Q. My daughter’s dorm had bed bugs in a couple of the other girls’ rooms and she’s freaked out! I’ve heard about these coverings that you can get for your mattress to keep bed bugs out. Do they really work?
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VIEW MOREQ. Could I have bedbugs? How do you get bedbugs? A. Because of the resurgence of the bedbug as an important public health pest and its related national media attention, there has been a lot of confusion as to how they move about. Let me start by saying that if you live in a single-family
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Q. Bedbugs, you can’t see them can you?
VIEW MOREQ. I think I might have bed bugs. My friend told me about an insecticide that I can buy to spray on my mattress. Will that work?
A. Bed bugs are an extremely difficult pest to get rid of. Experts advise that you not try to do your own bed bug control. Chances are very good that you will end up frustrated…and still have bed bugs. Here are a few reasons why it’s best to leave bed bug control to the pros.
VIEW MOREQ. I thought we had gotten rid of bed bugs 50 years ago! Why are they back and where have they been?
A. It’s true that we always thought of bed bugs as a pest of our grandparents, or even great-grandparents era. Not anymore.
VIEW MOREBed bug control is on everyone’s mind today. Often people don’t know they even have an infestation until it gets out of hand. Then figuring out how to kill bed bugs can become a nightmare experience.
The most effective kind of bed bugs control is to detect them early, before they get out of hand.
VIEW MOREA lawyer meets her clients at a local Starbucks instead of in her office. A once-popular person is shunned by his friends.
Do these people have some kind of contagious disease? No. They have bedbug infestations. And once you have an infestation, you not only have to deal with how to get rid of bed bugs, but you also have to deal with the social stigma that many people attach to having them.
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