Aerosol insecticides mainly kill insects that are exposed, and out of their hiding places, not those hidden behind baseboards, in cracks and crevices of the bed, under carpet edging and in walls. Isolating your bed from the rest of the house. Interceptors are special platforms or cups that are purchased to prevent bed bugs from climbing on to your bed.
An interceptor can be as simple as a sticky card placed under a bed post sticky and messy. Better are one of the commercial pitfall traps made specifically for this purpose. Relatively inexpensive, these cups trap bed bugs attempting to climb or exit the bed. If you have encased your bedding, treated your bed frame thoroughly and installed interceptors, you will be instantly protected against bed bugs.
And n ote that for this method to be effective, beds and bedding must not touch the floor, furniture or walls. This would provide bed bugs other ways to climb onto the bed and foil your defenses. Treat other areas in your home. This is perhaps the most challenging part of do-it-yourself bed bug control. If you catch an infestation early you may not need to do anything more than treat and isolate your bed as described above. But if an infestation has spread to other parts of the home, bed isolation may not be good enough.
Still determined? Here are some tips that may improve your chances of success: Prepare the room by separating treated from untreated furniture. You may not need to do this in every room. The process is important because if you treat half of the items in a room and leave other areas untreated, bed bugs may return to the previously treated areas from untreated sites.
Take all clothes from drawers, infested closets, etc. Also double bag all personal items toys, papers, books, electronics, CDs, or anything that could serve as a hiding place for bed bugs and set them aside until they can be carefully treated, cleaned or inspected. Systematically treat the room —all cracks and crevices around windows, outlets, blinds, pictures, posters and clocks on walls, baseboards, under edges of carpets and any other crevices or void areas in the room.
Remember that immature bed bugs are very tiny. 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. The equipment utilized in this process is expensive and highly specialized. An experienced and well-trained individual will be at your home for at least 8 hours.
Most pest control companies aim to provide excellent results at reasonable prices. However, we urge caution when considering a low-ball proposal for bed bug elimination. They are hard to kill insects that require, time, product, and expertise.
After a professional chemical bed bug treatment, you should begin to see an immediate reduction in bed bugs. However, do not expect an overnight cure. Taking into account bed bug biology and the methods of extermination, it may take a few weeks for every bed bug to come into contact with the chemicals and die.
Often a second treatment a few weeks later is necessary to kill the nymphs that hatched from eggs since the initial treatment.
A bed bug treatment is considered successful when there is no evidence of bed bugs for 30 days. Whole room heat treatments boast same day elimination. While there are negatives to consider with a heat treatment discussed above , the speedy solution is a serious positive.
Combining a residual chemical and dust with a heat treatment is a fast and effective way to kill bed bugs. There are a few online stores that specialize in selling pest control products.
These companies are often run by or employ people with specialized knowledge about the products they are selling. If you decide to tackle this job yourself, educate yourself first, then utilize one of these companies to purchase a spray for your mattress and furniture, a dust for inaccessible areas, a spray for cracks and crevices, mattress and box spring encasements, and traps for monitoring.
Often these companies have customer service representatives who will steer you toward the kits. Do your own research and decide if the products in those kits are the most effective and the best solution for your family.
Keep in mind, if you have to purchase this kit 2 or 3 times to gain control, you may spend more than if you had hired a trained professional in the first place. Yes, the same general methods will get rid of bed bugs in an office or apartment.
The details of the treatment will vary slightly in an office more chairs and no bed , but the general principles remain the same. Bed bug treatments in apartment buildings present an additional obstacle as bed bugs can easily move from one apartment to the next apartment. Bed bugs have even been shown to spread to the apartment directly across the hall from an infested unit. Standard procedure when treating apartments is to inspect and treat if necessary, the next-door and across the hall neighbors of an infested apartment.
Unless the adjoining apartments are thoroughly inspected and treated if necessary, the risk of reintroduction is extremely high in apartments. We also serve the Birmingham , Alabama area of Jefferson County. Pest control coupons apply to recurring service only. Exact matches only. Search in title. Search in content. Search in excerpt. Pay Your Bill. Learning Center. Contact Us. Get a free quote! Pest Control. Pest Control Services.
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Bat Removal. Possum Removal. Snake Removal. Rodent Control. Lets get started! Table of Contents Double Tap to Jump. Bed bugs have been part of human society from the beginning. Now: There are many different treatment methods utilized to kill bed bugs and you can weigh the benefits and negatives of each method. Most pyrethroids have low toxicity to mammals people and pets and birds, are fast-acting and require low doses of active ingredients to kill insects.
Some bed bug populations have become resistant to pyrethrins and pyrethroids. Sometimes using a combination product either multiple pyrethroid or pyrethrin active ingredients, or one that combines different chemical classes into the same product can improve bed bug control. It can also be helpful to switch to an entirely different chemical class to control resistant bed bug populations. Some pyrethroid pesticides come in the form of a total release fogger.
See Should I Use a Fogger? Desiccants: Desiccants work by destroying the waxy, protective outer coating on a bed bug. Once this coating is destroyed, the bed bugs will slowly dehydrate and die. Desiccants are a valuable tool in bed bug control. Because desiccants work through a physical mode of action, the bed bugs cannot become resistant to desiccants as they can to pesticides with other modes of action. In addition, they have a long-lasting effect and don't disturb normal bed bug activities.
When using desiccants to control bed bugs it is critical to use those that are registered by EPA and labeled for bed bug control. Desiccants that are intended for other uses, such as food-grade or for use in swimming pools, pose an increased inhalation risk to people. Use of desiccants is limited to cracks and crevices use only to reduce inhalation risk. Biochemicals: Cold pressed neem oil is the only biochemical pesticide registered for use against bed bugs.
Cold pressed neem oil is pressed directly from seeds of the Neem tree, a tropical evergreen tree found in Southeast Asia and Africa. The oil contains various compounds that have insecticidal and medicinal properties.
It is also used in making products including shampoos, toothpaste, soaps, and cosmetics. Performance trials conducted at the approved label rates show both products control bed bug adults, nymphs, and eggs.
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