7 Early Signs of BED BUGS (How to Know if You Have Bed Bugs)

The best way to protect your home from bed bugs is knowing how to recognize the signs of a bed bug infestation early on. In this video, we’ll take you through 7 signs of bed bugs to look out for.

0:00 Intro
0:33 Sign #1: Bites
1:29 Sign #2: Musty Odors
2:05 Sign #3: Bloodstains
2:35 Sign #4: Fecal Marks
3:07 Sign #5: Shell Casings
3:34 Sign #6: Bed Bug Eggs
4:06 Sign #7: Live Bed Bugs

[VivaLaFamous]

For someone who recently battled an infestation, it was small/mild, nothing crazy! But here are my tips and please use it to your full advantage no matter how big or small your infestation is. This is going to be a LONG READ!!! But it’s helpful!!!

1: Buy mattress, pillow, and box spring covers/ encasements. Specifically made for bed bugs because it has a material that bed bugs have a hard time crawling on. Also, once the covers/ encasements are on, Bed Bugs can’t come out and they can’t go in! Bed bugs are known for hiding inside of your mattress and mainly your box spring. If you’re an aggressive sleeper or sleep with someone, buy two! Just in case one of them rips or tears.

2: Buy bed bug interceptors, put them on the legs of your bed frame, so when they try to climb up to your bed to bite you, they’ll get trapped! You can also put this on the legs of your furniture or on other bed frames in your home for PROTECTION. The first step to stop the infestation from getting worst, is to not let them bite you! That’s how they turn into adults and lay eggs, with a lot of blood consumption.

3: Buy CimeXa powder with a powder duster tool from a company like Amazon. Put some of the powder inside of the bed bug interceptors (the inner part where the legs of your bed frame or any other furniture would go, not the outer part.) These powders will legitimately kill all stages of bed bugs within a 1-3 day period, including every other insect as well! You should use this powder in corners, holes, cracks, under your mattress & under your furniture. But use a face mask with gloves when you’re applying the powder and do not over use it. This powder should be applied like dust, if you throw chunks of powder all over the place then insects will just find a way around it. This powder also stays where it’s been applied for A LONG TIME! Unless you vacuum it up with a strong vacuum or you clean it up with a liquid substance. If you do then you’ll need to reapply it but this powder destroy insects!!! Once they walk directly onto/ over it. A lot of people would mention DE, but apparently it causes breathing problems and takes longer to kill bed bugs compared to CimeXa. So buy CimeXa with a powder duster tool.

4: Keep your bed away from the wall! Make sure your sheets aren’t hanging off of the bed, or you don’t have a charger or anything that the bed bugs can climb onto without them using the legs of your bed frame. If you wake up and find your pillow or blanket on the floor, leave it there! Dont pick it up and use it to go back to sleep.

5: Buy ortho bed bug spray or crossfire! It kills all stages of bed bugs on contact! And it kills bed bugs even after it dries, by leaving traces of poison that sticks to their body, they have no resistant to it either. So spray these in areas where there’s bed bug activity or places where they’d most likely hide. Cracks, corners, holes, etc… remember that they hide CLOSE TO YOU! Rubbing alcohol is great too! But once it dries then it’s pretty much useless. Alcohol only kills stages of bed bugs on contact! Ortho and crossfire leaves behind poison that sticks to all insects. These sprays aren’t flammable and they will not stain or damage your furniture. So you can completely spray down your walls, floors, carpet, furniture, etc… without any negative effects. They do have a scent, but it’s not a super strong or bad scent at all.

[zachp]

I've been traumtized by these horrid little vampires. I wouldn't wish these nasty little vampires on no one. When I finally found out I had bedbugs I was absolutely grossed out and freaked out. I found out the hard way that I had bedbugs cuz one night I was trying to sleep but my mind was wide awake and I got up off my bed and I decided to turn my light on and I noticed a black dot moving and I thought it was a spider so i got a piece of paper to get it. well I looked and Suprise Suprise it was a bug i didnt recognize so I kept it alive to find out what it was and I was absolutely horrified, and after I got the one bug kept alive to check out what it was I saw several of them running for cover and I remember smashing one of them and I heard a pop and then I saw all the blood come out. Yeah definitely make sure to look for these things cuz it took me quite awhile to feel comfortable sleeping again.

