Bedbugs are great at hiding in bedrooms across the United States. If you suspect you have bedbugs, you need to search your bedroom carefully. By doing so, you may be able to find out if bedbugs are hiding in your mattress and sheets. Unfortunately, you likely won’t be able to detect the problem until you’re dealing with a full-blown infestation. When this happens, it is too late.
You’ll need to call a professional exterminator to tackle the problem. Bedbugs tend to hide in areas that are rarely touched, and this makes them harder to identify. You’ll need to use the tips below to make the bedbugs come out of hiding so you can confirm the infestation.
Ways To Make Bedbugs Come Out Of Hiding
Thankfully, there are several ways to make bedbugs come out of hiding. Be sure to use the tips below.
- These bugs emerge at night. Therefore, you should make your home as dark as possible. Do that and the bedbugs will likely come out from their hiding places.
- Move your bed around. Make sure it is placed further against the wall since this may encourage the bedbugs to leave their hiding spots.
- You can use CO2 traps to force bedbugs to come out of hiding. These traps use CO2 and heat to lure bedbugs. Once the bedbugs get close, they’re going to trap them using a glue cartridge. CO2 traps are an effective way to identify a bedbug infestation in your home.
- You’ll also want to try using a bedbug steamer. This is a good choice because steamers will make bedbugs come out of hiding. In addition to this, it will kill the bugs. Steamers use heat to kill bedbugs.
- Throw your clothes in the washer and dryer. When doing so, be sure to use the hottest temperature setting. This will kill the bedbugs on your clothes.
Other Tools To Use
Besides using the tips above, you’ll also want to use other tools to lure bedbugs out of hiding. For instance, you might be able to use bedbug active detection traps. These traps have a 90-day active period. They’ll continue luring and trapping bedbugs for 90 days. Once you’ve checked the trapped, you’ll know that you have bedbugs in your home. You’ll also appreciate that the traps will kill the bugs too. Therefore, you’ll be able to kill two birds with one stone.
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