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What Are Bed Bugs?

Bed bugs are flat, wingless, blood-sucking insects less than long. They range in color from light brown to reddish-brown. Bed bugs lay up to 540 eggs in a lifetime, and each baby can be ready to reproduce in only 21 days. Bed bugs are a nuisance pest only and are not known to spread disease.

If you have bed bugs, do not panic. Bed bugs can be contained and eliminated from your home with the proper course of action.

It is recommended to hire a pest management company to locate all bed bug hiding areas and apply a treatment that will effectively eliminate the population.

Bed bugs may originate in furniture brought from other locations.

Bed bugs may crawl through walls and enter new rooms. Lines indicate where people may transfer bed bugs to other locations of their house. Bed bugs are moved either by transferring them on their person or by moving them around in other items, such as laundry. Note: A laundry room in a different part of the house, could become a prime transfer location, as clothing from an infested room comes into contact with clothing going to other rooms.

Bedbugs are "lazy" insects. They do not run, travel long distances on their own, or fly. In fact, they may stay in the same location without food for up to one year!

Decades ago bed bugs were eliminated in the United States by certain pesticides, such as DDT, which have since been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency. Recently, with increased traveling, domestic and international, bed bug activity also began to resurge in this country as people moved around more. Although more environmental-friendly pesticides are on the market, some bed bug populations are becoming resistant to these chemicals. Until an effective pest management strategy can be developed, bed bugs are on the rise.

Bed bugs may crawl into or attach themselves to clothing, luggage, furniture, or any other item a person leaves in an infested area. Wherever this newly infested item is moved, bed bugs can make a new home and stay.

Fact: Bed bugs are on the rise! They can be found any time, anywhere, and when you least expect them. You just dont know what other people bring with them.

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Bed Bugs: Your Residential Reference Guide - Fairfax County, Virginia

Bed Bug Outreach and Education Program

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) Office of Pesticide Services (OPS), thru a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, has undertaken an outreach and education project to provide information regarding Bed Bugs. As part of the project, a series of Fact Sheets were developed and workshops were conducted throughout the State. Fact Sheets, available in both English and Spanish, along with the workshop presentations provide the most current information regarding Bed Bugs including inspection and identification, current treatment methods and suggested best management practices and are available below.

Fact Sheets

Presentations

Bed Bugs - How to Protect Yourself and Your Home (Book)

How to Protect Yourself Booklet - to print booklet, print on both sides of the page (flip on long edge)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) EPA Pesticide Database to Aid Consumers in Controlling Bed Bugs (News Release) Search the bed bug pesticides database Tips on preventing bed bug infestations

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CHARLESTON (WVVA)-You hear the reportsthe last hotel you stayed in may have bed bugs, your child's classmate has head lice. You immediately cringe at the thought. Nothing makes your skin crawl quite like the thought of little pests like bed bugs or head lice.

What do bed bugs and head lice have in common?

The West Virginia Poison Center provides these tips to safely deal with these unwanted pests:

For bedbugsuse a professional exterminator. These pest are great at hiding and pesticides needs to go where they are. Odds are you will end up using more pesticide than you need, a more toxic pesticide than you need, and applying the pesticide in most of the wrong places if you do it yourself. Get rid of them by a professional and be done. This will likely be less expensive in the long run.

For licedo not apply pesticides to non-living objects.

Nits and lice on non-living objects will die; nits need body heat and humidity to survive and lice need body warmth and blood to live. Nits and lice will not live long if not on a hair shaft next to the scalp. If someone is concerned about bedding, simply wash and then dry with high heat.

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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cimex Exterminating Corp, a bed bug pest control company, has announced that it now offers financing. It is the only exterminating company in Virginia that offers this service for its customers.

"When you have a bed bug infestation, you don't want to wait. You want to have the problem fixed as soon as possible," said Kevin Campbell, co-founder of Cimex Exterminating Corp. "Our new financing program makes treatment possible for customers who would otherwise have to wait until their bed bug problem gets much worse before they could do anything about it."

Campbell and co-founder Mark Drexler started the bed-bug-exclusive exterminating company because many general practice pest control companies in Virginia don't treat bed bugs or don't treat bed bugs successfully. Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of bed bug cases throughout the country, and especially in the central and southeastern portions of Virginia. While businesses, homeowners and landlords all need the services, some of them need financing, as well.

"Like I often tell my customers, no one keeps that proverbial jar on top of the fridge labeled 'bed bug treatment,'" said Campbell. "Now that we have teamed up with Kristin Gerlach at Infiniquest, we're able to offer our clients financing with same-day approval. Everybody qualifies."

The small reddish-brown insects that feed on blood are known by the scientific name of Cimex lectularius Linnaeus. They are very difficult to eradicate, do not respond to traditional exterminating methods and may take two or more treatments before they are completely gone.

About Cimex Exterminating Corp: Cimex Exterminating Corp (http://www.cimexbedbug.com) is a bed bug removal company. With nearly 40 years of pest control experience, the Virginia-based business offers bed bug extermination through heat treatments and other eco-friendly methods. Cimex Exterminating is a member of the National Pest Management Association, Virginia Pest Management Association and the Tidewater Pest Control Association. It is the only exterminating company in southeastern Virginia that holds membership with the National Bed Bug Association.

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