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to get into homes in other cities other states and other countries.

Traveling bedbugs can move from one person's luggage to another person's luggage while luggage is contained in airplane bellies and even within airplane cabins. In fact, bedbug movement from one personal item to another may be more likely to occur in plane cabins because these are areas people are most likely to have items like purses, computer bags, shopping bags etcetera unsealed because they are using them - or less concerned about securing them. Similar traveling scenarios can occur when bedbugs hitchhike on trains, boats, ships, buses and so on.

Once persons carrying hitchhiking bedbugs arrives home and places their luggage or other bedbug contaminated items down, bedbugs only have to wait for nightfall to seek out human (or pet) blood-meals and hiding places in their new homes.

Bedbugs can also get into your home in items such as used furniture, pillows, and clothing. For this reason, thorough inspection of such goods is imperative and should be conducted prior to purchasing these and similar items and most certainly before bringing them into your home.

Never assume that used items must be free of bedbugs in situations where humans and other warm-blooded animals have not been around to "feed them". Adult bedbugs can survive for as many as eight months without blood feedings.

Now that you have this info on how bedbugs get into your home, it is easy to see how money and class has nothing to do with acquiring these bloodsucking little buggers. In order to keep these critters from hijacking in your and your family's luggage and other personal items, it is a good idea to take steps to keep your luggage sealed when not in use and to learn how to check for bedbugs when staying in hotels, motels, resorts, and other places away from home.

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