Bed Bug Extermination – Your Information for Prevention
With bed bugs, there's something that makes even the bravest people cringe. Even if you're not scared of bugs, it's enough to think of them creeping around in your room, feeding on your blood while you're sleeping, to make someone start squirming. See how to prepare for eliminating bed bugs or you should call a professional bed bug exterminator team.
Who is vulnerable to an infestation of a bed bug?
You probably think of a dirty home, overflowing with messy countertops, unwashed laundry, and garbage all over the room, when you think of a bed bug infestation. It is a widely believed that bed bugs infest dirty areas only, but this belief is clearly false.
Bed bugs don't care if the house is clean or dirty. They are just as likely to infest the house where the floors can be eaten as they are to infest the house where the floor cannot even be seen.
This myth may have started because bed bugs can hide more easily in a house with a lot of clutter than they can in a less cluttered house. Before being found, a dirty house makes it easier for a bed bug infestation to develop into a large infestation. You may detect a bed bug infestation sooner and when it is less serious in a clean, uncluttered home, because the bed bugs do not have as many places where they can hide out of sight.
How to Bed Bug Infestations Start?
Bed bugs, because of the way they move about, will infest any form of house, no matter how clean or dirty. They do not get their start outside on your lawn or in areas close to your house, unlike most pests, then make their way closer before they get inside. By applying preventive treatment around the perimeter of your house, the typical insect, such as spiders or ants, can be stopped from getting into your home. Bed bugs, though, do not invade homes like other pests do, therefore, you cannot keep them away like other pests.
Bed bugs love to fly instead. They'll climb into shoes or pant legs, or into bags or crates, like the best hitchhikers in the country. They will climb off or out of these objects at some point on the journey, or when the journey ends, and begins their lives in their new place, no matter where it happens to be.
Your Home Defense
Every 2-3 years, replace your mattress and box spring. Although this may seem like a very short time to get a mattress, to remove the issue at the root, it may be a wise action to take. When bed bugs come into your bed, it's incredibly hard to tell how many of them are in it, find out exactly where they are, and get them out of there. In addition, bed bugs may persist in other areas around your house, but they will most often be in your bed.
On your mattresses and box springs, use safe covers. By encasing your mattress and box springs in a plastic protective cover, you can prevent bed bugs from infecting your bed. Although you might already have a protective cover on your mattress, it will remove hiding places by adding one to your box springs.
If you carry home bed bugs, it would be easier to see the bugs easily with your protective mask. Clean all the clothes and other fabric in which you have traveled first, and then check the cover so that you can identify and fix the issue immediately.
If bed bugs have entered the box spring and mattress, it is easier to immediately dispose of them than attempt to remove the bed bugs.
Vacuum carpets and sometimes rugs. Vacuum on a weekly basis at least. If you think you have come into contact with bed bugs, then vacuum every day until you are sure your home is safe.
Carefully dispose of the vacuum contents in a plastic bag that you can seal, then remove them immediately from your house.
Failure to empty the vacuum cleaner will cause the bugs to spread if you have bed bugs.
Ask us at Mother Nature Pest and Lawn for bed bug exterminator. In and around OKC we serve the homeowners down with bed bug problems.
