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 · PLANT CITY, FL · HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
Combination treatment — a residual spray plus Heat Assault thermal heat — kills bed bugs and eggs in a single visit. Homes and businesses across Plant City, quoted over the phone before anything is booked.
When the press needs a bed bug expert They call us
Local record
Bed Bug Exterminator is active in Plant City, with 38 written quotes and 6 completed jobs on the local record.
The page also includes 5 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.”
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
16 Feb 2026
33567
Single family home — 1,700 sq ft
Measured across 36 call-backs where a caller in Plant City did not reach us first time; nine in ten were returned within 50 minutes. 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 inspection would take about an hour for us to go in and inspect to see if there are bed bugs or not.
Answered by Dori on a call,
Let me check our calendar to see if we have availability for today. In order to do that, I just need to get your address to see how far a technician is from you.
Answered on a call,
Are fine they're fine to stay in the drawers they're fine to stay in flashlights whatever they're in you don't need to worry about those yeah
Answered by Dori on a call,
I can do a payment plan for you. What we do now is we do take an additional $100. That's kind of a payment plan. Um, so it would be $1,600. So what we do is we take that $1,600, we divide it in half. We look at the first half up front. So the $200 when you make the payment, $1,600. So that would be $600 at the time of treatment. It's too early to do math today. And then the additional $800 we would divide up into four or six monthly payments for you, whatever works for you.
Answered by Dori on a call,
I would say always best.
Answered by Dori on a call,
This is our own crew, on recorded calls about jobs in Plant City and nearby. Word for word. Each one says who was talking and when.
The perimeter of the home with a three-part pesticide spray you know we spray all the window sills all the baseboards and you know door jams But the most important piece of the process of eliminating the bed bugs is we bring a piece of commercial equipment. It's called a heat assault, and it's an unmarked black trailer.
You're hoping if there's anything that has fallen underneath the surface of your mattress or your flooring or your box springs or your pillow, because they are so small, they can get into pillows and mattresses and things. Hopefully that suction will pull whatever it is up and out of your mattress into your vacuum.
They don't run out there but they're probably not in there now if you had a piece of furniture like sometimes somebody will say oh I put my recliner in the garage well we want to haul that back in so it gets treated with heat
Some of our guests choose, they're like, okay, well, we got a hotel because we got an Airbnb that was pet friendly because we have our jobs. We're just staying the night or whatever. But you can come home that same night if you choose to do so.
Good luck. And let me give you a couple pointers. You definitely want somebody that's going to do a heat treatment for you, okay? When you're dealing with bedbugs, don't let those companies that just spray talk you into paying a couple thousand dollars for sprays. It's going to be a long, miserable, drawn-out process. So you want a heat treatment. If they do a spray with the heat treatment, that's even better. But the heat is the important thing, okay?
By chance it is positive for bed bugs and we have to do treatment we give you a treatment letter to prove to Airbnb that you've had treatment and the bed bugs have been eliminated Okay.
Most of the bedbugs, now with bedbugs feces, sometimes the top will flake off, but they definitely leave stains on a mattress, on a sheet, wherever they happen to be.
Will let you know yes bed bug related or no bed bug related okay but I would say seriously vacuum like it's your new cardio program use that dryer do not spray anything okay because spraying Bed bugs, if you see a bed bug and you spray, sure, it'll kill that one and it hits. But what it's going to do is it's going to make the other bed bugs that are hiding realize there's danger, okay, and they're going to move farther away from that danger, which could be deeper into a mattress, deeper into upholstered furniture, deeper into your walls. Okay, so right now, best weapons.
We don't we don't like to just do one room due to the fact that these guys we can be treating that one room and these guys will start crawling through the walls and go to the next room where it's cool.
If her balcony was on the parking lot side it would be a lot easier to get to her because we have extension hoses not a big deal but with her balcony being on the pool side there is no way for us to pull a truck and trailer back there
I catch on a lot quicker. Okay, this is this situation. So okay. Okay, so being that you're in rehab, is someone going to be able to do the prep that's needed to take down the blinds?
