They should be able to answer your questions about how they incorporate IPM discussed above into their bed bug treatments. Professional exterminators get rid of bed bugs permanently because they utilize scientific advancements, biological understanding of bed bugs and their behaviors, technology with specialized equipment, and their years of dedicated experience.
The most common bed bug treatment is a chemical treatment. Before your exterminator begins the treatment, you will be required to prepare the room for treatment. The pest control company will give you a prep sheet, but it includes things such as removing the bedding, clearing the clutter, emptying drawers, etc.
During the treatment, your bed and headboard will be disassembled. Some Pest Management Professionals will just thoroughly vacuum the seams, tufts, and folds of your mattress and other areas where bed bugs are present. The goal here is to kill as many bed bugs initially, therefore, relying on pesticides less. For a more thorough initial kill, we recommend searching for a company that kills bed bugs with either extreme cold or extreme heat.
Bed bugs and their eggs die immediately when exposed to extreme temperatures. By significantly reducing the population with either Steam heat or Cryonite cold before the chemical treatment, you set yourself up for success. The next step of chemical treatment is applying the chemical to areas where bed bug activity is present. By federal law, certain products can be applied to sleeping areas while others can not. Your PMP will utilize a low-risk pesticide that is labeled for mattresses, box springs, and the cracks and crevices of your bedroom furniture and baseboards as appropriate for your infestation.
Bed bugs can hide in the smallest of cracks, so a slow and methodical approach should be used. This chemical will kill bed bugs after they come into contact with it. The product chosen by your PMP should be a residual insecticide.
A residual insecticide means that it will remain effective where it is sprayed for weeks after it is applied. For example, if a bed bug egg hatches 1 week after your bed bug treatment and walks across the residual, it will die.
Having an active residual is an extremely important feature of a successful bed bug treatment. The next step your exterminator will use to get rid of bed bugs is applying dust to inaccessible areas. The silica-based dust attacks bed bugs differently than the pesticide that was sprayed.
After about 14 days the bed bugs will die of dehydration. The dust may be placed in wall voids, behind electrical outlets, and along baseboards. Chemical treatments are the least expensive bed bug treatment option and are highly effective if performed carefully and thoroughly.
They work best if combined with other measures such as mattress and box spring encasements and traps for monitoring. However, there are drawbacks to traditional chemical treatment.
For severe infestations, a second or third chemical application is sometimes necessary. Research has shown that some bed bug populations have become resistant or immune to the chemicals being sprayed. With the resistance issue in mind, any chemical bed bug treatment should utilize multiple methods of extermination such as described in this article.
In the last 20 years, bed bugs have emerged as a public health crisis. Much research has been conducted and innovative new chemicals and treatments have been brought to the marketplace that is proving highly successful against bed bugs. Cryonite is a non-toxic bed bug treatment that kills pesticide-resistant bed bugs and their eggs by rapid freezing.
Using specialized equipment, CO2 is transformed into cold, dry ice snow, and freezes the pests to death. Cryonite leaves no residue, is safe to use in or near most electronics, and is non-chemical and non-toxic.
Since chemicals are not used, there is no risk of experiencing chemical resistance. Cryonite treatments are especially popular in sensitive accounts such as schools, nursing homes, and hospitals.
The CO2 snow penetrates the underside of the furniture, bedding, box springs, mattresses, freezing the bed bugs to death where they hide. The main benefit of Cryonite is that it is a pesticide-free bed bug treatment. However, that same benefit also becomes its major disadvantage. A Cryonite treatment alone leaves no residual protection against bed bugs. If a bed bug is reintroduced hours after a Cryonite treatment alone, it will not die. Cryonite is best used in conjunction with other treatment methods such as applying a residual spray and actively monitoring the infestation.
Whole house heat treatment is another non-chemical method professionals use to kill bed bugs. With a conventional chemical bed bug treatment, you will wait weeks before the infestation is under control.
If the heat treatment is done correctly, you can be bedbug-free that same day. The service takes approximately 8 hours and requires specialized heaters, fans, and temperature sensors. Hot air rises; fans are used to circulate the air to ensure the entire room that they are treating inside the house reaches the bed bug killing temperature. All of the bed bugs exposed to this extreme heat will be killed. Heat treatments are a fast, effective non-toxic treatment for bed bugs, but they are not without shortcomings.
Generally, a whole home heat treatment is the most expensive option for a bed bug treatment. Just as with a Cryonite bedbug treatment, heat treatments offer no residual against reinfestation. Most pest control companies highly recommend incorporating a residual spray, mattress and box spring encasements, and active monitoring in conjunction with heat treatment for maximum protection. While the vast majority of heat treatments are successful, sometimes heat treatments fail.
What causes bed bug heat treatments to fail? Many factors go into deciding whether heat treatment is appropriate for the infested space.
