Preventing Bed Bugs in Your Home

Bed bugs are a never ending battle due to their nasty habit of hitch hiking their way from place to place. You may unknowingly bring them into your home, or a visiting friend or family member brings bed bugs with them while they visit you. You may do your best in keeping your home cleaned and all linens washed regularly. However is that enough? Bed bugs get their name because we more often then not find them sleeping in our beds with us while waiting for their chance to make you and your family their next banquet. Eagle Pest Services understand this problem and wants to share with you some ways to prevent an unwelcome stranger sharing your bed.

Bed Bug Prevention Products

The majority of bed bugs will hide in beds to wait for you to go to sleep. This is when they will have time to feast on your blood. However this isn’t they only place where bed bugs will dwell in your home. Nonetheless, it’s the best place to start your long term bed bug prevention plan. There are a number of products on the market today that will help you sleep without the constant concern of bed bugs. Mattresses, Box Springs, and pillow covers that are designed to prevent bed bugs can be found all over in today’s markets. You may wonder how these covers differ from regular covers. First, these covers completely encase your mattresses, pillows, and box springs. Bed bugs will hide during the day in the creases or folds in you mattress and box springs. Removing places to hide will force bed bugs to find alternate hiding places other than your bed. Bed bugs will travel up to eight feet a night to feed on a host. A second method behind the design is color. You may find most bed bug protective cover come in white. This will make any presence of bed bugs well known. Bed bugs will often leave behind red or brownish spots after feeding. Finally the covers are designed to be tightly woven together making it impossible for bed bugs to penetrate and hide inside your mattress or pillow case, which they are known to do. Using these products will greatly help prevent bed bugs from infesting your bed. You will find that the mattresses come in all sizes including crib mattress size, along with pillow size variations. So the whole family can sleep well.

How to Prevent Bed Bug Infestations

You may be hoping for more solutions and we have them. One major mistake is having a bed frame pushed against a wall. You must never do this. bed bugs can crawl up the wall and get into your bed while you sleep. Your next question will be what about the bed frames leg. They touch the floor; can’t bed bugs climb up the leg? Yes, depending on the material used for your bed frames legs. If your bed frame has an extremely smooth surface, bed bugs can’t climb up. However if the surface is rough enough, they can climb it with ease. So here is another option. You can use glass bowls or even bed bug traps. You can buy bowls that are designed to trap bed bugs that will attempt to climb up your bed frames legs. One brand is called ClimpUp Bed Bug Interceptors. Preventing bed bugs from joining you in bed while you sleep is a big step from keeping bed bugs out of your home. You and your family can sleep safely with the right kind of products. Eagle Pest Services offers pillow, mattress and box spring covers on our website in all sizes. If you and your family are in need of help in fighting bed bugs, Eagle Pest Services is just a call away!