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 · SARASOTA, FL · SARASOTA COUNTY
Combination treatment — a residual spray plus Heat Assault thermal heat — kills bed bugs and eggs in a single visit. Homes and businesses across Sarasota, 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 Sarasota, with 61 written quotes and 24 completed jobs on the local record.
The page also includes 8 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 Aug 2026
34242
Condo — 1,200 sq ft
Measured across 48 call-backs where a caller in Sarasota did not reach us first time; nine in ten were returned within 113 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, 3 of them from Sarasota and the area we cover from here, 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.
We treat the whole house. That's what I was just telling you, ma'am. We treat the whole house with a one-day-and-done heat and spray treatment.
Answered on a call,
Newer units, it's harder for bedbugs to go from unit to unit, but they're so, so small, even though firewalls are in between units, they can travel through that little, little space that's like around the drywall
Answered on a call,
My goodness. Yeah, I don't.
Answered on a call,
I have got a follow up on respray task already ready to go. And that way I will just keep checking the calendar and we'll figure it out.
Answered by Dori on a call,
Two stories. Both units are on the second floor. One is in one building, the other is in another building about 30 feet away and you walk across the bridge to get to the other unit.
Answered by Dori on a call,
I don't know. I don't work in the office and I don't think he's in the office either.
Answered by Mike on a call,
Because you usually have to run that by property management before you can get it treated.
Answered by John on a call,
Let me go ahead and do your quote. Give me one moment.
Answered on a call,
This is our own crew, on recorded calls about jobs in Sarasota and nearby. Word for word. Each one says who was talking and when.
Can live for at least a year. I know it's a miserable situation to go through and I feel so bad for you, especially with kids. They can live for at least a year without a food source. So they can wait you out. OK, yeah. So the only way to truly get rid of them in your home is a heat treatment. Because when an effective heat treatment is done, the temperature is brought up to about 140 degrees in your home. It's held for six hours.
Then you waited until June to let us know that you were dealing with bed bugs again. So we probably should have done a heat treatment for you right then to wipe them out and then ask you to stay extremely vigilant so we wouldn't be in this position now.
I did. I did. So they'll be on your phone. So what you want to do is you want to. You want to just stay vigilant, you vacuum, you keep using that dryer, anything and everything that you cannot identify, take a really good close-up picture and send to us, okay? We will tell you if we think it's a bed bug.
Bird mites are really bad right now. It could be some other kind of mites. So, you know, I would say concentrate on trying to get a free inspection. Let them tell you what it is. No matter who you get in there for a free inspection, if they say bedbugs, give us a call back because we have the best treatment in Florida.
I will let her know. Now, tomorrow, once Chase has a better idea of when his heat treatment is going to wrap up, I can let you know if it's going to be closer to 5 or 5.30, you know. So I'll let you know so that way they know as well.
What I'm going to suggest you do, do not spray, do not put any powders down. If you have powders down, vacuum them up.
We do heat treatments, but we can't do a heat treatment on a car.
If you decide if you decide, well, excuse me, if we decide that you do have bed bugs, then that would be included in the treatment. But if we decide that you don't have bed bugs, you know.
We have the heat assault. And then other people use electric or propane heat. Shopping around, avoid people that just spray. And avoid the propane heat. Please back avoid the propane heat. The propane heat is known for causing floor damage because the propane heater is very hot at the element. It will singe carpet. It'll singe vinyl. You know, it's just miserable, okay? So, and you also want to ask while you're shopping around, you want to ask what kind of heat treatment they use. You also want to ask what is the highest temperature they go to.
We actually plug in our heat treatments through our truck and then we bring it to the house.
The details on the apartment. So if you don't mind, can you... I can call back in about 10 or 15, maybe 20 minutes or less. Would that be okay?
Of course, especially if you're having a hard time with management. Okay, it is a possibility that they will travel from unit to unit.
If they're pledging 50% of your bed bug cost, then that's half off. If you talk to two agencies that can help you and they each pledge 50%.
