What do bed bug bites look like

Although bed bugs are small in size, they are able to be inspected by naked eyes by humans. When bed bugs infestation start, you will usually not know whether you are dealing with bed bugs or something else. The bite of bed bugs is mistaken by mosquito bite and is ignored by some people. The bitten wound of a bed bug looks reddish, swollen and a punctured spot in the middle of the wound that makes intense itching. But these insects do not transmit any diseases.

Bed bugs are present in places like hotels, apartments, houses, offices, other public places and even in buses and auto rickshaws. Determining the bed bugs can be accomplished by checking all the household articles like furniture, box springs, books, mattresses, cracks and crevices of the walls, behind the mirrors, behind baseboards. A dark region is the better place for these insects to settle in.

Bed bugs feed upon the blood of humans and animals and bite during sleeping hours at night. The bed bug bites appear initially as numerous reddish marks or red rashes which spread evenly on the skin. The bite will be seen in a linear pattern. In serious cases, you can observe the bumps on all over the body with allergic reactions. In some cases, these parasites strike upon the upper half of the body due to the attraction towards carbon dioxide a person emit during rest at night. Bed bug bite can be seen on the neck, arms, shoulders, and back of the body. But if you are having the rashes only on the legs and feet, then you are probably not dealing with the bed bugs.

 

 

How bed bugs look like

Bed Bugs

 

How to stop bed bugs from biting you

The following things not only reduce the chances of getting bitten but also minimize the chances of spreading of bed bugs to other parts of your house.

  • De-clutter the items thoroughly and clean the bedding and other areas  to get rid of bed bugs
  • As bed bugs are fast movers, throw all the cluttered things away in sealed plastic bags
  • Bedding and clothing should be washed in the hottest water possible at least 120 degree Fahrenheit temperature. Hot tumble drier, and direct sunlight is used for drying clothes, mattresses and other bedding
  • Clean and light colored sheets are used on bed to detect them easily
  • While removing, do not pull the sheets. Just roll them and put it in a plastic bag to collect all the eggs and bugs and dispose them outside
  • You can use ClimbUp Inspect Interceptor monitoring system (Insect trapping device) which is an effective barrier to stop bed bugs from biting. This system helps in making the bed bugs to fall to the center well
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    What do bed bug bites look like

    Bed Bug Bites

Heat treatment for Bed bugs

Bed bugs are creatures that belong to group Insecta. They are cosmopolitan in occurrence. They might be present in all the places at homes, and in offices. If you find bed bugs, take the help of a professional assistance to treat them. Treatment of bed bugs is the process of treating them with various alternatives to kill or get rid of them.

How to kill bed bugs by heat treatments?

Most bed bugs feed on human blood while people are asleep. They pierce the skin of its host with two hollow tubes. One tube injects saliva and other one sucks the blood from the host body. Kill the bed bugs by washing everything in hot water and vacuuming your bags inside and out. Vacuum your living space relentlessly including furniture. There are several methods to get rid of bed bugs as listed:

  • Seal the entire mattress with encasements for about 6 to 12 months that will cause all bed bugs and their young ones to starve and die inside.
  • Wash all the curtains, clothes and bedspreads by immersing in water to kill bed bugs
  • Take your mattresses, furniture and other things out into the sun so that the heat from the sun kills the bugs or make them leave
  • Use insect aerosol by targeting bed frames and furniture
  • Use heat from the steam to kill bed bugs
  • Call for professional help if you can afford fees for them

Various Heat Treatments

Heat is a very effective bed bug killer that can be used in various ways to eradicate bed bugs. Steam heat is used in carpets, behind baseboards and furniture. Steaming is a slow, methodical work that takes patience. Steam alone will not eliminate an infestation. Vapor steam cleaners can reach the temperatures of 240 to 360 degrees or high to cause dangerous burns. So be cautious. They are very useful in the fight against bed bugs and many pest companies use this as a best effective tool.

