Bed Bugs Are wingless insects that feed on the blood of mammals and birds. There are about 32 species of bed bugs. Bed bugs inject their victims with their saliva, which contains a numbing agent, like Novocain. They drink until they become engorged with a person's blood - crawling away satisfied - until the next night.

The bed-bugs is an insect of nocturnal habits. feeding on blood by night and hiding away in various parts of the room by day.

 

Their common habits are:-

Behinds skirting-boards, picture rails and other wood work including floor boards.

Cracks and crevices in the plaster of walls and ceilings.

Books and papers.

Boxes and trunks. Behinds loose wall papers.

Pictures frames.

Mattresses and floor beds. In furniture of all types.

During the night the insects emerge from their hiding places and attack the head, neck, arms or other exposed parts of person sleeping in the room. Bed bugs can go without feeding for 80 to 140 days; older stages can survive longer without feeding than younger ones. Adults have survived without food for as long as 550 days. A bed bug can take six times its weight in blood, and feeding can take 3 to 10 minutes. Adults live about 10 months and there can be up to 3 to 4 generations of bed bugs per year.

It should also be remembered that the covered portions of the body are not immune from their attack. A bed bug may take to feeding on any available animal in the absence of man. They are capable of existing without food for lengthy periods. They may crawl from one apartment to another apartment house in the vicinity.

The eggs are deposited in cracks or crevices of wood work and walls. In crevices of bed stead’s,  on mattresses, behind wall paper, skirting and architraves. They are pearly white, elongated objects, tapered towards the upper extremity. The eggs can readily be detected by the naked eye as minute, whitish granules. If conditions are favorable the eggs hatch within 10 days.  

Ants   

Ants are common pests. Ants become pests because of our own misdeeds such as constructing building over ant nests or converting wild lands to agricultural use. Houses are invaded by several kinds of Ants, both the small and large red ants, and small and large black ants, the large black ants are trouble source in houses, they are social insects, and live in colonies, they have a well defined caste system with different duties. It consists of the female (queen) laying eggs, then the workers, soldiers, larvae and pupae.

The kings are queens are winged when they emerge but after mating and starting colony,the wingsmay be lost. The ants usually seen in pest situations are the workers, the reproductive are much less often seen. Workers ants spend most of their time constructing, enlarging or repairings the nest and in gathering food.

  They are known to carry aphids to plants, or injure the plants directly, either by feeding on them only keeping the area around their nest base. Indoor ants may nests in cracks in the wall, beneath cracked basement floors, behind baseboards and in decayed or rotting house timbers.