Exterminator Secrets

Bed bugs can live in carpet and rugs, especially around edges, baseboards, and other protected areas near where people sleep or rest. Carpet isn’t usually the first place to inspect, […]

Hardwood flooring may look like an unlikely place for a bed bug to hide, especially compared with a mattress or upholstered furniture. The exposed wood itself isn’t usually the attraction. […]

Bed bugs spread in two fundamentally different ways. They can crawl from one location to another on their own, and they can hitchhike much farther distances on belongings such as […]

Spider beetles and bed bugs can both be small and reddish-brown, but their body shape, legs, feeding habits, and typical locations make them fairly easy to separate once you know […]

Most bed bug bites don’t require a doctor’s visit. They usually need little more than symptom relief, good skin hygiene, and time to heal. Medical care becomes more important when […]

A baseboard isn’t one hiding spot. It’s a continuous gap that runs the entire length of a room, and that changes how it should actually be inspected. Yes, baseboards are […]

Finding what looks like a bed bug beside an old mud nest under the eaves changes the identification question considerably. It may not be a common bed bug at all. […]

A beetle named for its history of feeding on pharmaceutical drugs sounds like an unlikely bed bug look-alike. Yet at roughly a tenth of an inch long and reddish brown, […]

Checking a mattress is only the beginning of a thorough bed bug inspection. Bed bugs are strongly associated with sleeping and resting areas, so the bed deserves the closest attention […]

A poison ivy rash that shows up on your arm three days after it appeared on your wrist isn’t spreading. It’s just catching up. Poison ivy rash often appears in […]