Heat treatments work better in small spaces with low ceilings. Concrete absorbs an enormous amount of heat which affects the heat distribution to other areas of the room. If these factors are not accounted for properly the room will not reach the temperature necessary to get rid of the bed bugs. Some researchers believe that the rising room temperature draws the bed bugs out of their hiding spots. However, it has been documented and observed that improper heat treatment can drive bed bugs further away, such as into the attic, making them much more difficult to treat.
Many professional pest control companies incorporate steam into their bed bug procedures. The heat from the steam penetrates a few inches into soft surfaces like your mattress and box spring, cracks and crevices of furniture, and baseboards. Only bed bugs that are directly exposed to the steam will be killed. If steam is your only treatment method, it will have to be methodically performed multiple times until you go 30 days with no evidence of bed bugs.
As with all other non-chemical bed bug treatments, a steam-only treatment offers no residual. You have no protection against future bed bug infestations with a steam-only treatment. Caution should be used with steam around electrical outlets, electronics, and it may damage the finish on some furniture. As you now know from reading this article, there is more than one way to kill a bed bug. Each treatment method has pros and cons as described above.
For the DIY up for a challenge, we hope we have provided you with fair and unbiased information to be successful. If you want to team up with professionals, we hope we have given you enough information to ask the right questions when you interview pest control companies.
You can fill our form for a free quote , or chat with us live by clicking the chat bubble on this page. Our bed bug experts have experience eliminating bed bugs and would be happy to walk you through the process. Through customer education and IPM best practices, we have helped hundreds of people get rid of bed bugs from apartments, single-family homes, hotels, cars, and offices.
Bed bug treatments greatly range in price. Please remember, this treatment is time-consuming, requires a wide range of chemicals and equipment, and requires the careful eye of a well-trained and experienced bed bug technician.
It is not uncommon to need a second or even a third application. A price on the low end of this range likely sacrifices some or most of these essential components. The size and construction type of the room determines how much material is needed to adequately heat the room. Eliminating bed bugs can be complex and should be tailored to individual homes and infestation sizes. We have customized treatment plans and guarantees in place to make sure bed bugs are eliminated from your home for good!
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Bed bug service prep can be a challenge and daunting task for homeowners. Find out what prep means and how Cooper Pest Solutions uses the No-Prep Philosophy to get rid of bed bugs in your home.
The Preparation Prep Method: What do many pest control companies require before treating my home? Lift mattresses and box springs out of the bed frame and stand them up against a wall. Empty all closets and dressers. Wash and dry all clothing within the room on high heat. Bag all personal items that cannot be laundered. Empty all luggage and travel bags into untied bags. Remove all sofa, chair, and other upholstered furniture cushions and accessories. Remove all sheets, blankets, pillowcases, and other bed coverings from the mattress and box spring and dry for at least 50 minutes on high heat.
Thoroughly vacuum your mattress, box spring, inside of dresser drawers, all carpeting throughout your entire home, floors, area rugs, sofas, futons, recliners, upholstered furniture, and physical bugs you may see.
Remove and dry all curtains and window dressings on high heat. Inspect items that cannot be washed such as books, electronics, picture frames, and plastic toys. Place them into plastic bags only if you do not find bed bugs on these items. Reduce clutter under your bed and around the room. Encase your mattress using specialized mattress encasements.
What happens if I am physically unable to prepare my home before a bed bug service? Technician encasing a mattress These pest control companies require you to find a company that offers bed bug preparation services and pay the company out of pocket, separately from the bed bug service price. Is this true? We believe the answer is twofold. Lack of proper training No-Prep means the pest control company does all of the preparation of a room for bed bug services.
Increased profits The less work that the technicians have to do, the less time they need to spend at your home. How does No-Prep benefit you? Bed bug elimination can be guaranteed with minimal or no effort of your behalf.
Bed bug mattress encasements and bed bug monitors are provided and installed by our professionals with no participation required by you. You do not have to prepare your home for bed bug treatments. That means no flipping over mattresses, emptying your dressers, moving furniture, or vacuuming. Our specialized technicians are the best trained in the industry. Not only does Copper provide 8x the industry average for our technician training, but our technicians are also required to pass a series of written and field exams before they can treat for bed bugs and throughout their career.
We know bed bugs are sneaky and can be hard to find which is why we train our technicians to easily pinpoint where they live and breed! Body heat, the carbon dioxide from exhaled breath and other biological signatures help focus the bed bugs on unsuspecting, snoozing hosts. The bed bug feeds, then retreats back to its place of harborage for days or even weeks before coming back out.
This can make detection difficult until the infestation is well established. Bed bugs are skilled hitchhikers. In fact, they are primarily transported by humans and human belongings like suitcases.
The smaller the infestation, the easier bed bug extermination is to conduct. Bed bugs are good at hiding, but not good at hiding evidence. The careless clues they leave are the best indicator your room is overrun with bed bugs.
The clues to look for include:. Bed bug bite reactions in skin look similar to those caused by fleas and mosquitoes. Telling which insect caused a bite might not be possible. Proper bed bug control requires a watchful eye.
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