Discreet service
Unmarked vehicles and personnel
No logos, and no mention of bed bugs on trucks, equipment or uniforms. Neighbours see a van; they do not see why it is there.
Service area · HOMOSASSA, FL · CITRUS COUNTY
Combination treatment — a residual spray plus Heat Assault thermal heat — kills bed bugs and eggs in a single visit. Homes and businesses across Homosassa, quoted over the phone before anything is booked.
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Local record
Bed Bug Exterminator is active in Homosassa, with 8 written quotes and 4 completed jobs on the local record.
The page also includes 6 questions answered on recorded calls and 20 crew call excerpts.
Reaches into mattress seams, bed frames and wall voids a spray cannot. Kills every stage, eggs included.
Keeps working for weeks after we leave, so anything that survives or arrives later does not restart the problem.
Bed bugs die at 118°F held about 90 minutes; 122°F kills almost instantly. We hold lethal temperature throughout the home.
You get the prep list and an arrival window. Anything you are unsure about, we answer on the phone first.
Quoted over the phone before anything is booked, so there is no site visit and no surprise on the day.
A full heat cycle takes the whole home to lethal temperature, then a residual product goes down per its label.
Eight to eleven hours on site, depending on the size of the property and how much is in it.
We walk you through what we found and what to watch for, and the home is yours again the same day.
If bed bugs come back inside sixty days we return and treat again at no cost.
Why choose us
We kill bed bugs. Only bed bugs. One method, done right, in a single visit — heat and a residual product together, on every job we run.
Unmarked vehicles and personnel
No logos, and no mention of bed bugs on trucks, equipment or uniforms. Neighbours see a van; they do not see why it is there.
Total peace of mind
Sixty days of cover on every job. Should bed bugs survive the treatment, which is rare, we come back out and eliminate the problem for good at no cost.
No other pests, ever
One method, done right, in a single visit. It is the only approach we sell, which is the reason we are good at it.
Quoted as bed bug experts
Reporters do not find us in a directory; they come looking for someone who does this all day. CNN introduces Allan as the operations expert at Bed Bug Exterminator, and he has been quoted by name in thirty articles across fifteen national outlets.
Community-focused service
Seven offices across Florida and Maryland, each with its own locally staffed crew. The office that quotes your job is the one that turns up to it.
Affordable, high-quality heat solution
Priced by the size of the home rather than by the room, and quoted over the phone before anything is booked. No site visit, and no per-room upcharges.
Experienced, dedicated team
As Allan puts it: once we take on your project, your bed bug problem becomes my bed bug problem. If it turns out not to be bed bugs, we say so and cancel the contract. That has happened.
The single best solution — Heat Assault
Heat Assault reaches kill-zone temperature throughout the house and keeps climbing, which is what takes out the eggs as well as the adults. Paired with a residual spray on every job.
Call 727-591-4417 Quoted over the phone before anything is booked.
“My experience with BBE (Bed Bug Exterminator) was very smooth. Dori explained everything clearly on the phone and booked me quickly. The technician Chase came and did a full spray and heat treatment in one day, from morning to evening. The process was well organized and I felt relief after.”
“If you want your bed bugs gone CALL THEM!! Their team is top notch and truly care about what they do. Huge shout out to Dori and Victor, they took such great care of my home and killed every last bloodsucker! Thee best company for bed bug treatment hands down! Thanks”
“Kendall is extremely knowledgeable, professional and patient. She walked me through the process on the phone assessing for bed bugs as well as treatment options. She was interested in me FIRST and my needs, not just making a buck! The tech arrived on time and treated our entire home, 100% bed bug free for 3 months.”
“My experience with Bed Bug Exterminator was very positive. Chase handled the inspection professionally and didn’t miss any areas. Before that, Kendall had helped me book the appointment smoothly and answered all my questions. Everything felt organized and well-managed from start to finish.”
Over the years, we have developed a clear process and plan that works no matter the scale of infestation. As time has passed and our team has worked together more, we have focused on delivering treatment and solutions for bed bugs that are proven to work. To do this, we follow a strict five-step process that helps us to prepare any property in Homosassa and beyond for the removal of bed bugs:
This five-step process means that we can, more often than not, eradicate all bed bugs present in your building in one visit. Instead of a course of return trips, you get a solution that is covered for a minimum of sixty days. Plan on the crew being with you for most of a working day: a full heat cycle plus the spray usually runs somewhere between eight and eleven hours, depending on the size of the property and how much is in it.