We base it on a couple different factors. The primary one being the size of the house. So if you can give me the address, I can look it up and I can give you a quote on what it will cost.
The unit and you'll know how nuts I am, but do me a favor and don't post it because I'm private and I'm not on anything. But I'll...
Then you can plug them back in you know once the house cools off after you get back home so we started 8 a.m in the morning we promised to have you back home no later than 8 p.
Hello? Okay, thank you. Okay, so what do you have going on? What signs are you seeing? Well, the first thing is I had bites on the back of my legs a few weeks ago. It's been going on for like a month and then they returned. Well, first they told me they were hives, but now they think maybe they were bites. So I'm not even exactly sure, but the first indication was some sort of bite situation.
They don't just stay on the bed. They'll nest in the walls and the wall outlets and if you have clutter on the floor sometimes they'll nest in mats. So that's why we always ask if, you know, if people, you know, can make sure that, you know, when they're decluttering their home, they check to make sure that they don't, you know, carry any bed bugs.
We have to take that into consideration, too. If you are spending time maybe out in the garden, out in the yard, sitting outside on furniture, maybe you are getting those bites throughout the day and they're really just starting to bother you. It takes a while. you know, for them to bother you and then you're waking up and you're like, oh my gosh, but they actually started during the day. Who knows? We're going to try and help you narrow that down.
We go somewhere at the wrong place or wrong time or somebody comes over and brings hitchhikers in. So it usually takes about a month, sometimes two months, for people to realize what they're dealing with. So there's a very high probability that they have hitchhiked, cleaning on to clothes, shoes, bags. bags of everyone in your family and you're dropping them off in other areas.
Every Sarasota 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16 | 34242 | Condo — 1,200 sq ft | Completed |
| Jun 9 | 34243 | Condo — 1,200 sq ft | Completed |
| May 29 | 34237 | Single family home — 1,300 sq ft — full heat cycle | Completed |
| Apr 19 | 34231 | Mobile home — full heat cycle | Completed |
| Apr 17 | 34231 | Condo — 900 sq ft | Completed |
| Feb 14 | 34239 | Duplex — 1,000 sq ft | Completed |
| Jan 9 | 34243 | Commercial property — 2,200 sq ft | Completed |
| Dec 7 | 34235 | Single family home — 1,300 sq ft | Completed |
These 60 photographs were taken by our own technicians on bed bug jobs in Sarasota, Florida between November 2025 and April 2026. They are our work, not stock photography.
Driving distance from Sarasota. Routed by proximity — cities closer to another BBE office are served from there.
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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.
In Sarasota, our heat treatment starts at an $1,800 minimum and is priced by square footage rather than by the room, so most homes land somewhere between about $1,800 and $2,800. We confirm the exact figure by phone before we begin, with no per-room upcharges and no surprises. You can estimate yours on the cost and pricing page.
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.
More common than most people would guess. Sarasota is home to around 57,000 residents, and with roughly 43% of homes renter-occupied across Sarasota County, there are plenty of multi-unit buildings where bed bugs can spread from one home to the next.
Bed bugs are not a sign that a home is dirty. Most of the time they arrive by hitching a ride, whether on luggage, on secondhand furniture, or in a guest's bag, or they slip in through cracks and gaps from one unit to the next. Even spotless homes and brand-new builds around Sarasota County can end up with them. There is more in our comprehensive guide.
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.
In most cases the whole job is finished in a single day. You and any pets do need to be out of the home while the heat runs, and for roughly two hours afterward while it cools, but there are no repeat visits to schedule the way chemical-only plans usually require.
In most Sarasota apartment buildings, the landlord pays; in most single-family rentals, the tenant does unless the lease says otherwise. Florida Statute 83.51 places the duty for exterminating bed bugs on the landlord of any building with more than one unit, and bed bugs are actually named in the statute. Check your lease before paying for anything.
Unfortunately, an empty condominium will not starve them out on its own. These pests can wait out a whole summer between meals, and the eggs laid before the door was locked will have hatched by the time the owner returns. If a unit sat empty since spring, it is worth a careful look at the bedding before the first guests arrive.
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