Hot dryers and portable heat chambers can be used to kill bed bugs in infested household items. Professional heating systems can be used to treat entire rooms and structures. Though heat treatment is one of the tools to fight against bed bugs, it has no residual (long lasting) activity. The bed bug may re-infest again. Due to creation of convection currents by powerful fans within the heated room, the whole room bed bugs heat treatments have been very successful. Here the thermal death point of bed bugs will be 113 degree Fahrenheit.

Detects and kills bed bugs

Heat chambers

Out of all methods, killing bed bugs with heat is one of the methods to be free from them. Currently there are two heating systems. They are ThermaPureHeat and Temp-Air heat remediation system. These are the effective technologies used.

ThermaPureHeat treatment

ThermaPureHeat is a best solution to prevent bed bugs infestations. This approach is non-toxic, non-chemical that penetrates to all the hidden places like cavities, cracks and under carpets. Applying heat evenly will kill all the stages of the bed bugs along with eggs in a single treatment oftentimes. Unlike many pesticides, ThermaPureHeat will penetrate into all bedbug hiding places and kill bed bugs. This process will force the heat into beds, bedding, mattresses, furniture and wall cavities etc. Raising room temperatures above the thermal death point (a temperature at which the bed bug dies) helps in eliminating bed bug infestation. This temperature is achieved by ThermaPureHeat process.

In this process, electric heaters or propane generated heat is used to heat the air inside the room to a temperature of 135 degree Fahrenheit. This temperature is monitored at all the hiding places from numerous sensors. Once this temperature is reached, the heating process is continued for one hour or more to kill the bed bugs. The determination of thermal death points for bed bugs is done by two things; one is the temperature and second is the exposure time. This process is a simple control methodology to alter the natural environment of the bed bug making it worse to them. As some people are sensitive to chemicals due to many disorders, this process is a practical solution. This is ideal for schools, hospitals and health care centers.

Device used to prevent bed bugs infestation

Therma Pure Heat Treatment

Temp-Air heat Remediation System

The Temp-Air heat Remediation System has the same principle compared to ThermaPureHeat method. This process uses large electric heaters placed in the infested room and powered by generator outside. These heaters generate heat and high velocity fans are used to blow the heated air to all corners until the temperature is increased for 120 to 135 degree Fahrenheit. Finally, the sensors monitored and this treatment works for 4 hours or more.

Device generates heat

Temp-Air heat Remediation System

Do it yourself (DIY) Heat Chamber

This is one of the methods used for hotel rooms because it is effective, easy to transport and assemble. This heat chamber is made of Polystyrene foam used to treat household items and furniture. Here infested items are placed and heat treated. Rooms with wood or tile floors require extra preparation by placing an insulating foam mat under the chamber. One important point to be noted is that the room itself still needs to be treated with conventional insecticides. In most cases, DIY bed bug treatment is not a great idea.

Portable Heating Device

There is a portable Heating Device called PackTite bed bug heater used for treating items like suitcases, books, CDs, purses and pillows. This product consists of a duffle bag with rack to place your infested items. There is an interior heater and exterior heat monitor where the temperature rises above 120 degree Fahrenheit inside the bag to kill all the life stages of bed bugs. After the treatment, the electrical cord automatically turns the heater off. This product takes several hours to treat infested items but it is completely portable and effective than hot dryer. Before placing the electronic devices inside the PackTite product, check the manual regarding the heat tolerance of electronic instrument.

Portable Heating Device

PackTite Bed bug heater

About Bed Bugs

Bed bugs are the nocturnal, small, wingless insects. They live in dark spaces 1/4“to 1/8“long. They were cosmopolitan before World War II and now again it is back due to ban of DDT pesticide, an increase in the international travel and a developing resistance to pesticides.

Bed bugs are commonly seen in the edges of the furniture, carpets, mattresses, on the bed sheets crawling from one place to other, picture frames, loosened wallpaper and other cracks and crevices. They might be present in the luggage hiding and often they are brought to home by bringing secondhand items. They are seen with their eggs attached to bedding and clothing. They can’t be noticed by anybody as they are very small. It is very difficult to know whether an infestation occurs or not.

