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Sleep tight – don’t let the bed bugs bite!
An entomologist named Cassie Krejci, Ph.D., has taken to TikTok in a recently resurfaced video to share some expert tips about how to inspect your hotel room for bed bugs.
Krejci, who goes by “Cassie The Bug Doc” on the social media platform, works to study insectsand their relationship to other species and the environment.
The expert began the video by putting her suitcases in the bathroom, where there was hardwood floor.
“So, the first thing that I do is I always put my luggage in the bathroom,” she explained in the clip which has already racked up over 8,000 views.
“This hotel room doesn’t have any carpet, but if they did have carpet, you’d want to put your luggage on a hardwood surface or a tile surface so that you didn’t pick up any bed bugs before you inspected the room,” she alleged.
According to Krejci, bed bugs are “mostly nocturnal feeders,” which means that they really like to feast on others at night.
These bugs are typically flat and small, and have a reddish-brown color, according to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The insects “feed solely on the blood of people and animals while they sleep,” the organization explained, like Krejci said.
Krejci described that you should start your bedbug examination in the hotel bed, as that’s the place you’re spending the “majority” of your time in at night – hence more opportunity for potential bed bugs.
The first thing that she does in the room is pull back the sheets on the bed to make sure that they’re all clean.
“But then, you take the bottom sheet, and lift it up as well,” she explained. “Make sure that you don’t see any spots. You’re not just looking for bed bugs, you also don’t want to see any brown spots.”
“Those brown spots are what we called fecal spots, because when bed bugs take a blood meal, they digest blood and leave behind brown fecal spots resembling that of blood,” Krejci claimed. “As long as you don’t see any brown spots, you’re good…
