Are Bed Bugs Making It Hard To Sleep?
Just the thought of bed bugs can make your skin begin to itch. Bed bugs are mistakenly thought to be found only in dirty spaces. However, these pests are a growing problem and can be found in any home. Additionally, it’s a myth that bed bugs are found only in the bed when in fact, they can be found in carpets, couches, and other soft surfaces.
What’s Creeping Around My Space?
If you’ve been waking up with itchy, red bites or have seen small, dark bugs in your house, you may have a bed bug infestation. These pests are difficult to eliminate on your own and they reproduce rapidly, so quick detection and action are important in eliminating them as easily as possible. Treating a minor infestation, while an inconvenience, is easier and far less costly than treating the same infestation after it becomes more widespread.
Professional treatment processes deliver peace of mind
Our specially trained professionals use the most effective industry-leading treatment techniques to kill all life stages of bed bugs including eggs, which are the most resilient. Ramer Pest Control has the expertise and the right combination of treatments to efficiently exterminate any infestation.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I HAVE BED BUGS?
- If you suspect an infestation, remove all bedding and carefully check the seams and tags of the mattress and box spring, and in cracks on the bed frame and behind the headboard for bed bugs or their excrement.
- Peel back the dust cover where it is stapled to the wood frame over the bottom of the box springs and examine the seams in the wood framing.
- You may find bed bugs in the seams of chairs and couches, between cushions, and in the folds of curtains.
- Rusty or reddish stains on bed sheets, pillowcases, mattresses and walls are bed bug excrement and indicate a bed bug infestation.
HOW DID BED BUGS GET IN MY HOUSE?
- Bed bugs can come into your house on luggage, furniture, clothing, pillows and bedding, boxes, purses and backpack – any other items that were moved from a bed bug infested area.
- Bed bugs cannot fly and will not jump from the floor to the bed.
- Once in the home, bed bugs become established in any convenient crack or crevice, particularly along the seams or in the buttons of mattresses, in the coils and frame of the box spring, wooden bedsteads, bed framing, upholstered furniture, the backing of pictures, behind window and door molding/framing, behind wallpaper, between wooden floorboards, behind switch plates, as well as sofas and upholstered furniture.
- In heavy infestations, they may be found in wall voids, along conduit, electrical wires, and pipes, in attics, and other enclosed places.
WHY HAS THERE BEEN A RESURGENCE OF BED BUGS?
- International travel and changes in modern pest control are believed to be responsible for the resurgence in bed bugs.
- DDT was commonly used in the 1940’s and 1950’s for many insects and was quite effective against bed bugs, almost eliminating them within the U.S.
- In the 1970’s DDT was banned and pest control evolved into less frequent applications of more targeted products, often pest specific, such as cockroach baits.
- Bed bug physiology has changed and the bed bugs of today are much more difficult to exterminate than bed bugs of the 1940s and 50s.
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