Bed Bug Awareness

Bed Bug Crawling on a Sleepers Skin

Bed bugs continue to spread around the world and are increasingly resistance to current pesticides, but tenants and municipalities are fighting back with greater bed bug awareness backed up by court actions. As public awareness of the epidemic grows, homeowners and tenants are becoming more savvy about recognizing and reporting bed bugs at an earlier stage, thereby avoiding more serious and more costly infestations. When bed bugs are not discovered and exterminated early on they can cause a serious invasion which results in property damage, psychological damage to tenants ranging from anxiety to full blown post-traumatic stress disorder, to the need for vacating the premises.

 Positive strides are definitely being made in the public awareness sectors; tenants are increasingly pressuring landlords to be responsible in carrying out bug eradication  on the premises, and some have taken landlords to court via class action suits. One recent development coming out of Perelman School of Medicine is the discovery that bed bugs may be capable of transmitting the potentially fatal Chagas disease. According to a Harvard University bed bug expert, the evidence while compelling is not conclusive. The Harvard professor added that homeowners should not overreact to the news, and should discuss any bed bug concerns with their local exterminator.A parallel rise in the American incidence of both Chagas diseases and bed bugs is suggestive of a connection; however increased migration from Latin America to the United States may also explain at least part of the rise in Chagas disease.

Conclusions that can be drawn from current bed bug trends are that a greater focus on public awareness leading to quicker reporting of bed bug sightings, and efforts to prevent bed bugs from entering the home, will help offset the growing bed bug resistance to pesticides.

The staff of A # 1 Pest Control of Baltimore are expert bed bug exterminators with more than 2 decades of service to the Baltimore community. Call 410-764-PEST for immediate service.

Thoughts About Bed Bug Treatments

No two pest control concerns have the same reasoning when it comes to getting rid of bed bugs. Dovid Davis, an entomologist and owner of A # 1 Pest Control, a Baltimore pest control company is a particularly opinionated and outspoken individual and describes his bed bug eradication principles in a very pleasing way.

Dovid makes the point in numerous ways that his company focuses on treating with pesticides that have effects that continue for months after the treatment. This means the first bed bug treatment will keep working for up to 90 days or more when combined with high temperature washing and drying of clothing and bedding plus diligent household cleaning.

A # 1 Pest Control does not dispute the effectiveness of foggers and heat treatments. The company doesn't use them only because they are temporary kills, and Dovid is partial to treating with long lasting pesticides. However, when they are hired to treat a small area such as a single room or small dwelling unit, they will exterminate in the whole area and save the expense of using a bed bug sniffing dog.

The initial bed bug treatment often clears up the problem completely, but if not the company does offer follow up treatments as needed. If you live in the Baltimore area and need bed bug treatment, be sure to call the company office at 410-764-7500.

I think you can tell already, that director Dovid Davis understands every type of bed bug treatment. The company's decision to not use foggers and heat treatments is clearly based on a well thought out consideration of their uses and limitations. The company also employs bed bug sniffing dogs, but rightfully concludes that the dog's greatest contribution to pest eradication l is locating the bugs when the area infested is large.  The company director likes to use the strongest available pesticides, and to treat with residuals so that his treatment will retain their effectiveness for as long as possible. In short, by selecting A # 1 Pest Control for your personal pest eradication needs, you will be assured of getting a treatment based on sound intellectual principles.

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How Exterminators Block up Mice And Rat Entryways

If you hire someone to get rid of the rodents in your dwelling, be sure he also checks for and blocks mice and rat entry points. While rodents mostly dwell outdoors, by nature, they are also drawn to human dwellings, warm winter houses with a ready supply of food.

Rats and especially mice are dexterous critters that can squeeze into tiny cracks and holes. Rats and mice enter homes beneath doors, through open windows, by crawling along pipes that pierce walls, by way of thin chewable material such as walls, and via burrowing through subterranean passageways.

