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PHOTOS: On the hunt for bed bugs
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Don't Let The Bedbugs Bite
5:00AM
| September 15, 2009
Bedbugs are equal opportunity pests. Exterminators report they've gotten rid of bedbug infestations in Fortune 500 companies and low-priced hotels. They've been found in movie theatres in good neighborhoods and bad. People can pick the bugs up through human contact; from mattresses in hotel rooms; even a park bench. Kids can bring them home from camp or sleepovers. How do you figure out if you've got them? Bedbugs are wingless creatures that are up to a quarter inch long. You can actually see them with the naked eye. They have a little bit of a red tinge to them. They are flat and oval in shape. You know if you've been bit by them if you get small, itchy, red bumps that appear in clusters or in a row. You can double check that they are not look-alike insects by going on www.Health.com/bedbugs. It's very difficult to get rid of them. One pest control expert we spoke to is clear about the best way to do it. John Russell, at Action Bed Bug Control, says you must use a two-pronged approach. "Applying chemicals by itself," says Russell "is not enough. You have to also incorporate steam or freezing." His company also uses highly trained dogs to pick up the presence of bedbugs. "Dogs are 95-98% accurate," says Russell. "They get the same kind of training as bomb-sniffing, drug-sniffing or arson dogs. Instead they sniff for bedbugs. Dogs smell in parts per trillion." They're also fast. "Dogs can go through a hotel room in two minutes. They can detect even the eggs," says Russell. "Humans are only 30% accurate and one hotel room could take a person up to a half hour. They've got to actually see them. They have to tear up headboards, go through curtains." That takes time. And Russell cautions it is usually never a one-time treatment. "We usually have to retreat at least once. We also give a 90-day warranty." Bedbugs are tough. "They don't want to leave," said Russell, "we are their only food source. They're not looking to be found during the daytime and unfortunately most technicians only work during the day. So if they're hiding it's going to be tough to find them." If you want to try and get rid of them yourself first remove all sheets and bedspreads and even the bed skirt if you have one. Put them in plastic bags and freeze them. If you'd rather go the steaming route, put them all in the washer on a hot water cycle and wash everything every three days until the infestation is gone. Also take a look at every piece of furniture in the room and if you spot them, scrub every surface. Vacuum and dispose of the vacuum bag immediately. If you can't do the job yourself call a pest control service. The extermination process is very expensive. The cost of getting rid of bedbugs in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan can run you a $1,000. Make sure any
extermination service you use is licensed.
They are licensed by the state. http://weblogs.wpix.com/news/helpmehoward/2009/09/dont_let_the_bedbugs_bite.html
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Source: http://www.kyw1060.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=2744140 |
Posted: Saturday, 12 July 2008 10:39AMGoodnight, Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite by KYW’s Michelle Durham It's a problem that many people don't know they have or if they do, they don't want to talk about it; bedbugs. And once you have them, it takes a lot of effort to get rid of them. General Manager of Action Termite and Pest Control John Russell explains how you get bedbugs in the first place: |
"You would go to a hotel after someone left that had bedbugs. You would put your clothing into the drawers and dressers and not realizing it then you take your clothes with you when you leave; go home and then spread it to the residential area."
It takes a lot of effort to get rid of them. Russell and his team bring in bug sniffing dogs to determine where they are; once that happens the intensive treatment begins:
"We have to treat every nook and cranny: picture frames, moldings, electrical outlets. We have to pull the carpet up. The second treatment is actually steam."
Steam will kill the eggs that haven't hatched yet. Bedbugs leave tiny blood stains on mattresses and sheets, so you can look for those. And Russell says when you check into a hotel pull the sheets off the bed and check the mattress seams and the headboards.
That's just one of the many horrors that accompany infestations, which have become increasingly common in hotel rooms, cruise ships, houses, dormitories and even airplanes in recent years.
All but eradicated in the 1950s, bedbugs have made quite the comeback, hitchhiking their way across the world in luggage.
And exterminators say no one can sleep tight at night.
Bedbugs have "definitely become a problem again," said John Russell, general manager of Action Termite & Pest Control, in Toms River, N.J.
And "they don't care whether you're rich or poor," he said.
Last year, the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City was reported to have bedbugs in the hotel before its gaming license was revoked.
Russell's company is treating hotels in New York and Atlantic City for bedbugs as well as an 11-story building in Philadelphia.
To help, Mike Russell, the company's vice president of marketing, says it employs two bug-sniffing dogs to root out bedbugs - and they're in high demand.
"We're getting at least 20 bedbug calls a week," he said.
John Russell said bedbugs are classic hitchhikers, finding humans from the carbon dioxide we exhale and hopping off into our beds, where they feed and breed at night. One female can lay up to 500 eggs.
Sometimes, bedbugs can even be transferred by furniture stores that pick up old mattresses and carry them in delivery vans alongside new beds, John Russell said.
The flat brown bugs can usually be seen underneath or in the seams of mattresses or nesting behind headboards during the day.
Tiny blood stains on mattresses and sheets are also a sign that you've got bugs that are feasting.
Bedbugs inject a numbing agent so their bite can't be felt.
John Russell says they haven't been found to transmit diseases.
Still, they're not a bug you can live with. *
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