Uncle Walt's Bed Bug Kit
- Cyzmic CS -8 oz. (16-20 gallon yield)
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Eco Pco Dust 10 oz.-May be used on beds
- Bulb Duster-4 oz.
- Alpine PT Pressurized Aerosol
Walt's Bed Bug KIt
Cannot be shipped to NY, CT, VT or AK.

Ken's Bed Bug Kit
- 2 Cans of Alpine Aerosols
- EcoPco Dust 10 oz. -May be used on beds
- Bulb Duster-4 oz.
Ken's Bed Bug KIt
Cannot be shipped to NY, CT, VT or AK.
Eric's Express Bedbug Kit
For those who wish UPS Air Express delivery
- Cyzmic CS -8 oz. (20 gallon yield)
- EcoPco Dust 10 oz. -May be used on beds
- Bulb Duster-4 oz.
Eric's Bed Bug Kit
Cannot be shipped to NY, CT, VT or AK.

New York-New York Bed Bug Kit(May be used in all states)
- 1 can Bedlam Insecticide Aerosol
- 1 can of Alping Aerosol
- ECO PCO Dust-10 oz.
- Bulb Duster-4 oz
New York New York Bed Bug Kit
May be shipped to all states.

Charlie's Commercial Bed Bug Control Kit
For the heaviest of bed bug infestations
- Temprid SC( yields 50 gal)
- Eco Pco Dust-2-10 oz.
- B&G Dust-R Bulb Duster #1150 -14 oz
- 4 Phantom Pressurized Insecticide Aerosols
Charlie's Commerical Bed Bug Kit
Cannot be shipped to NY, CT, VT or AK/div>
Package: 12- 16 gram strips with hangers
Nuvan Prostrips use controlled release technology to slowly diffuse a deep penetrating vapor in enclosed spaces. Containing dichlorvos (DDVP), Nuvan Prostrips go to work immediately with a clean, odorless vapor that leaves no messy residue.
NuvanPro Strips
Cannot be shipped to NY, CT, VT or AK
Climbup Insect Interceptor Traps
Climb Up Insect Interceptor
Climb-up Insect Interceptors are a unique and easy-to-use monitoring system to aid in the early detection of bed bug infestations. Bed Bugs will travel in search of a blood meal and can be intercepted and trapped in the Climb-up Interceptor as they attempt to gain access to the beds or other furniture that have the interceptor devices installed.
Climb-up Insect Interceptors-Box of 4
Climb-up Insect Interceptors-Box of 12
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Getting Rid Of Bed Bugs-How To Kill Bed Bugs
Bed Bug Treatment Steps
Step 1 Prepare the area : Pre-treatment Procedures
- Reduce clutter to make inspection easier.
- Personal items (stuffed animals, soft toys, blankets) should be removed, cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, and bagged in plastic for for a couple of days with Nuvan Strips if infestation is severe. You can also bag your lap tops, phones, radios in a bag as well. The insecticide in the Nuvan strips will not harm these items and is a non residual, so you don't have to launder these items after using the Nuvan strips
- If you dismantle the bed frames, you may expose additional bedbug hiding
sites.
- Remove drawers from desks and dressers and turn furniture
over, if possible, to inspect and clean all hiding spots.
- Stand up the box spring and shine a flashlight through the gauze fabric to expose bed bugs. If the fabric is torn ( possible hiding place), remove fabric to prepare for spraying.
- Caulk and seal all holes where pipes and wires penetrate walls and floor, and fill cracks around baseboards and moldings to further reduce harborages.
- Since infested garments and bed linen can't be treated with insecticide
they will need to be laundered in hot water (120°F minimum). If washing
is not available, sometimes heating the garments or bed linen for several
minutes in a clothes dryer may work.
- Thoroughly clean the infested rooms .Scrub infested surfaces with a stiff brush to dislodge eggs.
- Vacuum in area of bed bug harborages with an vacuum attachment. Vacuum along
baseboards, nearby furniture, bed stands, rails, headboards, footboards,bed
seams, tufts, buttons, edges of the bedding as well as the edges of the
carpets(particularly along the tack strips) are key areas to vacuum. A
good vacuum cleaning job may remove particles from cracks and crevices
to encourage greater insecticide penetration.
- Discard vacuum cleaner
bag in a sealed plastic bag when finished.
