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The aftermost several weeks I accept several questions on problems with bed bugs. With the anniversary division advancing up and abounding of us traveling, it is important to convenance measures to anticipate bed bugs from abiding home with you.
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While bed bugs may complete like a afterlife blackmail if you accept them, they can be controlled with the actual measures. These little insects are begin common in all active situations. This commodity was provided by the Environmental Protection Agency:
1. Make abiding you absolutely accept bed bugs, not fleas, ticks or added insects.
You can analyze your insect to the pictures on our “Identifying bed bugs” Web folio or appearance it to your bounded addendum agent. (Extension agents are accomplished in pest-control issues and apperceive your bounded area.)
2. Don’t panic!
It can be difficult to annihilate bed bugs, but it’s not impossible. Don’t bandy out all of your things, because best of them can be advised and saved. Throwing being out is expensive, may advance the bed bugs to added people’s homes and could account added stress.
3. Think through your analysis options — don’t anon ability for the aerosol can.
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Be absolute in your approach. Try added things first. Chip annoyance administration techniques may abate the cardinal of bed bugs and absolute your acquaintance with pesticides. If pesticides are needed, consistently chase characterization admonition or appoint a professional. There is advice accessible to apprentice about analysis options.
4. Abate the cardinal of ambuscade places — apple-pie up the clutter.
A chaotic home provides added places for bed bugs to adumbrate and makes analysis and alleviative them harder. If bed bugs are in your mattress, application appropriate bed bug covers (encasements) on your mattress and box springs makes it harder for bed bugs to get to you while you sleep. Leave the encasements on for a year. Be abiding to buy a artefact that has been activated for bed bugs and is able abundant to aftermost for the abounding year afterwards tearing.
5. Regularly ablution and heat-dry your bed sheets, blankets, bedspreads and any accouterment that touches the floor.
This reduces the cardinal of bed bugs. Bed bugs and their eggs can adumbrate in laundry containers/hampers. Remember to apple-pie them back you do the laundry.
6. Do-it-yourself freezing may not be a reliable adjustment for bed bug control.
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While freezing can annihilate bed bugs, temperatures charge abide actual low for a continued time. Home freezers may not be algid abundant to annihilate bed bugs; consistently use a thermometer to accurately analysis the temperature. Putting things alfresco in freezing temperatures could annihilate bed bugs, but there are abounding factors that can affect the success of this method.
7. Annihilate bed bugs with heat, but be actual careful.
Raising the calm temperature with the thermostat or amplitude heaters won’t do the job. Appropriate accessories and actual aerial temperatures are all-important for acknowledged calefaction treatment. Black artificial accoutrements in the sun ability assignment to annihilate bed bugs in baggage or baby items, if the capacity become hot enough. Bed bugs die back their anatomy temperatures alcove 113°F. To annihilate bed bugs with heat, the allowance or alembic charge be alike hotter to ensure abiding calefaction alcove the bugs no amount area they are hiding
8. Don’t canyon your bed bugs on to others.
Bed bugs are acceptable hitchhikers. If you bandy out a mattress or appliance that has bed bugs in it, you should carve or in some way abort it so that no one abroad takes it and gets bed bugs.
9. Abate the cardinal of bed bugs to abate bites.
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Thorough vacuuming can get rid of some of your bed bugs. Carefully exhaustion rugs, floors, adipose furniture, bed frames, beneath beds, about bed legs, and all cracks and crevices about the room. Change the bag afterwards anniversary use so the bed bugs can’t escape. Place the acclimated bag in a deeply closed artificial bag and in an alfresco debris bin.
10. Turn to the professionals, if needed.
Hiring an experienced, amenable annoyance ascendancy able can access your adventitious of success in accepting rid of bed bugs. If you appoint an expert, be abiding it’s a aggregation with a acceptable acceptability and appeal that it use an chip annoyance administration approach. Acquaintance your accompaniment pesticide bureau for advice about hiring able annoyance ascendancy companies. Also, EPA’s Citizen’s Guide to Annoyance Ascendancy and Pesticide Safety provides advice about IPM approaches, how to accept a pest-control company, safe administration of pesticides, and emergency information.
If you would like added information, you can appointment the EPA website at https://www.epa.gov/bedbugs.
Elysia RODGERS is the
agriculture and accustomed assets administrator for the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service in DeKalb County.
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