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Cincinnati, along with two other Ohio cities, has been named as one of the top cities in the United States for bed bugs.

State Rep. Dale Mallory (D-Cincinnati) announced Wednesday that more work needs to be done to help combat Ohio's bed bugs epidemic.

In a recent study conducted by the Orkin pest control company, three cities in Ohio were ranked in the top ten list of places with the most bed bugs infestations.

Those cities include:

"The Joint Bed Bugs Task Force has done a good job helping the people of Cincinnati fight Ohio's bed bug epidemic," Mallory said. "The hard work of the men and women who have contributed their time and effort to this cause should be commended. However, there is still much work left to be done."

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To completely eliminate a bed bug infestation from a dwelling it is necessary to treat more than just the room where someone is getting bitten by bed bugs at night. Most of the bedbugs will be in the room close to the person getting bitten, but they can travel quite quickly across floors, walls and ceilings (check-out the video link below). They get spread around the home when we move items such as; clothing or any other item that might have been kept in an area with a bed bug infestation. Thus, bed bugs are also commonly found in the laundry room and the living room. If bed bugs in the living room find someone sleeping on the couch, that room also will quickly become infested. Thus, the best way to totally eliminate a bed bug infestation is to thoroughly treat the problem room along with all surrounding areas.Click our bed bug treatment page for more bedbug treatment information.Call us at 1-800-362-2687 anytime between 8:00AM and 8:00PM for any questions or pricing information. Bed Bug Bites Video

Adult bed bugs are reddish-brown to all brownish in color. They are oval-shaped, flattened, and about 1/5 inch to 3/16 inch long. Their flat shape enables them to easily hide in small cracks and crevices. The body becomes more swollen, elongated, and dark red after getting a blood meal. Bed bugs have a beaklike piercing-sucking mouthpart system. Newly hatched nymphs are nearly colorless, becoming brownish as they mature. Nymphs have a similar appearance as the adults, eggs are white and around 1/32 inch long. Note: Bed bugs resemble a couple of other closely related insects, such as bat bugs. In Ohio, bat bugs are more common than bed bugs, but in Massachusetts, bed bugs are far more common. Bat bugs prefer bats, but if the preferred host animals are removed and the bat bugs are left untreated, they will seek out a human host. If you visit or live in a building with a bat infestation, this could be a possible source of bites.

Bedbug Life Cycle Eggs adhere to surfaces. Eggs hatch in 6 to 17 days, and the nymphs will immediately begin to feed. They require a blood meal in order to molt and grow. Bed bugs reach maturity after around five molts. Development from (egg to adult) is affected by temperature and takes about 21 days at 86 F to 110 days at 66 F. Bed bugs can go without feeding for 80 to 170 days; older stages can survive longer without feeding than younger ones. Adults have been known to have survived without food for as long as 540 days. A bed bug can consume six times its weight in blood and the feeding process can take 3 to 10 minutes. Adults normally live about 10-15 months and there can be 3 to 4 generations of bed bugs per year.

Bed bugs are fast moving insects. They feed mostly at night when their host is asleep. They use their sharp beak to pierce the skin of a host. Then, they inject a salivary fluid containing an anticoagulant that helps them obtain blood. Nymphs may become engorged with blood within three minutes. A full-grown adult bed bug usually feeds for ten to fifteen minutes. After becoming elongated after a blood meal, they then crawl away to a hiding place to digest the meal. Their sole source of food is the blood meal they take at night, either from humans or bats during the day. Bed bugs hide during the day. They are usually hidden in dark, protected sites. They seem to prefer fabric, wood, and paper surfaces. They are usually in close proximity to the host, although they can quickly travel far distances. Bed bugs initially can be found about in tufts, seams, and folds of the mattresses, later spreading to crevices in the bed frame and in the box-spring. In heavier infestations, they will occupy hiding places farther from the bed. They may hide in window or doorframes, floor cracks, baseboards, furniture, electrical boxes, and under the tack board of wall-to-wall carpeting. Bed bugs also often crawl upward to hide in pictures, wall hangings, loosened wallpaper, cracks in plaster, drapery pleats, and ceiling moldings.

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Patrick Dente, co-owner of Abatem Exterminating in Massachusetts and Vermont, was sitting with his brother one evening going back and forth about ideas to confront the spreading infestation. We realized there was a hole in the (treatment) market and we spent nearly a year coming up with the idea to create a heated truck, said Patrick Dente. That was two years ago. In the meantime, brothers and co-owners Patrick and Daniel built their first heated truck in their backyard out of a U-Haul. The Dentes have now upgraded the technology in their trucks and are marketing the heat method nationwide.

How bedbug heat treatment works:

The property owner packs up the entire household of solid goods, furniture, electronics, or anything else that is moveable. Clothing, bedding, and other soft items such as plush toys are packed separately once washed and dried in hot water and high heat in a dryer for 30 minutes. The soft items are placed in different plastic bags once properly cleaned. The company offers a trailer with portable clothes dryers to lessen infestation at local Laundromats. Companies in your area may provide the same service.

The company will move all of your furniture into a large (usually 24 feet long), specially equipped truck that will gradually heat up to 140 degrees over a couple of hours time. Temperatures of 115 degrees will kill the bedbugs and their eggs, but we heat to 140 degrees for 100 percent eradication in a shorter period of time, said Dente. Bedbugs die at 115 degrees, but it takes a long time, he said.

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