Milwaukee Bed Bug Pest Control
Your Go-To Milwaukee, WI Bed Bug Removal Specialists!
Let Valiant Pest Control make you a winner on the war on bugs!
Valiant Pest Control is your bed bug extermination solution in Milwaukee. We are a top-tier pest control company servicing the greater Milwaukee and Eastern Wisconsin area specializing in bed bug extermination for over 12 years. We utilize state-of-the-art equipment, innovative materials, and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques, we provide effective and safe solutions for residential and commercial bed bug issues.
Our experienced Milwaukee bed bug removal experts are committed to delivering prompt, reliable, and efficient service, ensuring customer satisfaction and a pest-free environment. Contact us today for expert assistance in eliminating bed bugs and preventing future infestations.
Property Managers, you can read below to learn about bed bugs or click here to learn how Valiant Pest Control can protect you and your buildings from bed bugs.
Bed Bug Ecology (Cimex Lectularius):
Bed bugs are considered a Public Health Pest
Bed bugs are not known to transmit disease. However according to the EPA they are considered to be a public health pest. Not only do they bite but they generally irritate their hosts.1
What do Bed Bugs Look Like?
Bed bugs are a wingless, reddish bugs about the same size, shape and color as an appleseed. Bed bug nymphs are about the size of a small letter on a penny.2
Bed Bugs Feeding Cycle
In normal conditions bed bugs feed between midnight and 5 AM every 3-7 days. The Virginia Tech Entomology Dept states. It takes bed bugs 5-10 minutes to feed and it may take them 2 or three attempts.
The Mating Process
Bed bugs mate between feedings. The process is traumatic to the female, it may cause her to wander and leave her current hiding place. The female can lay up to 25 eggs per feeding in which 97% of those will hatch in 9 days. With that amount of eggs and the high success rate of the eggs hatching you can expect bed bug populations to double every 16 days.
To go from an egg through the 5 nymphal stages and finally a reproductive adult can take as little as 37 days. The environment and the availability of a blood meal can extend that.3
How to Find Bed Bugs
The most common hiding place is the bed. Check the mattress piping. The box spring folds and the cracks and crevices on the bed frame and headboard. I larger infestations bed bugs can be found on the furniture in the folds, seems and between the cushions.
Bites are not a good indication that bed bugs are present. Other insect bites, rashes like eczema or a fungal infection could look like bed bug bites. Keep in mind that not everyone reacts to bed bug bites. Our Milwaukee bed bug pest control experts recommend capturing any insect the size shape and color of an appleseed in a pill jar or plastic baggie for identification.
Early detection is very beneficial. It is desirable to find bed bugs before they become a large infestation. Small infestations are easier to treat and have a higher chance to be fully eradicated after the first treatment.
If you have bed bugs and need immediate assistance, please contact our Milwaukee, WI bed bug pest control experts!
How to Protect Your Home
Bed bugs get around by hitchhiking on used furniture or beds, clothing, bedding, luggage or boxes. When traveling; in hotels, you can check:
- The mattress piping
- If possible check the seams on the box spring
- Look at the crevices in and around the headboard and the luggage rack
- When returning from your travels you can launder all of your clothing and shower
- Consider luggage that can go through the dryer. 20 minutes on high heat in the dryer will kill any stage of bed bug
Our Milwaukee bed bug removal experts do not recommend purchasing used beds or furniture. Used furniture has the potential to bring in a large infestation. Since bed bug populations double every few weeks imagine them doubling when you bring in hundreds of bed bugs on a couch.
If you do purchase used furniture, before bringing it into your home check:
- The seams of the mattress
- Box spring seams and fabric folds
- The cracks and crevices of the bed frame and headboard
- The seams on chairs or couches
Our Milwaukee bed bug extermination company recommends vacuuming and laundering dirty laundry and bedding weekly. Vacuuming can remove reproductive adults and interrupt their life cycle. This can help keep populations down as well as interrupt a fresh introduction in your home.
Laundering weekly will kill any bed bugs living in the bedding. This can also keep populations down. The EPA recommends securing your laundry in plastic bags. Through away the bags that the clothes were brought in.
Use new bags to bring the laundry home in and fold the clothes at home. The bags should be tied to keep bed bugs from being able to get out during transit.
Door sweeps can be installed to discourage movement under the door gap in multi-family units. Gaps around baseboards, light fixtures and receptacles can be sealed to prevent bed bugs from entering through those gaps.4
Valiant Pest Control Bed Bug Services
Valiant Pest Control takes an Integrated Pest Management approach. Our bed bug removal services in Milwaukee, WI include caulking baseboards. We also install insulated backing behind outlet covers, rodent proof gaps in siding and door sweeps.
