Ways To Kill Bed Bugs
Bed bugs were not a problem many years ago when DDT was still in use. Nowadays, since many powerful insecticides have been banned, bed bugs are making a strong come back.
International travel has also inflated the problem. Now that more countries that have bed bug problems are traveling to the ones that do not, bed bugs are spreading like wildfire. Even what seems like clean and luxurious hotels are experiencing issues with bed bugs.
Bed bugs can be hidden just about any place where they cannot be seen. They could hide in the folds of your clothing, under your mattress, in between crevices, and other nooks and crannies.
Right before dawn, the bed bugs come out to feed on your blood. They inject a chemical into your body so that you will not feel anything when they suck out your blood.
If you want to kill all the bed bugs, then you will need to seek out all the places that they hide. They normally like to hide somewhere close to their food source. If you miss just one bed bug, they will quickly reproduce so it is imperative to get all of them.
To kill of the bed bugs in your mattress, you may want to buy a mattress encasement. This encasement closes off your mattress to the rest of the world and thereby traps the bed bugs inside. Doing this eventually starves that bed bugs to death but it could take at least 6 months.
After killing the bed bugs on your mattress, look elsewhere around your room. Any place that seems like a good hiding spot you should check it out.
If you do not feel up to it or you do not know where bed bugs typically hide, then call the exterminator. Exterminators know where the bed bugs reside and have the potent insecticides to kill bed bugs.
Henry has been a professional exterminator for many years. For further information on how to kill bed bugs at home, please visit his website.
