Balch Springs, TX Bedbugs, Fleas & Ticks - Bedbugs are six legged parasitic bugs that draw human and pet blood. Their length is around 1/4 inch with an oval flat form. Their size is similar to an apple seed. Top of the part of their bodies has gold colored hair, antennae and cone like eyes. The bottom part of their own bodies is wrinkly like crinkled paper. Bedbugs are unable to fly but they can crawl very quickly. They will develop and multiply in the temperature range of 70 degrees around 80 degrees. A bed bug, is known as a nymph, they are see-through in color and changes into a red color after eating. To succeed in adulthood, a nymph bed bug must shed its skin approximately five times. A typical female can lay 5 up to 7 eggs each week and may produce around 500 eggs throughout its life expectancy of 12 months to eighteen months. The eggs will hatch out in just 6 to 17 days when they become known as nymphs. Bed Bug eggs are resistant to pesticides or herbicides. Bedbugs hide in mattresses, rugs, bedsheets, clothes, underneath wallpaper, under cloths, between window curtain folds, behind wall decorations and behind wooden home furniture. They love to attack through the night and they will remain active until before daybreak. Bed bugs bite uncovered skin of a man or woman sleeping in an infested bed by leaving red-colored itchy spots. They don't wander away from sleeping and lounging areas nonetheless they be capable of travel over 100 ft throughout the night to look for food.