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Our customers that call us with bed bugs have always had a special place in my mind. I always try to work in these jobs in as soon as possible and do them for a cheaply a price as we can reasonably offer. I know these pests are not only nasty but can be mentally traumatizing 💔 Bed Bugs Suck!!
Yeah, i had many customers that would call me months later thinking there were still bugs . I'll go by and put monitors out to try and prove they are gone . They do traumatize people.
Bed bugs have legitimately given me a phobia of travel. The thought of my safest space being infested with bugs makes me so upset. I’ve even owned a motel for over 5 years(recently sold it) and didn’t understand fully what these were until one of the rooms became infested. I’ve never been so distraught. I threw out everything, had it treated multiple times and NEVER opened the room back up. I was too afraid. Now I’m about to take my first trip after Covid with the fam and I am freaking out.
I have never had to deal with this thank god, but I remember it was never heard of in the 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's. Hotels and motels were ok back then. I heard you don't have to throw out everything, it can be treated.
@@bambiflowers9543 we took our trip successfully! No hitchhikers came back with us, thank God! BUT no one or luggage was allowed in the room before I did a full and deep inspection. All beds stripped, furniture inspected, you name it and I looked it over TWICE. Upon returning home, We went as far as spraying the exterior our suitcases with pesticides (yup I hate that) and leaving them outside until I laundered all clothing. The suitcases remained outside for months. That seems overboard but I don’t care.
In my city they've been found in popular coffee shops, theaters and libraries. Basically anywhere the public can sit down for long period of time. I'm super paranoid now sitting on any indoor public seating. Especially after hearing how it only takes one pregnant female to start a colony (due to the fact that her children have no problems breeding with one another!)
They're not just in or around beds. When my mother in law moved, she found them embedded behind her wall clock in her living room. They were clumped around the gears. Clock had to be thrown out. Her neighbors had bed bugs bad. Since her home was part of a row home, bugs traveled & made themselves at home.
Exactly, Gotta check the carpets: the couches and chairs, the clothes hampers, the closets and dressers ... hell, since they can travel with you on your clothes then can easily also be in your vehicles. Ultimately the best thing to do if you see them in the house is to spray everywhere. I would also be careful with delivery boxes, but that's moreso for roaches.
Bed bugs are hitch hikers. You can get them from hotels and restaurants and resorts and cruise tours. They used to just be found in caves. This is why humans used to move from cave to cave. To get away from the bugs.
Question; you ever accidentally infest your own house after coming back from taking care of an infestation? That would be my biggest fear if I ever got into pest removal.
It can happen, but as a tech you try and be as careful as possible to not sit, rub, or put your body up against things while treating. If it's this bad, I am changing clothes no matter what at front door or at a gas station near home, tying up in a garbage bag, and laundering immediately. I will also treat my work vehicle. So yeah the paranoia is there, but in the end you're really helping someone so it worth it. But it's uncomfortable the thought of bringing them with you
@@nataliehaigler25 yeah I wouldn't want to sit down or lean on anything in there either 😂 Do you need actual bed bugs to come back with you to infest your house, or can you get like egg sacs or something stuck to you? I don't know how it works exactly
My dad rehabs houses and keeps a bucket of D-earth and spray mixes and puts bags on his boots to keep bug and roach eggs from transferring on the bottoms of shoes. Keeps a change of clothes and a bag to transfer clothes to wash.
because of dust mites and all other buggies I have always had both mattress and box spring encased in vinyl zipper covers. I also have the zipper taped over. So even if my mattres is a decade old it is still basically like brand new under there. Safe from all the little crawlies and body funk. It is super easy to keep clean.When you wash your sheets,you just takes some disinfecting wipes and wipe down the mattress cover before putting clean sheets on.
Dan this was an awesome video and I greatly appreciate it as I'm sure others do as well. I never cared anything at all about bed bugs until I was attacked a couple of months ago at a resort in South Carolina. At that time I remained calm and gathered an incredible amount of knowledge that enabled me to leave them where they were (I eliminated conditions that would have allowed them to come back to Jersey with me). I have been putting my new find information to use and have even shared it with others. I will also share with them your video now because it is highly informative. God-bless you and be safe.
I was traumatized at just the thought of having them. I got a mystery rash & immediately jumped to the conclusion that I might have bed bugs. I sprayed everything, including my bed, carpet, & bombed my house twice. I took all my beddings off & put them in plastic bags til I could wash everything in hot water 2-3 times. I threw out all my pillows, about 8 of them, & got new ones. Then I put my mattress is a ziplock bag & all my new pillows in allergy/bug protectors. After stripping my bed, I only used the absolute minimum to sleep with until I could confirm the issue. I researched as much as I could too. Got these little bed bug boxes to put at the feet on my bed to try to confirm if I had them because there was no sign of them, that I could see. This was all done within days of getting this rash. Then I went to my dermatologist, they did a punch of my skin to have it examined, & it was just an allergic reaction. Just the thought, panic, & slight possibility left me forever traumatized. This was a few years ago & I still sleep with a ziplock bag on my bed & allergy/bug pillowcases just to ease my mind. Now I'm paranoid to stay at a hotel.
To be honest, governments should treat this as an epidemic: Penalise m/hotels without preventive measures, offer free treatment for infestations, educate, run an online map of infested locations...etc. We shouldn't be waiting for this to be another COVID
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@@Justin.Martyrmaybe you will become a bedbug. Things were sure a lot better under Trump. No. I can't vote and didn't care much for Trump but he had the economy roaring and kept us out of a War! Can you say the same about that doddering old fool that claims to be president!
I purchased empty spray bottles and filmed them with Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol 70%, sprayed areas were it was most infested, repeated this for several plus vacuumed it took several months but it worked !
@@HH-le1viYes and no. They have and are able to adapt to new toxins which target them. But adapting to alcohol spray would be like being able to adapt to being crushed, alcohol kills them in another way. Alcohol is highly flammable! And should be used only with great caution.
@HH-le1vi One thing they don't develop immunity to is diatomaceous earth. What it does is it kills bed bugs by sucking all the fluid they need to live out of thier body which they dehydrate and die. There is no developing immunity to that, unless they somehow overcome dehydration which is impossible
I appreciate your sensitivity in discussing the populations most at risk for bed bugs, just as a note; people with severe mental illness let something like bed bugs get as bad as it does not because they “don’t care” about having bed bugs, but because their mental illness creates so much difficulty for them to do basic things to take care of themselves like cleaning, hygiene, etc.. Trust me that nobody wants have bed bugs like that but some people just struggle to care for themselves even when they are hurting themselves by not doing so.
You are brave. I don’t do those types of inspections without my coverall suit haha I don’t want these or other vectors coming to my house! Good job man!!!
Interesting video. I have to tell you though that it isn’t ONLY older people who don’t show a mark when bitten. Some people for whatever reason do not show any marks regardless of age. It’s dangerous to assume that it is only older people that do not show any signs of the bite. Not sure where you got that information/idea but I guarantee you it’s incorrect. Personally I’ve known several people in their 20’s 30’s and 40’s who have been bitten and do not show any signs of being bitten. Besides that, skin sensitivity on its own is not necessarily related to marks being left. That connection I’m not sure how you made but please,you cannot continue to put older people in this category. It is an entire group of people at various ages who do not show signs of the bites. Please understand this. Thank you
Most of The times comes from motels and hotels via travellers and backpackers. I recommend to ask the customer and investigate if your customers has been overseas or stayed in motel or rental property during their Trip
@@i_fuze_hostages6 yeah I did that. The quote was 1,200$. I’m Poor and don’t have the money. I got a new mattress and box spring though. Both of those are encased . I’ve seen a 90% decrease in the bugs . Yesterday I saw 2. Got bit once. That’s it though .. I hope they’ll die soon
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I had a brief problem, we used crossfire, ortho and that yellow can, all 3 and got rid of it all with ease. Also you need a steamer, the kind you steam clothes with and steam the FK out of your carpets because bed bugs live in your carpet.
I have bed bugs too I’m miserable. I did however hire an exterminator that I can’t afford and I don’t know what they are doing. They have been treating for over a month and half and nothing has changed. They said I had a small infestation in my room only. But after a month and half of treatment nothing has changed. I even pulled my bed from the wall and found a whole infestation they missed!!!! I am livid that even they aren’t doing anything to help. And mentally it has taken its toll.