Heat only works if the whole structure gets past lethal temperature and stays there. That is a question of output, and output is a number.
| Heat only | Chemical | Combination | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kills eggs | Yes | Often misses | Yes |
| Residual protection | None | A few weeks | Weeks |
| Reaches hidden voids | Bugs flee deeper | Limited | Yes |
| Visits needed | 1 (with gaps) | 2–4 | Usually 1 |
| Guaranteed | — | — | Yes |
Bed bugs die at 118°F held around 90 minutes, and 122°F kills almost instantly. We hold lethal temperature throughout the home.
Most recent job
5 Oct 2024
34448
Mobile home — 1,100 sq ft
Measured across 8 call-backs where a caller in Homosassa did not reach us first time. Counts come from our own phone record. No caller is identified.
Every question below was asked by a real caller on a recorded call, and every answer is what one of our crew said back on the phone, word for word. We give the caller's first name, or their postcode where we do not have one, and never their surname, address or phone number.
The 60-day guarantee. Yeah, and that if there is a small underlying problem that we didn't get or something was brought back into the house, that usually nips it right in the bud.
Answered by Dori on a call,
You can send it to, don't send it to Alan, you can send it to Dori, D-O-R-I, because our owner down here will just forward it to Alan without even reading it. So send it to me. That way they'll see my name.
Answered by Dori on a call,
Let me take a look here. It's just that our main guy in Orlando, which is the main technician in Orlando, he's actually going to be off throughout Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
Answered by Mike on a call,
I was just letting you know that we do have several phone numbers that we operate from, but you have us directly. This is our direct number that you're calling us to right now.
Answered on a call,
I'm not the owner of this establishment, but I'll leave him a direct message.
Answered by Charles on a call,
On the thighs. So most of the time, okay, bedbugs are drawn by the carbon dioxide that we emit as we're breathing. So as we're moving around the house five minutes here, ten minutes here, they cannot catch us. They're not fast. But when we're laying or sitting still, that carbon dioxide builds up around us like an all-you-can-eat bedbug buffet sign. So they start coming towards us and where they target. is the center of that big bed bug buffet sign which is our face our neck our torso which is where that is hanging but they are not going to pass up a perfectly good foot or leg or arm to get to our torso or our back or our face or our neck okay so it really depends on Where they fall off, a lot of people that we've come across that are getting bit around the feet, around the ankles, around the lower legs, we find that the bed bugs kind of fell off around the bottom of the bed, the foot of the bed, and they've found a little hiding place in the bed or the bed frame or whatever, and they're coming up and they're feeding on the lower extremity. If your bites are in the center of your body, your arms, you know, your back, your torso, then you could probably think if it's bedbugs, then they fell off somewhere around the center of your bed, okay? If it's up around your neck, your face, your shoulders, they're somewhere up around the head of your bed.
Answered by Dori on a call,
This is our own crew, on recorded calls about jobs in Homosassa and nearby. Word for word. Each one says who was talking and when.
We do a combination heat and spray treatment, and we do the whole home only. That's the only way to be sure you get all the bed bugs and eggs at one time.
Me see. I'm trying to think of what else I can tell you. Now, I would suggest, have you, have you let her know to vacuum really well and to use the high heat dryer on any clothing and bedding and stuff?
Have to worry about coming home and washing dishes. No, it is a dry heat and the spray that we use is very direct and strategic. So we're very careful about where we spray. So there's no over spray.
Basically, I believe I mentioned we want the floor free of clutter. We want all clothing laundered hanging up in the closet, folded up in the dressers. Other than that, sensitive electronics, they can stay in the home. Just unplug them for the day of treatment so that your TV, computers, laptops, computer monitors, they're built to withstand the heat. They're perfectly fine where they are.
Go towards treatment cost. Yes. Now treatment. It's an all-day-long heat and spray treatment. We usually start at 9 a.m. in the morning with their size of unit. We would have them home by dinner time, okay? So it is an all-day treatment. And what we do, we have a combination heat and spray treatment. Heat is what will kill the bedbugs and the eggs no matter where they're hiding in the home, okay?
I'll tell you, going forward, I'd be a little paranoid buying, and I love thrifting, I love secondhand, but bed bugs are really bad in the United States right now, so it is best to be a little paranoid when you are buying something secondhand, bringing clothes home from the thrift store. Immediately bring that bag of clothes to a dryer, throw them in a high heat dryer for at least 40 minutes, and throw that bag into an outdoor trash can. So you can thrift, you just have to be careful.
