Posts from the ‘Bed Bugs’ Category
With a heat wave coming through Southern Arizona it is no wonder why so many pests are being seen. Plenty of homeowners and property owners have been coping with these creepy insects on a daily basis.
Angie’s List , which allows members to offer consumer reviews, records searches for pest control companies up 48 percent in March compared with the same month a year ago.
Phones are ringing off the hook – a full two months before the bugs usually arrive. These early unwanted guests include ants, bees and wasps, spiders and bed bugs.
Homeowners and property owners are better off calling professionals. People think they can save a lot going with do-it-yourself. They might be successful at first breaking up the colony but ultimately it can create more problems or simply the colony can repopulate elsewhere. Professional services, like Northwest Exterminating work like bug detectives. We are trained to look for the right and best solution for your property.
April’s temperatures have been at record-highs reaching up into the upper 90s. The thing with pests this month, is that it probably won’t stop. It will still continue on for several months. The pest invasion has begun….so beware!
Bed Bugs are on the rise! With the huge increase in worldwide travel and the summer coming soon, it has allowed and will allow these parasites to move from country to country, stowing away unnoticed, hidden in luggage. This year Tucson has been affected by this infestation, with these critters crawling into homes, apartments, and hotel rooms. As it gets hotter, these bed bugs are going to become more active, feed and reproduce more and so these pesky problems will amplify. Luckily, here at Northwest we are pleased to say that we are able to offer our customers an extension to our bed bug service program that helps to rid of these unwelcome pests.
Q. We’re getting ready to go to spring break in San Diego, California. How do we make sure our rooms don’t have bed bugs?
A. It depends on where you might be staying. Most reputable hotels work hard to keep their rooms bed bug free. but as a guest you can never be sure 100%. Sometimes, there are little critters that have been left behind, so you need to take precautions.
1. When you first check your room, make sure your clothes and luggage are placed away from beds.
2. Make sure to check around the bed, bed frame and underneath the mattress to make sure that there is no blood smears
3. Check in and around the rolled seams in the mattress and boxspring
4. Also, inspect for bugs and spotting around the edge of the headboard
(Make sure you use a flashlight to get a better and closer look if you have these critters in your presence)
You can also expand your inspection to bedside furniture, baseboards near the bed, the curtains, etc., especially if the place you are staying in isn’t “top-of-the-line.”
If bed bugs are present, do NOT stay in that room. Make sure that you either move to another room or move to another hotel, bed bugs are good hitchhikers. If you stay in an infested room, bed bugs might crawl into your suitcase so make sure that when returning home you immediately put your clothes into a plastic bag and place in the dryer as heat will do the trick to kill these bugs. Find out more by visiting your local pest expert.
Q: What can be done to help eliminate and prevent bed bugs from entering into hotels and from bringing them home with you?
Even though we try to avoid bringing bed bugs home, picking them up from other sources is easier that ever. The most common way that bed bugs have been known to get access into a home is by a member of the family who travels. Bed bugs are very good at latching onto clothing or pieces of luggage without anyone ever knowing.
The steps to controlling bed bugs and preventing them from entering your home are pretty basic. These are a few things that you can do to protect yourself.
1. When traveling bring a small bright flashlight for inspections
2. Use luggage racks set away from the wall—-never set luggage on the bed
3. Keep clothes and belongings in sealed plastic bags or hang them in the closet
4. At home, inspect and isolate luggage in clear plastic bags
5. Heat clothes, coats and shoes in a clothes dryer on high for 30 minutes to kill hitchhiking bugs
6. When inspecting your hotel room, check for blood spots in corners, crevices, along the edge of the mattress, between the mattress and box spring, etc. ( This is usually a good indicator bed bugs have been present )
Q: It is getting very warm this year in most areas of the United States. I was wondering if because of this specific weather change what type of critters and insects would be coming out?
It is true, that one of the USA’s warmest winters in years could possibly lead to a bug bonanza. over the next weeks with all kinds of insects like beetles, ants, termites and wasps all coming out much earlier than usual.
In some places, the onslaught has already begun. Many insects that are being seen are not the usual ones that come out this time of year; those that include stink bugs and boxelder bugs.
This widespread warmth is hitting several cities including New York, Chicago, Washington, etc. Winter is usually the time of months that insects hibernate but they may be emerging quite early from their hiding places. One key for the insects is that if they come out early, the flowers and plants they feed on must also bloom equally early. They have to be synchronized with what they’re feeding upon.
So contact northwest exterminatingfor all our pest control needs.