7-Step Guide to Pest Control for Bed Bugs

Bedbugs are troublesome pests in your household that possess a potential health risk for your family. 

They survive on human & animal blood and are most active during the night time. Bedbugs suck the blood through their elongated beak and can feed on it from anywhere between three to ten minutes. They can leave you with itchy red welts all over your body.

These tiny bloodsuckers have pointy heads and are reddish-brown in color. They can be identified with horizontal lines at their back. Also, bedbugs are known to reproduce quite rapidly - studies have found that a healthy female can lay around 500 eggs in her lifetime!

Get Rid of Bed Bugs in Seven Steps

Bedbugs are quite smart and know exactly where to hide their little bodies. While they do leave signs of their existence, it’s not easy to find their exact location. However, with a bit of patience and some professional assistance, you can easily eradicate them from your household.

Today, we present to you a step-by-step guide to pest control for bed bugs that will help you decimate bed bug colonies at your place.

Step 1: Identify the Infested Areas

If you have found early signs of bed bugs at your residence, you must immediately take measures to find their exact location.

While it is easier to treat small infestations, detecting them can prove to be a tedious task. The flattened bodies of bedbugs allow them to squeeze into cramped spaces.

You can start looking out for them near the tags of the mattress, in baseboards, under loose wallpaper, in between couch cushions, in bed frame in furniture joints, or the seam at the meeting point of wallpaper and ceiling.

Sure signs that can help you spot colonies of bed bugs at you home are,

●        Dark bed bug droppings

●        Live crawling bed bugs

●        Red spots on your mattress from the bugs that have been crushed

●        Eggshell, pale yellow eggs, and yellowish skin that are shed by bed bugs.

Try using a flashlight to go over all of the suspected areas or hire a professional to do it for you instead.

STEP 2: Contain the Infestation

Once you know that there are bed bug colonies at your home, the next step is to prevent them from growing.

Running a vacuum over the affected areas can help you trap these tiny creatures. Make sure you seal up the vacuum content in a plastic bag and throw it away once you have caught them.

However, If you are unable to clean the carpets, furniture, or any other affected area, you should get rid of them to prevent further infestation.

STEP 3: Prepare for Bed Bug Treatment

Doing a little preparation before starting the treatment can maximize your odds of success.

Firstly, you must ensure that all your linens, drapes, carpets, clothing, and other hiding places are cleared.

Secondly, get rid of the hiding places. Get rid of magazines, books, clothes, and any other item that is lying on the floor.

Lastly, move your bed away from the wall so that bed bugs don't climb on it. 

STEP 4: Kill the Bed Bugs

Bed bugs cannot survive in high heat, 115°F (46°C), or intense cold, 32°F (less than 0°C). Some home remedies can help you remove bed bugs without involving the use of any chemicals.

●        Wash the cloth in hot water and dry it in the highest heat setting for 30 minutes.

●        Use a steamer on the infested areas.

●        Put the infested items in the bed and leave them outside on a hot day.

However, if these remedies don’t help you get rid of bedbugs, you must consider chemical alternatives. Pyrethrins, pyrethroids, pyrroles, and neonicotinoids are some chemicals that can help you in bed bug extraction.

STEP 5: Monitor the Affected Areas

It can take some time for complete eradication of bed bugs from your home. Till then, keep monitoring the infested areas regularly.

You can place bed bug interceptors in the areas where bedbug colonies were identified earlier. The interceptors trap these insects when they come nearby.

Make sure that you keep checking the interceptors now and then!

STEP 6: Get the Professionals Involved

If you are unable to eradicate the bedbug infestation at your place, consider hiring a professional pest exterminator.

Pest control professionals use chemical alternatives and other treatments that are not available in households. They can help you kill the bed bugs and avoid their buildup in the future as well.

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STEP 7: Keep the Bed Bugs Out

Once the bed bugs are gone, you must ensure that they do not infest your place again in the future.

Some of the bed bug prevention tips are,

●        Keep the clutter away. Make sure that you do not leave papers, magazines, clothes, or any other items on the floor.

●        Keep your mattress, and box spring covered with a bedbug cover and zip them all the way.

●        Wash the bedding, furniture, curtains, carpets, and vacuum them often.

●        Seal the cracks around light sockets, electrical outlets, and baseboards so that bedbugs cannot sneak in.

●        If you travel often, make sure you do not bring the bed bugs from the hotel room to home.

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Removing bedbug infestation can be an expensive and time consuming process. There is also a high likelihood that the outbreak increases if the pests are not eliminated on time.

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