{"id":795976,"date":"2026-10-08T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795976\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:46:09","slug":"bedbugs-crawling-out-the-wallpaper-in-worst-ever-cardiff-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/795976\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedbugs crawling out the wallpaper in &#8216;worst ever&#8217; Cardiff infestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Millions of bedbugs were crawling out of mattresses in what a pest controller said was the worst outbreak he had seen in 38 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were even in the walls and under the wallpaper, with the mattresses and bed frames needing to be incinerated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cardiff pest controller Gareth Davies had to wear full protection as his team tackled the problem in the Canton area of the city, using a specialist vacuum cleaner to collect millions of the bugs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It came after they had  tackled a large <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ceq8y1lljjno\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cockroach outbreak<\/a> last month in a scene he likened to a horror movie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This house was just horrific,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m0032byk\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio Wales Breakfast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Hundreds of thousands of them when you lifted the mattresses up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They were coming out of the wallpaper, it was horrendous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bedbugs can enter homes on clothes, luggage, or second hand furniture &#8211; and &#8220;hide&#8221; in mattresses or walls, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/bedbugs\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the NHS, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of bedbugs were crawling out of mattresses in what a pest controller said was the worst outbreak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}