Bed Bugs-Say GoodBye!

Successfully fighting an epidemic of bed bugs necessitates 2 important steps. First, finding where the bugs are hanging out is critical.  Whether you employ bug-sniffing dogs or other methods, you want to make sure you do a thorough job. If you don’t find all the areas the critters are hiding, exterminating the other spots won’t do you much good.

The 2nd step is the actual extermination. According to leading exterminators, bug-treatment should be done right after the "hunt" is completed, or at the very least within 48 hours. Otherwise, the bugs could move to other areas in the home or office and you’ll miss killing them in their new hiding place.

An unfortunate example of this occurred some time ago with an office used by NYC Transit in Long Island City. Several months after they exterminated, the bugs were back biting employees. Apparently, they waited a week after discovering the hiding places of the bed bugs. Only then did they begin extermination. Of course, by that time, it’s highly likely that the bugs had colonized new areas in the office which were missed in the treatment.