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One of the common pests found in Vancouver, WA, throughout the state of Washington and Oregon is the bed bug. They are a major concern for homeowners, travelers, and businesses. Just one report of a bed bug infestation in a hotel, restaurant or on an airplane can ruin the reputation of a business.

The funny thing about bed bugs is people are terrified of finding out they have a bed bug infestation, but most people dont really know the signs of bed bugs. Any small insect people encounter often gets identified as a bed bug and people go running for help.

If you live in Vancouver, WA, Clark County or anywhere in the Northwestern United States and are afraid you have a bed bug infestation, stop and learn what the signs of bed bugs look like. Then, if you really feel you have bed bugs, contact your local Vancouver Western Exterminator office for help.

Identifying bed bugs without specialized training is difficult. Adult bed bugs are very small. Bed bug eggs and bed bug larvae are so small they look like dirt, or are nearly invisible. Plus, bed bugs are very good at finding hiding spaces for their eggs and young.

Bed bugs hide in the tiniest of cracks in wooden bed posts. They hide beneath the bed sheets and the tiny folds and cracks in a mattress. They can hide in the carpets, on the walls behind photos, electrical sockets or other areas, too.

Given how small the bed bugs are, and how well they hide, you may need to look for other bed bug signs and not the insects. Some of the first signs a bed bug infestation is starting include:

Bed bugs bites are also often the first signs of a bed bug problem that has become very serious around your Vancouver, WA, home or property. Since the bed bug skins, blood spots and fecal spots can be very small and are easy to miss, you may first notice the bed bug bites on your body.

Bed bugs sneak out from their hiding places at night and feed on sleeping people because they do not want to be disturbed when feeding. Someone who is awake is more likely to move, and they prefer peace and quiet to feed.

Bed bugs will bite arms, legs, and on the torso of people. They appear as red spots which may or may not become raised bumps. Bed bugs often feed together or multiple times during the night, so, there are often numerous bites and they appear in a line on the body.

Bed bug bites may not itch, as it depends on your bodys reaction to the chemicals they inject in order to keep the blood flowing so they can feed. Do not scratch them, but keep an eye on them and make sure they eventually fade. If you have any kind of allergic reaction to the bed bug bites, seek medical attention.

If your home in Vancouver, WA, has any signs or you are finding bites on your body, you should get rid of bed bugs. It can be very, very difficult to get rid of bed bugs on your home as the insects can breed very fast and missing just two of them around the house can lead to a re-infestation of the entire home.

Bed bugs can also spread throughout a house or even an apartment building, or office. Since they hide so well, it takes training to spot the signs of bed bugs and evaluate the seriousness of the infestation.

Keep a sharp eye out for bed bug signs. Get assistance from a professional as early as possible.

If you travel, try these tips:

Regardless of what signs you have seen, if you think you have bed bugs in Vancouver, WA, or Clark County, contact your local Western Exterminator today!

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Bed bug infestations have been on the rise in the United States for the last couple of decades. Once associated with poor hygiene and poverty, the bugs' resurgence is, according to research, caused by international travel, immigration, changes in pest control practices, and insecticide resistance. Bed bugs live in places where there are ample human and animal hosts such as homes, apartments, hotels, and dormitories. They're difficult to eradicate and exterminator fees often run into the thousands of dollars.

While they don't carry disease, bed bugs present an existential nightmare for most. The surest way to identify an infestation is to find a live bed bug. Adult bugs can be spotted with the unaided eye; they're oval, flat, rusty-colored, and about 5 mm long. After feeding they're slightly more elongated (see a pre and post-feeding bed bug picture here).

Short of finding a live bed bug (which is tough to do because they feed at around 4 a.m. and hide during the day), household members or visitors might notice small, pink, itchy skin welts that resemble mosquito bites. Many bite victims don't react at all, although extreme reactions can lead to asthma, hives, and in rare cases, anaphylaxis. Other ways to identify bed bugs are their excrement (tiny dark spots), shed beg bug skin, and blood smears from crushed bugs.

If you're like most people, even the slightest evidence of bed bugs is cause to call an exterminator. Here's what to expect once the local bug guy or gal arrives:

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Description:

Adults average 3/16 (4-5mm) long; broadly oval and flat. Their colour ranges from brown to reddish brown (after feeding). Head with beak/proboscis 3-segmented, not extending beyond front coxae. Ocelli absent. Antenna 4-segmented, 3rd segment longer than 2nd or 4th. Pronotum with front margin deeply concave to receive head, with side margins greatly expanded forward to beyond eyes, pronotum more than 2.5times as wide as long as its middle. Bases (coxae) of middle and hind legs widely separated; tarsi 3-segmented. Front wings vestigial, reduced to wind pads; with contiguous (touching) portions shorter than scutellum (triangular plate directly behind pronotum) in length. Body upper surface sparsely covered with short golden hairs, usually shorter than diameter of 2nd antennal segment. It can emit an obnoxiously sweet odour from scent glands.

