Pest profile
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Bed bugs are our specialty, small, wingless hitchhikers that feed on blood and hide in the seams of mattresses, furniture, and walls. They spread fast, they're notoriously hard to eliminate without professional help, and they're found in all 50 states.
Adult bed bugs are flat, reddish-brown, and 4–5 mm long, with a round body in three segments, head, a small pronotum, and a wide abdomen, plus six legs and two antennae. Nymphs are white or tan and nearly impossible to see with the naked eye. After a blood meal they look bloated and red. Their flat bodies let them wriggle into the tiniest cracks and the folds of a mattress.
Adult females lay single, off-white eggs (about 1 mm) one to twelve times a day, often in the same spots older bed bugs gather. Eggs hatch in 6–10 days, and bed bugs pass through five nymph stages, each requiring a blood meal, before adulthood. Development runs from about 21 days at 86°F to 120 days at 65°F.
Most people don't realize bed bugs are present until they wake up with small bites. Look for pepper-like droppings and tiny brown dots on sheets and nearby walls, a noticeable musty smell, and shed skins along mattress seams, box springs, headboards, and upholstery cracks.
Beyond the bites, an infestation spreads quickly through a home, rental, or hotel, and is one of the hardest pests to clear without a complete, every-life-stage treatment.
Keep them out
Inspect secondhand furniture and luggage before bringing them inside
Check mattress seams, box springs, and headboards regularly
Reduce clutter where bed bugs can hide
Act fast at the first sign, because infestations only grow
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