Bed Bug Control in Cleveland, OH

You Need Expert Solutions for Bed Bug Problems

Unfortunately, bed bug problems have been steadily on the rise over the last few decades. Before the 1990s and early 2000s, bed bugs were considered mostly a thing of the past. However, in the last 20 or so years, they have come back with a vengeance, infesting hotels, public transportation, and private homes alike.

You'll need to take measures to protect your Cleveland home from bed bugs and to eliminate infestations in their early stages. This, of course, requires you to look out for signs of bed bugs so that you can catch infestations before they become established. Bed bugs are sneaky and can breed clandestinely for months or even years before you start to realize you have a problem. This is especially true when you take into account that bed bug bites are often mistaken for other bites, such as mosquito or flea bites.

If you travel or secondhand shop regularly, you will want to keep a keen eye out for signs of bed bugs, such as:

• Brown spots on bedding 
• Bed bug eggs 
• Bed bug exoskeletons
• Bites that appear in lines or clusters 
• Live bed bugs

If you start to see these signs, it's important to remember not to panic. You don't need to throw out any furniture or take any drastic measures yet. If you catch the infestation in its early stages, it's usually possible to eliminate it with a single professional bed bug control treatment.

Our Bed Bug Process

Although you don't need to panic, you also don't need to try to deal with bed bugs on your own. Bed bugs in Cleveland are one of those kinds of pests that are almost immune to amateur efforts to eliminate them. You might read on the internet that you can get rid of bed bugs with essential oils or baking soda, but this will only exacerbate a bed bug infestation.

This is the main reason why you should trust professional bed bug control services when you realize you have a bed bug issue. Here at LongPro Pest Control, our bed bug control methods don't just repel bed bugs, and they definitely don't give them time to keep on breeding and finding more hiding spots throughout your house. Bed bugs can't stand up to a thorough treatment from us. 

The first thing we do when we come into your home is to inspect it to figure out how serious of an infestation we are dealing with. Sometimes, we walk into homes and find bed bugs just in the bed. Sometimes, however, we walk into a home and find that the bed and the furniture are already so overpopulated with bed bugs that the bugs have had to start moving into the walls. In cases this severe, there will often be signs of bed bugs in the corners where the wall meets the ceiling. 

We have two main treatments that we can use to eliminate bed bugs. In cases where the infestation is less severe, it's often best to use eco-friendly pesticides for bed bug removal. These pesticides are safe for pets and people and will not cause harm to the environment either. They effectively eliminate bed bugs from specific areas or rooms of your house.

However, if you have a bed bug infestation that is severe enough, it may warrant a heat treatment. In this case, high heat will need to be applied to large areas of your house, if not the entire construction. In severe cases that require heat treatment, you may also need to throw out certain pieces of furniture or other items that have become too infested to salvage. The goal is to catch and eliminate bed bug infestations before you get to this point.