Some people are affected by bed bugs very severely that shows the reddish welts and bumps on the skin. Some might get swollen rashes that leads to allergic reactions. Some of them might not get any symptoms. Others may get the symptoms and goes off for long days to return back. Bed bugs do not transmit any infectious diseases. They are resistant to some chemicals.

How to detect Bed Bugs

As we know bed bugs are able to adapt to any environment, it is very difficult to find out the hiding places of bed bugs and its presence as they are very small enough to view for the naked eye. It is better to take a professional pest control assistance for detecting the bed bugs in your home, offices or in hotels – if you are on a travel.

How to Detect Bed Bugs?

Fecal stains, egg cases and shed skins of bed bugs in crevices and cracks or near beds and blood stains after biting are the suggestive information that shows the signs of bed bug presence. You can take the help of a professional assistance from a pest control company to determine the presence of bed bugs.

sign of bed bugs presence

Bed bugs stains on the mattress



Though it is critical to detect bed bugs; there are some detection tools and methods namely:

  • Visual inspections
  • Mattress and box spring encasements
  • Canine scent detection
  • Carbon dioxide monitors
  • Passive interception devices

It is to be observed that even though many monitoring tools and devices have been developed, no tool or method is reliable in detecting bed bugs.

Visual Inspections: This is the most common method that anyone can undertake to detect bed bugs. There is no need to purchase specialized devices. All that is required is a good flashlight and a magnifying lens to clearly observe their small eggs and nymphs that are hided inside the sofas sets, beneath the floor boards and under the baseboards and frames. This method is not reliable due to secretive nature and very sensitive behavior of bed bugs. Moreover, this method is time consuming, labor expensive and also least reliable to detect low level infestations of bed bugs.

Finding bed bugs using flashlight

Visual Inspection

Mattress and Box Spring Encasements: were the first early detection tools available. Encasements have helped to protect the mattresses and box springs and also expose many bed bug infestations.

Box spring or mattress encasement giving protection

Mattress Encasements

Canine Scent Detection: Though this is effective method of detecting bed bugs but they are not 100% efficient. This is a popular inspection method to detect low level infestations. The quality and effectiveness of this detection services varies from one place to other. The existence of poorly run programs of this detection method may discredit the valuable well run inspection program. The advantage of using trained dogs is that they detect bed bugs with their sense of smell but sometimes they fail to indicate. If inspection fails, it does not mean that there are no bed bugs. So therefore, some type of verification system is required to confirm the validity of the inspection by implementing the double blind verification system after producing the evidence.

Dog finding bed bugs

Canine scent detection

Passive Interception Devices: This is one of the simple, inexpensive trap devices kept under the legs of cot frames and furniture. They help in capturing bed bugs that migrates towards the bed and furniture and to the resting places as well as to personal belongings. This device works on a concept to trap bed bugs that climb up the device and falling into the well which has slippery sides. This works at all the time in a week. Occasionally, the trapped bed bugs should be emptied and the walls of the well must be periodically lubricated with talcum powder using the cotton. This type of device is called passive monitoring device as there is no use of carbon dioxide, heat or other attractants by an instrument to trap bed bugs. This is very effective to detect low level infestations.

Finding bed bugs using Interceptor device

Climb Up Interceptor

Another passive bed bug monitor that is designed is BBAlert passive. It is designed to be attached to various types of beds and serves as an attractive harborage for bed bugs.

Active Monitoring Devices: These devices are the ones that use carbon dioxide as the primary attractant for trapping the bed bugs. Some of these devices also use other attractants like heat and chemical lures to detect bed bugs. These devices actively attract bed bugs. There are two commercially manufactured products namely Night watch bed bug monitor and CDC 3000 bed bug monitor.

Active montitoring device

CDC 3000 Bed bug monitor

Active montitoring device

Do it yourself (DIY) monitors: This is a simple, effective monitoring device that shows the easy concept to detect the low level infestations of bed bugs. The materials used are a pet food bowl, masking tape, an insulated container and dry ice. As there are some hazards in handling dry ice, people should be careful when operating this monitor. You need certain level of knowledge in handling dry ice. Dry ice can be costly and difficult to obtain. This device is neither a control tool nor it is a solution for bed bugs.

