How to Prevent Bed Bugs from Infesting Your Home?

When you come back from a trip you may be bringing back more than just souvenirs.

The hotel bed you sleep in could be infested with these tiny bloodsuckers and they love to travel too, getting a free ride into your home via your baggage and clothing.

If you take a few simple safety measures you can minimize the risk of these unwelcome visitors hitching a ride.

Bed bugs are small but they aren’t impossible spot.

Pull back the sheets and look for the little pests or telltale specks of blood. If you discover signs of an bedbug infestation, ask for another room immediately.

Even if you don’t find physical evidence of bed bugs, don’t leave your baggage on the bed.

Utilize the suitcase holders in your room or leave your bags in the bathtub or outside in the car.

This might create a minor hassle but considering the alternative it is well worth the extra effort.

Wash all of your clothing in hot water when you return home, to ensure any bed bugs that did manage to tag along are eradicated before they can reproduce.

Encasements fit around mattresses and box springs and prevent bed bugs from making themselves at home in your bed.

These coverings won’t actually prevent bedbugs but they do make it easier to detect and eliminate them and it will also keep them from getting into your mattress and box springs.

You can find bed bugs specific encasements at many bedding stores.

Despite their name bed bugs are just as likely as other insects to hide in cracks and crevices as they are your bed.

Use caulk or other sealants to fill gaps around outlets, window sills, baseboards or anywhere else you find small openings that would accommodate a bed bug.

Also, the less clutter you have in your bedroom, including clothing on the floor, cardboard boxes and even excess furniture, the less cover you provide for these unwanted guests.

Inceptors resemble plastic dishes, with a thin track inside that can be placed under each leg of your bed to trap bed bugs that try to gain access to your mattress and box springs.

The vertical sides of the interceptors are difficult for the bugs to scale which leaves them stranded inside.

To improve your chances of success, move the bed, at least, six inches away from the walls or any other furniture that could provide a jumping off point.

Make sure to check the inceptors on a regular basis and dispose of any trapped bed bugs. If you got serious bed bug infestation in your house than call a professional Pest Exterminator Canberra company to get the job done for you.