Bed Bugs Under Wood Floor

Bed bugs are on the comeback primarily because of an apparent resistance to pesticides and because of more travel by people around the world.

Bed bugs under wood floor.

Bed bugs are small reddish brown insects with flattened bodies. Floorboards with cracks in them especially under the bed make good bed bug harborages. If you are checking a baseboard along the floor see if you can get the card between the baseboard and the floor as well as the top of the baseboard and the wall. Hardwood floors have endless miles of cracks and joints that bed bugs like.

They only grow to be about 3 16 inch long and feed on blood. The unfinished wood in the cracks are preferred substrates and hiding spots for bugs. Bed bugs may infest wood floors if they can find a spot to hide from sunlight. Bed bugs live inside and like to feed at night.

Hotel and motel rooms become infested and guests inadvertently spread the bugs. Therefore they are usually found near beds. The older the floor gets the bigger the cracks get and the more bugs they contain. 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.

However bed bugs are far more likely to live in your mattress and bedding. The least desirable floor in my estimation is hardwood. 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.