Bed bugs have caused something of an outbreak in Canada within the last ten years. What makes this such an epidemic is how this species of insect is so easily spread between people, which becomes something of a pest nightmare due to the skilled hiding techniques of the bugs once they establish residency in a home or business. Controlling bed bugs is the best way to describe the many different methods that go into a bed bug elimination plan. Elimination takes time and due diligence from both the homeowner and the pest control professional in Cambridge handling the infestation. Control has to be established and maintained before a full eradication can occur. For any bed bug elimination plan to be effective, a coordinated effort from the pest control professional to destroy the infestation has to be met by a willingness on the homeowner’s part to keep the infestation from spreading or multiplying.
Control measures on the homeowner’s part should immediately begin once the bugs have been discovered within the home. Bed bugs will almost always be found in the bed once they have established a foothold within the home. The bed allows the bugs to remain hidden in areas not commonly seen by its host. Additionally, the bed is where a human being spends between 7-9 hours each day relatively unconscious during sleep. This allows the bugs to come out in the early morning hours, in darkness, to extract blood without being seen. Once the bugs have been discovered, all clothing within the home should be washed on dried on high heat and immediately sealed into contractor bags. A bed bug specialist will also likely instruct you to encase the mattress and box spring in bed bug encasements, although the pest control professional may decide that the bed should be treated first.
Once a pest control professional begins a treatment plan to eradicate bed bugs, you should follow a certain set of rules explicitly. Keep all clothes laundered and sealed inside of bags or air-tight containers. Bed bugs latch onto clothing to move to other areas of the home to avoid various poisons. If your pest control professional chooses to use heat to eliminate the infestation, you should move as much stuff out of the home to be treated with chemicals, since the heat will have a hard time penetrating into walls and structures if there are a large number of obstructions.
Controlling bed bugs is just as important a part of a treatment since the methods used to destroy the insects. Diligence should be given to efforts to keep the infestation contained to the dwelling, since elimination procedures have to reach every bug to achieve success. Effective bed bug control is achieved only if both the treatment and the measures to control and contain the infestation are adhered to with both patience and perseverance. Although it may seem impossible at times, eliminating bed bugs is certainly achievable if you stick to a plan and never give up.