Monitoring device detecting infestations of bed bugs

DIY Monitor

A brand new active bed bug monitor, the Bed Bug Beacon that uses refillable carbon dioxide pellets instead of dry ice is much easier to assemble and run. Another active bed bug monitor is BBAlert Active monitor. This product uses heat to attract bed bug.

Device detects bed bugs

BBAlert Active monitor

About the bed bug

The word bed bugs refer to any insect in the Cimex species. They are the wingless bloodsucking hemipterous bugs sometimes infesting houses and especially beds and feeding on human blood. They are odorous insect with flat reddish body.

An adult bed bug can grow to about half an inch long. They do not have wings and they are nocturnal insects. They are very strong bugs capable of living in wide range of temperatures from 14 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. They are known not to transmit any diseases when they bite an individual. But the biting of bed bug causes itching and may become infected. There will be red itchy bumps on your skin.

Infestation of bed bugs does not depend on any hygienic or dirty conditions. They are about to adapt to any environment. They are about to live in the crack and crevices of walls, folds of mattresses, within the furniture, sofas and also on clothes, papers, luggage, behind a wall socket and also behind a baseboard and are very difficult to locate. Infestations are more common in places with high rates of turnover in the human population. The more cluttered in your home gives the hiding places for bed bugs and it is very harder to get rid of these insects. When bed bugs bite you, a chemical is injected that causes allergies in some people. But if it is infected very severely, then you have to consult doctor immediately.

Encasements to spot bed bugs

The pest management professionals recommend high-quality encasements to keep the bed bugs in. This is highly designed and tested to be effective against bed bugs. If you are not having bed bugs, it is safe to encase the mattress to keep the bed bugs out of the box springs or mattresses, if they are somehow introduced by the various events.

Proactive use of Encasements

Scientifically proven bed bug encasements are used as early detection tool as a measure for trapping and preventing re-infestation of bed bugs. They play a vital role in bed bug management program. There is a buglock encasement product commercially available which were the first encasement specifically designed for spotting bed bugs. For the early detection of bed bugs, encasement can be used proactively. Once it is done for the mattresses and box springs, they are unable to get inside and infest the interior of the mattresses. They will be exposed to the outer environment with their movement restricted to smooth outer surface of the encasements. They can be visualized by naked eye. Some people intent on disposing the infested beds and replacing them with new mattresses and box springs. In this event, there are two steps to be undertaken.

  • During disposal period, avoid spreading of bed bugs
  • Protect the newly purchased mattresses and box springs from becoming infested

Use proper disposal method to dispose the infested beds. Care should be taken by sealing tightly enough to prevent further spreading of bed bugs. Heavy polyvinyl sheeting or shrink wrap are used to seal infested beds. Specifically designed disposal bags can also be used to dispose.

Encasements you choose should be bite proof (the bugs cannot feed through the material) as well as escape proof (the bugs cannot get in or out after covering). Unproven encasements give false sense of security and promote the survival of the bed bugs. In bug lock encasement, the area where encasement leads to failure is at the zipper end stop. If these zippers are not closed properly, then there is a chance of immature bed bugs escaping through the way of a closed zipper. A small opening will make them to spread everywhere by getting in and out of the encasement. Secure seal is another modification seen as an additional level of security. This locks the encasement in a fully closed position by using an electrical zip tie.

 

 

Encasements as a detection tool

Proactive use of Encasements for mattresses

 

Pros and Cons of using encasement for mattresses

Pros

  • Secure mattress encasement helps to protect the value of mattress or box springs
  • Encasement will make easier to inspect the bed bugs and remove them from the surface
  • If bed bugs are inside the torn mattresses, a secure encasements prevent the bed bugs from biting you by keeping them inside
  • If bed bugs are not in torn mattresses, these encasements will help to prevent them from setting up of harborage

Cons

  • Some styles of bed can’t be encased
  • As there is a possibility of the presence of bed bugs on the encasements, these encasements do not prevent bed bugs from biting you
  • If these bed encasements are torn or damaged, these give a false sense of security making the bed bugs to infest and feed continuously
  • If pet animal like cat is present, they may tear encasements and make it useless to ensure the harborage of bed bugs inside the mattresses.