OMG Dan you look exactly like my cousin. I just stumbled upon your videos and I'm shocked how much you look like my cousin. In fact so much it's scary lol. But I love the videos. I'm from north Carolina and my grandparents on my mother's side passed away and they had 2 homes one was way out in the country and I've inherited it and going to move into it but the termites has destroyed 60% of it so me and some family members have been replacing all the termite damage and we should have it all done by midsummer. I went on RUclips to find out how to keep termites away and out of the house and came upon your channel. So far you have really gave me some education on them. I'm going to subscribe now because I want to learn as much as I can about all pests being I'll be living in the country I'm sure I'm going to be up against many different pests. There's 2 huge black rat snakes that live under the house and they keep rodents at bay. I've never seen any rodents in that house so I don't mind having the black snakes under the house to keep rodents out because I absolutely hate rodents of any kind..
As a landlord, I can say the public transportation implementation in our town definitely increased the amount of bedbugs I have to deal with in the apartments of my tenant. It doesn’t take much to bring them home. Also but if you go talk to an older guy that does your job he’ll tell you that when they quit doing and DDT is when we had the bedbug problem really go bad.
I work in housing and have done for 30 years. I have seen the most extreme cases of bed bugs and in some cases properties infested so badly that bugs have been falling off the ceiling of and curtains so bad that the curtains have become crusty. In extreme cases bugs no longer confine themselves to a bed and can literally take over a whole property. In bad cases as in this video and worse it usually comes about because the problem has been ignored and untreated for too long. The key to eradicating bed bugs is to constantly make regular checks and if you see only as much as one - treat your place as if it were a raging infestation. Give one bug half a chance and you will find yourself on the fast road to hell.
There is one other way you can get bed bugs that isn't picking it up from another place. I moved into sn apartment and found out way too late that it was infested with bed bugs. The whole building. They got away with not treating it by having a couple of random drug addicts they called in house exterminators with nearly 10 minutes of training. Needless to day after 14 treatments i was getting bit worse than ever Edit: they also can live anywhere in the dwelling, but the closest thing to food aka sleeping humans is thwir fave. If you have a bed bug proof mattress and a steel bed no box spring, they'll live in the wall or in a book or behind a picture frame. Anywhere. Another thing he didn't mention is that you can easily get them from hotels. Ways to svoid taking them home: -do not keep belongings on or near bed overnight. Do not store bags or suitcases on the floor, especially not near the bed store it up high and away from the bed. You dont want them to hang out in your stuff after their bloodmeal. -After you stay anywhere else overnight, put all clothes and belongings in the dryer on high heat for at minimum 20 minutes. -if its something like s suitcase, put it in a enclosed plastic bag for 13 months or put it in a car thats hot all day and night for three days. heat kills these shit beetles the best. .. even if placing each one in rubbing alcohol and watching them twitch to death is more satisfying. god damn it i hate them so damn much Edit 2: i wasnt going tto day it because maybe he misspoke, but bed bugs were historically a HUGE problem until we killed em with DDT.. snd then they become tolerant to ddt and ddt's chemkids. And then the populations exploded all over again. Im going to try and provide a link. If there is no link, its because my sources keep getting me deleted. Ugh. I can't link studies Google university of kentucky, and bed bugs; penn state +bed bugs: rutgers + bed bugs; and center for invasive species researxh and bed bugs
I woke up with a dozen itchy bites out of nowhere. Is it bed buts or fleas from my dogs. I searched my bed and could find no trace or them. I didspray with bedbug spray and i washed all my bedding and dried on high heat. Wierd, my husband has no bits and my dogs are not scratching. I was researching on the internet and learned that bed bug bites can take 1 to 14 days to show up. A week before i had helped tear up carpet in 5 rooms in an old house my btother had just bought. Then i spent a lot of time on the floor pulling up tack strips and staples from the padding. We hauled it all to the dump. So that explains why i cant find any bugs in my bed. Thank goodness i dont have them butwill keep my eyes open. As for my brothers house, it is a fixer upper and empty. I sprayed the baseboards and woodwork. Put out 2 gluetraps and cautht anything.
This is why I started buying beds with metal frames, after having had these issues when much younger. Metal-frame beds are much less likely to be a good home for bedbugs than the divan-style bed.
I helped a neighbor clean her house. She was older with diabetes. I wanted to do a good deed. Spent a full day cleaning. A few days or maybe a week I realized I brought home bedbugs (I think she knew she had but, didn't say anything out of embarrassment) I washed EVERYTHING I had and was able to get rid of them without a professional. I did enjoy placing them inside clear basketball card covers and bursting them open
Had a neighbor move out who had an Infestation in their apartment. Within 7 days we got hit. 47 bites all over my body. We bought a tent and slept in it in the living room and they still got in. What a nightmare
Omg we had bed bug for years and they were a nightmare to get rid of. If i ever had to go through that again id probably just burn my house down and live out of my car.
I would vacuum first get as much as possible then use apprehend and use crossfire around the room so you will wipe them quickly. Tell the customer trash the mattress
I never in my 47 years have ever had to deal with it but recently a couple weeks ago I let my niece's stay over for the weekend and when they left my younger daughter started getting these bites on her arms and legs. She thought it was mosquitoes but we decided to look deep into it and found a small amount of smaller bed bugs and like three or four adult bedbug. I threw away everything and I mean everything, bed and bed frame, dressers and desk. 2 days later we decide to check my other daughter's bad that was right next door to her. Found one large bed bug but that was it, no other markings I've other bed bugs. I applied D-Earth and sprayed, hopefully that was enough to kill them all.
Getting bed bugs in my house is legitimately one of my worst fears. I stayed with my brother while he was in college about 5-6 years ago not knowing they had them. Luckily I had a severe reaction to the 3 bites I had in the morning so I knew something was up. Looking around the couch I slept on I saw one and freaked out. When I got home I stripped butt naked outside of my house before going in, went straight to the shower and then burned my clothes, shoes, suitcase etc. in my backyard burn pile. I literally didn't care if my neighbors called the cops on me or anything, I'd rather go to jail for indecent exposure than get a single one of those vile creatures in my house. I couldn't even sleep for 2 days, finally passing out on the third day home. I fear them so much that I haven't allowed anyone into my house in that 5-6 year period and I literally mean not 1 single human being aside from me has stepped foot in my house in years lol.
Drastic times call for drastic measures, moved into an apartment once that had them, thought bedbugs were folklore, never seen one before. Bedbugs are a real life nightmare you dont want to experience. I literally thought i was going insane from sleep deprivation and getting bit. Haven't dealt with then since. That was ten years ago , i don't blame you for being proactive they are NASTY NASTY CREATURES. peace...........
@@mrtophat12I still have PTSD from bed bugs I found infesting my kids room 2 monthes after we moved into an apartment 20 years ago we also vacationed in a hotel the same time we moved in the bed bugs could of been already in the apartment or came from that hotel. But I never go to hotels to this day. For years I made people undress out side leave their clothes out in 5he trash jade them go directly into the shower 5hen gave them clean clothes to wear if they wouldn't do that they were not allowed in. To this day if I know people come to visit and 5hey stayed in hotels on the way they aren't allowed in . I visit them some where liie a restraint or park or beach. It's that traumatizing to alot of people.
I would be interested in hearing you talk about scabies. When I was about 15 or so I was staying at a friend's house. She had been itching but it had looked more like a rash so I was naively not concerned. I ended up obviously getting scabies. She had contracted them from a sexual partner. I had never heard of nor did i know what they even were. In fact, none of my friends and family members did either or they had a misunderstanding of them and thought it was a skin condition. That is an area that I think everyone needs to be a little more informed on. Including myself
In the country i was born in Scabies (or scabbys as kids would call them) were so common every 10 year old knew what to look for to get treatment. I haven't heard of scabies for years.
Tosmosol soup kills scabies is safe to use on body and hair Suffocates the body lice Clean every day with it until itching is gone Amazon Carrie’s the soap and Walmart app I keep tetmosal soup in my house Kids bring live home from day cares and schools
I just randomly started watching these videos and now I’m terrified of getting bed bugs. I’m always worried when I have to stay at a hotel or vacation rental. I try to check the beds before we put our stuff down. I would literally want to move if I ever got them.
