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Managing Bed Bugs | Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Managing Bed Bugs

by Barb Ogg, PhD, Extension Educator

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Human bed bugs are found worldwide and are dispersed through human travel. During the last decade, there has been a significant increase in bed bug infestations in the U.S. The reason for this recent upsurge is unknown. Although bed bugs have never been shown to transmit diseases, people living in bed bug infested homes may experience psychological stress, anxiety and insomnia.

Currently, treatment is difficult, but as time passes, pest control professionals should gain expertise in treatments and there will be new effective products developed.

Bed bugs are reddish-brown, wingless and very flat (Figure 1). Adults are about 3/8 to 1/4-inches long. Immature stages may be light brown or yellowish in color until after they have fed and then they are darker. After feeding, they are bright red from the blood they have ingested and have a distended body and may look like a different insect altogether.

Bats and birds may be hosts of blood-feeding bugs that look nearly identical to bed bugs. It is important to make sure you are dealing with bed bugs, because a bat bug infestation may require removal of bats. Consult your local extension educator to verify what you have.

Bed bugs usually attack humans, but may feed on other warm-blooded animals, including pets. During the day, bed bugs hide in cracks and crevices near the bed or places where people sleep at night. At night, bed bugs come out of their hiding places to feed. Bites are most often found on the upper body: neck, arm and shoulders, but may be found on legs or ankles. Some people are sensitive to the bites which may become inflamed. (Figure 1A)

Bed bugs may be able to live 6-12 months without food and can survive in infrequently-used hotel rooms or vacant apartment buildings until occupied by an unfortunate victim.

Bed bugs don't just appear spontaneously in a home or apartment. They cannot fly, so most of the time, people move bed bugs from place to place. The most common ways bed bug infestations get started are:

Travelers bring bed bugs home from infested hotels or motels in their luggage.

They may be brought home with infested used furniture.

Bed bugs can hitch a ride to another location by hanging on clothing. (Be careful if you visit someone who has an infestation.)

Family members living away from home (for example, at college) may bring them home on holidays.

If you move into an infested home or apartment, you will have an instant infestation.

Once brought inside apartments or hotel rooms, bed bugs readily travel to other bedrooms as their numbers increase. If you live in an apartment, you can get them from your neighbors.

Bed bugs are very flat and live in cracks and crevices around the bed. They produce liquid feces which are dark spots left on bedding or in hiding places. Bed bugs produce a musty sweet smell that may be noticeable in heavy infestations.

Studies have shown most of the bed bugs will be found in the mattress and foundation/box springs or within 15-feet of the bed, but some bed bugs may be found in locations farther away from the bed. If people have been sleeping on sofas, these are likely to be infested.

Examine the bed and foundation/box springs. Remove all the bedding and examine it for fecal spots/smears and bugs. Carefully examine the mattress and foundation (Figure 3). One common hiding place is the wood framing of the foundation. Remove the dust cover on the bottom of the foundation. Carefully examine the wood framing for cracks formed where wood pieces come together. Peel back where fabric is stapled to the wood frame (Figure 4).

Near the bed, look behind picture frames, within books, in telephones or radios, bedside furniture, look along the edge of carpet, next to the wall and even in electrical receptacles. Don't forget the closet. Bed bugs can be found in closets attached to clothing.

A recent Do-it-Yourself bed bug trap has been developed and can be made from simple items costing about $15. Find directions for make this trap at pest/bugs.shtml

Thoroughly clean infested rooms. Launder bedding and dry thoroughly in a hot dryer to kill all stages of bed bugs. Dry clean wool blankets. Vacuum infested areas thoroughly, including mattress, foundation/box springs, furniture, beds, headboards, sofas. Don't forget the void area underneath box springs. Vacuum the area where the carpet meets the wall, especially near the head of the bed. After you are finished, take the vacuum cleaner bag immediately to the trash. Steam cleaning carpets is good, but must be done before pesticide applications, so coordinate efforts with your pest control professional. If there is a serious bed bug infestation, removing wall-to-wall carpets may be helpful.

Some people recommend throwing mattresses away. If the mattress and foundation is in poor condition, this would be helpful. On the other hand, if the mattress is in good condition, you can encase the mattress with a zippered cover that is tightly woven to prevent the mattress from harboring bed bugs. These mattress covers are available for all sizes of beds. Keep the mattress cover on the mattress for at least a year to make sure all the bugs are dead. You will also need to encase the foundation.

It is extremely important to eliminate clutter and reduce hiding places for bed bugs. Reduce clutter to the bare necessities to make treatments more effective.

Chemical Treatments. Non-chemical methods (vacuuming, steaming, laundering, mattress encasement) will be helpful in bed bug control, but, by themselves, are not likely to eradicate the bed bug population. This means insecticides must be used to treat bed bug harborage areas. Insecticide treatments in sleeping areas are a potential health risk so it is very important to use products which can be safely used in bedrooms. Do not treat mattresses or bed linens unless the insecticide label specifically says you can treat them. Read all product labels carefully!

