Do Bed Bugs Go Into Kitchens

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.

Do bed bugs go into kitchens.

Unlike cockroaches bed bugs don t feed on people food they feed on people. Only in extremely rare cases bed bugs will decide to live in your kitchen. See pictures to compare their size. 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.

As adults they re only about one eighth of an inch long. Bed bugs are small wingless oval shaped insects. Kitchens normally emit the scent of food while bathrooms usually take on the smell of soap. I can only think of very unusual circumstances where multiple bed bugs would be found in a kitchen.

Consequently bed bugs are found in or near beds or other areas where people relax or sleep such as sofas and recliners. A kitchen is not a normal place to find bed bugs. Check out my other post how big are bed bugs. They feed mostly off of humans and animals.

These bugs are found across the world and can survive in places between 46 degrees. Smelling a musty odor in your bedroom however is something else and should cause you to worry. They are called bed bugs because people are.