestation.

"You cannot enter just and spray the baseboards and leave," Ogg said.

Ogg instructed the directors of property of apartment of Rempe to have exterminators induce holes in the ceiling to insert the pesticide, and then to chew the holes and any butcher fissures and any fissures where the insects of bed could live.

Rempe said that the exterminators completed two treatments in the recent weeks and she does not see the also a lot of activities of the insects of bed as her has in the past. She said that the exterminators treated also the vacant apartments that the party walls with his unity.

She is thrown most of its furnishings, sitting only on the chairs of lawn or the cash registers of milk in his three apartments of bedroom.

The family sleeps on the ground, with the comforters and the covers that can be whitened a week. Rempe said that does not import what the value saving she is stored in the garage, hoping that the temperatures underneath zero will freeze the plagues.

Rempe said when she launched his bedding and its padded furnishings in the garbage can, she cut it, prevent does not import that to try to save it.

Ogg said if you suspect the bed insects, take to the trap one and to take it to an office of exterminator or extension. With the correct identification, the check of plague and vigilance should not leave you the bed insects bite.

The experts knows that if you travel, inspect your luggage, wash your suitcases of clothing and empty. Prudent Etre of the furnishings and used matelas. And to melts to inspect houses and apartments before to move in.

Because the bed insects are not known to spread the disease, the guests of tenants and hotel are not demanded to retrieve infestations to health authorities. So many time, the problem range is difficult to determine.