Bird and Bee Removal offers varied Bed Bug Services. We not only provide treatment for residential customers, we also specialize in providing training and consulting for our commercial customers. Bed bugs are a very present nuisance in our community. Our appeal as a popular tourist destination means that our efforts to control and prevent bed bug infestations are ongoing.

Residential Treatment

We provide actual service and treatment services for our residential customers. Our bed bug procedures are very thorough and are based on entomological knowledge of the life cycle of these insects. We guarantee our results for one year in each room serviced. If bed bugs reappear in any treated room within one year of our treatment, re-treatment will be performed at no charge providing all recommendations are followed.

Bed Bug Training and Consulting

The work we do with our commercial customers is very involved. Our goal is to share our expert knowledge in bed bugs with businesses that are susceptible to these pests but may not be as knowledgeable. We provide bi-monthly seminars where we train staff from different businesses in the tri-county area. If the business is looking for more personalized training, we offer on-site training and consulting.

Our bed bug seminars are held every other month at our state of the art classroom facility centrally located in Hollywood, FL in our main office building. Our seminars provide four-hours of educational and hands-on training opportunities, where hotel, motels, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, apartments and any facility manager can send their staff to learn the answer to the most important question in the fight against these pests – How do I find and eliminate bed bugs before my guest/resident sees them?

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Where They Come From

After years of dormancy, bed bugs have made a comeback. Reduced reliance and manufacture of residual pesticides and increased international travel are thought to be the reasons for the bed bugs’ reemergence.

Bed bugs were a major and common pest up until World War II when the development of new pesticides such as DDT helped combat infestations. Although earlier pesticides and treatment methods could cause harm to our food chain and environment, they did succeed at limiting bed bugs to a nuisance pest found mostly in developing or third world countries.

Increased international travel for both business and leisure, combined with relaxed quarantine efforts by most foreign governments, has also contributed to the increase in bed bug activity. Add to that Americans’ tendency to travel with pets and the trend away from hard plastic luggage to ballistic fiber luggage and you have given bed bugs a pressurized cargo hold to survive in and luggage to hide in. Certainly, South Florida, which sees millions of international travelers on an annual basis, is an area prone to high bed bug activity.

Where to Find Them

Attracted to body heat and the carbon dioxide in expired air, they seek warm-blooded animals and humans. Bed bugs live in aggregations and occupy areas as close as possible to their hosts, establishing themselves in cracks, crevices and seams.

They prefer dark, rough, dry surfaces, such as wood and paper, and have been found to live away from beds when iron bed frames are used. Wooden bed frames and headboards serve as excellent bed bug harborages.

Their Biology

A female bed bug glues her eggs to the surface with her own cement, laying 5 eggs per day and up to 200 eggs per lifetime. If conditions are warm (around 78˚F), eggs can hatch in 6 to 10 days, taking longer if temperatures are cool. Adult bed bugs typically live for 6 to 7 months, and can live up to 1½ years. They can live for several hundred days without feeding – up to one year in some studies.

Most bed bugs are large enough to see, measuring approximately ¼ inch in length, and 1/8 inch across. The bite of the bug is painless but may produce an allergic reaction that often causes swelling, itching, and burning persisting for a week or more. Although bed bugs can be naturally infected by at least 27 human pathogens, no biological transmission has ever been proven.

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