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.

Do you have a large number of bees flying around your property but can’t find a hive? Perhaps you are looking in the wrong places. Pest control experts have found bee hives in pots, chimneys, trash cans, bird houses, attics and other locations that are not obvious.

Bees are great for pollinating, so if they are far enough away from human activity typically no action is required.

If  you happen to pass by a swarm or even just a few don’t make any sudden moves because that will make them angry.  Bee hives and ball room dancing simply don’t go together. Africanized honey bees have been known to attack humans that get within a hundred yards of them. 

If the bee hive is situated close to a doorway or perhaps a window don’t be surprised if they join you while your eating butterscotch pecan cookies on your sofa. Also, the bee hive could get accidentally bumped and turmoil might ensue. 

If they have made a nest in the walls, that can lead to damage and the honey will attract other insects as well as the pompous grizzly bears living in the sewer system (just a silly rumor).

A bee control professional can safely eliminate the bee hive.

A home owner discovered she had thousands of honey bees in the inside walls of here home. I give her permission to yell “Oh the Horror! The Horror!” at thirty minute intervals.

Who is responsible for this invasion? Well I could easily blame the Queen bees. In the month of June the Queen gets bored with her residence and leaves her comfortable hive and  the rest of the bees begrudgingly or perhaps happily follow her to her new location which can be the inside walls of your home.

The homeowner realized there is a shortage of honey bees in the world for pollination purposes, but was saddened to learn the cost of  having bee keepers remove them was five times more expensive than hiring a pest control company to exterminate the honey bees.

However, exterminating or removing the honey bees will not end the problem. Hundreds of pounds of honey can easily be left in the walls which attracts other pests. Thousands of ants in the walls is not easy to deal with either.

Call a bee control specialist at the first sign of an infestation because “home sweet home” doesn’t make sense  if it’s accomplished by honey bees.

You may think you have a bed bug problem but it might be some other annoying insect. Experts claim that only a small percentage of the insects sent to them turn out to be bed bugs.

Beg bugs are typically about 1/5 of an inch and weigh about thirty pounds (not really). Young bed bugs are typically light yellow in color, however if they just consumed some blood they become dark in the middle region of their bodies. The blood ages and becomes darker and typically a small amount of undigested blood is excreted and ends up on mattresses and bed sheets and four hundred dollar dresses.

Adult bed bugs are reddish brown and they also darken  after a meal. They have no wings, are oval in shape and crawl at a steady pace. If they are scampering, skipping  or sauntering you have another issue to deal with.

They’re usually active at night and when they bite you they often leave bite marks that are two or three in  a row. If you awaken to a pungent aroma you probably have a very large gang of bed bugs lurking. Check for blood spots and fecal matter. 

Call an expert on bed bug pest control if you have spotted them in your residence.

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. 

I’ve heard of “bugs” in computers, but ants? Swarms of hungry ants are eating their way through electronics in Houston. Dubbed “Crazy Raspberry Ants,” it is believed that the insects with an unusual taste for electronic wiring arrived in Texas on a cargo ship, though their original home is unknown. The ants are creating havoc in Texas and the Deep South where their munching has left an expensive path of destruction. They have destroyed PCs in countless homes and businesses, taken up residence in homeowners’ gas meters, ruined pumps at a sewage treatment plant, and placed NASA’s Johnson Space Center on full alert, according to Associated Press reports.  

“If you open a computer, you would find a cluster of ants on the motherboard and all over,” pest expert and namesake Tom Raspberry told Computerworld magazine. “You’d get 3,000 to 4,000 ants inside and they create arcs. They’ll wipe out any computer.”

The tiny ants, about the size of fleas, congregate on electronics by the thousands and exhibit frantic behavior. One victim said their movements were like watching an Indy 500 car race. “They’re going fast, fast, fast. They’re crazy,” Patsy Morphew of Pearland, Texas told PC Pro. At that rate, these nasty little critters could give a whole new meaning to the phrase “bugs in my computer”!

Recently a bee keeper removed thousands of bees and buckets of honey from inside the walls of a home in Elk Grove, California. At first the homeowners thought the buzzing might be an electrical problem but soon feared bees had moved into their bedroom walls. “I heard the buzzing, louder than my electric toothbrush,” homeowner Jennifer Ferkel told the local CBS news station. “I turned it off and then I heard the drones.”

An estimated 40,000 honeybees were found living behind the dry wall and insulation of Ferkel’s home. Honeycombs built between the wall studs yielded about 5 pounds of honey. Let than a month old, if left untreated the bee colony would quickly have doubled in size.

The Ferkel’s problem isn’t as rare as it might seem. Ten years ago, honeybees found their way under my neighbors’ siding in Chicago with similar results. My neighbors not only had to replace the siding along one side of their home, but also the wallboard in two rooms that had become soaked with honey. It took much longer to completely remove the sickening smell of fermented honey that permeated their home for months.

If you hear buzzing in your walls or ceiling or start finding bees in your home (they can  enter through electrical sockets), call a pest control professional immediately. Click here for more information on bees and wasps.

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.

Hot weather brings the start of flea and tick season. May through September is the worst time of the year for fleas and ticks. In the U.S. there are more than 200 species of fleas and 200 different types of ticks just waiting for you or your pet to walk by. Fleas and ticks are usually brought into homes by dogs and cats. Your pet can get them from contact with an infected animal at the dog park or from brushing up against them while burrowing in the brush. My neighbor’s dogs got them from squirrels that traipsed across his lawn, shedding fleas in their wake which then hopped onto the dogs.

A single adult female flea can lay 50 eggs in one day; a female tick, twice that number. One dog can carry as many as 5,000 fleas on its body, says Scott Spear, Petsmart operation manager. “When your dog digests that flea they can get tape worm which can lead to all other sorts of problems. Ticks can lead to Lyme disease.” More than 16,000 American are infected with Lyme disease from deer ticks each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Protect your pet with flea drops or collars. If your pet brings fleas or ticks into your home, don’t place your family at risk. Consult a pest control professional before the situation gets out of hand.