Our Milwaukee bed bug pest control team uses modern innovative materials, state of the art equipment as well as conventional materials that are effective against resistant strains of bed bugs.
Heat Treatments
Come With A 45 Day Warranty!
Valiant Pest Control uses state of the are equipment. We utilize 6 34,000 btu electric heaters which are powered by our own diesel generator. The system effectively heats up to 3,000 square ft. to 122 degrees. Bed bugs start dying at 113 degrees and die in under one minute at 122 degrees.5
The heat treatment is always the best treatment. All exposed surfaces can be considered treated surfaces during a heat treatment. For the females that leave their cluster and lay eggs offsite, the heat treatment can still be effective if the eggs are exposed to the heat. The chance of complete success after the treatment is the best with heat with a high likelihood that the treatment resolves the pest issue completely.
Valiant Pest Control uses the Monnit system which is a series of thermometers that transfer data through a cellular network. With this equipment we can monitor the temperature in the room from our display. We can verify that all areas are up to temperature for the duration of the treatment.
Chemical Treatments
Include a 30 Day Warranty
Chemical treatments can be a reasonable choice for light infestations. Our Milwaukee bed bug elimination team understands that budgets matter and chemical treatments can be successful quickly for light infestations. In all areas bed bugs hide our technicians use a bed bug vacuum to remove any visible bugs. The vacuum has a hepa filter that secures anything vacuumed in the vacuum not be released through the exhaust. We also use a steamer in areas that need the heat to penetrate deeper into the treatment area.
Chemical treatments require the technician to be as thorough as possible. However, it is not possible for a technician to find every egg or nymph in an area that is not a normal bed bug harborage. That is why Valiant Chemical Treatments also include a second inspection and treatment if necessary. The second treatment takes place a few weeks after the initial treatment.
Valiant Bed Bug Protection Plan
Comes with a 3 Month Warranty!
Our Milwaukee bed bug removal experts utilize the most current innovative materials on the market which offer up to 3 months of protection. The treatment may be maintained quarterly to offer year around protection. If you travel a lot or live in a multi family building this might be for you. Valiant applies the material where bed bugs hide. Bed bugs pick it up while traveling over it. Not only is the material effective on that bed bug, it will be effective against any bed bug that comes into contact with it. After treatment, if bed bugs are observed by a Valiant Technician between treatments, then any corrective treatment will be free of charge.
Property Managers
Our Milwaukee bed bug pest control team offers a wide variety of solutions for your pest control needs. This allows us to put together a plan that is right for your buildings and all the pest situations they may encounter.
For first time bed bug infestations. It is common to have a tenant notify you that they have a few bed bugs, have a treatment performed and the infestation is over. This is the best case scenario. An unfortunate truth is that the large infestations come from tenants that do not report having bed bugs. Then the tenant with a few bugs, those bugs came from the apartment down the hall that isn’t reporting their issue. This is the scenario you want to avoid.
The larger the infestation the more difficult it is to remove it. There are many reasons why tenants do not report having bed bugs some of them are not their fault. However, it is important to catch infestations before they get big. In situations where tenants aren’t reporting inspections become the key. Quarterly inspections can catch bed bug infestations before they get very large. More frequent inspections can catch them before they get large.
Traditional Full Building Treatment Plans
Valiant offers K9 and visual inspections. K9 teams are trained to find bed bugs. The canine is able to smell them and alerts the handler if it detects any bed bugs. The canines are able to detect bed bug eggs. They can tell the difference between a viable and a vacated egg. K9 teams can sweep as many as 10 rooms per hour or so. They are less invasive than visual inspections which have to pull beds apart and put eyes on all the hiding places.
In multi family buildings when an apartment has a heavy infestation, bed bugs start spreading between units. In this case full building inspections can become part of the treatment plan. K9 inspections if used frequently can keep populations down. They do this by finding infestations before they have time to grow. After infestations are found they will be treated as soon as possible. This process may need to be repeated until the inspections find that bed bugs are no longer in the building.
After the treatments take place, the only bed bugs remaining may already be in transit between apartments or other places that are causing re-introductions into your building. For example:
- Buses
- Hospitals
- Common areas
- Restaurants
- Movie theaters
- Any place people go and sit
Valiant Pest Control Bed Bug Services in Milwaukee, WI
Our bed bug pest control services in Milwaukee are focused on finding the correct treatment plan for your pest issues. To do so we utilize state-of-the-art equipment and offer modern and traditional treatments to custom fit a solution for your situation.
Let Valiant Pest Control make you a winner on the war on bugs!
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