Bed Bugs In Wood Furniture
Do bed bugs live inside wooden beds.
Bed bugs in wood furniture. While the easiest method of keeping them out of the home is to avoid bringing in infested wood at times the insects are in the wood before it is made into furniture and then bore themselves out. Bed bugs don t chew through wood in search of a good hiding place. Bed bugs can live in wood furniture just as in any other furniture that has potential hiding spaces. I am doing an interior design project dealing with innovations in furniture in the 1800s and they had bed bug problems as well.
Signs of bed bugs on wood the best thing about this type of infestation is that bed bugs can be seen on the wooden surface depending on the place of infestation. It is true that wood pieces make it easier and faster for bed bugs to hide but eliminating a wooden furniture will not prevent nuisance bed bugs. Some people suggest that switching wooden furniture for metal helps to get rid of bed bugs. I was wondering if bed bugs can could live within the wood of the bed.
When you identify a bed bug colony in your wood furniture or another structure made of wood you can resort to a professional bed bug treatment first and then seal all entry points with caulk. Apart from the expense of buying new furniture there is simply no evidence to give credence to this claim. Many types of bugs can bore into wood and make it home from termites and carpenter ants to more unique varieties such as beetle bugs powder post beetles or even bed bugs. The fact is that bed bugs are visible and adult bed bugs are color brown to reddish brown flattened oval shaped and 1 4 to 5 8 inch long.
Instead they depend on cracks corners and other small spaces.