When moving infested furniture it is always good practice to wrap the items in plastic to ensure the bugs do not fall off in other locations. But sometimes even I cheat a bit and remove items from a suite with great care not to bump/scrape/drag the item in the building. For example I would be […]

I have been involved in heat sterilizing numerous families as they moved to new homes. To date I have had no one come back to me and state the process was unsuccessful. Of course I can not take a lack of negative feed back as proof that we succeeded – perhaps some families just went […]

As an exterminator I have noted more than a few egregious examples of people using moving vans for hauling infested belongings because they did not want to infest their own vehicles. The next person to use these vans is at great risk for contracting bed bugs. As such I refuse to use these vans. The […]

When treating multi family apartments with non cooperative tenants the exterminator is often limited in his/her ability to do a good job. Poor results are inevitable. Therefore the exterminator has little motivation to go the extra mile in these settings. If poor results are inevitable why should the exterminator do a diligent time consuming job? […]

I have noted in my time exterminating bed bugs that bed bugs, or evidence thereof, is periodically found on books. The most likely books to be infested are those close to the bed such as Bibles or other books read in bed. If the suite is self treated with RAID (or similar products) any book […]

In a previous video entitled “how long bed bugs live- some discrepancies” I noted that bed bugs do not live very long in my teflon pan arena compared to Usinger’s chart in Monograph of Cimicidae. Later I noted that the large number of bugs I had collected in a tobacco tin from a massive infestation […]

Whenever I get the opportunity to collect large samples of bed bugs for my experiments I always take advantage. 11 days ago I had a golden opportunity and I collected about 50 bugs off the bottom of a box spring. To facilitate the collection of the most number of bugs possible with the least amount […]

The research on bed bug vision has been very poor thus far. We do know that bed bugs prefer dark to light so there is a photo sensitive component to the bed bug. We also know that bed bugs prefer certain colors over other colors (ie they like red better than yellow). But the exact […]

A family in their own 2.5 storey home brought bed bugs home and the entire infestation was originally limited to the kid’s bedroom on the second floor. When bed bugs were discovered they did not have enough money to address the problem so they abandoned the room and moved the entire family to the third […]