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The resurgence of bed bugs over the last 3 years has been widely reported and many property managers are affected by this infestation. Unhappy tenants, the loss of income and the expenditure of Bed Bug Control are on the rise for Property Managers. When researching the most effective way to combat bed bugs, it is evident that everyone seems to have a different approach. Some companies use dogs for inspections, some don't, some companies use steam or cryonite, some don't. This inconsistency leaves a property manager to make the right choice. But what is the right choice when it comes to curtailing the rise of infestation? The most effective bed bug control programs always seem to have several things in common; the use of bed bug dogs to properly detect an infestation, the application of steam to ensure the killing of the bed bug's egg stage, the proper application of chemicals in a variety of forms (fogging, dusting, and crack and crevice,) and perhaps the most important step is the preparations made by tenants prior to treatment. The effective use of bed bug dogs. There is no absolute method in the detection of Bed Bugs to date. The closest to an absolute can be found in the arrival of the bed bug inspection dog. At a proven detection accuracy rate of 98%, Bed Bug Dogs can inspect an average one bedroom apartment in about 2 minutes. Human technicians are about 35% accurate and would take over an hour to do a thorough inspection of the same one bedroom unit. Bed Bug Dogs can sweep around 25 to 30 units in an hour, as opposed to the human inspector of one per hour. Now imagine you have 100 units in an apartment complex, the bed bug dog can inspect the entire complex in about 4 hours. A proper human inspection would take about 100 hours. Bed bug dog inspections are about $300 per hour and the average human inspector is about $100 per hour. In this scenario of 100 units to be inspected, the average cost for a bed bug dog inspection would be $1,200 with a 98% accuracy rate, where as, a human inspector price would be $10,000 with only a 35% accuracy rate. Bed Bug Dogs help save property managers money on the treatment process. No longer does a property manager have to treat units adjacent, above and below a unit that has been found to have an infestation. That means for every one unit that has bed bugs, property managers were paying for 4 additional treatments and exposing more tenants to treatments needlessly. By using a bed bug dog for inspection, only units that have been found to have bed bugs actually has to be treated. Bed Bug Dogs have been trained by the best trainers to be hard workers and friends to man. Nevertheless, a truly effective Bed Bug Dog must be trained daily, kept active and healthy, and be constantly aware of his/her objectives. Bed Bug Dogs are not pets, they are an invaluable part of a bed bug control strategy, and as such are treated with the love and respect they deserve. Amazingly, they seem unerringly eager to do their jobs, finding an obvious sense of gratification in what they do, all the while needing only the praise and love of the handlers to fuel them forward. Steam vs. Cryonite Currently, there is no effective chemical that is being manufactured for pest control companies to kill the egg stage of the bed bug. That means if your bed bug program does not include either steam or cryonite (a freezing method) you may be wasting your money, as the remaining bed bug eggs are sure to hatch and re-infest your building. Pest Control Companies with the greatest track record of success utilize steam treatments or a cryonite treatment to complement their chemical treatments. Moreover, in the past few years, there has been a distinct division between companies that use steam versus those that use cryonite. Either method, when generating a direct contact hit against the bed bug, will kill all stages of the insect including the egg stage, however, it has been shown that cryonite is not nearly as effective as steam. A recent study has shown that placing a live bed bug under a sheet of ordinary copy paper and spraying the paper with cryonite will not kill the bed bug. However, doing the same experiment with steam, shows different results in that the bed bug can not survive a steam treatment even without having a direct hit. How to Prepare For Treatment To maximize the effectiveness of a Bed Bug Treatment, it is vitally important for tenants receiving treatment to prepare in advance. Each tenant should be required to complete the following before any bed bug control treatment proceeds: 1. REDUCE CLUTTER. Now is the time to get rid of things that have been lying about for years, items the tenants have always intended to get rid of but haven't. Make sure tenants bag and seal all items they are removing. This will help seal and protect from bugs or eggs dropping throughout the apartment complex. 2. All beds must be stripped. All linens must be removed and washed on the hottest setting and dried on high heat. If you are taking your clothing/linens to a laundry-mat for cleaning, make sure to use new bags after you launder. Do not use the same bag you took to the laundry unless it has been washed/dried on high heat. 3. All clothing should follow the same procedure as linens. Once taken from a hot dryer, seal clothes in contractor type bags or large Ziploc bags until further notice. A sealable Rubbermaid container may also make life a little easier for access to clean clothing throughout the process. All linens and clothing should remain sealed until after the final bed bug control treatment. If clothing is already clean, just putting the items through a cycle in a high heat dryer will be fine. (It's the heat from the dryer that will kill bed bugs. Don't over stuff the dryer.) 4. All dresser drawers, night stands, vanity and armoire drawers must be emptied or cleared for treatment. All items from said drawers should remain in the same room if possible. Personal items can be placed in bags or boxes until after the first treatment is complete. All closets must be emptied for crack and crevice treatments. 5. Dry Clean/Delicates. Dry cleaning items works, however most dry clean only items can go through a dryer cycle on high heat as long as the items were not wet. For all questionable items, we strongly recommend using a Packtite unit. www.packtite.com 6. Vacuum each room including the edges of the baseboard molding. A crevice tool is the best option while vacuuming. This is a very important step for the effectiveness of your treatment. Be sure to vacuum under beds and furniture. After each time you vacuum, remove the bag and place it in a sealed trash bag for disposal outside the home. If using a canister vacuum, empty the debris into the trash for immediate disposal outdoors and wash canister in very hot water. 7. All open food must be removed or placed inside of a refrigerator. Place all drinking vessels, plates and eating utensils in a kitchen cabinet. After Treatment Procedures 1. Tenant should open any windows (weather permitting) to allow ventilation 2. Wipe down any surfaces such as counters, kitchen tables, and bed side tables. 3. All furniture should be vacuumed thoroughly. 4. All floors and along baseboards should be vacuumed thoroughly. 5. Cover your mattress and box spring with approved bed bug encasement covers. What should tenants do with their pets? Dogs, Cats, Hamsters, etc: Animals must be removed from apartment during a bed bug control treatment and may return at designated safe return time. The following preparations are only needed when a fogging treatment is done: Fish: Remove 4 inches of water level, turn off pump/filter and seal top with plastic and tape. Birds and Snakes: Birds and snakes are highly sensitive to airborne agents and it is strongly recommended that they are taken out of the area of any treatments and not to return for 24 hours. Because of building ventilation, both vents in your apt should be covered while treatment is taking place and a damp towel should be placed by front door.
Action Appears on Front Page of Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, October 21, 2009
PHOTOS: On the hunt for bed bugs
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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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