Bed Bug Basics: 10 Tips to Protect Yourself

Brought to you by the National Pest Management Association. Join us on a fast-paced, educational trip through the history of bed bugs and the recent resurgence. This video will teach you how to be vigilant to minimize your risk of encountering bed bugs and how to effectively deal with this resilient pest if you have an infestation. Visit PestWorld.org for more information and please share this with others. Public awareness is key in controlling bed bug infestations.

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[firebreather333]

Please answer this question!! What can we do in our home? We don't have a severe infestation at all, however we cannot afford an exterminator!! what can we do? :(

[Pestworld]

Hi firebreather333,

We are sorry to hear you have bed bugs It is vitally important that you have the population controlled as soon as possible because their numbers will continue to grow without treatment, and the cost to treat the infestation will only increase. You can use the zip code locator on our website to find a pest professional that services your area. Just visit the below page and enter your zip code for a list of qualified companies.

[leeparkdenouden]

i have never heard of this things before <<WOULD THEY be common here in europe ?? i live in belgium .... or is it more common in amerika ??

[Pestworld]

Hi leeparkdenouden,

Unfortunately, bed bugs are a problem in almost every part of the world, including Europe. As in the United States, they are more common in cities and populated areas, but infestations can easily be carried to rural areas. Bed bug are often found in homes, hotels and public transportation. For more information on bed bugs, visit the All Things Bed Bugs website.

[xxxCRAZYLOVExxx]

SOMEONE ANSWER ME THIS:

1. Can beg bugs die by drowning with water?

2. Can we feel them when they crawl on our skin?

3. Do we feel it when they just bit us?

4. Do they give our pee a funny smell?

5. Can they get caught on adhesive (duct tape, carpet tape)?

[Pestworld]

Continued: People often wonder why a biting bed bug doesn’t wake up its human host when it feeds. The answer is that bed bugs feed by inserting two hollow, beak-like feeding tubes into their host. The first tube injects the bug's saliva, which contains anesthetics to numb the feeding area. The second tube draws blood. Bed bugs do not cause urine odor issues. They can theoretically get stuck on tape, however glueboards are notoriously bad and ineffective at catching bed bugs, and not recommended.

[Joe Chalverus]

How to do something? Call someone else.

[4wheels8bearings]

Anyone can do a CO2 generator with a plastic bottle, some yeast, sugar, and water. If you put it in a high wall soup bowl with slippery walls, itt will call them into a trap where they suffocate without oxygen. Plastic sheets also make shields under bed sheets. They cannot reach you again, and starve to death. Think before you spend all of your money on inefficient poisons.

[brandy farmer]

well this is what i dont understand ! is 10 years went buy how did they come back ? hmm? thats weird were was they all that time ? you would think the gov would help when people are committed suicide .not all of us have money iam sorry 2911alison your friend commitied suicide this is sad.

[Seraph909]

Useless tripe.

[MrNeodarwinian]

That is why I keep DE down and my bed is a fortress. Best to deny them a foothold than to have tio rely on expensive extermiators using products that some bed bugs, the ones propagating the next generation, are resistant to. We have them in my apartment building and several peices of furniture, sofas, beds, have ended up near the compactor with infeste3d by bed bug signs. You can tell the apartments that do not want to deal with this disater; a line of white powder in front of the entrance door.

[2911alison]

This scary video offers no useful information. Do you not realize how terrified we already are?? Last month a friend of mine committed suicide because he got bedbugs and after multiple unsuccessful sprayings, his landlord evicted everyone in the building. Because he had bedbugs, nobody would take him in, not even a homeless shelter. And he lost his job because of it also. I live in fear of becoming the next victim and your video offered me no hope, only more fear.