All bed bug hiding places must be identified and treated. Use liquid treatments on surfaces and dusts in void areas. Because treating all the areas where bed bugs hide is difficult, we recommend hiring an experienced pest control professional. Pest control professionals also have more choices of insecticides, which may improve the effectiveness of control.

When checking into a hotel, it is a good idea to immediately inspect rooms for bed bugs. Bed bugs like to live in groups, in cracks and other dark, tight places. These "hot spots" can often be identified because bed bugs leave small brown/black spots and smears (liquid feces) in these hiding places. Fecal spots may also be found on bed linens, pillows and mattresses. Bed bugs live in cracks the width of a credit card and in void areas created by wood framing of the foundation.

Hotel and motel bed headboards are often fastened to the wall. You may need to lift the headboard off its hanger to inspect behind it. Even if no bed bugs are found, don't place luggage on the floor near the head of the bed.

A recent study at Purdue University showed how difficult treatment can be. Researchers treated eight infested units of a 15-story apartment building. Liquid pyrethroid insecticides were used (deltamethrin, Suspend SC), along with a dust pyrethroid (cyfluthrin (Tempo 1% dust). Professional-use products were used in bed areas, mattresses, foundations, and cracks and crevices where bed bugs were hiding. Every two weeks, bed bug-infested units were inspected and treated if live bed bugs were found. After four applications, two apartments still had bed bugs. These researchers concluded that successful eradication of bed bugs requires at least two visits, with considerable time needed to inspect and treat the unit, but some infestations may require four or more applications.

In addition to insecticide treatments, these researchers also used non-chemical tactics, including the discarding of heavily infested furniture, steam machine applications and washing bedding materials every time bed bugs were found.

Bed bug resistance to pyrethroids has been documented in a recent study by researchers at the University of Kentucky (2007, 2010). Most insecticide products that can be used in the home belong to this class (Table 1). But, because we cannot predict which bed bug populations have resistance, these products still must be used, because they are the only choices we currently have.

Insect growth regulators, which interfere with insect molting and reproduction have been effective tactics for managing a number of structural insect pests, including cockroaches and fleas. However, a recent study at Virginia Tech showed that bed bugs were not adversely affected by hydroprene (Precor).

Table 1. Professional-use Products Available In Nebraska For Use Against Bed Bugs

* A (aerosol), D (dust), EC (emulsifiable concentrate), F (fumigant), ME (microencapsulation), RTU (ready-to-use), WP (wettable powder)

The bed bug belongs to the family Cimicidae. Other members of this family feed on bats and birds. Experts believe that bedbugs descended from their bat-feeding cousins that fed on cave-dwelling humans. Because bats can live in or near human dwellings, it is often important to determine the bug's identity before control measures are taken (click on photo for larger view). When dealing with bat bug infestations, eliminating bats from the attic is the first step needed to solve the bug infestation.

Managing Bed Bugs Resource 263 was updated on April 5, 2010

The information on this Web site is valid for residents of southeastern Nebraska. It may or may not apply in your area. If you live outside southeastern Nebraska, visit your local Extension office

Contact Information

University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Lancaster CountyWeb site: lancaster.unl.edu444 Cherrycreek Road, Suite A, Lincoln, NE 68528| 402-441-7180

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Bed Bug Registry: Resources

If you just found bedbugs...while traveling

If you suspect you've come into contact with bedbugs while traveling, the important thing is not to let them hitch a ride with you on your clothes or luggage to the next place you stay.

The University of Minnesota has a short guide to show you what bedbugs look like, and how to inspect and sanitize your belongings.

In brief summary, you'll want to have plastic bags (preferably the thick contractor kind) and access to a clothes dryer.

If you've discovered an infestation in your home, or you've found out that a neighbor has bedbugs, the most important thing is to get informed. A great place to start is the Bedbugger.com FAQs.

Bedbugger.com also has a good list of do's and don'ts.

While the temptation to do something, anything, to address the problem immediately is strong, you could end up inadvertently making things worse for yourself and your neighbors. So have patience and read those FAQs!

The key to avoiding a bedbug infestation is to learn as much as you can about them before your paths cross.

Here are some effective steps you can take:

Useful websites:

Managing bed bugs, by the university of Nebraska. Useful photos of nymphs.

A handy bedbug fact sheet from Michael Potter at the University of Kentucky.

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Lincoln, Nebraska Bed Bug Attorney

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a recent travel increase in the U.S. is responsible for a spike in bed bug cases. No town is safe from a bed bug infestation, no matter the size. Lincoln, Nebraska may be a small city, but bed bugs still have a strong presence.

