With the recent worldwide come back of bed bugs is the possibility of your home getting infested and you being their next victim. And so, preventive steps for their infestation must be implemented. However, if they had already infiltrated your home without your knowledge, then you have to locate their hiding spots first before you can actually kill bed bugs.

Bed bugs are small creature or more like small pests. They approximately measure 3/16 or 1/5 of an inch. They are flat, moves around quickly and are of reddish brown color. Their flatness and small size enables them to hide in cracks, gaps and crevices. Their color allows them to blend into their hiding places especially into wooden furniture making them hard to find especially without proper lighting.

As they are small, it is hard to locate where exactly are bed bugs hiding. Their ability to move around also makes them hard to catch as they can swiftly move from one gap to another. Apart from that, they can also survive for months without feeding so they can lay still and stay undetected for quite a long time.

Nevertheless, there would always be something that will give away bed bugs' presence. And to be able to read and be warned of those signs, inspection must be implemented. That inspection must be done regularly and of course must be effective.

Mainly, that inspection is to detect the spots where these bed insects could be present. This can be considered as the first step of the process to get rid of bed bugs. To implement that step properly, here are the specific sub-steps that you should carry out.

• Gear up with a flashlight and a stick. These two will help inspect gaps and crevices more thoroughly. Both will be especially helpful in dark and hard to reach cracks on walls and furniture.

• Dismantle your bed and carefully inspect on it. Check on the mattress and linen. Keep your eyes open to dark spots bed bugs shells in them. Give special attention to cracks on the bed especially if it is wooden as bed bugs are more inclined to wood and fabric instead of plastic and metal.

• As has been implied, bed bugs can be present not only on beds but also on other furniture. The most common spot next to bed where they are mostly found is sofa or couch so look into it them as well.

• Check adjacent furniture. For example, look into the night right beside your bed or into the shelf somehow connected to your your couch. The gaps between them can also serve as hiding spot of bed bugs.

• Look into other less to be likely the bed bugs spots. Examples of those behind wallpapers, picture frames and carpeting.

Remember that whatever part of your house they could be, you have to find to exactly where they are before you can actually kill bed bugs. Locating them is the key to effectively get rid of them and to prevent their negative effects on you and your house.