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Unfortunately for residents, bed bugs have already started to make their appearance once again in Indiana, and all it takes is for a few to hop onto a jacket, suitcase, backpack or anything else of yours from another location to infest your house. This is most often how bed bugs get from one place to another.

Bed bugs are small and very hard to see. They can be reddish brown or brown, are quite small and are very good at hiding themselves which is why you may not even realize you have a bed bug problem until you start to discover small red itchy bites on your body that were not there when you went to sleep.

Getting rid of bed bugs is difficult because not only are they skilled at hiding everywhere, they don’t mind laying their eggs everywhere too. The eggs are even smaller than the insects themselves, and are white which can make them nearly impossible to see.

Eliminating the Unseen

That is precisely where heat treatments come into play. Instead of simply spraying down the rooms of your house that have bed bugs, a different approach is taken. One that is much safer and healthier for you and your family. In addition to this, sometimes various pesticides and other treatments aren’t able to completely wipe out a bed bug infestation.

Bed bug heat treatments are much more effective in that they are able to kill everything. Bed bugs in every stage are eliminated, from adults to nymphs to eggs. How does this work? Simple. This highly proven and non-toxic treatment heats up your home to above the thermal death point of the insects. In essence, your home is warmed up to the point that the bed bugs simply cannot stand the heat and die off. No chemicals, no pesticides, just a whole lot of warmth.

Even better, heat is able to easily penetrate through cracks and crevices where some pesticides may not be able to reach. This means a total elimination of bed bugs no matter where they may be hiding!

Call Today for a Heat Treatment

Heat treatments are an excellent way to remove bed bugs from your home. They are safer for the environment as well as everyone living in your home – pets included! You can ask all the questions you want about the heat treatment. A qualified technician will be able to answer them and put your mind completely at ease. Why suffer from bed bugs when all it takes is a quick call to a pest control company and a few hours of heat to free your house of them once and for all?

The only drawback to bed bug heat treatments is that they have no residual effects. That means that while heat treatments will kill bed bugs in every stage of the lifecycle from egg to adult, they will not protect you from a future infestation.

Preventative measures must be taken to keep bed bugs from re-inhabiting your home after a heat treatment. Ask your Granger pest control exterminator how you can keep bed bugs from coming back.

Article Source: YES Pest Pros