Wauwatosa, WI Pest Control: Bed Bug & Termite Treatment | Orkin (2024)

FAQs

What company is best to get rid of bed bugs? ›

So, what is the best bed bug treatment? Effective methods, such as heat treatments, require professional experience and equipment to ensure they are applied safely and effectively. Orkin Pros have unmatched experience in treating bed bugs.

How Much Does Pet Control Cost for Bedbugs? Bedbug extermination costs $534 to $4,167* on average. Bedbug treatment is one of the more expensive pest control services because these hardy pests can live without food for up to 400 days. We recommend scheduling an inspection after an initial bedbug treatment.

If you follow all the recommendations and keep all of your treatment appointments from your pest control professional, you can expect to have achieved bed bug control in roughly 4-8 weeks.

Termites are known for causing damage to wooden structures like wood paneling and framing, whereas bed bugs in a mattress and spiders in the home do not. If you observe any damaged wood in your home, it's important to inspect it for termite activity. Another difference is the presence of spider webs or bed bug bites.

Attack With Heat. If the bedbugs are limited to your bedding or clothing, washing everything in hot water (above 120 degrees Fahrenheit) can kill bugs and eggs immediately. You must make sure that you've raised the body temperatures of each insect and egg above 120 degrees.

Heat is non-toxic, and can kill all bed bug life stages including bed bug eggs. However, heat treatment of any kind (except your home clothes dryer) is still relatively expensive and has no residual (long lasting) activity. The lack of residual activity means that bed bugs can re-infest again the day after treatment.

Rubbing alcohol is a quick and easy solution for killing bed bugs. However, it's difficult to cover the entire area in rubbing alcohol. Being inflammable, it poses a serious fire hazard, so you have to be extra cautious before using this method.

Bed bugs are hard to control, but you can do it! Using insecticides alone to control bed bugs is not the best solution. Cleaning, getting rid of clutter and taking a few other steps are just as important as applying insecticide when you're trying to control bed bugs.

Bed bugs may have lived through the treatment or were not quite dead (“walking dead”). It is possible that during the application the bugs were not exposed to enough chemical or heat, causing the customer to find them 7 to 10 days after the treatment was completed.

How do you know bed bugs are gone? ›

Generally, when the itchy bites stop and you don't see further signs of bed bugs, you can be comfortable that your treatments worked, but if you're still experiencing bites or seeing bed bugs, you're probably still battling an infestation.

This is why most pest control professionals recommend at least 2 or more treatment sessions to ensure all bed bugs have been completely eliminated.

Heavy Bed Bug Infestation

Dead bed bugs and blood stains on sheets, mattresses, walls, bed frames, on/under carpets, moldings, under tiles, almost every where they can hide and get to a host). Heavy fecal staining. This thick blood byproduct becomes like black paint in areas of high bed bug density and traffic.

Some of these effects include: Allergic reactions to their bites, which can be severe. Effects ranging from no reaction to a small bite mark to, in rare cases, anaphylaxis (severe, whole-body reaction). Secondary infections of the skin from the bite reaction, such as impetigo , ecthyma , and lymphangitis .

It is a good thing that bed bugs do not do actual damage to your home. But, these pests can negatively impact your comfort level and ability to sleep in your own home. In addition, if you do not deal with an infestation bed bugs can scare potential buyers off when you go to sell your home.

It is unlikely that one treatment will effectively rid the premises of bed bugs. It may take three or more treatments depending on the severity. The number of treatments may vary in each situation. Depending on the chemical, weekly or bi-weekly treatments may be needed.

Even with a professional pest control company, it may take two to four treatments to completely eradicate bed bugs from your home.

Physical methods of controlling bedbugs include steam cleaning, vacuuming, heating, freezing, washing, and throwing out items. Steam cleaning should be done before vacuuming, as the steam will flush any bedbugs not killed out of hiding. Heat treatments should be left to the professionals.