Let’s take a quick look at some pieces of information about bed bugs you might find useful.

Bed bugs don’t spread diseases; they leave you with annoying, itchy bite marks. The itchiness begins because of the saliva they inject into you.

Their perfect target is someone motionless in a dark room.

During the daytime they typically are hiding although some experts claim they occasionally do bite humans during the day.

 They are unintentionally delivered here by visitors and they may also be living in chicken coops. 

Insect foggers don’t kill them but rather inspire them to invade other parts of your home.

Don’t buy used furniture in areas where bed bugs have been reported. They don’t mind moving to your house.

On  a silly or perhaps troubling note, one pest control company would remove bed bug infested mattresses and place them on the curb for pick-up. They painted the mattress with a big red X and figured that would be the end of the mattress. The exterminators would be called out to new locations for bed bugs infestations and find the mattresses with big red X’s on them in the residences. Perhaps people thought the middle of the X indicated the best landing position for their body.

Cryonite works great for bed bug eradication.

I just got back from a mini-break on North Carolina’s scenic Outer Banks. I was looking forward to escaping the 90-degree city heat for a long weekend of sun, sand and cool ocean breezes. The kids and I wanted to stay at a small hotel on the beach with some character — but no bed bugs.

As I researched the choices on TripAdvisor, I was surprised to see how many Outer Banks hotels and motels had suffered bed bug infestations either last summer or earlier this year. Some were even “nice” well-known hotel chains. It just points out the fact that bed bugs cross all socio-economic boundaries. They are carried person-to-person. They are not caused by or attracted to unclean or dirty facilities. And they stick around.

Bed bugs are carried into hotels and motels by guests who may not even know they or their luggage are infected. The little vampires crawl into the bed and wait for the next guest to check in. When the hotel closes for the winter, the little buggers just “hibernate” until the vacancy sign lights up in the spring. When the first guest checks in, they’re ready to chow down — on you!

Before you book your vacation, check out your hotel or motel on Trip Advisory and The Bed Bug Registry for a bed bug-free vacation. 

Bed bugs are only one-fifth of an inch in size yet they frighten people more than a grumpy badger. Don’t let them take control of your home.

Some practical advice to safeguard the bed includes  placing the bed away from the wall and apply some Vaseline or perhaps mineral oil to the legs of the bed in a two inch wide band in order to make it difficult for the bed bugs to climb into bed with you. They don’t have wings.

Caulk all the cracks  so they won’t have a place to hide and thrive. Some people suggest creating a barrier around the bed posts made from chalk or silica aerogel. Double sided carpet tape can be efficient at trapping the bed bugs.

Instead of tossing out the mattress you suspect is a playground for bed bugs, purchase a quality bed bug mattress encasement which will prevent them from snacking on you and they will eventually starve to death.

Placing your furniture outside during the cold winter may kill off the bed bugs. However, some experts suggest the temperature has to remain below freezing for probably several days. If they are still annoying, call a professional.

Bed bugs have invaded two apartment buildings Skip Lawyer owns in Reading, Pennsylvania. “It’s so demoralizing,” he told New York’s WNBC. “They get into virtually everything. I have nightmares about them.” His are only two of the buildings under attack by bed bugs. Reading officials say the nasty pests have infected homes and apartments across the city this summer.

WNBC film of the infected apartments shows hundreds of bed bugs crawling all over mattresses and furniture. (YUCK!) Red bed bug bites cover the arms and legs of one tenant. “They’re true vampires,” Lawyer said of the blood-sucking insects. Though not known to cause disease, bed bug bites can raise itchy red hives that bedevil their victims, causing severe emotional distress.

Despite repeated attempts, traditional pesticides have failed to evict the blood-sucking tenants so Lawyer has been forced to tell his human tenants to move out while the buildings are fumigated. Click here to watch WNBC’s video of bed bugs in action and the bites they leave. It will give you a sense of the horror and disgust victims face.

Lawyer’s experience is not unique. Many bed bugs today are pesticide resistant and don’t respond to traditional pesticide treatments. Cryonite is the way to kill these super bugs. The fast-freeze CO2 snow freezes bed bugs in their tracks and kills them, eggs and all. Cryonite is the perfect bed bug solution for multi-unit buildings like apartments, co-ops, condos, hotels, motels and resorts. To learn more about Stern’s amazing Cryonite bed bug treatment, click here.

Like the Hulk, Cryonite is a big, green, killing machine! The super hero of the pest world, it’s Cryonite to the rescue when the bad guys invade. Blood-sucking little bed bugs, nasty German cockroaches, vicious pumped-up pesticide-resistant bugs — Cryonite mows them all down with ease. Like Mr. Freeze on steroids, Cryonite shoots a carbon dioxide snow that stops insects in their tracks and freezes them dead. Cryonite is the summer blockbuster hit of the pest control world!

You can find Cryonite at Stern Environmental Group, recently named a North American sales rep for the revolutionary ”green” bed bug and insect extermination system. What makes Cryonite “green”?

• It’s chemical-free and non-toxic making it safe for sensitive environments like the food industry, day care centers, nursing homes, hospitals and your home.
• There are no messy wet residues, no pesticide smells, no health implications when Cryonite is used. Hotel rooms can be placed back in use right after treatment. You don’t have to worry about the health of your children and pets after treatment.
• Cryonite uses only food-grade quality CO2 so there is no risk of contamination. 
• The CO2 used by the Cryonite system is recycled from industrial processes and does not release additional CO2 into the atmosphere.