Theyve gotten so much worse with COVID isolation for 2.5 years. People not leaving home and staying a buffet for them. Then going back to the office and traveling afterward. Smh
I stayed at a Days Inn back in November of 2022… I am physically disabled and requested one of the two handicap accessible rooms. It was *infested*. I barely slept those 3 days, and I was so fortunate to not bring any home. I read they don’t usually go into bathrooms so I put everything in the bathroom. Luckily they refunded my entire stay, but that was a terrible experience.
I have had past issues with bed bugs. I tried different things but nothing seemed to help. Then I discovered CrossFire!! I have only used it 2x for treatment & man it destroyed then bed bugs and their eggs!! CrossFire keeps killing bed bugs weeks later from the residue!!! Great stuff!!
I bought some books from goodwill that brought bed bugs into my house. We got them right at the beginning before they totally spread but it was a scary experience. It lasted a week though and this was 2 years ago. They were eating up my feet at night for a week in my bed though.
@@TroubledOnePaydirt It's been that long...damn I got them when I was 19 and have got them from living in many places, well that was 10 years ago and I'm dealing with them again, 5th or 6th times, pretty crazy at this point I'm just tired, I'm hardly even bothered anymore, still nasty though
They couldn’t even clean up the clutter before the exterminator came?? No wonder they’ve been living like this for years. Those bugs are definitely living in all that clutter. This issue is untreatable if the owners don’t comply.
Yea my best friend literally didn’t know bed bugs were a real thing 😂 she thought it was just a thing you say to kids like “don’t let the bed bugs bite “ but she didn’t know they were real 🤦🏽♀️
And I freaked out 5 days ago with two quarter sized nests about a foot from the bottom of the bed. Mine came in on the grooves in the bottom of my sandals. They fit perfectly up in the grooves. A cozy welcome into my home, where I put the sandals at the foot of my bed at night. The massive deep clean and eradication has begun here. There is no sign on mattresses or box spring. Nothing. Had I not been so allergic to the bites I would not have notice and this could have grown so fast. I am doing everything recommended to the entire room and then the entire rest of the house. I may have a chance against a bigger infestation by finding it incredibly early. Because no sign on mattresses. They were and are being treated then encasing in bed bug proof full mattress covers because I know I can’t get every single egg or bug. Three steps for everything. Kill. Track and treat with longer acting chemical. Prevent as much as possible with the longer acting spray and DE. My fingers crossed for near total if not total removal of bugs. I would have freaked out at that level of bugs. I couldn’t imagine not finding that before it got that bad. Thank you for your videos.
One of my main tools for treating bed bugs was a six inch hunting knife. I would cut away that fabric on the bottom of the box spring so I could treat up inside it. If you think the infestation is bad on the outside there are far more on the inside. I also cut away that covering fabric on couches and chairs in order to effectively treat them.
I had an account with an SRO building in NYC, there was a room, and the walls were crawling with bedbugs and roaches. The room had so much trash in it. I said nope im not walking i there until the room is cleared out. After it was cleared out, it was discusting, bedbug, roaches everywhere, and rats had chewed through the metal of the refrigerator . I couldn't believe there was a person living in that room.
Man. That is absolutely vile. I think sleeping in the nyc streets would be more comfortable than that hell hole. My dad works for the health department and has had to go into people's homes, he has told me some wild and disgusting stories of people's homes. He's been to hoarder houses, animal hoarder houses, bed bug infested, roach infested houses, ect. He's actually been to 2 houses that were in the show Hoarders. The worst house he's ever been to was a nightmare. He even showed me pictures. This place was a hoarder/animal hoarder house, on top of that it had roaches, bed bugs, the bacteria that causes staff infections, and the owner couldn't control his bowels anymore, so HUMAN FECES was smeared all throughout the house. The basement was the worst part of the whole nightmare. The basement was where the guy hoarded all of the dogs. It had no power down there, so it was pitch black, and there were cages stacked on top of cages, each containing dogs. About 20 - 30 dogs total. A few of the dogs had drowned and were rotting down there because the basement was completety flooded with about a foot of water. He had to go in there in basically a hasmat suit, and he could smell it strong as can be in what was supposedly a gas mask. Long story short, that house was condemned.
@Haunted the weird thing is that the public areas of the building are spotless. But the rooms can be horror shows. A lot or horders the fore marshal will get a court order to clear them . Some of these p eople just collect garbage off the street and hoard them. The worst smell I've ever smelled was in that building. There was a homeless guy cooking something in a large soup can in the communal kitchen, which best guess was rotten meat. I've never since smelled something so vile. I didn't spray that floor that day it was so bad.
there is another group of people you left out... people who are too poor to afford an exterminator. this also includes people who live in housing where the owner is to cheap to get an exterminator as well. I have bed bugs as we speak, and the landlord has known for over two years, but he still refuses to get us any help. And I am on a fixed income and cannot afford to do it myself. being that I am bed bound due to me disabilities, for the last 2 years I have been a 24 hour all you can eat blood buffet. I am sure the infestation is just as bad as this one is, but I am powerless to do anything about it.
Check your lease to see if pest control is your responsibility or the land lords. If it's his but he won't do anything then report him to the health department.
Gosh! that sounds so bad. I think you can report your landlord to the health department or tenant services that help low income housing or places where there are slumlords..
Im a pest control tech my self best way is to vacuum the ones currently their and use Cimexa and or do a heat treatment on that house is only the best way to treat and remove the BB as we call them
If you live in an apartment complex and the person beside you get bed bugs, they can come through the wall to your apartment and infest your stuff. That happened to me, and I didn't even know what a bed bug was. I started noticing red stains on the floor that would go from the bottoms of my bed post to the baseboard most every day, and my bed frame was metal, so I thought gosh, it's rusting. And I would wipe that up every day thinking it was rust (was my digested blood) then my cat didn't want to sleep with me anymore which really made me think what in the world was going on. Well, it finally came out that there were people in other apartments with bed bugs because they had spread throughout the building. I moved and put everything that was very important to keep like family things in a very hot storage unit by itself for a good 5 years I threw away everything else and started over in a new home with only a twin bed a recliner and a TV. I had to throw out my other TV because they infested the TV as well. This was about 14 years ago, and honestly, I'm just now back to a point in life where I have a complete home again with furnishings and everything that most houses have inside. If I even saw a bed bug in real life again, I think I would have a heart attack. As far as what you're saying about cats and dogs, you're mostly right however I had a very old cat who was 18 and he could no longer jump up so he had a bed on the floor. He died about 3 months after moving out, and he was anemic. I did everything that I could, and it still bothers me to this day. They don't like pets, but if one is accessible and it's there, they will go for it. My other two cats were fine as they didn't stay on the floor, nor were they as old and sedentary.
Are you not pulling all the drawers out of the dresser and other furniture and treating inside the frame and the drawers themselves? You can not effectively treat Bed bugs with spot treatments. Do you pull the face plates off electrical outlets and treat them with Delta Dust?
@@kevincherry2215 It certainly does work for Bed bugs. I used a mix of Telstar, Phantom and an IGR to chemically treat for Bed Bugs and it worked very well.
Bed bugs are so traumatizing. I dealt with them for about a year when I got them from a used mattress. The smell, the itching, finding them crawling on me when I’d wake up was so horrific. The only thing that finally killed them was diatomaceous earth sprinkled all over the floor and throwing away the bed.
Hi. Do you have experience with deltametrin and wasps? Is it good against them in liquid form? Im thinking about preventive spraying the outside of my house because had a wasp nest last year.
We rent out a nice home located on the estate. We ended up with bed bugs n roaches in the rental. They are extremely hard to kill out. The way that worked for us was freezing them out in the dead of winter, taking extra care not to freeze and burst water lines. Seemingly it got em but we then hired an exterminator that saturated under and in the home. That was 2 yrs. ago n R still bug free.!
Stories say that that's a lot of soldiers had brought them back from overseas. Obviously unintentional.But after Desert Storm was kind of when bed bugs burst onto the scene because I don't remember anything about them prior.I just remember the night time jingle.Good night, sleep tight.Don't let the bed bugs bite. I never knew what that meant but now I do because i've seen enough.
So if they don’t live anywhere besides a bed, they didn’t exist before we had a modern mattress? They have to live somewhere in nature before humans right?
They were originally called bat bugs, cavemen living in caves with bats, the bat bugs eventually took a liking to human blood. That’s all they live for is human blood, that’s all they eat/suck.