- Caulk cracks and crevices in the building exterior and also repair
or screen openings to exclude birds, bats, and rodents that can serve
as alternate hosts for bed bugs.
2. Inspect: Look For The Bugs
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To inspect well, it may be helpful to briefly understand Bed
Bug Diet and
Bedbug Habits
Because the bed bugs may be difficult to see with the naked eye, we recommend
an industrial powered magnifier such as Carson's
Dual View Magnifier. and a flashlight
Dual View Industrial Magnifier
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Bedbug Pictures :What does a bed bug look like?
Adult Male Bed Bug
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Adult Female Bed Bug
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Bed Bug Nymph
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The common bed bug is visible to the naked eye.
Adult bed bugs are brown to reddish-brown, oval-shaped, flattened, and
about 1/4 to 5/8 inch long. Their flat shape enables them to readily hide
in cracks and crevices.
After a blood meal, the body elongates and becomes swollen. Eggs are not
known to be placed on the host's body but are found on surfaces near where
the host sleeps.
Look in any place that offers darkness, isolation and
protection. These bugs will often wander. Inspect adjoining rooms where
an infestation is found. Even when the bed bugs themselves cannot be found,
their hiding places can be located by looking for the spots of fecal material
they often leave in easily visible places.
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Dark spots of bed bug excrement on a mattress.
(M. Potter, Univ. of Kentucky)
Fecal spots and the bloody spots(looks like rust) left
on sheets and pillowcases when engorged bugs are crushed serve as sure
signs of infestation. Adult bed bugs are about 1/4-inch long and reddish-brown,
with oval, flattened bodies. Bed bugs prefer to hide in cracks and crevices
during the daytime and come out to feed on the host's blood at night,
usually while the host is sleeping. Because they can flatten their bodies, they can fit in very small crevices, specially around the bed area. They are found in habitual hiding places, preferably close to a blood meal. Even though the their preference is to be close they will travel several feet
for a blood meal. Initial infestations tend to be around beds, but the bugs eventually may become scattered throughout a room, occupying any crevice or protected location. They also can spread to adjacent rooms or apartments.
Look for areas close by where the bed bugs are biting.
Main areas of inspection are cracks and crevices in head and foot boards and
attached side railings and supports. Look for any cracks or crevices where
bed bugs may crawl into to hide.
If the top of the mattress has any rips , the bed bugs may hide there
as well. Look also in your box springs, both top and bottom for any
rips that might shelter these bugs.
Inspection Check List:
- Cracks and crevices in head and foot boards, attached side railings and supports
- Inspect mattresses top, sides and bottom. Check all buttons, seams and rips.
- Inspect electrical switch plates, pictures on walls, wall posters
- Inspect cracks in plaster or seams in wall paper.
- Inspect electrical appliances-radios, phones, televisions, ect.,looking
in hiding places.
- Inspect tack strips under wall-to-wall carpeting and behind baseboards
- Inspect secondhand beds, bedding, and furniture. The newer better
built mattresses do not offer as much shelter and protection for the
bed bugs to hide.
3. Treat the Bed, Headboard, Frames and Footboards
Do I Have to Throw Out the Mattress?
This question would be answered upon the condition of the mattress or size
of infestation. If there are holes
or tears in the gauze fabric or fabric of the mattress,
bed bugs and eggs may be inside, as well as outside. There are restrictions
on how beds can be treated with insecticides.
We do carry a line of mattress covers and box spring covers(Mattress Safe Products) that are bedbug certified to place over your mattress or box spring so you don't have to throw them away. If using an labeled insecticide on the mattress or box spring, apply on mattress or box springs and zip it up.
The mattress and box spring covers are so good that you don't even need to treat the mattress or box springs with an approved insecticide .
It has a patented hook to keep the bed bugs inside the encasement, they cannot escape. Keep the encasement in place for one year(due to bed bug cycles)
Mattress Safe Products
If you decide against these certified bed bug encasements, use insecticides labeled for beds such as ECOPCO Dust, Phantom Aerosol, Bedlam Aerosol or Temprid SC (See below)
How to treat the mattress with insecticides:
Look carefully at the folds and seams of the mattress, the headboard, foot board (if present), box spring/support platform, frame, etc for bedbugs and treat these area after vacuuming.