Then the trailer that we have with us is our heat assault system.
I'm yeah I'm right now by myself the owners help when they can but they stay pretty busy as well our other client relation person sadly had to leave us for an indeterminate amount of time because of medical issues So I've been doing it on my own seven days a week here for a bit.
Definitely before 8 p.m., what Victor will do, he's the technician, what he will do is he will text you when he's done. So it's usually about, let me see, with your size home, I'm going to say it's probably going to be about 4 o'clock, maybe 4.
Only have to be out of the house for four hours. So maybe taking the dogs for a ride to the dog park, something like that, you know. So let me see.
Only dirty people get bedbugs. So it's and that is just not the case. Okay, it is basically going to the wrong place at the wrong time and bedbugs are bad in the United States right now. I mean, think about it. We're a thriving business. We stay busy seven days a week and all we do are bedbugs.
You to get me some good pictures of the kids' bites. Sometimes we can tell from bites alone if it is bed bug or not.
All right, no problem. So in things like in, okay, so let's move to the kitchen now. So if you have fruits and vegetables that are on the countertops or like in a bowl or something.
Now, we also, I can check, I won't know probably right away, but by tomorrow I will know if there is any time Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday that I can do an overnight treatment. Some people, you know, they book hotels anyways when we come to do an all-day treatment because they're not like, we're not coming back, you know, for the day. So sometimes that works, but you would have to be gone overnight.
Google, bless its heart, it's my best friend. But that does already, it really is. I use Google for everything, you know, chat GPT. Google, the most researched bug in the United States right now because bed bugs are bad, are bed bugs. Google makes mistakes. Okay, so you have pictures of the bugs?
Every Plant City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16 | 33567 | Single family home — 1,700 sq ft | Completed |
| Dec 28 | 33566 | Single family home — 2,100 sq ft | Completed |
| Jun 26 | Single family home — 1,800 sq ft — inspection | Completed |
These 9 photographs were taken by our own technicians on bed bug jobs in Plant City, Florida in December 2025. They are our work, not stock photography.
Older housing stock means more cracks and crevices for bed bugs to harbour in. Rentals turn over faster than owner-occupied homes, and turnover is how an infestation arrives.
Driving distance from Plant City. Routed by proximity — cities closer to another BBE office are served from there.
Outside these zips? Our Plant City routes reach well past the city line — call anyway.
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Treatment is priced by the size of the home, starting at an $1,800 minimum, so most Plant City homes run somewhere between about $1,800 and $2,800. There are no surprise per-room fees, and we go over the exact price with you by phone first. See the full pricing breakdown.
The reliable way to kill bed bugs at every life stage, including the eggs that store-bought sprays tend to miss, is our combination treatment. We pair Heat Assault thermal heat, which kills the bugs on contact, with a residual spray that keeps working for weeks afterward to catch anything that survives. You can see the temperatures that kill bed bugs in full.
While heat treatment will kill off bed bugs of all shapes and sizes, they are hardy creatures that can shrug off the heat of an ordinary hot day. Therefore, do not rely upon the warmth of a closed-up room: you need something that takes the heating level right up, which is what our professional Heat Assault equipment does.
No. This is the most common myth we hear. Bed bugs are drawn to warmth and the carbon dioxide we breathe out, not to dirt, so a spotless home is no guarantee against them. A tidy home simply has fewer places for them to hide.
More common than most people would guess. Plant City is home to around 41,000 residents, and with roughly 34% of homes renter-occupied across Hillsborough County, there are plenty of multi-unit buildings where bed bugs can spread from one home to the next.
They could have arrived by someone bringing them into your Plant City home unknowingly, or through cracks and gaps from one property to the next. What draws them in is body heat and the carbon dioxide we breathe out, and not clutter, though clutter does give them more places to hide. Our bed bug FAQ covers more.
Unfortunately, no. If you have tried the usual DIY treatments, you are likely only killing a small handful of the adult populace, leaving the younglings to take their place. The infestation keeps recovering until it is treated properly at every life stage.
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