Then have everybody back in the home. Now, if 9 a.m. is easier for you because you guys are staying in a hotel and need to get there to let us in, then we can do that. We can do a 9 a.m. start time if that's easier.
Taking it out, we haven't had any issues with liquor or. What I mean by that is like doing the heat treatment, we haven't had any problems with alcohol or anything like that in containers. So I don't think that it's on our checklist.
This type of thing would typically cost you around 2500 um and we can still do an inspection for the 200 that would just be added on to the 25 uh well taken away from the 25 excuse me so the day of the treatment you would only be paying 2300 But I know what you're thinking. This might sound a little costly, but if you go to other companies, you pretty much will be paying the same thing.
If by chance they got into the trailer, okay, before you guys left since March, and then you came back down. Your wife would be covered with bites. That would be, excuse me, I'm sorry. That's the benefits of talking all day long nonstop, you know.
You can wash and dry bedding as long as you do it on high heat. So like if the let's say the day before or, you know, the morning of when the technician gets there to do the to do the heat treatment, if you guys want to just, you know, strip the beds and the blankets and sheets and just throw them in the wash.
Hi, this is Julie with Bed Bug Exterminator. We just missed a call from you. I think you talked to Mike a little bit ago.
What do you have? Is this like a rental house and the people have bedbugs and you're trying to treat it in between or while they stay there or what?
You can also let her know that Victor had cat food delivered for her cats outside and fed them and watered them too.
Then under 1,500 sounds about right. Okay. All right, so for us to do our one-day-and-done treatment, it is $1,800.
Many things. If you have a lot of lipsticks and stuff like wax-based. makeup, probably a good idea to throw those in the fridge for the day.
We started 8 a.m. We have everyone back in the home no later than 8 p.m. Of course, with this being a garage apartment, it is not as large as we do. So, you know, because we do some big houses. So we'll probably be wrapping it up about 3, 3.30 in the afternoon. And then people can go in a couple hours after. So we'll have you back in by dinner time. Yeah.
You're right to be concerned about that, and my advice for you is to, if you wanted to go sleep somewhere else, like at your daughter's house, that you don't take anything with you when you go.
We just order way too much stuff, but both my sister and I work from home, so, you know, it's easy enough to do. But so, you know, we're going to, you know, if you need our services, okay, we are going to tell you exactly what the cost is up front.
Then I don't know. Now, again, they might be getting bit just not having a reaction. There are a lot of people that don't even know they get bit. The probiscus that the bed bug uses to drink our blood with. of a little straw, okay, is so so very fine that if somebody does not have a reaction, they usually don't even have a mark. They have no clue.
Every Homosassa job we quote and complete is logged with a date, zip and crew note. The counts and notes below come from that record — this is the real work history for the city, not a claim.
| Date | Zip | Job note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5 | 34448 | Mobile home — 1,100 sq ft | Completed |
| Aug 23 | Single family home — inspection | Completed | |
| Aug 21 | 34448 | Mobile home — 1,200 sq ft | Completed |
Older housing stock means more cracks and crevices for bed bugs to harbour in.
Driving distance from Homosassa. Routed by proximity — cities closer to another BBE office are served from there.
Outside these zips? Our Homosassa routes reach well past the city line — call anyway.
34448
Yes. Homosassa is inside our service area, worked out of our Tampa office, about a 93-minute drive away. We treat homes and businesses there, and the treatment is the same combination of Heat Assault thermal heat and a residual spray we run everywhere else.
Same-week appointments are usual. Because Homosassa sits roughly 93 minutes from our Tampa office, a crew can normally be with you within a few days of the call, and the whole job is one visit rather than a course of return trips.
Treatment starts at an $1,800 minimum and is priced by the size of the home, with most homes landing between about $1,800 and $2,800. There are no per-room upcharges. We give you the exact number over the phone before anything is booked.
Almost never. Furniture is treated where it stands: heat reaches inside mattresses, frames and upholstery where a spray cannot, so it does not need to be discarded or replaced. We will tell you plainly if a piece is genuinely beyond saving.
Clearly, you are dealing with an infestation of bed bugs in Homosassa. Some of the most common signs that we recommend you look out for when dealing with bed bugs include, but are not limited to:
Unfortunately, these signs prompt that you are dealing with a bed bug problem. With that being the case, taking action as soon as possible would be wise. If you spot even one of these signs, it is probably a clear indication that you have bed bugs loitering around your home or business.
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