The following residual insecticides
or dusts are labeled to spray or dust mattresses:
Dusts lasts longer, but the crack and crevice tips on the Phantom and Bedlams aerosols enable you to get into the smallest cracks. It is a good idea to use both.
4. Treat all baseboards and furniture (Night Stand, Chests, Dressers, Couches and Chairs)
Bed Bug Treatment : Sprays and Dusts
There are several products on the market that work well for bed bugs:
Apply residual liquid, aerosol or dust residual insecticides
such as Cyzmic CS
, Temprid SC, Bedlam Insecticide Aerosol , Phantom Aerosol and EcoPco Dust,
It is best to use a combination of these products for application purposes.
You can get these at discounted rates in be form of kits at Bed Bug Kits
The kits have the residual insecticide with the dust and aerosols.
Cyzmic CS cannot be used on mattresses on box springs.
Cyzmic CS
Usage : Mix 12 ml.(about 1/2 oz)(measurements on the bottle)of
Cyzmic CS with one gallon of water(Remember to use what you
mix-within 24 hours.) Adjust the spray pattern to a mist by
turning the nozzle. A low fine mist is best for most spraying,
but you may need to use a stream to get into some cracks and
crevices. If you can't get into the cracks and crevices use one of the aerosols described below with it's crack and crevice tips to reach into these areas.
Temprid SC can be used on mattresses and box springs. See details below
Temprid SC Usage: Mix 8 ml.(about 1/3 oz)(measurements on the bottle)of
Temprid SC with one gallon of water(Remember to use what you
mix-within 24 hours.) Adjust the spray pattern to a mist by
turning the nozzle. A low fine mist is best for most spraying,
but you may need to use a stream to get into some cracks and
crevices. If you can't get into the cracks and crevices use one of the aerosols described below with it's crack and crevice tips to reach into these areas.
Temprid SC controls bed bug populations that are resistant to pyrethroid insecticides.
For infested mattresses, remove linens and wash before reuse. Apply Temprid to tufts, seams, folds, and edges until moist.
Allow to dry before remaking bed. Do not spray bed linens
Apply Temprid SC to bedsprings, box springs, and the interior of bed frames or headboards, including all cracks and joints.
When bed bugs are found in upholstered furniture, apply only to the infested tufts, seams, folds and edges, but do not apply to flat surfaces where prolonged human contact will occur. If bugs heavily infest furniture (inside cushions and/or batting) apply a labeled insecticide dust or consider fumigation.
Apply as a crack and crevice treatment to all baseboards, moldings, beneath floor coverings and carpets, closets, shelves, curtains, furniture and picture frames that may provide harborage to bed bugs.
Re-apply Temprid SC every 7 to 10 days, as needed, until infestation is eliminated.
Aerosols( Bedlam or Phantom) Usage : Simply attach the plastic tip to the aerosol can. Use aerosols for tight cracks and crevices such as bed frames, curtain rods, any hollow spaces, spot treatments, etc.
Top recommendation is Phantom Aerosol
Spray liquid insecticides or aerosols :
- Spray around and under the bed and along the baseboards
near the bed. After removing the drawers from the furniture,
the inside of the cabinets should be sprayed as well as the
bottom and sides of the drawers. Do not treat the inside of
the drawers. If needed the clothes in the drawers should be
removed and laundered.
- Spray around the inside of the closet, door frame and door.
- Spray molding at top and bottom of room. Spray around windows.
- Spray seams of drawers, both top and bottom. Spray dressers from below. Spray where dressers touch the floor.
- Spray where bed touches floor, spray chairs and underneath chairs.
- Spray all baseboards, loose plaster, behind bed frames and headboards, beneath beds and furniture, and bedsprings and bed frames. Do not apply to furniture surfaces or mattresses where people will be laying or sitting. Infested bedding should not be treated, but should be removed, placed in sealed plastic bags, and taken for laundering and drying at high temperatures.
Dust Usage: (Do not dust on top of moist insecticides)
Put dust into duster. Remove switch plates and electrical outlet covers and dust into the openings. Dust any items hanging on the wall such as pictures with a small paint brush.
Use a small paint brush to paint dust in seams and around buttons of mattress. Use dust or aerosol in all joints of the bed frame.
If possible disassemble bed frame and treat from all angles with dust and aerosol.
After the mattress and box spring has been treated enclose both of these with Mattress Safe Bed Bug Encasements. With these covers you can keep your bed and do not have to treat it again.