He forgot to say HOTEL ROOMS. THATS THE NUMBER ONE PLACE ON MY LIST. YOURE ONLY THERE FOR A NIGHT NOT LONG ENOUGH TO NOTICE THEM BEFORE TAKING ONE HOME 😩😭😭
Why wouldn’t you consider heat treatment or fumigation with an infestation that bad? There’s no way just a residual is gonna do the trick. Consider at a minimum vacuuming as many of the eggs and live bugs as you you can.
Hey, can you elaborate on why older people don’t get bitten or don’t have symptoms from bites? IE: Flea bites? I’ve been in an all out war against these fleas in my dads house when I moved back in with him, but he doesn’t ever get bitten. I don’t think they even jump on him??? Yet initially I’d get 15+ fleas on my ankles just from walking from the front door to my bedroom. I’ve beaten them once before 6 months ago, but our cat escaped and brought them back in again 4 weeks ago. It’s a real struggle but we’ve made progress. We’d do 4 things: 1. Cat flea treatment 2. Vacuuming, mopping, cleaning daily. 3. Flea spray killer / diatemacious earth. 4. Several custom flea traps (large dish with water & soap with a heat lamp over it) #4 is what finally killed the last remaining few the first time. We could get rid of 90+% of them but never entirely until I setup a bunch of custom flea traps.
Years....!!!! i be begging my husband when he goes on business trips to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check every hotel mattress. He rarely does, we have 4 very young children and a huge house, if we get bed bugs we're finished
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme 100 degrees celsius (boiling point) is = to 212 degrees fahrenheit. 0 degrees celsius (freezing point) is 32 degrees fahrenheit. Yeah he meant 150⁰ F. That's equal to 65.5⁰ C
Yeah William that is the only guarenteed way to kill all the bed bugs. They bring in industrial grade heaters and heat up the whole house to the point where all the bed bugs die. Only problem is it's EXPENSIVE. Think high 4 figure numbers, if not 10, 20 grand if I'm not mistaken.
Dan! We have moles for miles… they are tearing up all the yards in our neighborhood! No one know what to do and everything we try fails! Do you have any tips??
The mattress & boxspring.. probably just need to be burned 😂 which speaking of, you don't wanna burn your clothes so you know for sure you wont bring them in the house by chance do you? 😂 Kidding kidding
That is disgusting. That mattress, the accumulated cat hair and bed bug waste, and that room is filthy. Anybody can get bed bugs, but this room and mattress is exactly why bed bugs have the stigma that they have for the people who get them, that only filthy people get them.
They say Paris has bedbug problem now. Have you heard of it? That is how I come up with your video because I was looking where do bedbugs come from. Is it in your opinion possible to infest the city with bedbugs intentionally?
I have a question 👋 help please! I live in Virginia and my house sits on top of a rock pretty much. It's surrounded by creeks and it's a very old house. The foundation is mostly rocks stacked together. I don't know if all that helps but I have a huge problem with house centipedes ( I believe) they are super fast and have long legs and they turn into a blur when they run because the legs are so slim. They are mostly in the bathroom washing room area because that's a concrete slab because it was once the porch but later bricked in to the house. Recently we were remodeling upstairs to put in another bathroom and while I was painting at night with a work light shining for help I seen this shadow of a thing go across the wall and I know the shadow made it look big but it was huge and one of those things! I almost died! It scared me sooo bad! The floor had just been put down and the baseboards weren't back up yet so it looked like it was trying to go back into the wall? I went to google and read some info that these can get big and they have been known to get into people's beds for warmth?!?! Is this true? I haven't slept since last year when this happened 😆 I'm constantly checking our bed especially the kids. The one I seen I would swear was the size of my hand slinder but long! I know the shadow made it bigger but I promise it was to big for comfort! How can I get rid of these things and where do they likely live? Nest look like? Eggs? I soak the outside in home defense twice a year esp around the slab, windows but it doesn't seem to help much. Sorry I know this is long. Please any help would be appreciated!
Yes they can and will get into your bed…they like damp cool areas like basements….I had a basement apartment not long ago and was the first time I even saw or heard of them….I found them on walls, on me, running on the floor and at night felt something on my head while I was in bed and lifted my head and saw one run down the side of my bed…I saw one on my wall that was over 6 inches long…I killed it but it freaked me right out….the only good thing is you won’t get any other bug because they eat them….spiders, bed bugs, roaches….everything….I started sleeping with the lights on cause they prefer the dark….
I never heard of or seen bedbugs in my 41years, except for the old saying don't let the bedbugs bite, until within the last 7 years. I thinking new furniture and bedding has them before going into our homes.
I currently intern at a hospital and my biggest fear is bringing back bed bugs from a person that comes in, are there any signs on a person I can look for besides the bites? Like you were saying about wheelchairs, would there be any signs on those like droppings or something for me to look out for?
Yes there are signs of an infestation. But picking some up at a hospital from another person is unlikely. The best thing to do is just throw your clothes directly in the wash when you get home and shower right away if you think you may have been exposed.
Just like with lice .., where do they come from..? I dont mean picking them up from a dirty motel or a bed someone gave you ...How do they start.? New subscriber ..
I can't believe that they would keep that mattess it that state. Take care of the bed bugs first but that mattress needs to go. They also need a need cleaning of their home but at least vacuum or something.
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Do you think if I ripped out the carpet and didn't see anything am I good?
Anyone who falls asleep on that bed will have no blood left in the morning
LoL it's seems like that seeing how many there are. Wake up looking like a skeleton.
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How could anyone fall asleep on that bed?
No shit. A horrifying thought
Lol😅😂😂😂
Our customers that call us with bed bugs have always had a special place in my mind. I always try to work in these jobs in as soon as possible and do them for a cheaply a price as we can reasonably offer.
I know these pests are not only nasty but can be mentally traumatizing 💔
Bed Bugs Suck!!
Yeah, i had many customers that would call me months later thinking there were still bugs . I'll go by and put monitors out to try and prove they are gone . They do traumatize people.
You’re a gentleman and a kind man, also such a freakin hunk. 🤣
Dan, you are a very wonderful man!
@Benny yes, Dan is absolutely gorgeous! I love his eyes .....to begin with.....
Yeah. I had them years ago. My neighbor gifted them to me on a baby blanket. I'm very clean and it was extremely traumatic.
Bed bugs have legitimately given me a phobia of travel. The thought of my safest space being infested with bugs makes me so upset. I’ve even owned a motel for over 5 years(recently sold it) and didn’t understand fully what these were until one of the rooms became infested. I’ve never been so distraught. I threw out everything, had it treated multiple times and NEVER opened the room back up. I was too afraid.
Now I’m about to take my first trip after Covid with the fam and I am freaking out.
I feel exactly like you do about traveling and bringing them home.
@@bambiflowers9543 me, too.
I have never had to deal with this thank god, but I remember it was never heard of in the 70's, 80's, 90's, 2000's. Hotels and motels were ok back then. I heard you don't have to throw out everything, it can be treated.
@@bambiflowers9543 we took our trip successfully! No hitchhikers came back with us, thank God!
BUT no one or luggage was allowed in the room before I did a full and deep inspection. All beds stripped, furniture inspected, you name it and I looked it over TWICE.
Upon returning home, We went as far as spraying the exterior our suitcases with pesticides (yup I hate that) and leaving them outside until I laundered all clothing. The suitcases remained outside for months. That seems overboard but I don’t care.
In my city they've been found in popular coffee shops, theaters and libraries. Basically anywhere the public can sit down for long period of time. I'm super paranoid now sitting on any indoor public seating. Especially after hearing how it only takes one pregnant female to start a colony (due to the fact that her children have no problems breeding with one another!)
They're not just in or around beds. When my mother in law moved, she found them embedded behind her wall clock in her living room. They were clumped around the gears. Clock had to be thrown out.
Her neighbors had bed bugs bad. Since her home was part of a row home, bugs traveled & made themselves at home.
Exactly, Gotta check the carpets: the couches and chairs, the clothes hampers, the closets and dressers ... hell, since they can travel with you on your clothes then can easily also be in your vehicles. Ultimately the best thing to do if you see them in the house is to spray everywhere. I would also be careful with delivery boxes, but that's moreso for roaches.
They need to throw away everything in that bedroom
Pretty much! Lots of clutter made for a very difficult task
Bed bugs are hitch hikers. You can get them from hotels and restaurants and resorts and cruise tours. They used to just be found in caves. This is why humans used to move from cave to cave. To get away from the bugs.
