BED BUGS

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While bedbugs have been around for some time.  
Bed Bugs can be very hard to detect so knowledge about how they look and behave can be very important to detecting them as soon as possible. Because they are flat and about the size of an apple seed, bed bugs can invade your home from almost anywhere. Drawn to warm, dark places near human hosts, bed bugs are also not simply relegated to living on mattresses and can be found in furniture, clothing, carpets and many more places. Furthermore, they can live for almost a full year in a home with a nominal temperature and adequate food supply. Add this to the fact that they can fully infest a house within 3-4 months and it's easy to see how bed bugs can get out of control. Other things to consider include: 

• ​Bed Bugs can travel on bags, people and suitcases or transferred from used furniture. 
  
• ​Bed signs can be dark spotting and staining on sheets, mattresses, pillows and clothing. The staining is from excrement and blood left by crushed bed bugs. 
  
• ​A sweet musty smell is often associated with bed bug infestation. 
  
• ​Most bed bugs come out for meals at night-time and feed exclusively on blood. Their bites on humans can feel and even look similar to a mosquito bite.​ ​

There are two effective methods for bed bug control: pesticide applications and Heat treatments. We provide both. Since, bed bugs are not restricted solely to beds, we'll perform a thorough inspections of your home to find where they are hiding, such as in curtains, walls, pillows, bed mattress and else where. We'll then determine which method is best for the situation at hand and will use both when necessary to eliminate your bed bug situation.

Defense & Treatment 

First, inspect it regularly especially after traveling or when guests leave your home. The same is true for furniture: inspect it regularly, especially any second-hand pieces you might bring into your home. Finally, even though bed bug infestations have NOTHING to do with cleanliness, it still helps to remove clutter from your home if for no other reason than it gives them fewer places to hide. 
As for treatment, your best option is to get professional treatment. Having said that, choose carefully because not all professional treatments are the same. Heat applications for example, are used by many pest control professionals, but generally only as a method of contact killing, which means they only kill the bed bugs you can see and not the entire infestation.  
Of course ultimately choosing the best treatment method for your situation depends entirely on the scope of your situation, so contact us today to schedule an in home bed bug inspection. Serving the Central Valley, we are just a call away from handling any of your pest control needs.  

 Bed bug bites is that you often do not see or feel the damage until long after it is done. That's because bed bugs first inject you with an anesthetic before hungrily slurping your blood. It may cause itches during the late night hours.

 Bed Bug populations and Incidents continue to grow. This is because bed bugs can get into your home anytime and from any place or person. Whether you brought them back from recent travels or they came in with guests, once you get them, you got them.

 Females lays up to a dozen eggs per day that hatch in 1-2 weeks.

 Each individual Bed Bug feeds every 3-10 days, most common for our area is every 5 days.

Bed Bugs have become harder to treat with conventional methods because they have become increasingly resistant to pesticides. But they cannot and will not become resistant to HEAT.