Commercial Bed Bug Control

After a 50 year slump bed bugs are back with a vengeance.  Today individuals traveling abroad bring back these night-time pests in clothes and suit cases.  Travelers within the US may also pick up bed bugs from hotels that are visited by international travelers and bring them home.  But what’s even more frightening is that bed bugs are moving out of the bed and into couches, airplanes, cabs, and even movie theaters. 

What Is A Bed Bug?

Most people find bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) a most disagreeable houseguest. These parasites are usually no more than ¼ inch in length in their adult state and can engorge themselves with human blood in less than 15 minutes causing their bodies to fill to as much as three times its usual size.

Bed bugs can lay between one and five eggs per day. An adult female bed bug can lay more than 200 eggs during their lifetime. These newly hatched bed bugs will require five significant blood feedings to reach adult size. They will molt in between feedings by shedding their exoskeleton - a clear indication that you have bed bugs. Once mature they will begin the process of laying new eggs.

A Problem For Your Business

Five or six years ago, pest management companies reported one or two bed bug calls a year. Now, they’re reporting one or two a week. And the National Pest Management Association’s member companies have reported 50 times more bed bug calls than usual in the past few years.  It is clear that bed bugs are back and may infest your commercial property next. 

Could Bed Bugs Invade Your Business?

Yes. Bed bugs are increasingly infesting hotels, apartments, dormitories, shelters, health care facilities and public transportation in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas  and Arizona as well as throughout the U.S.. They hitch rides in luggage, boxes, shoes, and other mobile objects. Bed bug infestations are not tied to unsanitary living areas.  World-class hotels are experiencing bed bug infestations. Worst of all, since bed bugs are nocturnal, you may have no idea they’re present.

Signs of Bed Bugs In Your Establishment

Typically, the first sign of a bed bug infestation is the appearance of small brownish or reddish dots on bed linens and mattresses. These are bed bug droppings and blood spots. Eggs and molted skins may also be visible.

Also, heavy infestations may result in an odor described as “buggy” or sweetish smelling. Bed bug “bites” (actually entry points of their blood-drawing beaks) often result in red, itchy welts (red dots with a lighter red ring around them).Bed bugs feed on any bare skin exposed while sleeping (face, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, etc.). The photos on our bed bug identification page show detailed images

How To Identify A Bed Bug

Bed bugs are often mistaken for ticks or small cockroaches. However, they are small, brownish insects with flat oval shaped bodies. The adult is approximately 3/16 of an inch long, or about the size of an apple seed until after they bite; then they fill out and turn a reddish color. Bed bug eggs are extremely tiny (about 1 millimeter) and are white and pear shaped.

Bed Bug Hiding Places & Discovery

Bed bugs are able to crawl into very small crevices in and around human environments. They do not have nests like ants or bees, but do tend to congregate in habitual hiding places:

- Mattresses, linens, and upholstery
- Furniture crevices
- Wood trim
- Electrical switches & outlets
- Floors
- Behind wallpaper & picture frames

A person bitten by a bed bug often does not wake up while the insect is feeding.  An infestation of bed bugs can sometimes go undetected for weeks or months before they are discovered.  How do you know if you have bed bugs?

-Waking up finding small bloodstains on bedsheets
-Seeing bed bugs late at night and early morning
-Finding dead bed bugs on bed sheets and floor

Commercial Bed Bug Control Services By Schendel

Bed bugs are extremely difficult to eliminate. And do it yourself measures are typically not effective. Schendel will start with a thorough inspection of your facility to determine the location and extent of any infestation.

With information gathered from our intial inspection we will then develop a customized bed bug plan to meet your specific needs. Your Schendel service professional will perform a careful inspection of all areas of the room where bed bug could be hiding. Any rooms adjacent to the affected room must also be inspected for bed bug activity.  The include the room directly above, below and to the left and right of the adjacent room in question.

To control the bed bugs it is critical to remove as many live bed bugs as possible by vacuuming.  Steam cleaning sheets and other linens is a successfully proven way to kill bed bugs.  Cracks and crevices are then treated carefully through the room where bed bugs may hid and produce with a residual insecticide. We also use state of the art heat treatment as well.

Schendels follow-up visits are required to ensure that all of your bed bug concerns are taken care of.  This will occur within 24-48 of service and again after 10-15 days.

Schendel proudly provides commercial bed bug control programs to businesses and commercial properties in  Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Arizona