Question; you ever accidentally infest your own house after coming back from taking care of an infestation? That would be my biggest fear if I ever got into pest removal.
It can happen, but as a tech you try and be as careful as possible to not sit, rub, or put your body up against things while treating. If it's this bad, I am changing clothes no matter what at front door or at a gas station near home, tying up in a garbage bag, and laundering immediately. I will also treat my work vehicle. So yeah the paranoia is there, but in the end you're really helping someone so it worth it. But it's uncomfortable the thought of bringing them with you
That's all I could think about watching this video! Got the Willie's!
@@nataliehaigler25 yeah I wouldn't want to sit down or lean on anything in there either 😂
Do you need actual bed bugs to come back with you to infest your house, or can you get like egg sacs or something stuck to you? I don't know how it works exactly
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My dad rehabs houses and keeps a bucket of D-earth and spray mixes and puts bags on his boots to keep bug and roach eggs from transferring on the bottoms of shoes. Keeps a change of clothes and a bag to transfer clothes to wash.
Don’t pick up anything from the curb. Especially furniture!!!
that's theproblem. people love goinng through other people's garbage, this isn't the 70's 80's 90's when it was more acceptable
because of dust mites and all other buggies I have always had both mattress and box spring encased in vinyl zipper covers. I also have the zipper taped over. So even if my mattres is a decade old it is still basically like brand new under there. Safe from all the little crawlies and body funk. It is super easy to keep clean.When you wash your sheets,you just takes some disinfecting wipes and wipe down the mattress cover before putting clean sheets on.
Dan this was an awesome video and I greatly appreciate it as I'm sure others do as well. I never cared anything at all about bed bugs until I was attacked a couple of months ago at a resort in South Carolina. At that time I remained calm and gathered an incredible amount of knowledge that enabled me to leave them where they were (I eliminated conditions that would have allowed them to come back to Jersey with me). I have been putting my new find information to use and have even shared it with others. I will also share with them your video now because it is highly informative. God-bless you and be safe.
My gosh ! how people can live like this !
Don’t know :/ these people were old, physically handicapped, and I think had some mental handicaps as well
They came from Bill Gates labs
@@DanTheBugMan God bless you fir helping them
I was traumatized at just the thought of having them. I got a mystery rash & immediately jumped to the conclusion that I might have bed bugs. I sprayed everything, including my bed, carpet, & bombed my house twice. I took all my beddings off & put them in plastic bags til I could wash everything in hot water 2-3 times. I threw out all my pillows, about 8 of them, & got new ones. Then I put my mattress is a ziplock bag & all my new pillows in allergy/bug protectors. After stripping my bed, I only used the absolute minimum to sleep with until I could confirm the issue. I researched as much as I could too. Got these little bed bug boxes to put at the feet on my bed to try to confirm if I had them because there was no sign of them, that I could see. This was all done within days of getting this rash. Then I went to my dermatologist, they did a punch of my skin to have it examined, & it was just an allergic reaction. Just the thought, panic, & slight possibility left me forever traumatized. This was a few years ago & I still sleep with a ziplock bag on my bed & allergy/bug pillowcases just to ease my mind. Now I'm paranoid to stay at a hotel.
To be honest, governments should treat this as an epidemic: Penalise m/hotels without preventive measures, offer free treatment for infestations, educate, run an online map of infested locations...etc. We shouldn't be waiting for this to be another COVID
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The thought of getting locked down in a house full of bed bugs is disturbing....
@@Justin.Martyrmaybe you will become a bedbug. Things were sure a lot better under Trump. No. I can't vote and didn't care much for Trump but he had the economy roaring and kept us out of a War! Can you say the same about that doddering old fool that claims to be president!
They don't spread disease, so government won't do anything
The only good thing about bedbugs is that they don't spread any diseases. They're just signs of filth.
I purchased empty spray bottles and filmed them with Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol 70%, sprayed areas were it was most infested, repeated this for several plus vacuumed it took several months but it worked !
I think heat steam cleaning is effective
@@Jay-Kay-Buwemboit's more effective than alcohol. Bedbugs will develop immunity to anything you put on them.
@@HH-le1viYes and no. They have and are able to adapt to new toxins which target them. But adapting to alcohol spray would be like being able to adapt to being crushed, alcohol kills them in another way.
Alcohol is highly flammable! And should be used only with great caution.
@@kevincherry2215 I've seen it with my own 2 eyes several times. They will absolutely develop an immunity to alcohol.
@HH-le1vi One thing they don't develop immunity to is diatomaceous earth. What it does is it kills bed bugs by sucking all the fluid they need to live out of thier body which they dehydrate and die. There is no developing immunity to that, unless they somehow overcome dehydration which is impossible
I appreciate your sensitivity in discussing the populations most at risk for bed bugs, just as a note; people with severe mental illness let something like bed bugs get as bad as it does not because they “don’t care” about having bed bugs, but because their mental illness creates so much difficulty for them to do basic things to take care of themselves like cleaning, hygiene, etc..
Trust me that nobody wants have bed bugs like that but some people just struggle to care for themselves even when they are hurting themselves by not doing so.
You are brave. I don’t do those types of inspections without my coverall suit haha I don’t want these or other vectors coming to my house! Good job man!!!
I was thinking that a full body Tyvek suit with hood, booties and gloves would be the minimum for that kind of work.
That‘s not brave.. just stupid
Interesting video. I have to tell you though that it isn’t ONLY older people who don’t show a mark when bitten. Some people for whatever reason do not show any marks regardless of age. It’s dangerous to assume that it is only older people that do not show any signs of the bite. Not sure where you got that information/idea but I guarantee you it’s incorrect. Personally I’ve known several people in their 20’s 30’s and 40’s who have been bitten and do not show any signs of being bitten. Besides that, skin sensitivity on its own is not necessarily related to marks being left. That connection I’m not sure how you made but please,you cannot continue to put older people in this category. It is an entire group of people at various ages who do not show signs of the bites. Please understand this. Thank you
Most
of The times comes from motels and hotels via travellers and backpackers.
I recommend to ask the customer and investigate if your customers has been overseas or stayed in motel or rental property during their
Trip
I’m dealing with bed bugs now ; I literally am so paranoid I can’t sleep😔. I’ve sprayed crossfire 2 times. Idk what to do anymore.
Call an exterminator they can generally fix it in one to two sprays I had mine fixed in about a week also get a mattress cover
@@i_fuze_hostages6 yeah I did that. The quote was 1,200$. I’m Poor and don’t have the money. I got a new mattress and box spring though. Both of those are encased . I’ve seen a 90% decrease in the bugs . Yesterday I saw 2. Got bit once. That’s it though .. I hope they’ll die soon
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I had a brief problem, we used crossfire, ortho and that yellow can, all 3 and got rid of it all with ease. Also you need a steamer, the kind you steam clothes with and steam the FK out of your carpets because bed bugs live in your carpet.
I have bed bugs too I’m miserable. I did however hire an exterminator that I can’t afford and I don’t know what they are doing. They have been treating for over a month and half and nothing has changed. They said I had a small infestation in my room only. But after a month and half of treatment nothing has changed. I even pulled my bed from the wall and found a whole infestation they missed!!!! I am livid that even they aren’t doing anything to help. And mentally it has taken its toll.
OMG Dan you look exactly like my cousin. I just stumbled upon your videos and I'm shocked how much you look like my cousin. In fact so much it's scary lol. But I love the videos. I'm from north Carolina and my grandparents on my mother's side passed away and they had 2 homes one was way out in the country and I've inherited it and going to move into it but the termites has destroyed 60% of it so me and some family members have been replacing all the termite damage and we should have it all done by midsummer. I went on RUclips to find out how to keep termites away and out of the house and came upon your channel. So far you have really gave me some education on them. I'm going to subscribe now because I want to learn as much as I can about all pests being I'll be living in the country I'm sure I'm going to be up against many different pests. There's 2 huge black rat snakes that live under the house and they keep rodents at bay. I've never seen any rodents in that house so I don't mind having the black snakes under the house to keep rodents out because I absolutely hate rodents of any kind..
Lucky that you have a cousin who looks like Dan. I'm jealous.
I had a small Bed bug problem solved by Diatomaceous earth, killed off in less than 4 weeks. Truly best preventative measure is this fine powder.