Mattress covers and Box spring mattress – Product

Protect-A-Bed Aller-Zip bed bug mattress covers and box spring covers are the recommended choices of pest management professionals and hotels worldwide as it is of superior quality and 100% certified.
This BugLock Mattress Encasement is a full mattress encasement for total bed bug protection, laboratory tested and approved, and non-woven fabric, Features Miracle membrane on top surface and is waterproof, machine washable and tumble dry. It is a dust mite barrier, gives protection from allergies and is cool and comfortable to sleep on.

 

Recommended bed bug mattress encasements

Protect-A-Bed Aller Zip

 

Bed Bug Hidden Spots

Bed bugs are the small, oval parasites that are present everywhere at homes, in offices and also in apartments, buildings and higienic environments. If you find bed bugs, try to find the hidden places where they are existing and try to keep them away from that premises by various treatments. Bed bugs are parasitic insects that feed on human blood. The hidden spots of bed bugs are:

  • Bed,
  • Furniture,
  • Box springs,
  • Carpets
  • Behind mirrors and picture frames
  • Luggage,
  • Clothes,
  • Books,
  • Under baseboards,
  • Sofas,
  • cracks and crevices of the walls and other household articles.

To check the presence of bed bug, check on the walls or the bed with the help of magnifying glass as these insects are very small to see with the naked eyes. You can find the blood stains on bed sheets, black colored fecal matter of the bed bugs, eggs and shed skins. Sometimes you observe the bed bugs crawling on the bed sheets. They are nocturnal insects and bite any exposed areas of skin while an individual is sleeping. The most effective inspections are done by experienced and qualified pest control professionals to give a positive identification. As these insects have secretive lifestyle, they might go unnoticed even if they are present.

What to do if you think you may have bed bugs?

If you suspect that there are bed bugs in your sleeping areas, don’t go to another bed or sofa for sleeping. Do not go to stay with someone else as these may spread unknowingly. This causes them to get infested. During the treatment, stay in your home and in your own bed to kill bed bugs.

Prevention tips for travelers: If you are travelling, it is a good idea to inspect your hotel room for bed bugs as soon as you first enter the room. The hidden place might be behind the headboard or other locations like mattresses and bedding. Don’t bring your bags into the room until proper bed bug inspection is done. Do not place your luggage on the floor near the head of the bed as these insects might infest your luggage. It is a good idea to have a small flashlight when you travel, since the bed bugs might hide in darkest crevices of the room. An LED keychain makes a great bed bug inspection tool to find the hidden spots.

After finding the hidden spots, measures to treat bed bugs

If a room has bed bugs, clean the room and do not clutter like piles of toys, magazines or clothes as this cluttering gives more spaces for the bed bugs to hide. Wash and dry your bedding to kill bed bugs. Take extra care like vacuuming the bed bug areas like mattress, furniture, box springs, area where carpet meets the wall especially near the bed. Once you have completed vacuuming, take the vacuum cleaner bag immediately to a dumpster. You can use hand-held steamer to clean the mattresses and other things to kill bed bugs.

Recommended Inspection tool kit for finding hidden spots

A thorough inspection is important to detect bed bugs in the hidden spots, to determine the infestation of bed bug widely and to manage them in a best way. During inspection, move slowly without disturbing hiding bed bugs so they don’t scatter.

 

Detects bed bug hidden spots

Inspection Tool Kit

The recommended bed bug inspection tool kit used for checking hidden spots includes:

  • a lighted magnifying glass,
  • strong flashlight,
  • plastic bags with zip-top for collection of specimens,
  • screwdrivers for removing light switches or electrical plates,
  • cotton swabs for checking stains in crevices,
  • credit card tool for checking narrow spaces and pyrethrin or compressed air for flushing bedbugs from cracks and crevices.

