Summer is now over in this country, and it is all the more understandable when trips take you far away into the warmth. Some time later at home, however, the vacation joy can quickly evaporate if small uninvited guests have traveled back with you. Initially brought in unnoticed in your luggage, they nest in dark and hidden corners and then go in search of food at night: human and animal blood. Bedbug bites not only itch and burn very unpleasantly, the small insects also serve as an intermediate host for all kinds of pathogens. Some people can also have an allergic reaction to the sting secretion.

With their size of 3.8 to 5.5 millimeters, they are not exactly eye-catching, and bedbugs and their hiding places must be searched for carefully. Their life expectancy is between 6 and 12 months. They are cosmopolitan, i.e. they are found almost everywhere in the world and it is not unlikely that they will be introduced in your luggage.

Only the pest controller can help here, acting against the small, rapidly multiplying parasites. A female lays several eggs almost every day, up to 200 in her entire lifetime. Quick action is required here before the bedbugs become a real plague.