As a landlord, I can say the public transportation implementation in our town definitely increased the amount of bedbugs I have to deal with in the apartments of my tenant. It doesn’t take much to bring them home. Also but if you go talk to an older guy that does your job he’ll tell you that when they quit doing and DDT is when we had the bedbug problem really go bad.
I work in housing and have done for 30 years. I have seen the most extreme cases of bed bugs and in some cases properties infested so badly that bugs have been falling off the ceiling of and curtains so bad that the curtains have become crusty. In extreme cases bugs no longer confine themselves to a bed and can literally take over a whole property. In bad cases as in this video and worse it usually comes about because the problem has been ignored and untreated for too long. The key to eradicating bed bugs is to constantly make regular checks and if you see only as much as one - treat your place as if it were a raging infestation. Give one bug half a chance and you will find yourself on the fast road to hell.
There is one other way you can get bed bugs that isn't picking it up from another place.
I moved into sn apartment and found out way too late that it was infested with bed bugs. The whole building. They got away with not treating it by having a couple of random drug addicts they called in house exterminators with nearly 10 minutes of training. Needless to day after 14 treatments i was getting bit worse than ever
Edit: they also can live anywhere in the dwelling, but the closest thing to food aka sleeping humans is thwir fave. If you have a bed bug proof mattress and a steel bed no box spring, they'll live in the wall or in a book or behind a picture frame. Anywhere.
Another thing he didn't mention is that you can easily get them from hotels. Ways to svoid taking them home:
-do not keep belongings on or near bed overnight. Do not store bags or suitcases on the floor, especially not near the bed store it up high and away from the bed. You dont want them to hang out in your stuff after their bloodmeal.
-After you stay anywhere else overnight, put all clothes and belongings in the dryer on high heat for at minimum 20 minutes.
-if its something like s suitcase, put it in a enclosed plastic bag for 13 months or put it in a car thats hot all day and night for three days. heat kills these shit beetles the best. .. even if placing each one in rubbing alcohol and watching them twitch to death is more satisfying. god damn it i hate them so damn much
Edit 2: i wasnt going tto day it because maybe he misspoke, but bed bugs were historically a HUGE problem until we killed em with DDT.. snd then they become tolerant to ddt and ddt's chemkids. And then the populations exploded all over again.
Im going to try and provide a link. If there is no link, its because my sources keep getting me deleted.
Ugh. I can't link studies
Google university of kentucky, and bed bugs; penn state +bed bugs: rutgers + bed bugs; and center for invasive species researxh and bed bugs
8:00 I think it has more to do with older people having a weaker immune system causing their body to not inflame the bite area.
I woke up with a dozen itchy bites out of nowhere. Is it bed buts or fleas from my dogs. I searched my bed and could find no trace or them. I didspray with bedbug spray and i washed all my bedding and dried on high heat. Wierd, my husband has no bits and my dogs are not scratching.
I was researching on the internet and learned that bed bug bites can take 1 to 14 days to show up. A week before i had helped tear up carpet in 5 rooms in an old house my btother had just bought. Then i spent a lot of time on the floor pulling up tack strips and staples from the padding. We hauled it all to the dump. So that explains why i cant find any bugs in my bed. Thank goodness i dont have them butwill keep my eyes open.
As for my brothers house, it is a fixer upper and empty. I sprayed the baseboards and woodwork. Put out 2 gluetraps and cautht anything.
Seriously just burn the whole house down if it's like that in one room I can't imagine what the other rooms are like
This is why I started buying beds with metal frames, after having had these issues when much younger. Metal-frame beds are much less likely to be a good home for bedbugs than the divan-style bed.
I helped a neighbor clean her house. She was older with diabetes. I wanted to do a good deed. Spent a full day cleaning. A few days or maybe a week I realized I brought home bedbugs (I think she knew she had but, didn't say anything out of embarrassment)
I washed EVERYTHING I had and was able to get rid of them without a professional. I did enjoy placing them inside clear basketball card covers and bursting them open
Had a neighbor move out who had an Infestation in their apartment. Within 7 days we got hit. 47 bites all over my body. We bought a tent and slept in it in the living room and they still got in. What a nightmare
I heard that you can spread baking soda all over the place to get rid of them.
@@frostflower5555diatomaceous earth will work way better
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Omg we had bed bug for years and they were a nightmare to get rid of. If i ever had to go through that again id probably just burn my house down and live out of my car.
I heard that baking soda spread all over the place will help
I would vacuum first get as much as possible then use apprehend and use crossfire around the room so you will wipe them quickly. Tell the customer trash the mattress
Bad idea. You need to kill the bugs fist before handling them and vaccuming. Otherwise, they'll just crawl everywhere.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme never had a problem doing this way. I know for sure different tech has different approach. Thanks for the input.
You can also get them from your apartment neighbors.
I never in my 47 years have ever had to deal with it but recently a couple weeks ago I let my niece's stay over for the weekend and when they left my younger daughter started getting these bites on her arms and legs. She thought it was mosquitoes but we decided to look deep into it and found a small amount of smaller bed bugs and like three or four adult bedbug. I threw away everything and I mean everything, bed and bed frame, dressers and desk. 2 days later we decide to check my other daughter's bad that was right next door to her. Found one large bed bug but that was it, no other markings I've other bed bugs. I applied D-Earth and sprayed, hopefully that was enough to kill them all.
Getting bed bugs in my house is legitimately one of my worst fears. I stayed with my brother while he was in college about 5-6 years ago not knowing they had them. Luckily I had a severe reaction to the 3 bites I had in the morning so I knew something was up. Looking around the couch I slept on I saw one and freaked out. When I got home I stripped butt naked outside of my house before going in, went straight to the shower and then burned my clothes, shoes, suitcase etc. in my backyard burn pile. I literally didn't care if my neighbors called the cops on me or anything, I'd rather go to jail for indecent exposure than get a single one of those vile creatures in my house. I couldn't even sleep for 2 days, finally passing out on the third day home. I fear them so much that I haven't allowed anyone into my house in that 5-6 year period and I literally mean not 1 single human being aside from me has stepped foot in my house in years lol.
For YEARS? For litteral 6 years? Bro thats nuts
That's pretty extreme... Jesus.
I feel you, I don’t let people inside my apartment either 😊
Drastic times call for drastic measures, moved into an apartment once that had them, thought bedbugs were folklore, never seen one before. Bedbugs are a real life nightmare you dont want to experience. I literally thought i was going insane from sleep deprivation and getting bit. Haven't dealt with then since. That was ten years ago , i don't blame you for being proactive they are NASTY NASTY CREATURES. peace...........
@@mrtophat12I still have PTSD from bed bugs I found infesting my kids room 2 monthes after we moved into an apartment 20 years ago we also vacationed in a hotel the same time we moved in the bed bugs could of been already in the apartment or came from that hotel. But I never go to hotels to this day. For years I made people undress out side leave their clothes out in 5he trash jade them go directly into the shower 5hen gave them clean clothes to wear if they wouldn't do that they were not allowed in. To this day if I know people come to visit and 5hey stayed in hotels on the way they aren't allowed in . I visit them some where liie a restraint or park or beach. It's that traumatizing to alot of people.
I would be interested in hearing you talk about scabies. When I was about 15 or so I was staying at a friend's house. She had been itching but it had looked more like a rash so I was naively not concerned. I ended up obviously getting scabies. She had contracted them from a sexual partner. I had never heard of nor did i know what they even were. In fact, none of my friends and family members did either or they had a misunderstanding of them and thought it was a skin condition. That is an area that I think everyone needs to be a little more informed on. Including myself
In the country i was born in Scabies (or scabbys as kids would call them) were so common every 10 year old knew what to look for to get treatment. I haven't heard of scabies for years.
Tosmosol soup kills scabies is safe to use on body and hair
Suffocates the body lice
Clean every day with it until itching is gone
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Kids bring live home from day cares and schools
I just randomly started watching these videos and now I’m terrified of getting bed bugs. I’m always worried when I have to stay at a hotel or vacation rental. I try to check the beds before we put our stuff down. I would literally want to move if I ever got them.
