Do you have Bed Bugs? – Call a Professional Pest Control Company

First off, if you are asking the question “do I have bed bugs?” there is a very good possibility that you do. The only problem is that you will need a sample of an egg or an actual bug to know for sure.

Any bites that you might incur are a very good indicator, but the best way to know for sure, without physical evidence, is to have a licensed pest inspector perform a proper inspection.

Some of the symptoms that you can recognize yourself however is if you constantly wake up each morning and experience bites on your body.

Another way, and almost less pleasant is that bed bugs leave behind fecal stains in the areas that they are infesting. Just because the bed bug consumes blood, do not assume that these fecal stains are going to be red.

Unless, you actually crush an engorged bed bug, the fecal matter will be black. The droppings usually are marked by several black spots in an area.

In order to remove or eliminate bed bugs there are ways besides dramatic and costly structural fumigation. One of these involves the use of a vacuum, which can actually be very effective.

All areas of potential infestation must be vacuumed, such as: the mattress, head board, box spring, furniture, any cracks, crevices, and moldings. However, care must be taken that the vacuum bag or canister must be immediately thrown out or emptied; a bed bug can live in the filthiest of vacuums.

Another very effective tool is the use of steam, if used on a mattress and box spring can result in very good results. But as stated before, the most costly and dramatic method to eliminate bed bugs involves structural fumigation.

This method involves placing a tarp or a tent over your home, requiring you to evacuate for a number of days as the fumigant gas is pumped into your home. Not only is this dramatic and costly, but it can be difficult, depending on where you live to find a Brisbane Pest Control company that is insured and licensed in these types of fumigants. This method however is the most effective.

There are some basic and effective pest prevention methods that are in use today to try to stem the bed bug tide. The first would be visual inspections which are not only the least reliable, time consuming and labor intensive way, due to the bed bugs practice of hiding in places that are too remote to see, or cracks that are too thin.

The next pest control for bed bugs would be to encase your box spring and mattress. This removes a good deal of the bed bugs hiding places and forces the bed bugs out into the open where they can be dealt with in a proper manner.

The last would be canine scent detection which is effective and gaining popularity for low level infestations. A setback in this is that not all areas have this service available and the quality is not always assured.

So if you do have bed bugs, you have options to free yourself from them for good by ringing Fast Pest Control. They will offer you free expert advice or happy to give you a free quote.