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- January 25, 2020 at 2:02 pm #1338
  
  Chester
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  A relative of mine that lives in Peru is suffering with a Bird mite infestation and has a question after reading your website. If the family leaves their apartment for a few months (after cleaning it good), will the Bird mites die, migrate to the next apartment, or stay alive just waiting for a host? We want to know because it is an option to leave the apartment empty, but they don’t want to pass the problem to neighbors or just leave to come back to the same problem. Thanks.
- January 26, 2020 at 4:01 am #1339
  
  CNDNGirl
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  I’m not entirely sure, but I do know that adult mites that have had at least one blood feed can live for up to 9 months without any more feeds. So if your relatives are only leaving for a few months, unless they are SUPER diligent and fog/spray the heck out of it just as they leave (and/or have professional crews come in after they vacate to spray – those who have experience with mites), they may not die.
  
  I can’t speak to whether they would move to find other hosts or not. I’m not sure.
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