Bed Bugs versus heat or steam.
Which works the best, heat or steam? Each has its place, in some cases depending on how much stuff is in the home and how hot can you get it works better. If the home is vacant steam is very effective and generally speaking less costly. So if you have bed bugs it is often advisable to isolate the issue, don’t move furniture or mattresses. You can also use trash bags and insert Nuvan strips inside to kill any bugs and eggs. A friend of mine – Invader Pest Management recently decided to go the way of heat for Bed Bugs and these pictures is how they do it. I also suggest the Verifi™ monitoring or detection system to make sure the effort has worked or to decide if you have an issue or not.
“To steam or not to steam” that is the question?
The one thing I am grateful for in the Arizona summer is the heat when it comes to bed bugs. They will never survive in a black bag outside when the days temperature is 113 degrees.
My friends and I once got attacked by bed bugs in the back of a movie theater. The guy who got bit the worst told me where he felt itchy and irritated and it matched with tears and holes in the chair he was seated in. We hitailed it home. each of us put our clothes in a plastic bag outside and threw them straight in the drier. Any bed bugs in the car must have been killed in the summer sun. God bless heat, we didn’t have any problems after that.