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Austin TX Pest & Termite Control, Bed Bug Exterminator ...

Bed bugs are small, wingless insects that have not been known to transmit disease. Adult bed bugs have flat, oval shaped bodies. They are between 1 to 7 millimeters in length (about the size of an apple seed). The size of an adult bed bug varies, because their bodies become larger after a blood meal. After eating they change to a reddish color. Bed bugs are usually active at night and bite humans and animals while they are sleeping. They can live several months without feeding.

Bed bugs can be found anywhere, such as houses, apartments, group living situations, hospitals, hotels/motels, and public transportation vehicles. These places have areas where people sleep or spend significant amounts of time. Their usual hiding places are in seams of mattresses, box springs, bed frames, and along and/or directly behind headboards. Once a bed bug population multiplies, they can be found: behind baseboards; in cracks and crevices in furniture, floors, or walls; under cluttered areas; and in electronic appliances. A bed bug infestation is apparent by noticing black or brown spots (which are their waste products) on surfaces. The eggs, egg shells, and exoskeletons of the bed bugs can be found in their hiding places as well.

Because bed bugs can be found in homes and a variety of public places, they can easily be transported from place to place by people. They can hide in the seams of luggage and in the folds of clothing. They can also be transported in furniture.

Bed bugs are not known to transmit disease, but many people have mild to severe allergic reactions to the bites. Bed bug bite marks usually appear on the face, neck, arms, hands, but can appear on other body parts. The marks are slightly swollen, red areas that can itch or be irritating.

It usually takes multiple visits by licensed pest control operator who has experience in elimination of bed bugs. Please seek the advice of a licensed pest control operator for treatment options. Over the counter foggers and pesticides will not eliminate bed bugs.

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Bed Bugs - Texas Department of State Health Services

KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) -

A KCK assisted living facility is battling a case of bed bugs.

The Net Giver operates Delaware Highlands Assisted Living, located at North 126th Street and Delaware Parkway, which is a publicly subsidized facility.

The owner of the Net Giver, Jeremy Whitt, says the staff has found bed bugs in three of the residents' rooms, beginning with one room two weeks ago.

"It all depends on the level of severity,"Whitt said about deciding how to handle the situation. "This was a minor incident, and that's not our opinion, but the opinion of (the exterminator) Orkin."

Whitt says the management had Orkin fumigate only the affected room when that first sighting arose. They told maintenance and cleaning staff to keep an eye out but did not inspect other rooms or notify other residents.

"We didn't want to create mass hysteria or confusion with partial information or incomplete information, especially on the first round of this incident," Whitt said.

By Friday staff noticed signs of bedbugs in two adjacent rooms and management stepped up its response, Whitt said.

Monday, Orkin fumigated not just those rooms, but two rooms in every direction on that floor as well as the rooms above and below. Then they began planning how best to inform the rest of the people who live there.

"I didn't know what a bed big looked like so I was kind of curious, said resident Jackie Faught.

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KCK assisted living facility battling bed bugs - KLTV.com ...

Bed bugs got their name because they like to be as close to their human hosts as possible. Since they are after nourishment found in human blood, the most ideal place for them to reside is in the bedroom furniture, bedding and carpeting. Bed bugs are becoming more and more resilient to chemical treatments, so the best treatment option for eradicating a bed bug infestation is through the use of heat.

Heat treatment has several benefits over alternative methods. Since the approach is chemical-free, there are no lingering odors or allergy risks to the homes occupants. It is a total-kill technique, meaning bed bugs in all the stages of life cannot withstand the treatment regardless of how inaccessible they are. Home furnishings and belongings do not sustain any damage due to the heat, and, best of all, treatment can be completed in one session, avoiding the problem of reinfestations.

The eMaster Pro electric unit operates by using heated room air to treat infested areas of the home. Air temperature is raised as air passes over the units heating coils and is blown into rooms up to 375 square feet in size. With no generator required, this unit is portable and can easily treat dorms, hotel rooms and small apartments.

Direct-fired propane heating units are the most common heater used to treat bed bug infestations in Houston. For the safety of the home and its occupants, the units stay outside the building and air as hot as 210F is forced into the infected areas of the structure. Gas detection is performed to ensure good air quality for anyone exposed.

Like the eMaster Pro unit, this heater effectively raises the rooms temperature to levels not tolerable to bed bugs in any life stage. All areas of the home, including interior and exterior walls, are heated, ensuring complete extermination. Treatment with the direct-fired propane heaters also requires only one session and does not harm the home or its contents. Since it is chemical-free, the treatment poses no harm to pets or small children following the process.

Bed bugs are hardy, resistant little pests that usually take repeated attempts to clear out of a home when using chemicals or home-based techniques. Fortunately, skilled professionals experienced in electric and direct-fired propane heating units are able to effectively eliminate a bed bug infestation from the home in a single treatment session. Heat treatment is the best way to ensure that a home can return to pest-free conditions without concern that reinfestations may occur.

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Latest news for bed bug bites in Houston, Texas.

It seems people are having some difficulty distinguishing bedbugs from other bugs that move into your home and crawl on your elbow at night. If you find a suspicious-looking brown thing in your bed, or suspect you're being bitten night after night, you can peruse a wealth of Internet photos, call in the bug-snuffing (and sniffing!) professionals, or torch all your belongings and flee town. But if you're not prepared to do any of those things unless you are 1,000 percent sure you're suffering a serious infestation, it appears you can just pop a cotton swab into an envelope and ship it off to Texas for DNA testing. The modern world is a marvel!

Real estate blog Brick Underground dug into the mysterious world of bedbug DNA testing todayapparently, for Dallas-based company BugLab ID can use the bug's DNA to determine a) if you are, in fact, being plagued by a few hundred dreaded bedbugs and, b) if yes, how severe said infestation has gotten. "Basically we come in and swab the surface, depending on what were looking for, and then we would take that sample and overnight it to the laboratory, company chairman Martin Hale told the site, noting that it takes about 24 hours for the lab to inform you as to whether or not you're under bug attack.

These entomological Gil Grissoms cost about $150 per visit (some exterminators charge up to $200 for preliminary apartment checks.) And since they're not going to make extra cash off your infestation, they're promising accurate resultsbug-sniffing canines have had some issues with false-positives.

This sounds all fun and science-y, but it seems like you're better off hunting for a bedbug yourself, rather than calling in a middleman. If that swab tests positive for buggies, you still have to shell out for an exterminator. And if it doesn't, you still have to suffer through a sleepless 24 hours while you wait for the results, whereas an exterminator's visual inspection will yield you an all-clear immediately.

What would be really great, though, is if science could come up with some way to determine whether that suspicious red mark on your body is a bedbug bite, and not one of a gazillion other skin reactions you could be suffering. Sure, a three-bite formation is the telltale sign, but sometimes bedbugs don't bite in threes, and sometimes weird hives you get after exercising pop up in suspect formations. Apparently even dermatologists can't tell whether or not you've been bitten by a bedbug, but scientists have managed to create Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. Something is off with our society's priorities.

Ah, well. If you do find a suspicious insect in your apartment, save yourself $150 and consult this handy guide to bedbugs and their impostor bug friends.

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Bedbug CSI Lab Uses DNA To Figure Out What's Biting You