Bed bug in textured ceiling with droppings around harborage between popcorn texture.Bed bugs are no longer an unusual pest in apartments. bed bugs have reemerged as an important pest in the United States. Bed bugs are occasionally introduced into an apartment via luggage that has become infested from a hotel or hostel. In apartment complexes, it is probably more common for bed bugs to enter a home from a nearby infested apartment, during moving, or through picking up used or recycled furniture or mattresses. Once introduced into an apartment building, bed bugs can readily spread from one infested unit to another.
Bed bugs infestation is believed to be partially due to an increase in travel among people, which includes easy movement of luggage or other items that may have become infested.