10 Bed bug infestation hidden spots

  • Public Libraries
  • Retail Stores
  • Movie theatres
  • Planes, trains and buses
  • Day cares, schools and colleges
  • Place of worship
  • Business offices
  • Laundry facilities
  • Hospitals and nursing homes
  • Consignment, thrift shops and yard sales

About Bed Bug

Information kit about bed bug symptoms
You feel pain and itching sensation, after these bed bug insects bite and rashes start appearing on the skin which is often misdiagnosed as allergic rash. So it is essential to confirm the cause and identify the bed bug bite symptoms. Small, red colored bumps or spots on the neck, hand, legs and face along with swelling are the most common sign. However, if there is severe itching then you must consult a doctor immediately. Bed bug bites may be neglected and go unnoticed for mosquito bites or other types of rash or skin conditions, as they are difficult to distinguish from other bites.

Information regarding bed bug stains ; 5 steps to get rid of bed bug stains on the hidden spots

  • After the discovery of blood stains, bed bug stains and fecal matter stains, blot the spots with cold water immediately as warm water sets stains
  • Lift the stains out of your mattresses, sheets, pillows cases and comforters with the help of hydrogen peroxide and dab the stains. It even works on walls, carpets and floors
  • Use dry wash cloth to pull the moisture spots out of the mattresses fabric
  • Put your pillow cases and sheets in the washer for 30 minute wash cycle to get rid of bed bug stains
  • If you have damp mattress from all of that cleaning, you can dry it off with a hair dryer on low heat

Pesticides for Bed Bugs

A pesticide is a substance or mixture of substances that tends to control, prevent, destroy, repel or mitigate any pest. The term applies to herbicides, fungicides and other various substances used to control pests (Pests are living organisms that occurs in the agricultural or residential regions to cause damage to crops or humans or other animals that include insects, mice, bed bugs, fungi, bacteria, viruses and unwanted plants or weeds).

All pesticides for bed bugs that are used to kill them are insecticides. Insecticide sprays are formulated by mixing a small volume of insecticide with lot of water inside a spray tank. It is very difficult even for trained professionals to control bed bugs. So repeating insecticide treatment is often necessary to kill the bed bugs. When some sprays are ineffective and some bed bugs build resistance to chemicals, alternative methods like heat and steam treatments, structural fumigations and cold treatments are applied.

If you want to get rid of bed bugs you need to contact pest control professional for help. Otherwise best integrated pest management strategy (a multi-pronged attack that goes beyond spraying or misting insecticide that includes caulking, spackling and using other sealants to fill cracks and crevices, refinishing and sealing floors, injecting frozen carbon dioxide “snow” into electronics to freeze pests, repainting walls and other surfaces, using low-moisture steam and clothes dryer heat to kill bugs and injecting bug-killing dust into electrical outlets and switches) should be used to exterminate bed bugs that is hiding inside the things cluttered at home, offices or any other places that are unhygienic or even in hygienic conditions it has taken a great role in its presence like in high, well-observed royal hotels, big bungalows and highly infrastructure industries and other places.

Exterminating bed bugs

Treatment with Bed Bug Pesticide

There are so many varieties of pesticides to kill bed bugs varying with the rates and you may easily access them or buy them in the market. But taking the help of a pest control assistant is necessary as a small mistake in applying the pesticide or small failure to kill bed bugs can lead to more serious problem.

The most common pesticides and insecticides available in the market are:

Contact insecticides: Normally, these insecticides are made up of pyrethroids which are synthetically made or from natural extracts of chrysanthemum flowers. These substances tend to emit odor that makes the bed bugs to get irritated and moves out of the places. These substances kill bed bugs instantly if they come into contact directly with the surfaces of the substances or its residue. However, the bed bugs develop repelling properties against the substance. Some of the contact products are Topia, Sterifab, Microcare, Bedlam, Clear zone, CD-40, CD-80 Extra and ExciteR.

