In this video, I will expose what bed bug exterminators don’t want you to know.
First. Did you know that over ninety-nine point nine percent of companies doing bed bug treatment use pesticides? They know these pesticides are highly ineffective and can be more dangerous to you than bed bugs. Some of them also know that it is the repellent component in the pesticide that brings temporary relief as it scares the insect away. It doesn’t actually kill it unless you drown the bed bug in it.
The temporary relief comes at the cost of spreading the infestation to other rooms in your house, hotel rooms, or adjacent apartments as the insects try to get away from the repellent component.
Watch this video to learn why and how to avoid this mistake. They ask you to prepare your home for the chemical treatment they provide for three reasons. First, the prep work, if done correctly, takes a long time and requires a lot of resources. To move furniture around may require at least two physically able people.
At K&A Pest Control, we recognize the importance of proper home preparation and the limitations homeowners may have in doing it themselves. For that reason, we provide complete home preparation for our clients. Since we don’t use any products that are dangerous for you, the homeowners can relax in the adjacent room.
Any person with minimum physical ability or training can handle a can of spray. That means they save the time and cost of a minimum of two people showing up for the treatment.
Second, after they finish spraying, they may offer you a thirty-day guarantee. They know very well the repellent component in the pesticide will most likely push bed bugs into areas they did not or could not spray and keep bed bugs at bay for around that time. After that time is up, bed bugs will return in much larger numbers. They multiply quickly. They will tell you that if the problem persists, you can call them for a free or discounted second treatment. What they don’t tell you is that, yes, you guessed it, you have to do the prep work once more. Most people give up after they spend days and energy on second prep work. This pretty much lets the exterminator off the hook. Third, bed bugs develop resistance very quickly. Imagine, even if there was an effective active ingredient that could be used in a pesticide, if a bed bug somehow survived it, its second-generation offspring would be one hundred percent resistant to that active ingredient. That could be at its longest around one hundred fifty days, or as little as fifteen days under some circumstances. You don’t have to trust my words. Verify easily everything stated here concerning bed bug biology at Kentucky University or Purdue University entomology department website.
Third. Some of the exterminators are brave or arrogant enough to take you for a fool and sign you up for a twelve-month contract when they come every month for twelve months to take care of the bed bugs and charge you five hundred dollars or something like that per month. That means you end up paying six thousand dollars and doing prep work twelve times and live with bed bugs for a year or more. That is the definition of insanity, my friends, but a clever yet very dishonest tactic by the exterminator.