Your house can be treated to help protect your belongings from bed bugs. Call Experts Pest Exterminator today to learn more about bed bug prevention.
Reduce the risk of getting bed bugs:
When checking into a hotel, check your room for the presence of bed bugs. The best places to look for them are: in or behind the headboard, on or behind hanging pictures, or in the seams of the mattress. Small blood spots are also a sign that there are bed bugs present in the room.
- Don’t let your luggage sit on the floor bed, sofa or any other furniture in the room. Using a luggage rack is the best option.
- Move the bed away from the wall and don’t let linens stroke the flooring.
- Check the closet before hanging or storing any belongings.
- Check nightstands and dressers.
- If you find evidence of bed bugs, alert supervision of the problem immediately and request a new room.
- On your return home, unload luggage on the porch or in the garage. Inspect the luggage and content to make sure no bed bugs made the trip.
- If you accidentally bring bed bugs home with you, call experts immediately and we will treat your home.
Identifying bed bugs:
- Adult bed bugs are the size and color of an apple seed but flattened.
- Blood marks
- Dark fecal spots
- Eggs and eggshell casings
- Photo of a bed bug
Bite symptoms:
Some symptoms do not appear immediately, or not at all:
- Severe itching lasting several hours or days – caused by a reaction with the bugs’ saliva
- Large oval/oblong shaped inflammation or swelling of the skin
Preparing for bed bug treatment:
- Strip the bed launder sheets, pillowcases, mattress pad and blankets
- Remove all items from closets, dressers, nightstands and place them in plastic bags
- Launder or dry clean all clothing and fabrics, using the hottest temperature that is safe for the fabrics
- If it is safe to do so, run any item that is/suspected of being infested through a 10-minute cycle in a clothes dryer on medium heat
- Vacuum all infested rooms and furniture with a PC rated vacuum steam mattresses and chairs
- Discard torn or heavily infested items and dismantle bed frames and furniture
- Encase contaminated items in certified ‘bed bug proof’ encasements only
Get Rid of Bed Bugs
Have you heard the phrase “don’t let the bed bugs bite” when you were tucked into bed? Well to make that happen the question of
How To Get Rid of Bed Bugs has to be answered, but before doing so it would be best to learn a little bit about what bed bugs are attracted to and why. These little pests are just one of the many that bother and infect people’s homes each and every day and can be pretty difficult to eradicate.
A bed bug is a wingless insect that is in almost all cases brown in color and tone. They can live in just about any environment and in many cases crawl inside small cracks and crevices until the opportune time to live where a host can be fed upon which would be human or animal.
What do bed bugs like to eat?
None other than human blood or any blood they can get their mouth on. Bed bugs have mouths almost like a bird’s beak in which they can tear enough flesh away to feed on the blood. Most of the times you will not see a
bed bug or even feel its bite when you are sleeping, but you might have seen small bumps on your body which is the remains to show bed bugs have been active.
Getting rid of bedbugs is very tough but can be done with some patience. It should be noted that taking the necessary steps is key. This means cleaning sheets, turning mattresses cleaning in and around any crevices including frames, outlets, in corners and anywhere you could imagine they would be hiding. The other option would be to get
Pest Control Liverpool professionals to help with this pest control.
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