Kills bed bugs

Contact Insecticides

Insect growth regulators (IGRs): The name itself suggests that IGR interferes with the insect’s ability to develop from nymph to adult. This IGR is hydroprene. Among the list of pesticides for controlling bed bugs, these IGRs are the common among the long lists of pesticides available. It affects and directly exterminates eggs or bed bugs that have just hatched. The young one’s development and the eggs are hindered and stalled to stop the generating of future bed bugs offspring. The application of IGR is not the quick way to control bed bugs. But it is the effective and slowest insecticide that takes long time to give the result. There are two insecticide products formulated with hydroprene, one is a liquid insecticide used alone or mixed in a tank with another liquid insecticide and the other is an aerosol formation. Recent studies have shown that hydroprene does not sterilize bed bugs. Even though the bed bugs die shortly after the final stage of molting, these are able to feed, mate and produce at least one batch of eggs before dying when these are exposed to IGR. This is because; the IGR exposure results in many bed bugs dying during or shortly after the process of final molt.

Aerosol formation

Insect Growth Regulator

Aerosol insecticide sprays: Aerosol products are insecticides with labels listing directions regarding the product that    can be applied. For example, one aerosol product might say that the product can be sprayed on the mattresses directly, while the other one says that the product should not applied on the fabric surfaces. This aerosols work best when the live bed bugs are sprayed with the product directly.

Insecticidal dusts: These substances are one among the list of pesticides that are directly applied or sprayed to crawling bed bugs. These are made up of silica powder that are in fine granules or ground glass to ensure efficiency. It is very harmful to humans also. They are applied to cracks or crevices in the walls or floor that are infested with bed bugs. The advantage of insecticidal dusts over liquid insecticides is that bed bugs walking on the dusted surfaces will become covered in the dust making direct exposure to the insecticide impossible to avoid. One of the disadvantages of the insecticidal dusts is that they cannot be used in as many areas as the liquid formulations. This is because dusts can move easily on air currents and they present a hazard for humans when people inhale these dusts. These have strict label directions as to where they should be placed in indoor environment.

controls bed bugs

Insecticidal dusts

There are list of other pesticides ever growing yearly to control bed bugs. This acknowledges how the people are concerned with increasing annoyance and discomfort from having bed bugs at home. The most common are pyrethrins, tempo, allethrin, Delta dust flee/dragnet, malathion, drione dust and suspend SC. These can be easily purchasable in the market. These pesticides are sprayed in the areas where bed bugs habitat.

These pesticides spray are aimed at knocking out bed bugs directly by attacking their physical vulnerabilities. These insecticides are very harmful to humans and if it is inhaled or if pesticide residues come in contact with the skin then irritations might occur and cause a serious problem. Therefore a professional advice is required before applying these pesticides into the bed bug areas. If any allergic reactions or physical counter reaction occurs, then contact your family doctor or physician immediately without fail.

To stop bed bug infestation, regular room checkups should be done by pest control personnel. Education and knowledge of how to deal with the bed bugs also helps in stopping bed bug infestation. So prevention is better than cure is the statement that has to be applied to control the bed bug infestation. Treatment with pesticides products labeled is used to control bed bugs and by following the label directions carefully helps in eliminating bed bugs.

Pyrethroids: These are the special class of insecticides that are high toxicity to insects and low toxicity to mammals. These are synthetic toxicants that affect the nervous system of the insects like bed bugs. These insecticides cause the nerves to fire continuously until the insect loses its control over its body and dies. One of the disadvantages of this insecticide is that majority of bed bug population have developed resistance to this chemical. It means that only some of the bed bugs get killed and some may survive and produce resistant offspring. Therefore using this insecticide alone will not help in eliminating an infestation.

High toxic insecticides

Pyrethroids

Tallman Scientific Bed Bug Pesticides

An effective alternative by Tallman Scientific for bed bug killing is the Bed Bug Complete Control Kit. In this kit there are two main pesticides to eliminate bed bugs, larvae and eggs that are about to hatch. They are:

  • Contact Killer Spray – Oil based product that leaves no residual matter safe to use on furniture and other items in your home.
  • Diatom Dust XR bug powder – applied using Professional Hand Duster. It is harmless to humans and animals. It dehydrates bed bugs until they die upon contact.