Because rodents have teeth that can chew through flimsy wall material such as cardboard, wallboard, plaster, and thin wood, their entry points must be clogged with steel wool, metal, or concrete. Examine the following original photos from A # 1 Pest Control to see how pest exterminators use concrete to block rodent entry points.


Boarding up a pipe hole






Notice the picture to the left. Plumbing pipes come in the dwelling through the wall and are completely enclosed by concrete. The concrete is packed around the pipe and stops up the hole that the pipe exits from. This protection totally blocks this former rodent access point. If a homeowner had enclosed the pipe with plaster, it might block rodent entrance for a while, but eventually they would gnaw though the dried plaster and open the entrance point once again. The concrete, on the other hand, will stand up against any attempt by the rodents to chew through it with their sharp teeth.



Outside rat burrow that has been filled with cement





Notice that the big hole in the grass has been filled up with concrete. That was once a rat entrance hole that an industrious rodent dug through the earth and extended underground until it got to pipes or other types of entryway into the dwelling. If A # 1 Pest Control - Harrisburg had not blocked up that hole, rats would have continued coursing into the nearby house through their improvised tunnel.


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Bed Bug Photos - Bed Bugs in Mattress Seams

No surprises here, bed bugs love to hang out around matress seams. That's a nice quiet protected place during the day, and keeps them within easy shot of the victim's arm at night.

This photo shows another mattress seam infested with bed bugs. Notice the bed bug defication on the matress around the seam. This mostly consists of dried blood. It becomes food for bed bug larvae. The seam itself is full of shed bed bug skins. 

The Social Significance of Having Bed Bugs

Bed bug infestations cause a physical discomfort, loss of sleep, and additionally a financial and social penalty. In the best case scenario, bed bugs cost more to eradicate than your typical insect; in the worse scenario the cost can rise sky high. A responsible assisted living center in Martin County, North Carolina willing handed over more than $100,000 to a pest control company to rid their center of bed bugs. Bed bug infestations also levy a stiff social toll when girlfriends, relatives, and friends learn that your abode is infected with the annoying bloodsuckers.

A New York comedian recently shed light on the at times painful social side effects of having bed bugs. One night the aspiring entertainer was successful in luring a new beau back to his apartment, but to his embarrassment she woke up the next morning with bed bug bites on her arms. The fragile relationship experienced difficulties to say the least. Parallel scenarios repeated themselves over and over again, eventually placing a serious burden on his social life. The apartment crisis soon cast a shadow on other social encounters. One night he was having dinner at an upscale eating establishment when a single bed bug dropped off his shirt and onto the table. It only takes one bed bug to clear a courtroom; obviously, the uninvited guest who decided to drop in for dinner was not welcome.

At times bed bug infestations can seriously strain family relations. A mother-in-law, accustomed to putting up with bed bugs, mistakenly thought her new daughter in law would feel the same way. The daughter and her husband received an invite to the parent's home for the Thanksgiving holiday. When the daughter saw the signs of bed bug bites in the morning, she moved her husband and herself to a local hotel. She threw away her entire set of luggage, and after returning home  she washed all her clothes in hot water and then dried them at high heat. The mother-in-law, who felt the response was extreme, wrote to an advice column. The newspaper columnist, however, was not sympathetic. She said the daughter's actions were appropriate. and ordered the mother-in-law  to cease finding fault with the daughter, pay her for all damages, and eradicate all the bed bugs in her home. Potentially, the advice helped to repair the relationship.

Landlord tenant relations can also significantly deteriorate, at times, when the loathsome vampire bugs are found in one of the apartments. In the very worst scenario, tenants
take their landlords to court, occasionally winning large settlements. At best landlords are more edgy as new ordinances define growing responsibilities for apartment owners whose dwelling units are bug infested.

More troublesome than the oft mentioned pain of infected bed bug bites is the social stigma and financial strain caused by this bug infestation. These two side effects of the insect plague help explain why the populace is so alarmed when the tiny bugs turn up in a dwelling. And the at times extremity of discomfort in these two factors helps illustrates why people are willing to pay large sums to get bed bugs out of their dwellings.


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