BED BUGS

BED BUG CONTROL & TREATMENT

We are experts in treating and eliminating bed bugs in your home or business. We use only proven methods to treat and eradicate your bed bug problem. After treatment, we follow up on our own work with a K9 Inspection to verify the results so that we know the area we treated is bed bug free. As with termites, only a complete and thorough inspection can determine if you have a genuine bed bug problem and what it will take to treat and control it.  
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For more information or to schedule an inspection, contact us today. 
Learn more about Heat Treatments from California Pest Control. The most effective, efficient and cleanest way to turn bed bugs into dead bugs.
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SEEING RED
As with other insects, bug bites can be characterized by red, welt-like bumps on the skin and can cause any number of related issues including allergic reactions, skin infections, mental distress and, even anaphylactic shock, though this is rare. But an especially interesting and worrisome feature of bed bug bites is that you often do not see or feel the damage until long after it is done. That's because bed bugs first inject you with an anesthetic before hungrily slurping your blood.
Other Tell Tale Signs 

Bed Bugs can be very hard to detect so knowledge about how they look and behave can be very important to detecting them as soon as possible. Because they are flat and about the size of an apple seed, bed bugs can invade your home from almost anywhere. Drawn to warm, dark places near human hosts, bed bugs are also not simply relegated to living on mattresses and can be found in furniture, clothing, carpets and many more places. Furthermore, they can live for almost a full year in a home with a nominal temperature and adequate food supply. Add this to the fact that they can fully infest a house within 3-4 months and it's easy to see how bed bugs can get out of control. Other things to consider include: 

  • ​Bed Bugs can travel on bags, people and suitcases or transferred from used furniture. 
  • ​Bed signs can be dark spotting and staining on sheets, mattresses, pillows and clothing. The staining is from excrement and blood left by crushed bed bugs. 
  • ​A sweet musty smell is often associated with bed bug infestation. 
  • ​Most bed bugs come out for meals at night-time and feed exclusively on blood. Their bites on humans can feel and even look similar to a mosquito bite. ​ ​
Defense & Treatment 

Like they say in football, sometimes your best defense is a strong offense so make the moves that are necessary to keep bed bugs out of your house as much as possible. First, inspect it regularly especially after traveling or when guests leave your home. The same is true for furniture: inspect it regularly, especially any second-hand pieces you might bring into your home. Finally, even though bed bug infestations have NOTHING to do with cleanliness, it still helps to remove clutter from your home if for no other reason than it gives them fewer places to hide. 

As for treatment, your best option is to get professional treatment. Having said that, choose carefully because not all professional treatments are the same. Heat applications for example, are used by many pest control professionals, but generally only as a method of contact killing, which means they only kill the bed bugs you can see and not the entire infestation.  

Of course ultimately choosing the best treatment method for your situation depends entirely on the scope of your situation, so contact us today to schedule an in home bed bug inspection. Serving the Central Valley, we are just a call away from handling any of your pest control needs. 
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Travel Smart 
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​Infestations have been found in high and low end hotels and motels across the country so protect yourself when you travel. This isn't a souvenir you want to bring home.
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