Exterminator Secrets

Carpet beetles and bed bugs can both turn up around beds, furniture, and fabrics, but that overlap is more misleading than helpful. The insects themselves are built differently, eat completely […]

Finding something that looks like a tiny empty bug near a mattress seam can be more confusing than finding a live insect. It has the outline of a bed bug, […]

The words “silica gel” usually bring to mind the tiny packets packed inside shoe boxes, electronics, and medicine bottles. That creates an odd situation with bed bugs because silica really […]

Seeing a bed bug bite change from red to purple can make an ordinary-looking welt suddenly seem much more serious. The difficult part is that “purple” can describe several different […]

A couch creates an awkward bed bug problem because most of the places that need attention are not the surfaces you normally see. Pull off the cushions and there are […]

Finding a bed bug near an electrical outlet can make the situation look stranger than it really is. There is nothing about electricity that a bed bug needs to survive. […]

Heat absolutely can kill bed bugs, but a hot room and a lethal bed bug temperature are not the same thing. A thermometer sitting in open air might show an […]

Everything else compared on this site is at least an animal. Mold isn’t even that. It’s a fungus, and confusing it with a bed bug problem means looking for the […]

Yes. Bed bugs have developed substantial resistance to several insecticides, particularly pyrethroids. In one documented population, the resistance ratio reached 1,235,000-fold for permethrin and 370,000-fold for deltamethrin compared with a […]

Bed bug stains on sheets usually fall into two different categories. Rusty or reddish stains can appear when a bed bug is crushed, while small dark spots can be bed […]