Exterminator Secrets

Bed bug eggs are usually found in sheltered cracks and crevices where bed bugs spend time between blood meals. That puts mattress seams, box springs, bed frames, headboards, baseboards, and […]

You don’t need expensive equipment to inspect for bed bugs. A flashlight and magnifying glass cover most hands-on inspection needs, while inexpensive interceptor traps can improve your chances of detecting […]

Bed bugs aren’t known to transmit diseases to people, and most bites cause nothing more than itching, irritation, and temporary skin reactions. However, bed bug infestations can affect health in […]

Bed bugs don’t build nests. There is no woven structure, mound, tunnel, or collection of material assembled into a home. What people commonly call a bed bug nest is actually […]

Bed bugs do not show up because a home is dirty, smells a certain way, or contains a particular food. Unlike pests that enter a building looking for crumbs, garbage, […]

Bed bug bites usually don’t require prescription treatment, but the itching can be uncomfortable enough to make an over-the-counter cream or lotion useful. The products sold for itch relief don’t […]

The idea that a chigger burrows into your skin and has to be suffocated with nail polish or petroleum jelly is based on a myth. Chiggers remain on the surface […]

Ant bites and bed bug bites can both leave itchy skin lesions, but a fire ant encounter has a particularly useful clue: the ant usually bites to anchor itself and […]

A black light can reveal some material produced by bed bugs that may be difficult or impossible to see under ordinary lighting, but it cannot reliably tell you that a […]

Baby bed bugs, properly called nymphs, look like smaller, paler versions of adult bed bugs. They have six legs, two antennae, a broad oval abdomen, and the same generally flattened […]