by Bill Hillmeyer
November 7, 2019
As bed bug extermination professionals, we get asked lots of questions. Here are a few of the most common ones. We hope the answers here will help alleviate the panic many people have when they discover a bed bug infestation. Have something specific on your mind? Give us a call and we will be glad to help!
We get asked this question a lot! Not seeing bed bugs crawling around your bed or on your furniture doesn’t mean you don’t have bed bugs. Bed bugs can be harder to see because they move from their harborages —where they sleep — to where they feed and back. Luckily they leave fecal spots and cast skins all around and those signs are often easier to find... when you know where to look.
Classic signs of the little insects are the apple seeds and ground black pepper. The adults are the shape and size of small red apple seeds and their fecal droppings look like ground black pepper. Common areas for inspection are the seams of mattresses, box springs and headboards. The eggs are especially tiny and are usually overlooked whitish/transparent small rice grains. This photo is of bed bugs, eggs, cast skins, and fecal spots on the back side of a headboard.
If you’re worried you have bed bugs, call us. We will get rid of your bed bug problem in one day.
That’s not a fun situation to be in. We can help!
DIY treatments like vinegar, lavender, salt, isopropyl alcohol, borax, and baking soda, and most over-the-counter treatments like a bed bug spray or a bed bug fogger have no proven efficacy in eliminating a bed bug infestation. We’ve blogged about both of these topics.
The only extermination method proven to kill bed bugs and other insects in one treatment is heat. Heat kills adults and eggs wherever they may be hiding. Call us today at 717-478-HEAT. We will kill your bed bugs and end your infestation in just one day.
If you have bed bugs in one room, there is a good chance you have them throughout your home... you probably just don’t see them. Our whole-house heat treatment will kill bed bugs everywhere they are hiding, living, and breeding: eggs and all!
You can encase your mattress, but that will just keep the larger bed bugs contained within the mattress cover. It won’t do any good for the bed bugs that live around and behind your bed and in the surrounding furniture. A whole-house heat treatment performed by Total Shield Bed Bug Treatments’s trained technicians will end your bed bug nightmare in a single, one-day heat treatment.
Our heat treatments work in homes, hospitals, hotels, businesses, busses, airplanes, big-rig trucks, and cars. Give us a call today and we’ll take care of the problem.
If you were not planning on keeping the furniture, get rid of it. Then call us at 717-478-HEAT and we will kill all the bed bugs in your home in a single, one-day treatment.
If you are planning on keeping the furniture, don’t try and clean up the infestation with a vacuum or chemicals. Call us for a one-day heat treatment. You will want to clean up the furniture, vacuuming up dead bed bugs, dead bed bug eggs, and cast skins after the treatment.
We feel your frustration! An open, uncontrolled flame is never a good idea! You’ve got the right idea that heat will kill all your bed bugs. Let the trained professionals at Total Shield Bed Bug Treatments take care of your bed bug problem. Call us today at 717-478-HEAT.
Because heat kills all the living and unhatched bed bugs in a single, one-day, chemical and pesticide-free treatment, there is no need for a repeat treatment. The only way a successfully-treated area will have a reinfestation is if someone brings them back in to the area.
If you found a bug, don’t panic! Give us a call at 717-478-HEAT and we’ll keep your family safe. Total Shield Bed Bug Treatments will free you from the fear and frustration of bed bugs. Your life will be less stressful and your home will be bed-bug free. When we’re done, we know all your bed bugs— and other insects— will be dead.
Very professional run business. It has been 5 or 6 months since Bill did the extermination and not a single bug since then. I called him and the very next morning he was on site early. He took total control of everything. We were able to be back in the house that evening. I am a total believer in heat treats now that I saw all the steps he takes to get rid of the bed bugs. Heat treat is the only way to go if you want to know for sure they are all dead. Bill the owner will explain to you every step that he takes to assure you understand what will be done. Bill and his company is very highly recommended by me. I give him a 10+ out of 10.
Art Miley
5 Stars: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
September 19, 2018
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Camps across the country have been closed during the pandemic... and people can’t wait to return! Don’t assume that any bed bugs that survived your last treatment starved this past year— adult bed bugs have survived in laboratories without food for as long as 550 days and they will be hungry! As far as bed bugs are concerned, as we continue to return to business as usual— whatever that ends up looking like, you will be hosting a camp grand-re opening special for them: a potentially unlimited buffet of guests that will become their next meals. Read more
Congratulations: your hotel or motel survived the pandemic! You’re ready to spring back to business and thrive again! Don’t let bed bugs threaten to devour your reputation and suck your future dry. Preserve your room inventory and don’t let bed bugs lose you money. Total Shield Bed Bug Treatments has the discreet bed bug heat treatment that will get your rooms back in service in just 1 day. Read more
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