Professional bed bug treatment is usually a process rather than a single application. An exterminator first confirms the infestation and determines where the bugs are hiding, then develops a treatment […]
Bed Bug Heat Treatment: How It Works, and Is It Worth the Cost?
Bed bug heat treatment uses commercial heating equipment and fans to raise temperatures throughout an infested room or home until lethal heat reaches the places where bed bugs and their […]
Booklice vs. Bed Bugs (and Bed Bug Nymphs)
Booklice and adult bed bugs are not especially difficult to separate once you compare them at their real size. The harder comparison is booklice vs. newly hatched bed bug nymphs. […]
Do Bed Bugs Live Outside, or Only Indoors?
University of Florida’s own entomology fact sheet states plainly that human dwellings, bird nests, and bat caves are the most suitable habitats for bed bugs. Two of those three options […]
REWRITE – Can Bed Bugs Live in Ceilings or Walls?
Texas A&M’s own extension entomology program has documented something most people wouldn’t think to check. They documented that bed bugs and their droppings can hide in the texture of a […]
Waking Up With Bites but No Bed Bugs? Here’s What Else It Could Be
You change the sheets, inspect the mattress seams, shine a flashlight around the headboard, and find nothing. The next morning, there are more itchy marks. At that point, it is […]
Can Bed Bugs Live on Your Clothes and Travel With You?
A jacket draped across an infested hotel bed and the shirt you are currently wearing are both clothing, but they present very different situations to a bed bug. One is […]
Bed Bug Bites vs. Shingles: What’s the Real Difference?
A cluster of red bumps can make bed bug bites and shingles look confusingly similar in a photograph. Once you stop looking at individual bumps and pay attention to what […]
Can You Have an Allergic Reaction to Bed Bug Bites?
The first week of a bed bug infestation and the third week can produce two completely different sets of marks on the exact same person, mild the first time, dramatically […]
Can Bed Bugs Live in Books?
A closed book sitting on a nightstand does not look much like a bed bug hiding place. Open it, however, and the object becomes more complicated. There is the exposed […]