[paulcharpentier]

I stayed at a hotel add in the morning woke up with what I would imagine was 60 or 70 bed bug bites Summer's largest Marbles and some as small as a rash I suffered for days and days and worse yet they got into my luggage even though I stopped at a laundromat and tried to cook them to death them to death as I had read online but I still ended up bringing them home which cost me a huge amount of money and no end to the grief I would suggest did anybody that stops at a hotel bring a strong flashlight and check the bed before you do anything

[EudyneReames]

One thing people don't mention often is that these little suckers are FAST!
Absolutely terrifyingly fast.

[birdlynn]

This was an excellent video. Thank you!

[weldonyoung]

There are only 2 reason bedbugs leave a line or cluster of bites: 1) the bug is immature & hasn't learned to control its feeding (you'll get an injection & bug may no feed or usually incomplete feeding); 2) you have a good circulatory system & blood vessels just below the skin are moving a lot of heat, bedbugs go for the heat (this is likely several different bedbugs, unlike in case 1).

[Irish_exit]

I feel so bad for anyone who has to deal with this! God speed

[gaylenewood]

Spiders and ants love bed bugs I had some about 7 years ago and I try to get rid of them and spray them with flea sprays and bomb them even crush them but after awhile spiders had snag them on walls and feasted on them and so has ants but the thing is I found that rubbing alcohol eats their shell leaves them to smell different from their buddies so their buddies and up killing them as well but about 3rd year of having them they finally died off back in 2018 and I'm so glad and we haven't had them ever since..

[robertkern]

I had an infestation 11 years ago; what a nightmare getting rid of these little pests.

[pennyshaw]

i have used BB spray i got from Walmart and the Apartment landlord has had our buiding sprayed and sprayed many times . But i still have bugs. I ve bagged all my clothes and put them in black trash bags in the heat in my truck bc i cannot afford to wash all my clothes. I am lost to what to do. Is this spray pet friendly?

[lindalisten]

My uncle moved in and we found some on his bed and it was only 4 or 5 found we bagged everything washed everything I was the only one getting bite haven't seen any but ever thing from a Crum drives me crazy I hope none are still living

[Jack-bdv]

2:12AM here in rainy mosquito heaven Florida. I just woke up scratching several clumped together bites on me arse and legs so had to search YouTube.
I never had bed bugs before and thought the bites were mosquito bites, like some have already expressed and gave examples. The bites are itchy little buggers and the itch can come and go making it as annoying.
Anyway, I had to eliminate mosquitos because I don't believe even those devils can bite through a double layer (Pants & Unders). I'm 97.33% sure the bed bugs are in my kitchen seat cushions because that's where I sit me arse half the day on the computer.
Saludos to this webpage and to all commenting.

[tricksterkitsune]

Just found them so now I got to deal with them

[cthymnn]

There was a bug that looks like a bed bug but much larger than a flax seed. Is that a bed bug?

[Eboog]

How can I show u a picture, what I seem to think might be two under comforter, main sheet fitted sheet and in the crease of mattress cover in corner of the bed

[jacob]

Found one bug but cant find any other sign

[masteryoflife]

I keep getting itchy in bed, so far I see nothing, I do get bites or something on my chest and back, and my hands and wrists get rashy. I am always trying to pick fluff off my sheets so no bugs get attracted to it, especially my fluffy lounge blankets.

[chamonix]

Which end of a pin is the "head of a pin"?

[Darren-vc]

Wierdly when i suffered a bedbug infestation a few years ago, they gave off an odour similar to marzipan, with a kind of almondy smell.

[Sun-wpmx]

Get rid of bed bug with baking soda powder it will dry them or with vinegar but vinegar will only killed the bud not the eggs