Bed Bug Removal in Poinciana, FL

You would be surprised how many people think they do not have bed bugs, mistaking them for other pests like termites, cockroaches, ticks, chinchbugs, or even ants. The good thing is that most forms of pests in Florida have the equivalent of a calling card. Bed bugs are no different. Before you call us to declare you have bed bugs, we recommend you look out for one or all of the following signs:

• Small insects of a reddish-brown hue moving around your bedding or your furniture
• Blood stains appearing on your sheets; this is leftover blood from the bed bug bites
• Horribly, you might even notice black spots – this is bed bug fecal matter. Gross!
• Molted skin being left behind, or egg shells, around entry points into the room
• A musty odor that is hard to get rid of even if you use quality neutralizers
• The most serious sign is the presence of raised, inflamed bite marks on the skin

Should you notice even one of these signs, then we highly recommend you contact the BBE team for an evaluation. We can have a member of our team check out your property to determine the scale of the infestation. Once we know you have bed bugs for certain, we can book a date to begin heat treatment.

Once upon a time, bed bugs were a rarity in Florida. However, the banning of specific chemical treatments led to their regrowth as a common pest across the state. More importantly, though, many species of bed bugs in the country are now resistant to powerful chemical treatments used instead. Bed bugs are believed to impact as many as 20% of the population, either directly or indirectly, in their lives.

However, Floridians tend to get them worse than most other places. Bed bugs love the heat, but where is it hotter and more humid than our beloved FL? This encourages their numbers to swell to a significant volume. For that reason, it is important to understand that bed bugs in Florida and Poinciana are common. If you are having a hard time determining if you do, in fact, have bed bugs, then contact us for an inspection.

The bad news is that stopping bed bugs from entering your property is nearly impossible. Besides, you could fill every gap in your property’s foundations, baseboards, flooring, and access to adjacent properties. You can do everything that is recommended, but you still have bed bugs. These tiny creatures come into properties through gaps we cannot even perceive with our eyes.

What happens then is they expand in numbers by laying eggs – the average female bed bug will lay over one hundred eggs in their life. Think how quickly, then, that would allow the number of bed bugs in your property to swell.

Preventing bed bugs from arriving is also almost impossible because they can easily hitch a ride on a human or even an animal. They are masters of finding their way into places we would rather they didn’t!

Is a bed bug going to leave you with something like Lyme disease? No. What they can do, though, is drain your energy levels spectacularly. Think about the strain that being bitten every night is likely to have on your body and your well-being. It does not take long for bed bug bites to become inflamed, which can force you to itch them to ease the discomfort; very quickly, that can become quite a problem!

Our advice is to avoid scratching any part of the body where you have been bitten. Also, cover up all bite marks to avoid them getting infected. This limits the risk of the bed bug bites worsening.

Where do we start? Chemicals are simply not as effective as they once were. They also come with environmental risks and horror stories about contamination. We avoid the use of chemicals completely as we believe they cause more problems than they resolve. From a pure impact standpoint, too, chemical treatment for bed bugs is not very effective—it rarely kills off the entire colony.

Bed bug treatments need to kill all bed bugs, not just the adults. Chemicals cannot pierce the eggshells, though, so any yet to hatch live to bite another day. For all of these reasons, we recommend that you avoid chemical treatment; if you have bed bugs, let us turn up the heat instead.

Any property that has had bed bugs is likely to need some kind of professional cleaning. The pests leave behind no shortage of mess, including their blood stains and fecal matter. Once we have cleaned out your bed bug problem with heat treatment, we can recommend a furniture and upholstery cleaning service to you. These experts will clean the furniture for you so that any remaining residue is cleaned up.

Operating not only in Poinciana but across all of Greater Orlando, we cover a great many locations in Florida. Our expertise can be relied upon in almost every town, city, and county in the state. If you have bed bugs anywhere from Poinciana to Orlando and beyond, contact BBE. We can give you an easy way to fight back against this problem and make sure your days dealing with bed bug bites are over for now.

It is not easy to get rid of bed bugs, but we do everything we can to ensure this. Contact us today to discuss our services, and we can offer you the easiest solutions to this increasingly common problem.