Use a Bulb
4 Oz. Duster to really get into the cracks and crevices with the ECO PCO Dust
Another tool used for dusting would
be a small paint brush or small makeup brus Put a small amount of dust on the tip of
the brush, brushing into cracks and crevices.
Important!! Do all of the treatments (as described above) 3 times, 10 days apart.
Bed bugs come out to feed every few weeks, so retreatment is critical.
DO NOT USE FOGGERS OF ANY KIND !!!!!!!!!! THESE SCATTER THE BEDBUGS AND MAKE YOUR JOB MANY TIMES MORE DIFFICULT !!!!!!!!!!!!
Other products that will be useful for bed bug control are:
Gentrol IGR. Use for long term bedbug control, prevents the young from maturing into adults. Especially useful for commercial establishments.
All of the products mentioned in this article can be found on our website.
Feel free to call with any questions or concerns with any of our products.
Bedbug Diet
Although the preferred host is human host, it will feed on other animals,
such as poultry, mice, rats, canaries, dogs, and cats if necessary. They
normally feed at night, but may feed in the daylight in rooms that are not
used at night.
Bed Bugs Life Cycle
Bed Bugs Life Cycle Diagram

The life cycle stages of a bed bug are egg, nymph, and
adult.
Bed bug females lay about 200 eggs, usually at the rate
of three or four a day, in cracks and crevices in the floor or bed. Eggs
are placed in cracks, crevices and other isolated and protected shelters.
Females lay eggs after a blood meal. Eggs will hatch in one or two weeks
into Nymphs. Newly hatched bugs(Nymphs) begin feeding immediately. At
room temperature, and with an available food supply, the nymphal period
will last 14 to 30 days. They shed their skin (Instar)five times before
becoming adults. Bed bugs will mate soon after becoming mature, so the
time from egg hatch to egg laying will be 4 to 9 weeks, under favorable
conditions.
Bedbug Habits
Bed bugs hide in cracks and crevices during daylight hours.
They hide in the folds and tufts of mattresses, coils of springs, cracks
and hollow posts of bed stands bed rails and headboards. They may be found
in box springs, inside the cabinets of furniture and the bottom and sides
of drawers.
They also can be found behind loose wallpaper, behind pictures on the
walls, under door and window casings, and behind baseboards.
They also hide in upholstery of chairs and sofas.
They are not restricted to these places, however.
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What do bed bug bites look like and do they carry disease?
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Bed bugs are not usually considered to be disease carriers.
They do suck blood from their host with piercing mouth parts but the bite
is painless.
The skin may become irritated or inflamed due to the salivary fluid
injected by the bed bugs .A small, hard, swollen, white welt may develop
at the site of each bite.
It is important to recognize that not all bites
or bite-like reactions are due to bed bugs. Bed bugs or their signs will
be present if it is a bed bug bite.
Bed bugs do not live under the skin. If you experience biting
sensations during the day, it may be an allergy related condition.
(Other possible sources of irritation are discussed in University of Kentucky
entomology fact sheet Invisible
Itches: Insect and Non-Insect Causes).
Preventing Bed Bug Infestations
It’s important to inspect used furniture, particularly bed frames and mattresses before bringing it into the home. Mattresses, in particular, carry the greatest risk of harboring Bed Bugs and their eggs. You should be wary of acquiring used furnishings, especially beds and couches.
A practice that we have incorporated in our traveling is to inspect for bed bugs in hotel rooms. If possible, carry a flashlight with you and inspect the bed area completely as described above. Also, you may want to inspect or vacuum luggage when you arrive home to prevent any transference.
You can use JT Eaton Bedbug Control for Luggage and Mattresses and spray this both on your luggage and mattresses during travel.
A second common source for bedbug infestation occurs in homes where
bats, swallows, chimney swifts, pigeons, or other wild hosts have been
roosting. Although similar in appearance, these bedbug species that
normally feed on bats and birds can be differentiated from the Common
Bedbug that prefer humans.
The bat bedbug can and often feeds on humans. The bat bedbug has long hairs
on it's body. Eliminate their bat hosts from the building and seal all
openings so that bats cannot enter.
Another group of bugs resembling the bed
bug infest birds. These bugs are usually confined to bird nests.
To control these parasites, the birds and their nests must be removed,
and an application of with a residual spray such as Cyonara 9.7 should be applied to the area.
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