4 Types of Bed Bug Traps – How Do they Work?
Bed bugs are the common household insects that can be found in all UK homes. They love hiding inside the mattress and furniture beds and they feed on human and animal blood. They are harmful to human health and the biggest nuisance to good sleep. You can find many bed bug traps online and offline but it is not sure that they can work effectively. So, here we got a list of commonly used 4 types of bed bug traps that are used to monitor bed bugs at home. Here, we will also discuss how the bed bug traps work.
Active Vs Passive Bed Bug Traps
There are many types of traps to eliminate bed bugs, but all those traps lie under these two types.
Active Traps: Active traps require the use of attractants like pheromones, co2, and heat to capture the bed bugs. These attractants are used by bed bugs to find their prey and feed on them.
Passive Traps: Passive traps do not use attractants; they can be simply placed where you can find bed bugs. The bed bugs will be captured when they wander in, and these types of traps are usually inexpensive and easy to use compared to active traps.
4 Types of Bed Bug Traps
Bed bug infestation is the biggest nuisance to many homeowners and landlords, it is not easy to find their hiding places and get rid of them. So, here we have listed the 4 common types of traps for bed bug control,
1. Bed Bug Interceptors
Inceptors are dish-like devices that are used to find bed bug infestations, and this trap can be placed under your bed on each leg to capture the bed bugs. Inceptors have two concentric walls with a pitfall in between, the outside-facing wall is rough which is easy for bed bugs to climb and inside facing wall is slippery and smooth which will make bed bugs fall on the trap. The interceptors are considered passive traps as they do not need any attractants.
2. Bed Bug Glue Traps
Glue traps are excellent ones to capture any of the micro-organisms including bed bugs. It is easy to use, just place the trap where you can find the bed bug infestation, to capture and dispose of them.
3. Bed Bug CO2 Traps
Bed bugs are attracted to carbon-di-oxide which we exhale, they use this smell to find humans and feed on blood. This is exactly used in the bed bug co2 traps, it attracts bed bugs with the co2 and captures them using pitfall or glue. This type is considered an active trap as they use co2 as an attractant.
4. Bed Bug Pheromone Traps
Like CO2 traps pheromone traps are also designed to find the bed bug infestation, here pheromones and kairomones are used to attract bed bugs. Kairomones will attract the bed bugs that are looking for a meal and pheromones encourage them to aggregate.
Conclusion
The above listed are the commonly used 4 types of bed bug traps and I wish you could understand their working. Make use of this information and choose an appropriate trap. If you cannot handle the pest infestation, hire a professional pest control service to get rid of bed bugs for years.