No, fortunately! Bed bugs are excellent crawlers, but they don’t jump or fly<\/a>. These secretive insects are hiders, and are able to crawl quickly to escape detection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this article, we’ll discuss bed bug movement and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have already established that bed bugs have no wings, can’t jump, and are very fast. Even with those tiny legs, bugs can walk quite quickly. They can easily walk three to four feet in one minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That is quite fast, considering their small size (an adult is about the same size and shape as an apple seed). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Their agile mobility allows them to move to another room<\/a> in your home or apartment quickly. This also explains how bed bugs can easily move from your neighbor’s apartment to yours when they feel threatened, or from one hotel room to another<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You will find that they are already hiding out of sight by the time you switch on the light to see what is biting you (though rarely, some people can feel bed bugs crawling on them<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are several ways bed bugs can spread to cause an infestation at a most unlikely place where you don’t expect it. Bed bugs don’t cling to people like head lice and fleas, but people can transfer them<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While they can’t really spread from person to person, here are the most likely ways bed bugs spread around from place to place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n House guests are a very easy way for bed bugs to be transferred from one place to another without that person’s knowledge. A visitor to your home can unintentionally and unknowingly bring a bed bug to your home via their clothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bed bugs have been known to cling to someone’s clothing or even hide in their handbag and then jump out onto furniture. This is, of course, by no fault of the visitor who might have picked it up while using public transport, going to a movie<\/a>, or even catching an infested uber<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you use public transport to get around, you can unknowingly pick up a bed bug that might jump off of any of the other passengers. When you have an appointment with the doctor or dentist, you can easily pick up a bed bug from a fellow patient in the waiting room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Any other public place you visit is a potential opportunity for a bed bug to move from someone’s clothing to yours. It is a good idea to inspect your clothing, handbag, and other accessories after visiting a public place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This may also be part of the public place scenario, but children can easily bring bed bugs home from school<\/a>. It can come from a fellow student sitting next to your child; the bug can easily get into your child’s backpack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The problem with children is that they also share toys that can have a stray bed bug clinging to them. It’s also not uncommon for kids to throw their clothes in piles. Bed bugs love piles of smelly clothes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hittiing up your local thrift store or Goodwill can be super fun, but sometimes you can get more than you bargain for<\/a>! This can include anything, such as a used bed frame, a dresser, or a couch<\/a>, that someone might bring to a second-hand store without knowing there are bugs present. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Children also swap out toys with friends that can have a stray bug on them, especially soft fabric toys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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5. From Your Neighbor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n