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Portland Pest Control Pros On Bed Bug Eggs
8/30/13
Did you know that bed bug control isn’t all about finding bed bugs? Locating bed bug eggs can be just as important, because they will eventually become full grown bed bugs. In commercial facilities, especially hotels and other areas with high turnover rates, bed bugs and their eggs tend to get around. Bed bugs will hide inside personal belongings and then crawl to the nearest bed, bedside table or quick hiding spot they can find inside your business. Bed bug eggs will be deposited in areas where bed bugs congregate; these sticky white (and very tiny!) eggs are easily missed by the naked eye and easily picked up by unsuspecting travelers. If you have bed bugs inside your business or facility, your reputation is at risk! That’s why the commercial pest control professionals at Sprague Pest Solutions offer several different bed bug inspection and treatment options to help your business get rid of bed bugs and prevent future problems from popping up.
To inspect for bed bugs, the professionals at Sprague can do two things- our trained inspectors can manually check a room, moving items, pulling things apart and inspecting with a flashlight and sometimes a magnifying glass. Another option, which is better suited for a commercial environment would be to enlist the help of a bed bug detection canine and handler. This team can locate bed bugs and their eggs by their smell, rather than by sight. This allows for very quick inspections that don’t require items to be disassembled or moved around and is especially appropriate in hotels where many rooms may need to be checked.
If bed bugs and their eggs are found, the treatment option will be determined depending on the intensity of the infestation and the locations. In most cases, bed bug heat treatments can be a good treatment option. This eco-friendly solution to the bed bug problem uses heaters and fans to elevate the temperature of a room (or a few rooms) to the point at which bed bugs die. The rooms are kept at this temperature for several hours ensuring all bed bug life stages are exterminated.
To help prevent this problem in the future, our professionals can help educate you and your staff on what bed bugs look like by showing you photos of bed bug infestations as well as bed bug egg pictures. Knowing what to look for with these pests is half the battle in bed bug control in all commercial facilities.
With fall upon us, colleges and universities (as well as schools for younger children) need to be on the lookout for bed bugs. There should be a bed bug protocol in place should these pests pop up so that staff know what to do to limit any infestations and students and parents aren’t unnecessarily worried. Bed bug education is also important in these environments, because the more people that know what bed bugs (and the signs of bed bugs) look like, the more people that can help limit bed bug problems.
Because it is the nature of bed bugs to be carried from place to place, our highly trained technicians are able to exterminate these infestations without bringing more bed bugs back to their personal homes or to other locations that they service. Because we deal directly with these pests, we take special precautions to make sure our professionals don’t accidentally pick up those sticky bed bug eggs on their clothing or accidentally become a host for hitchhiking adult bed bugs.
For more information on bed bug services in Seattle, Portland and Salt Lake City, please give the professionals at Sprague Pest Solutions a call. We can help find bed bugs and their eggs and eliminate them quickly without causing you a lot of down time. We can protect your reputation and then educate you and your staff to help reduce the possibility of a full blown bed bug infestation in the future. For bed bug inspections, canine bed bug inspections and full bed bug control treatments, contact us today!