Habits:

Bed bugs harbour in cracks and crevices during the day and come out to feed at night. Typically they can be found around mattress buttons and beading in boxsprings or their coverings, and in any crevice of a wooden bed frame, such as at the joint. Other places to check are wall hangings such as picture frames, night stands, stuffed furniture, baseboards, floorboards, behind loose wallpaper, light switches, door and window frames, conduits, wall voids, attics and other enclosed places. They will crawl considerable distances to obtain a blood meal. They can be introduced into a structure via used furniture or in belongings of someone who has been living in a bed bug infestation. Adults can survive for up to 12-18 months without feeding. When the temperature falls below 61F/16C, adults enter semi-hibernation and can survive for months. Bed bug infestations have been found in transportation vehicles such as boats, trains, airplanes and buses as well as in movie theatres where they typically harborage in seats and associated frames. Besides the characteristics obnoxiously sweet odour, the other primary clues to an infestation will be the presence of bedbugs and/or small red to reddish brown fecal spots on surfaces.

Control:

A thorough inspection is crucial. Treat any bed bugs found with an appropriately labelled pesticide. Mattress and box spring encasements should be used. In apartment buildings and hotels, its advisable to also inspect units to either side and above and below the infested unit, and treat as required. Control of bed bugs involves co-operation with home owners and/or tenants. Depending on size of infestations found, multiple treatments may be needed. Treat night stands, stuffed furniture, baseboards, floorboards, behind loose wallpaper, light switches, door and window frames, conduits, wall voids, attics and other enclosed places with properly labelled residual insecticide. Use insecticide dust in wall voids and under carpet seams. Vacuums are a great way to physically remove bed bugs from an area. Be sure to vacuum cracks and crevices where bed bugs hide. Also, when finished vacuuming, treat the vacuum hose and throw away the vacuum bag.

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It's not pleasant when you find your home has become a haven for bed bugs or other pests. If your living space is a safe refuge from nature, then you feel comfortable enough to call it a 'home'. On the other hand, when pests invade your home, you feel unsettled and sometimes downright threatened! Bugs, rats, mice, or spiders in your home might affect your health, social life, or cause damage to your property.

We understand exactly how you feel. We've helped lots of Vancouver homeowners get rid of pests fast. By calling OnSite Pest Control, you have taken the first step in pest removal and will shortly be able to rest easy in your home again.

While every home is different, through years of service, OnSite has created a standard procedure that ensures that we are continually pushing our teams to provide excellent, safe, and efficient pest removal service. Our 5-step approach is what sets us apart as an expert exterminator company in Vancouver, with specialization in bed bug removal.

Evaluate - Before we suggest any pest removal methods, we do a site evaluation of what we see in your home. During our initial consultation, we are looking for evidence of pests, potential health or structural hazards, clues to quantity and behaviour of pests, travel pathways and points of access and egress.

Plan - Once the evaluation is complete, we formulate a pest removal plan in order to bring your home back under your control and away from the carpenter ants, bedbugs, mice, or other pests that have invaded your space.

Communicate - This is the best way to ensure that you're aware of our removal strategies and the methods we use! Your compliance and understanding ensures that our methods will be as effective as possible.

Deploy - Once a plan is in place, OnSite Pest Control puts it into action ASAP. Bed bugs don't bother us, but we know that you'd like to feel safe and confident in your Vancouver home once again.

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ow, what the pco's don't share up front before we drown in debt.

Beth,

I'm sad if you had a bad experience with a PMP because bad PMP give all of them a bad name.

However, I've never heard a PMP say that talc is an effective way to kill bed bugs. Keep in mind that it's entirely possible that a PMP told bitebedbugsback that, but just because one PMP said it doesn't make it true.

Just as in any other profession, there are good and bad PMPs out there, and there are multiple ways for one to be bad. A bad PMP might claim to find an infestation where none exists or treat ineffectively, but a bad one might also use a susbtance like talc that isn't effective at killing bugs or tell a client to use something that won't work.

I certainly don't think there's a PMP conspiracy out there in which there's really a cheap solution to bed bugs that they aren't telling us about.

I'm also not especially confident that talc would do anything to kill the bugs. It might make it harder for them to move and slow them down, but I don't think it kills them. If there were a cheap, over the counter way to kill bed bugs, I'd be the first one to sings its praises from the rooftops. So far, it doesn't exist.

As for the reaction you had to DE, I've never heard of DE having that effect on someone--even someone with chemical sensitivity. (Remember, DE is basically the exoskeletons of a kind of plankton, and its sharp edges mechanically erode bed bugs' exoskeletons.) There are some DE preparations that are DE combined with a pyrethrin, and if you're chemically sensitive, it would make sense that a combo product like that might trigger the chemical sensitivity.

If there isn't a chemical in it and you're having that response, I would be very wary about using any DE as I can't imagine that one food grade DE is very different from another food grade DE, and you may well have that same, if statistically highly uncommon, reaction to another preparation.

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