Bed bugs can cause serious distress and injury to a person. The experienced and reputable lawyers at Lincoln Bed Bug Injury Law are here to help. Weve helped many individuals who have suffered from bed bug infestations. Usually, these infestations are the direct result of the negligence of others.

So where are these bed bugs coming from?

Negligence is the main source of bed bugs. These pests can crawl their way into hotels, apartments, homes, and spaces of any kind. Negligent hotel owners fail to take the necessary precautions to prevent bugs and their spread. This results in hotels failing to protect their customers resulting in them falling victim to bed bug infestation.

Negligent landlords also fail to keep their properties free of bed bugs. Bed bugs latch onto luggage during travels. Many landlords claim the tenant brought the bugs in during these travels.

This may not always be the case though. Bed bugs can go weeks without blood meals and can stay hidden in crevices for a very long time. The extent of infestation can help determine if it is a long term problem or a new occurrence.

Lincoln residents may wake up to discover their bodies covered in bed bug bites. When traveling, some people do not discover the bites until opening their luggage at home. Some people even discover bed bugs when buying or renting furniture. In all these cases, negligence can be the source.

Negligent landlords and hotel owners can be held liable and forced to pay your monetary and non-monetary damages. Thats where Lincoln Bed Bug Lawyers come into play.

There have been cases of bed bugs linked to certain illnesses. Bed bugs do not live on humans, as lice or other insects do. They feed for about 4-12 minutes and then return to hiding. They sometimes leave behind threatening symptoms. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, bed bugs can cause symptoms such as:

You potentially incur both monetary and non-monetary damages when you suffer the consequences of bed bug bites and infestation in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Monetary damages include expenses such as:

Non-monetary damages include:

Contact the Lincoln bed bug lawyers for a free consultation to discuss your pre-litigation bed bug case representation and possible recovery of your losses due to bed bugs.

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The Bed Bug Company

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No one wants to find out that they have bed bugs. Bed Bugs are dirty, invasive bugs that are hard to kill and are an embarrassment to a homeowner or business owner. Pest Busters understands is here to help. In fact, the owners of Pest Busters themselves had an infestation of bed bugs. They treated the bed bugs with chemicals for 9 months, during which time the bed bugs spread into 6 other hotel rooms. Finally, after trying everything that was available in the market, they discovered the propane heat treatment way to kill bed bugs - and were amazed by the results.

For the past two years, Pest Busters has been using the same Heat Treatments to help hundreds of homeowners, apartment owners and business owners in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas eradicate bed bugs.

Based in Omaha, Nebraska, Pest Busters is centrally located and can respond to most bed bug calls within a day or two. In most cases we can provide a free on-site inspection. We then walk you through the steps of staging the infected areas and preparing them for the heat treatment. Finally, we perform the heat treatments most of which can be completed within a single day! Voila at the end of the heat treatment, your infected area is free of bed bugs and can be used as soon as the room cools down!

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Bed bugs in Lincoln, Nebraska – Bedbugger.com

KETV.com in Omaha reports on Angie Rempe, whos been living with bed bugs for eight months.

By the time we found out what they were, they had totally coated the seams of the mattresses, said Rempe.

She now finds bed bugs in the baseboards, closets and in cracks in the ceiling of her apartment.

The article mentions the fact that the landlord and tenant are at odds as to who is responsible for paying to get rid of the bed bugs.

Although the landlord and tenant in this case are working together, its a reminder that we need clearer laws in many places. Landlords may not want to foot the cost of bed bug treatment, but leaving it up to tenants (as is the case some places) means the problem may spread to others, and surely bring the propertys value down while it persists.

Rempe and her exterminator got advice from Barb Ogg of the University of Nebraska Lincoln Extension Office:

Ogg said licensed exterminators must use insecticide every few weeks until inspections no longer reveal evidence of living bugs.

Tiny brown spots in patches on the wall indicate bed bug droppings, a tell-tale sign of a possible infestation.You cant just come in and spray the baseboards and leave, Ogg said.Ogg instructed property managers of Rempes apartment to have exterminators drill holes in the ceiling to insert the pesticide, and then caulk the holes and plug up any cracks and crevices where the bugs might live.Rempe said exterminators have completed two treatments in recent weeks and she isnt seeing as much bug activity as she had in the past. She said exterminators also treated the vacant apartments that share walls with her unit.

One lesson here is that if you live somewhere where bed bugs are less common at this time, contacting local authorities (like health or housing inspectors) and university experts (accessible via extension offices at universities) can help. Even if they have not seen bed bugs before, they should be able to network with colleagues elsewhere who have.

Bed Bugs Biting in Increasing Numbers, KETV Omaha

Were expecting video on this story, but its not up as of yet.

The video is here. Search for bed bugs and choose the video from 1-28. (I am on Firefox and using a Mac, and I do have both Flip4Mac and Windows Media Player but sadly, this is not working for me, but hopefully others will have more luck.) Let me know if someone rips it to YouTube!

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