BED BUG CONTROL

Prepare the area: Pre-treatment Procedures:

Reduce clutter to make inspection easier.
Personal items (stuffed animals, soft toys, blankets) should be removed, cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, and bagged in plastic for for a couple of days with Nuvan Strips if infestation is severe. You can also bag your laptops, phones, radios in a bag as well. The insecticide in the Nuvan strips will not harm these items and is a non residual, so you don't have to launder these items after using the Nuvan strips.

If you dismantle the bed frames, you may expose additional bedbug hiding sites:

• Remove drawers from desks and dressers and turn furniture over, if possible, to inspect and clean all hiding spots.
• Stand up the box spring and shine a flashlight through the gauze fabric to expose bed bugs.If the fabric is torn ( possible hiding place), remove fabric to prepare for spraying.
• Caulk and seal all holes where pipes and wires penetrate walls and floor, and fill cracks around baseboards and moldings to further reduce harborages.
• Since infested garments and bed linen can't be treated with insecticide they will need to be laundered in hot water (120°F minimum). If washing is not available, sometimes heating the garments or bed linen for several minutes in a clothes dryer may work.
• Thoroughly clean the infested rooms .Scrub infested surfaces with a stiff brush to dislodge eggs.
• Vacuum in area of bed bug harborages with an vacuum attachment. Vacuum along baseboards, nearby furniture, bed stands, rails, headboards, footboards,bed seams, tufts, buttons, edges of the bedding as well as the edges of the carpets(particularly along the tack strips) are key areas to vacuum. A good vacuum cleaning job may remove particles from cracks and crevices to encourage greater insecticide penetration.
• Discard vacuum cleaner bag in a sealed plastic bag when finished.
• Caulk cracks and crevices in the building exterior and also repair or screen openings to exclude birds, bats, and rodents that can serve as alternate hosts for bed bugs.

Inspect: Look For The Bugs:

To inspect well, it may be helpful to briefly understand Bed Bug Diet and Bedbug Habits Because the bed bugs may be difficult to see with the naked eye, we recommend an industrial powered magnifier such as Carson's Dual View Magnifier. and a flashlight