How To Get Rid Of Bed Bugs Permanently From Phoenix Homes

Inspections

It is a good idea to do an inspection any time you stay somewhere away from home, even if it is in the home of a friend or family member. Bed bugs can infest a home for months without being detected. You should also inspect any dark spaces where you intend to be sitting, lounging, or lying down. A movie theater is a good example. Bed bugs can feed on you while you watch a movie. They can also lay eggs on your clothing or in a pocketbook. Use a flashlight or the light on your smartphone to check for:

• Black streaks or black fecal spotting

• Dried brown bloodstains

• Shed insect skin

• Tiny white eggs

The presence of bed bugs in any stage of development; (These insects range in size from 1 mm to 4.5 mm in length. They may be pale, tan or brownish-red. If a bed bug has had a recent blood meal, it will have a red abdomen. If it hasn't fed recently, you may see black feces inside its abdomen.)

Check Used Items

When you purchase a used mattress, box spring, couch, chair, electronic device, or any other item that has seams, creases, or a void within, it is important to check for the warning signs given above. The last thing you want when you purchase a lightly used furniture item is to also get a lightly used bed bug infestation.

Protect Laundry Items

If you stay away from your home for any length of time, you're going to have dirty clothes to deal with. Bed bugs are attracted to the scent of your skin's oils on your laundry items. Store laundry in sealed plastic bags to keep bed bugs from getting into your clothes and from laying eggs in your clothes.

Launder Your Items

Bed bugs can get into the clothes you're wearing. It's a little more difficult, but it still happens. It is a good idea to run all clothing through a hot wash and a dryer cycle. This will kill bed bugs in all stages of development.

General Tips

You can get bed bugs from work, school, public venues, public transportation, and many other places. Here are a few general prevention tips:

• Keep an eye out for warning signs such as black feces, brown stains, white eggs, and shed skins.
• Keep an eye out for bed bugs. While bed bugs don't prefer to appear in the light, you might catch one under some bedding, in the crease of a seat, under a seat cushion, etc. Learn to identify bed bugs and their nymphs.
• Keep an eye out for anyone who has several bumps surrounded by a rash. They could be bed bug bites.
• Don't store bags or clothing near the bags and clothing of others.

How A Professional Can Help

At Green Home Pest Control, we offer two ways that you can proactively prevent bed bug infestations. 

• We offer specialty mattresses that are resistant to bed bug infestations. We make these available at a discounted price.

• We offer canine inspections. Dogs have a powerful sense of smell. They're used to find drugs, guns, ammo, blood at a crime scene, and more. Our trainers use dogs to find bed bugs, and the dogs are really good at doing this. There is no better way to detect bed bugs early and prevent an infestation than to have routine canine inspections.