Bed Bugs Alive after Pesticide Use

I have proof positive that pesticides just done work.  This weekend, we were called to a home where a pesticide treatment had been performed the day before and the customer was scheduled for another pesticide treatment in two weeks.  Our customer was concerned that bed bugs had built up a tolerance to pesticides and wanted to have a heat treatment just to be absolutely sure they were dead and he could go back to bed without fear.

I know that feeling.  When my family got bed bugs, it took me about a month for me to finally feel like every time I felt a little tingle on my legs, I was desperately looking and hoping that it wasn’t a bed bug.

We set up the heat treatment equipment and, a few hours later, the customer called to say he was shocked that he had just seen five live bugs crawl out into the open, even after having had the pesticide treatment the day before. Yes, that’s what happens.  When the room starts heating up, the bugs crawl out from their hiding spots in hopes of finding an escape from the heat.  But there is no escape from the heat and they die within a few minutes.

Pesticide treatment is only effective on contact.  That means that if the bed bug never walks over the pesticide, it will live feast on you again, go back and lay more eggs and you start the process all over again.  This is why pesticide companies have to come back again and again – to spray and hope they get all the eggs or nymphs.

Bed Bugs Dead Bugs to the rescue.

Sleep tight. Adrienne