There are many different ways your home and life can become infested with bedbugs. Bedbugs are very adept at traveling through clothes, luggage, automobiles, and anything that has fabric on it. Infestations can also occur by bringing infested items into your household such as mattresses, furniture, laundry, dry cleaned clothes, etc. Moving into a new home or apartment, hotel or motel that seems "clean" can also create an infestation. Bedbugs are able to lay dormant for many months without feeding and therefore can be "waiting in the walls" for new hosts.