To find out more about the revolutionary “green” Cryonite bed bug killing system, visit Stern Environmental Group.

Stern Environmental Group has just been named a North American Sales Representative for the revolutionary “green” Cryonite bed bug extermination system by CTS Technologies of Switzerland. Stern becomes one of a very select few North American pest control companies trained and authorized to provide this highly effective, completely non-toxic pest extermination service in America and Canada. As an authorized CTS representative, Stern can now sell and lease Cryonite products directly to pest management firms and the hotel and motel industry. Stern already has significant experience with Cryonite, having provided the wildly popular bed bug treatment to its residential and commercial customers for some months.

Cyronite is a poison-free freezing treatment particularly effective in chemically sensitive environments such as restaurants, hotels and resorts, hospitals, nursing homes and day care centers where use of poisons can pose dangerous risks. Pest control technicians spray a fine film of frozen carbon dioxide snow that quickly penetrates into cracks and crevices where bed bugs and other pests harbor, freezing and killing them before they can escape. Unlike traditional pesticide treatment, Cryonite kills bed bugs in all stages of development, including eggs. Click here for more information on Cryonite treatments and products offered by Stern Environmental Group.

In Vancouver they have come up with an unusual idea - “the bed bub sauna.” The critters won’t be relaxing, no the goal is destroy them. A large housing complex in Vancouver will include the special room where residents will temporarily place their belongings such as beds, clothing and a variety of furniture they suspect may contain bed bugs and their eggs.

The heat generated in the room will supposedly kill the bed bugs. The promoters of the bed bug sauna claim a blast of heat that lasts just for a few minutes will be sufficient. 

If I were looking for an apartment complex to live in, I’m not sure the bed bug sauna would entice me to live there. My fellow residents have just retrieved their bed bug free belongings (assuming it works) from the sauna and now they feel safe. But what about the bed bugs that are hiding in the crevices and crannies in their apartments?

Do you just snap your fingers three times or play marching music on the stereo and the bed bugs hiding in the walls and other locations hop on the mattress and take an exciting ride to the bed bug sauna -perhaps not.

Another approach - Use Cryonite to freeze the bed bugs to death that are hiding in your apartment. 

Are humans smarter than bed bugs? Probably, but these seemingly obtuse insects know how to survive. After having a meal consisting of human blood, the female bed bugs cleverly sashay off to nearby cracks and crevices to lay their eggs, in order to keep them out of sight. 

After the bed bugs have been hatched, you may think you can simply out smart the bed bugs by staying at your Grandma’s house in order to starve them to death. However, the juvenile bed bugs can go for many months without a meal. Your absence may make the situation worse, by stimulating them to spread out all over your home seeking human blood. Adults can live for over a year without a meal.

Another example of their intelligence, perhaps cleverness, oh maybe just a gift provided by nature, is their ability to inject their saliva into the human bloodstream in order to prevent coagulation. The saliva actually is the cause of the itching and the welts on your skin. The time delay from the time of the bite to the time the itching begins provides bed bugs with the opportunity to escape the area and avoid being crushed by their human roommates. 

Cryonite for bed bug removal is one of the newest and best products available. 

Perhaps you have heard about the Fox News employee who is suing the owner of the office building where she had been working. She claims she has post-traumatic stress disorder which was caused by being bit by bed bugs at work. So far she is not suing Fox News. http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN2928614420080529

She stated she can no longer work due to the trauma. I am wondering what percentage of bed bug victims have stopped working due to being bitten. I once suffered from bee stings but I kept on working. Perhaps I should have been on Oprah to tell my brave story.

I hope this doesn’t get out of control and residents of bed bug infested apartment buildings stop working by the thousands, go on worker’s compensation and sue the owners of the properties for being traumatized. Perhaps being slightly annoyed will suffice.

She speculates that a co-worker brought the bed bug infestation to her workstation. I am wondering if the women suing actually brought the bed bugs to work and is now suing for something she might have caused herself. Just speculation on my part.

I live near a lake and I am often bitten by mosquitoes. If a lawyer is reading this, perhaps we should have lunch and discuss the issue.  

Bed Bugs are everywhere. Hotels, apartment buildings, mansions featuring Italianate architecture, summer camps, airports, train stations, kind of, sort of, maybe upscale restaurants and the space shuttle. Not the space shuttle, but has anybody checked?

In 2003 a nationwide pest control company treated bed bug problems in 35 states. By 2007 they treated structures in 48 states. A spokesperson believed the other two states have bed bugs. Canada is also having problems with bedbugs. I’m not sure about Bulgaria.

I am wondering when apartment building owners will be placing huge signs outside of their property with the statement “BED BUG FREE BUILDING.”

 Instead of city councils enticing new businesses to their areas with tax breaks,  free land and a variety of money saving coupons perhaps they will soon be advertising their city as “free of bed bugs.”

Perhaps in cities with bed bug problems homeowners will pay to have an inspection so they can sell their homes as a “bed bug free residence.” However if bedbugs are found in the home the enterprising owner may say “Oops!” are something like that.

If you live in a bedbug infested apartment building or other dwelling ask the property owner if he has considered Cryonite to destroy the pests.