Bed Bugs (Article & Story by Revolution Main and AZFamily KTVK TV3)
I really think I can handle this on my own, what must I do?
I must emphasize that this really a job for a Professional Pest Management company – you need the proper equipment to tackle this problem. You must kill adults and eggs. If you don’t, it can make it more of an issue later for the Pest Management Technician. ProBest employs a Commercial steam machine, vacuum and the proper pesticides used according to Label and Material Safety Data Sheets instructions. We also sell box spring and mattress covers, “climb up” bedbug devices and other products designed to help you with this problem. Please call our office or speak to a technician about these products. Fogging and the use of bug bombs will not work and often drive these pests deeper into cracks and crevices.
Check out our website for further information https://callprobest.com/bedbugs
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Featuring replaceable attractants, the Verifi bed bug detector is the first device to provide ongoing detection for up to 90 days at a time. Your pest management professional can quickly and easily replace the attractants on a regular basis for year-round monitoring. Designed to fit behind beds and other furnishings and operate silently, the Verifi bed bug detector won’t disturb occupants in a room.
Even if you don’t currently have bed bugs, the continuous detection of the Verifi bed bug detector helps alert you to any newly-introduced bed bug populations at an earlier stage. Early detection of bed bugs can increase the success and decrease the cost of your treatment program.
Check out our website for further details https://callprobest.com/bedbugs
Bed Bug job – Day 3, Invader Pest Management & ProBest Pest Management
One of the rules in any any Bed Bug treatment is the follow-up, how do you known if the job was successful? One of the simplest ways is by asking if anyone is being bitten? This doesn’t always work because some people respond differently to Bed Bug bites, so ProBest Pest management installed some Verifi™ (Monitoring and Detection) devices within the home. These units have a 3 fold way of attracting Bed Bugs:
- Verifi Co2 Booster Pack – Carbon Dioxide – something we breath out and the Bed Bugs are attracted to.
- Pheromone lure – encourages Bed Bugs to gather and aggregate into a harborage area.
- Kairomone lure – this device is used to mimic a blood source meal, that’s us.
SUCCESS – SUCCESS – SUCCESS – SUCCESS
This was a FREE job (Paying It Forward) and I want to thank Channel 3, Meredith Yeomans for coming up with the story and the deserving folks for the story. I also want to say thanks to the deserving folks for letting us take over their home and giving us the opportunity to help them. I also want to thank Invader Pest Management – who gave us a hand because I knew I couldn’t do this job without their experience and equipment. Thanks Fred, Danny and Peter.
Pest Control Companies: Have you done a Bed Bug job or other interesting job Pro Bono – FREE. Tell us about it and Thanks for Paying It Forward!
http://www.azfamily.com/news/consumer/Bedbugs-a-nightmare-for-Glendale-woman-166332456.html
http://www.azfamily.com/video/?id=166332456&ref=articlevidmod&sec=514332
Bed Bug job – Day 2, Invader Pest Management & ProBest Pest Management
We stayed in contact working with the customer to help de-clutter the home, not always possible after you have collected this stuff for years. We helped the customer by giving them some Nu-van strips to put into the bags that eventually went outside to sit in the sun. The nice thing about Arizona – it’s HOT and just for the record it’s also monsoon season so it’s really muggy and humid. So the day to treat has arrived and are first goal is to do a walk through, make sure all the aerosol containers have been removed and anything else that could warp or melt with the extreme heat. OK on to the heat, room by room to somewhere between 140° and 160° degrees for a sufficient amount of time to exterminate the Bed Bugs.
Bed Bug job – Day 1, Invader Pest Management & ProBest Pest Management
Most of this pest control work requires an inspection and I’m a big believer in this inspection. It’s an integral part of a process that must be worked to achieve the desired outcome – no bed bugs.
What would happen if you were quoted a price and the day of service the service company changed their mind and wanted more money? It’s not your fault, so I truly believe an inspection is the absolute only way to begin to understand a Bed Bug job. Bed Bugs come with their own baggage of problems, how did you get them, where are they so far, what have you done so far to solve the problem and what does the home look like? All this being said – is the home cluttered?
ProBest Pest Management has been working with Chanel 3 on a Bed Bug story and located a family that was in need of some Professional work, after seeing the house we decided the only way to solve this bed bug issue was to bring in my friends from Invader Pest Management and their heat equipment.
So first the inspection:
Clutter always adds an extra element of success or failure, it is important to get to where the Bed Bugs are hiding and with clutter it could be anywhere. The next portion of this series will be the treatment, so stay tuned!
BOLO – Be on the Lookout… Bed Bugs are traveling and looking for a new home…
Bedbugs Put Police Cars Out of Service
I think it is amazing where we are finding Bed Bugs, they are showing up in ambulances, movie theaters and now police cruisers. So if you’re a police officer, EMT or just a regular citizen take care when and where you take a ride.
A FEW FACTS
- Bed bugs get their name because they are commonly found in beds, but can also be found in other places. Dressers, baseboards, clothes, drapes, bed frames, wall mounted devices, tack strips/carpets, behind cracked paint or wallpaper.
- Bed bugs feed on the blood of any warm-blooded animal.
- They can ingest up to 7 times their weight.
- A severe infestation can result in over 500 bites in a single night.
- Bed Bugs are able to live up to 12 months without a meal, this is debatable in Arizona because of the lack of humidity.
- They are immune to many of today’s insecticides, generally permethrins.
- Many people can live with them without even knowing they’re there.
- Their eggs hatch within 10 days and only take 30 days to become fully grown.
- Females can lay up to 500 eggs over their lifetime.
- Reported cases have increased over 500% the past few years.
- Bed bug infestations are a traumatic experience for those attacked including increased stress, anxiety and insomnia – I call this the CREEP FACTOR.
Have you ever had one of those days, when you think the world may be against you?
Yes all of us probably run into this weekly, maybe daily. We can handle it primarily because of faith, faith maybe in a few different things like 1. Faith in God 2. Faith that it just happens 3. Faith that it probably can’t get much worse, but anyway you get my drift here. I don’t want to go on about the economy or the government, or preach about the existence of God but you know stuff just happens.
So here are a few tips to stop that stuff from happening – especially the bug or bird kind of stuff.
- More cases of Bed Bugs are happening right now because we are traveling for the summer, so take precautions.
- Get a termite inspection yearly, it can’t hurt – it’s not like a colonoscopy (I just had to throw that in) it’s nothing like that….
- Don’t put firewood against your home, don’t allow rocks to be higher than the stucco.
- Clean up those oranges and grapefruits that fall on the ground, better yet give them to the food bank.
- Clutter in and around your home can lead to pest infestations.
- Don’t let tree limbs touch the house.
When in doubt seek out a trained professional for advice – the National Pest Management Association has a great website for consumers.
A personal experience with bed bugs by Dr. Mike Merchant (re-home seal)
His daughter called , a visit to her apartment the next day revealed 200 to 300 bed bugs happily tucked away in the corners of the fitted sheets, dust ruffle and box spring cover of her bed.
Often times when we talk about an infestation we are talking about the issues involved with a customer perspective in mind. Mike recently had a Bed Bug issue of his own, so please take a moment to see how he dealt with the problems “A personal experience with bed bugs” and gain his insights into the mind of someone who has to deal with Bed Bugs in their home.