Theyve gotten so much worse with COVID isolation for 2.5 years. People not leaving home and staying a buffet for them. Then going back to the office and traveling afterward. Smh
I stayed at a Days Inn back in November of 2022… I am physically disabled and requested one of the two handicap accessible rooms. It was *infested*. I barely slept those 3 days, and I was so fortunate to not bring any home. I read they don’t usually go into bathrooms so I put everything in the bathroom. Luckily they refunded my entire stay, but that was a terrible experience.
I have had past issues with bed bugs. I tried different things but nothing seemed to help. Then I discovered CrossFire!! I have only used it 2x for treatment & man it destroyed then bed bugs and their eggs!! CrossFire keeps killing bed bugs weeks later from the residue!!! Great stuff!!
sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite
How is the better question.
Nightmare fuel, 1 minute in and my scalp is crawling!
Jesus H… how does anyone let things get this gross.
You just about have to replace every bit of fabric in the house to get rid of them.
I bought some books from goodwill that brought bed bugs into my house. We got them right at the beginning before they totally spread but it was a scary experience. It lasted a week though and this was 2 years ago. They were eating up my feet at night for a week in my bed though.
The beginning of what? Bed bugs have been a plague for 15-20 years now.
I don't know how the people in the house can let that go on for 2 years. It is so gross.
@@TroubledOnePaydirt It's been that long...damn I got them when I was 19 and have got them from living in many places, well that was 10 years ago and I'm dealing with them again, 5th or 6th times, pretty crazy at this point I'm just tired, I'm hardly even bothered anymore, still nasty though
My apartment mgr told me to spray with alcohol. I only had Bacardi Gold and I was not willing to share it with bed bugs!
3:44 I was so relieved for that cat when you said that.
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They couldn’t even clean up the clutter before the exterminator came?? No wonder they’ve been living like this for years. Those bugs are definitely living in all that clutter. This issue is untreatable if the owners don’t comply.
Yea my best friend literally didn’t know bed bugs were a real thing 😂 she thought it was just a thing you say to kids like “don’t let the bed bugs bite “ but she didn’t know they were real 🤦🏽♀️
And I freaked out 5 days ago with two quarter sized nests about a foot from the bottom of the bed. Mine came in on the grooves in the bottom of my sandals. They fit perfectly up in the grooves. A cozy welcome into my home, where I put the sandals at the foot of my bed at night. The massive deep clean and eradication has begun here.
There is no sign on mattresses or box spring. Nothing. Had I not been so allergic to the bites I would not have notice and this could have grown so fast. I am doing everything recommended to the entire room and then the entire rest of the house. I may have a chance against a bigger infestation by finding it incredibly early. Because no sign on mattresses. They were and are being treated then encasing in bed bug proof full mattress covers because I know I can’t get every single egg or bug. Three steps for everything. Kill. Track and treat with longer acting chemical. Prevent as much as possible with the longer acting spray and DE.
My fingers crossed for near total if not total removal of bugs. I would have freaked out at that level of bugs. I couldn’t imagine not finding that before it got that bad. Thank you for your videos.
One of my main tools for treating bed bugs was a six inch hunting knife. I would cut away that fabric on the bottom of the box spring so I could treat up inside it. If you think the infestation is bad on the outside there are far more on the inside. I also cut away that covering fabric on couches and chairs in order to effectively treat them.
I had an account with an SRO building in NYC, there was a room, and the walls were crawling with bedbugs and roaches. The room had so much trash in it. I said nope im not walking i there until the room is cleared out. After it was cleared out, it was discusting, bedbug, roaches everywhere, and rats had chewed through the metal of the refrigerator . I couldn't believe there was a person living in that room.
Man. That is absolutely vile. I think sleeping in the nyc streets would be more comfortable than that hell hole.
My dad works for the health department and has had to go into people's homes, he has told me some wild and disgusting stories of people's homes. He's been to hoarder houses, animal hoarder houses, bed bug infested, roach infested houses, ect. He's actually been to 2 houses that were in the show Hoarders.
The worst house he's ever been to was a nightmare. He even showed me pictures.
This place was a hoarder/animal hoarder house, on top of that it had roaches, bed bugs, the bacteria that causes staff infections, and the owner couldn't control his bowels anymore, so HUMAN FECES was smeared all throughout the house.
The basement was the worst part of the whole nightmare.
The basement was where the guy hoarded all of the dogs. It had no power down there, so it was pitch black, and there were cages stacked on top of cages, each containing dogs.
About 20 - 30 dogs total. A few of the dogs had drowned and were rotting down there because the basement was completety flooded with about a foot of water. He had to go in there in basically a hasmat suit, and he could smell it strong as can be in what was supposedly a gas mask.
Long story short, that house was condemned.
@Haunted the weird thing is that the public areas of the building are spotless. But the rooms can be horror shows. A lot or horders the fore marshal will get a court order to clear them . Some of these p eople just collect garbage off the street and hoard them. The worst smell I've ever smelled was in that building. There was a homeless guy cooking something in a large soup can in the communal kitchen, which best guess was rotten meat. I've never since smelled something so vile. I didn't spray that floor that day it was so bad.
@@toecutterjenkins that is some true mental illness right there.
You’re braver than me! 🤣
@@haunted5311 I would hope that if I ever got to that point in my life someone would euthanize me if I was incapable of doing it myself.
there is another group of people you left out... people who are too poor to afford an exterminator. this also includes people who live in housing where the owner is to cheap to get an exterminator as well. I have bed bugs as we speak, and the landlord has known for over two years, but he still refuses to get us any help. And I am on a fixed income and cannot afford to do it myself. being that I am bed bound due to me disabilities, for the last 2 years I have been a 24 hour all you can eat blood buffet. I am sure the infestation is just as bad as this one is, but I am powerless to do anything about it.
Check your lease to see if pest control is your responsibility or the land lords. If it's his but he won't do anything then report him to the health department.
@@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm it's his, but I can't afford to move and I'm on a mth to mth lease, so if I upset him, I'll be on the streets
Gosh! that sounds so bad. I think you can report your landlord to the health department or tenant services that help low income housing or places where there are slumlords..
Have you tried diatomaceous earth?
Report your slumlord to the city
Im a pest control tech my self best way is to vacuum the ones currently their and use Cimexa and or do a heat treatment on that house is only the best way to treat and remove the BB as we call them
If you live in an apartment complex and the person beside you get bed bugs, they can come through the wall to your apartment and infest your stuff. That happened to me, and I didn't even know what a bed bug was. I started noticing red stains on the floor that would go from the bottoms of my bed post to the baseboard most every day, and my bed frame was metal, so I thought gosh, it's rusting. And I would wipe that up every day thinking it was rust (was my digested blood) then my cat didn't want to sleep with me anymore which really made me think what in the world was going on. Well, it finally came out that there were people in other apartments with bed bugs because they had spread throughout the building. I moved and put everything that was very important to keep like family things in a very hot storage unit by itself for a good 5 years I threw away everything else and started over in a new home with only a twin bed a recliner and a TV. I had to throw out my other TV because they infested the TV as well. This was about 14 years ago, and honestly, I'm just now back to a point in life where I have a complete home again with furnishings and everything that most houses have inside. If I even saw a bed bug in real life again, I think I would have a heart attack.
As far as what you're saying about cats and dogs, you're mostly right however I had a very old cat who was 18 and he could no longer jump up so he had a bed on the floor. He died about 3 months after moving out, and he was anemic. I did everything that I could, and it still bothers me to this day. They don't like pets, but if one is accessible and it's there, they will go for it. My other two cats were fine as they didn't stay on the floor, nor were they as old and sedentary.
Are you not pulling all the drawers out of the dresser and other furniture and treating inside the frame and the drawers themselves? You can not effectively treat Bed bugs with spot treatments. Do you pull the face plates off electrical outlets and treat them with Delta Dust?
The Delta Dust is awesome when fighting roaches and BBs. The residual last a lot longer than spraying.
Spraying residual works for roaches but not BBs
@@kevincherry2215 It certainly does work for Bed bugs. I used a mix of Telstar, Phantom and an IGR to chemically treat for Bed Bugs and it worked very well.
Bed bugs are so traumatizing. I dealt with them for about a year when I got them from a used mattress. The smell, the itching, finding them crawling on me when I’d wake up was so horrific. The only thing that finally killed them was diatomaceous earth sprinkled all over the floor and throwing away the bed.
Hi. Do you have experience with deltametrin and wasps? Is it good against them in liquid form? Im thinking about preventive spraying the outside of my house because had a wasp nest last year.
