A bed bug spray can be registered for the right pest and still perform very differently from another registered product. In one head-to-head laboratory study, several sprays produced 70% mortality […]

Bed bugs are strongly associated with people, but humans are not the only animals they can feed on. Dogs and cats can provide a blood meal too. Yes, bed bugs […]

Wood furniture gives bed bugs plenty of places to hide, but the insects aren’t actually living inside the solid wood the way a wood-boring pest would. They use the joints, […]

Shoes are not where most people expect to pick up a bed bug, but they can provide a ride. Bed bugs can crawl onto footwear and hide around overlapping material, […]

Most bed bug bite reactions fade within about one to two weeks, although some uncomplicated marks disappear sooner. Others can remain visible for several weeks, particularly when there is a […]

Bed bugs can survive some washing conditions, so putting infested clothes through a washing machine isn’t enough to guarantee that every bug and egg is dead. Hotter washing conditions can […]

Bed bugs can hide on pillows. A pillow sits directly in the area where bed bugs commonly concentrate, and its seams, folds, piping, labels, and zippers can provide protected hiding […]

There is no good evidence that ordinary table salt is an effective bed bug treatment. Salt appears as an ingredient in some commercial bed bug products that have been tested, […]

There isn’t good evidence that Lysol is an effective bed bug treatment. Lysol is a brand covering many different formulations, so there isn’t one ingredient list that applies to every […]

Dry cleaning is not just an untested suggestion for bed bugs. Researchers have put bed bug-infested clothing through a commercial dry-cleaning process using perchloroethylene and found that it killed adults, […]