To help provide guidance to pest management professionals and consumers alike, the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) has been working to create industry wide, consumer friendly guidelines for bed bug eradication practices.  With much anticipation, the NPMA has released the “Best Management Practices for Bed Bugs!”

The Best Management Practices for Bed Bugs (BMPs) contains valuable information that will help pest management professionals as they fight to eliminate bed bugs from homes and businesses throughout the United States.  The BMPs was created by top industry professionals, regulators, entomologists, and academics.

Here’s a brief overview of the BMPs:

• Business Practices – A general guideline to pest management professionals. Customers should consider this a Business 101 checklist.

• Service Agreements – Guidance is offered to pest control experts on how to design service agreements for customers.

• Technician and Sales Staff Training – Information on what type of bed bug related training that pest control staff members should have.

• Disposal of Beds, Furniture, Possessions – Proper instruction on when it is necessary to dispose of bed bug infested furniture.  Note: the BMPs believes it is often unnecessary.

• Client Cooperation and Treatment Preparations – Guidance on what a client must do in a home or commercial establishment in preparation for bed bug treatment.

• Bed Bug Detection – Offers information on what constitutes evidence of bed bugs and what does not.  The BMPs informs pest management professionals and consumers when monitoring is necessary and when immediate treatment is necessary. It also includes information about different types of monitoring devices and the advantages and disadvantages of using this option.

• Bed Bug Scent Detection Canine Teams – Specific information is provided about canine teams, when they are most effective, how they should work, and certification recommendations.

• Integrated Pest Management and Methods of Control – IPM information is offered to pest management professionals to pass along to homeowners and business owners to lessen their chances of having a full-blown bed bug infestation.  Different types of IPM methods and products are covered in full detail.

• Post-Treatment Evaluation – An explanation as to why you must continue to look for bed bugs after treatment commences and why multiple treatments might be necessary after the first treatment.

• Health and Safety of Customers – Reminders about health and safety considerations.

The Best Management Practices for Bed Bugs will be followed by leading bed bug pest control experts!

Stern Environmental Group offers the most up-to-date products, services, information, and articles to help you with your bed bug infestation issues.

Stop by our website to view the vast amount of information that we have collected about bed bugs.  We are often asked what bed bug bites look like.  Click on our photo link to see how these painful and itchy welts can affect you if you are unlucky enough to encounter the bugs.  You will also find valuable photographs of actual bed bug infestations that will assist you in your travels so that you know what you should be looking for when you check into your hotel room or if you think you might have a bed bug infestation at your home.

Many people think that having bed bugs means that they must throw out their bed bug infested mattress.  Stern Environmental Group and Protect-A-Bed allows you the opportunity to save your expensive mattress instead.  Click on the Encasement Info link on our website to find out how these state-of-the-art mattress encasements will seal bed bugs, and their eggs, in forever so that you will not have to go through the expense of purchasing a new mattress!

Stern Environmental Group offers the best bed bug services as well.  Cryonite is the newest and most effective treatment in bed bugs.  This innovative product is non-toxic and will kill pesky pesticide resistant bed bugs (and other bugs too) by rapidly freezing them!  This amazing treatment even works on bed bug eggs!  Another great tool in Stern’s arsenal is the bed bug sniffing dog.  Sniffer dogs work fast and with incredible accuracy.  Bed bug sniffing dogs are able to detect large amounts of bed bugs, bed bugs eggs, and even just one single bed bug that is hiding in the most obscure location.

Stop by our website to see how Stern Environmental Group can help you!  We are a licensed pest control specialist who provides services to Secaucus, New Jersey, the Greater New York City Metro and Connecticut Regions.  Give us a call today!

Continuing from Thursday…

Not only is Josimar Ferreira accused of operating a Massachusetts extermination company without being certified, but it has been reported that he has also allegedly maintained pest control companies in New Jersey and New York as well.  Both New Jersey and New York have cited Ferreira for operating an unlicensed pesticide business.  It makes you wonder how he is able to obtain toxic pesticides, without being properly licensed.  Clearly there was a breakdown…in three states!

Stern Environmental Group has been providing expert bed bug and pest control services in New Jersey and New York for over ten years.  We pride ourselves on providing our customers with the safest pesticide application available, and offer a wide variety of services and products to meet many different types of needs.  We offer professional services to both residential and business customers alike.  Whether you are looking for help with bed bugs, rats, mice, squirrels, raccoons, groundhogs, ants, spiders, cockroaches, or bee control, Stern Environmental Group’s licensed pest control applicators are here to lend a helping hand!

Continuing from Tuesday…

When you have a bed bug infestation, you must then decide on the best way to rid yourself of the pesky bugs.  Do you try to treat them yourself (this rarely works!).  Do you hire an exterminator to fumigate?  Do you hire an exterminator that uses heat treatment?  Do you use steam treatment?  How about freezing the bed bugs?  People also wonder if bed bug sniffing dogs are really worth hiring to try to treat bed bugs (absolutely, they are amazing!).  You must also purchase mattress encasements to make certain that you save your expensive mattress, but where can you find them?

There are many decisions to be made and much work to do when you have a bed bug infestation.

The fact is that most people are overwhelmed by the entire bed bug infestation experience, and rightly so.  A bed bug infestation will disrupt every aspect of your life!  Without proper assistance, the bed bug nightmare can and will linger for quite some time.  The good news is that help is available.  It is critical that you hire an experienced bed bug expert who has the most up-to-date products and services available to their customers in order to reach complete eradication.

Stern Environmental Group provides fast, discreet and professional bed bug services to Secaucus, New Jersey, the Greater New York City Metro and Connecticut Regions.  We service both businesses and homes.  Give us a call today!

Continuing from Thursday…

The Environmental Protection Agency previously stated that there are no severe health outcomes as a result of the exposure to the use of the pesticide Propoxur.  What do you think about this issue?  Feel free to leave us a comment.

The question remains as to what the Environmental Protection Agency will do in regards to this matter.  We know that this insecticide will work in the fight against bed bugs and that it will be very cost effective to consumers.  If the EPA already deemed it to be a safe chemical to use, what would the trouble be in releasing it nationwide?  People who don’t believe that we are having a bed bug epidemic should speak to just one family who has encountered these blood suckers.  They are very difficult to get rid of and will rattle even the calmest of nerves!  Is Propoxur the magic bullet in the war against bed bugs?  That remains to be seen.

Some bed bug experts have other treatment options in their arsenal that have proven effective.  Bed bug monitors, mattresses encasements, bed bug sniffing dogs, Cryonite, heat killing chamber, and other products are some of the things that Stern Environmental Group uses in their treatment program.

If you have fallen victim to the dreaded bed bug outbreak, contact a pest control specialist today.  Stern Environmental Group provides fast expert bed bug services to Secaucus, New Jersey, the Greater New York City Metro and Connecticut Regions.