We rent out a nice home located on the estate. We ended up with bed bugs n roaches in the rental. They are extremely hard to kill out. The way that worked for us was freezing them out in the dead of winter, taking extra care not to freeze and burst water lines. Seemingly it got em but we then hired an exterminator that saturated under and in the home. That was 2 yrs. ago n R still bug free.!
Stories say that that's a lot of soldiers had brought them back from overseas. Obviously unintentional.But after Desert Storm was kind of when bed bugs burst onto the scene because I don't remember anything about them prior.I just remember the night time jingle.Good night, sleep tight.Don't let the bed bugs bite. I never knew what that meant but now I do because i've seen enough.
So if they don’t live anywhere besides a bed, they didn’t exist before we had a modern mattress? They have to live somewhere in nature before humans right?
They were originally called bat bugs, cavemen living in caves with bats, the bat bugs eventually took a liking to human blood. That’s all they live for is human blood, that’s all they eat/suck.
@@warpet2011 interesting
They come into the house on dogs and cats. Always have.
He forgot to say HOTEL ROOMS. THATS THE NUMBER ONE PLACE ON MY LIST. YOURE ONLY THERE FOR A NIGHT NOT LONG ENOUGH TO NOTICE THEM BEFORE TAKING ONE HOME 😩😭😭
these people are keeping bed bugs alive for the entire world
I would never in a million years take or buy a used mattress! Not even from a family member…
Why wouldn’t you consider heat treatment or fumigation with an infestation that bad? There’s no way just a residual is gonna do the trick. Consider at a minimum vacuuming as many of the eggs and live bugs as you you can.
after seeing this i am now burning my mattress
Hey, can you elaborate on why older people don’t get bitten or don’t have symptoms from bites? IE: Flea bites?
I’ve been in an all out war against these fleas in my dads house when I moved back in with him, but he doesn’t ever get bitten. I don’t think they even jump on him??? Yet initially I’d get 15+ fleas on my ankles just from walking from the front door to my bedroom.
I’ve beaten them once before 6 months ago, but our cat escaped and brought them back in again 4 weeks ago. It’s a real struggle but we’ve made progress.
We’d do 4 things:
1. Cat flea treatment
2. Vacuuming, mopping, cleaning daily.
3. Flea spray killer / diatemacious earth.
4. Several custom flea traps (large dish with water & soap with a heat lamp over it)
#4 is what finally killed the last remaining few the first time. We could get rid of 90+% of them but never entirely until I setup a bunch of custom flea traps.
It might be that the fleas can detect from molecules present in breath/on skin when someone is older, and for whatever reasons, avoid them.
Looks like they left out a 0. I say they have been there for 20 years instead of 2.
Haha I can’t imagine 20 years 😮
Thank you for the information and the video.
Years....!!!! i be begging my husband when he goes on business trips to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check every hotel mattress. He rarely does, we have 4 very young children and a huge house, if we get bed bugs we're finished
I heard you can use heat like 150 degrees for a extended time to purge the house of bedbugs.
And how exactly would you heat a house to 150 degrees? Guessing you're american and use Fahrenheit
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme 100 degrees celsius (boiling point) is = to 212 degrees fahrenheit.
0 degrees celsius (freezing point) is 32 degrees fahrenheit.
Yeah he meant 150⁰ F.
That's equal to 65.5⁰ C
Yeah William that is the only guarenteed way to kill all the bed bugs. They bring in industrial grade heaters and heat up the whole house to the point where all the bed bugs die.
Only problem is it's EXPENSIVE.
Think high 4 figure numbers, if not 10, 20 grand if I'm not mistaken.
I never knew the reason why bedbugs seem to be so much worse for the elderly. Thank you!
Bedbugs should be treated as a natural dissaster covered by home owners insurance.
Hi dan! i have my society in France for bedbugs,Incredible!!😮
Dan! We have moles for miles… they are tearing up all the yards in our neighborhood! No one know what to do and everything we try fails! Do you have any tips??
Probably release a few of their natural predators. Some snakes hunt moles
The mattress & boxspring.. probably just need to be burned 😂 which speaking of, you don't wanna burn your clothes so you know for sure you wont bring them in the house by chance do you? 😂 Kidding kidding
That is disgusting. That mattress, the accumulated cat hair and bed bug waste, and that room is filthy. Anybody can get bed bugs, but this room and mattress is exactly why bed bugs have the stigma that they have for the people who get them, that only filthy people get them.
Agreed 100 %
I find this case of bed bugs baffling. No attemps made by the resident to declutter, and they obviously haven't done any hoovering at all. Bizarre.
They say Paris has bedbug problem now. Have you heard of it? That is how I come up with your video because I was looking where do bedbugs come from. Is it in your opinion possible to infest the city with bedbugs intentionally?
My job got bed bugs and I have to live there so how do I keep from transmitting bugs to my friend's house
I used to think the phrase "don't let the bed bugs bite" was just to svare kids.
How do you go home and not take this home with u? I would bath in pesticide. I have have issues
So relieved I was able to get rid of them while paying nothing. I was so scared I would struggle to even sleep. Good luck
You stay safe sir wow
Do you actually work for a company or own your own company ?
I have a question 👋 help please! I live in Virginia and my house sits on top of a rock pretty much. It's surrounded by creeks and it's a very old house. The foundation is mostly rocks stacked together. I don't know if all that helps but I have a huge problem with house centipedes ( I believe) they are super fast and have long legs and they turn into a blur when they run because the legs are so slim. They are mostly in the bathroom washing room area because that's a concrete slab because it was once the porch but later bricked in to the house. Recently we were remodeling upstairs to put in another bathroom and while I was painting at night with a work light shining for help I seen this shadow of a thing go across the wall and I know the shadow made it look big but it was huge and one of those things! I almost died! It scared me sooo bad! The floor had just been put down and the baseboards weren't back up yet so it looked like it was trying to go back into the wall? I went to google and read some info that these can get big and they have been known to get into people's beds for warmth?!?! Is this true? I haven't slept since last year when this happened 😆 I'm constantly checking our bed especially the kids. The one I seen I would swear was the size of my hand slinder but long! I know the shadow made it bigger but I promise it was to big for comfort! How can I get rid of these things and where do they likely live? Nest look like? Eggs? I soak the outside in home defense twice a year esp around the slab, windows but it doesn't seem to help much. Sorry I know this is long. Please any help would be appreciated!
Yes they can and will get into your bed…they like damp cool areas like basements….I had a basement apartment not long ago and was the first time I even saw or heard of them….I found them on walls, on me, running on the floor and at night felt something on my head while I was in bed and lifted my head and saw one run down the side of my bed…I saw one on my wall that was over 6 inches long…I killed it but it freaked me right out….the only good thing is you won’t get any other bug because they eat them….spiders, bed bugs, roaches….everything….I started sleeping with the lights on cause they prefer the dark….
I would buy a lot of sticky traps and place them where u usually see them and a bug net for the bed.
That sound when you put your hand in those bed bugs. To be breathing that in...
bed bugs point of origin is Europe... FACTS...
Many thanks to the information. Very professional lad
I never heard of or seen bedbugs in my 41years, except for the old saying don't let the bedbugs bite, until within the last 7 years.
I thinking new furniture and bedding has them before going into our homes.
I thinking? You mean old furniture...
Make my skin crawl omg how could anyone live like this 😮 I'd have a stroke!!!!
I currently intern at a hospital and my biggest fear is bringing back bed bugs from a person that comes in, are there any signs on a person I can look for besides the bites? Like you were saying about wheelchairs, would there be any signs on those like droppings or something for me to look out for?
Yes there are signs of an infestation. But picking some up at a hospital from another person is unlikely. The best thing to do is just throw your clothes directly in the wash when you get home and shower right away if you think you may have been exposed.
@@DanTheBugMan okay got it, thank you so much!!
Guys rub your hand through this 😂😂😂Yeah ok hold on sir💀
Just like with lice .., where do they come from..? I dont mean picking them up from a dirty motel or a bed someone gave you ...How do they start.? New subscriber ..
What a job....😬 How do you make sure you don't bring one home with you?
What do you use to get rid of them?
Crossfire, I bought it on ebay.
I can't believe that they would keep that mattess it that state. Take care of the bed bugs first but that mattress needs to go. They also need a need cleaning of their home but at least vacuum or something.
What kind of wand/tip do you use on your b&g?