These bugs are found across the world and can survive in places between 46 degrees.
Do bed bugs go into kitchens.
Having conquered your mattresses sofas wardrobes clothes and carpets their only choice is to move to your kitchen.
Kitchens normally emit the scent of food while bathrooms usually take on the smell of soap.
As adults they re only about one eighth of an inch long.
Bed bugs are small wingless oval shaped insects.
They feed mostly off of humans and animals.
See pictures to compare their size.
They are called bed bugs because people are.
I can only think of very unusual circumstances where multiple bed bugs would be found in a kitchen.
Bed bugs can survive without a meal for a long time and their rate of reproduction is very high thus spreading quickly through a house as they keep on searching for migration if they congest in a place.
A kitchen is not a normal place to find bed bugs.
If you see bed bugs in your kitchen have in mind that your house has been infested with bed bugs and that the current infestation is quite large.
Unlike cockroaches bed bugs don t feed on people food they feed on people.
Consequently bed bugs are found in or near beds or other areas where people relax or sleep such as sofas and recliners.
Bed bugs spread through the movement of infested furniture.
Only in extremely rare cases bed bugs will decide to live in your kitchen.