Bedbugs are brown to reddish-brown. They have a flattened body and are oval; they can easily hide in small cracks. Bedbugs like hiding in isolated dark areas, in wardrobes, under cabinets, and bed frames. Bed Bugs hide during the day and come out at night to feed. If they infest your house, you should contact the Bed Bug Control MA.
The following is a list of what to do and what not to do in bed bug control.
The Dos:
Declutter your house
Bedbugs hide in clutters, so as much as possible, declutter your house. Don’t store anything under your bed; the floor should be as tidy as possible. When the home is clean, it’s easy to search for the bedbugs and destroy them.
Encase your mattress
Encasing the mattress and box springs helps in trapping the bedbugs, keeping them inside, and ensuring they don’t bite. Encasing also makes it easier to spot the bedbugs’ hideout and makes it easier to kill them. Encasing your mattress is the best way to ensure that bed bugs don’t make a home for themselves.
Vacuuming the bedbugs
Vacuuming is the most effective way of removing the bedbugs. When vacuuming, ensure the floor, nooks, and crannies of the furniture have been cleaned. The cracks and isolated dark corners should be cleaned since this is where bed bugs hide.
Create an educated plan
The best way to eradicate the bedbugs is to have an educated plan, where you can decide to either call the bedbug control MA or to do it yourself. You should clearly understand your treatment options and put together a strategy to eradicate them in your plan.
What Not to do during bedbugs control:
Shifting to a new bed or room
When dealing with bedbugs, don’t shift to another room: this makes the bedbugs spread to other places. Bedbugs are attracted to body heat and the carbon dioxide that we exhale. Don’t sleep on the sofa -set since they will find you when they go hungry.
Escaping to a relative or friend’s place
Bedbugs can survive without feeding anything for about 18 months. Running to a friend’s house to starve the bedbugs will not help. It can only work if you live there for a year and a half. Bedbugs are notorious at hitchhiking, so they will be waiting for you to come back.
Throwing out the bed /bedding
When the bed has been infested with bedbugs, most people think that the best way is to throw it away. Hauling the infested bedding and mattresses can do more harm since they can spread in the house. The bedbugs can remain in the cracks or carpet once you purchase a new bed; they infest the new one as they had done in the old one.
Eradicating the bedbugs, yourself
Unless you cannot access the bed bug control MA, don’t eradicate bedbugs yourself. If you have to eradicate the bedbugs yourself, make sure you understand all the needed information on pest management. Create a plan that will effectively workout.
Scratching bed bug bites
Once bitten by bedbugs, avoid scratching the bites since it worsens, leading to infection. You should seek treatment.
Using heat treatment, yourself
Heat treatments are useful since they kill the bedbugs and their eggs, but the treatment is also dangerous. Heat treatments are harmful since many house fires and injuries result from people trying to kill the bedbugs themselves. The heat treatment requires licensed professionals and specialized treatment. Folks should not try them on their own.
Using bed bug repellents
It’s dangerous to use bed bug repellents when living in a bedbug-infested house. The repellents reduce the number of bites while the bedbugs continue feeding on the host and multiplying.
