Monthly Archives: December 2007

Bed Bug News, Bed Bug Resources, Bed Bugs, Cryonite

Cryonite, It’s The Rapid Freeze That Kills

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The key with Cryonite is not that it just freezes bed bugs, but it is the rapid freeze and incredibly low temperature that kills pests including bed bugs.

At the forum http://www.bedbugger.com/ where we announced that we were providing bed bug extermination services, we got scoffs and disbelief from some of the participants saying that they have put bed bugs in their freezer and that they did not die or if they were frozen in time they just woke up again.

Well I am here to tell you that I don’t know of any freezer, even a sub-zero model, that can freeze to -35 °C that is equal to -25.6 °F. Cryonite can freeze to this level and does in seconds. Cryonite is applying carbon dioxide snow, that is dry ice snow. We all know that you do not touch dry ice it can freeze skin instantly how much more so with little bitty pests.

So on the topic of killing bed bugs with Cryonite, I say, freeze them dead! Let them suffer for all the pain that bed bugs have caused me and then die a horrible death, but death it is for them with a Cryonite treatment there is no waking up from that!

Bed Bug News, Bed Bug Resources, Bed Bugs, Cryonite

Cryonite the New Way to Kill Bed Bugs

There’s a new way to kill bed bugs – freezing them, and we have it! It’s called Cyronite.

The Cryonite machine blows carbon dioxide snow into all the places that bed bugs hide and freezes the water in their cells killing all stages of bed bugs instantly. Cryonite can be used to effectively treat many pest not just bed bugs.

We particularly like Cryonite for hotel and motel bed bug treatments and the reason is that a room can be rented out the same day after a cryonite treatment. Previously when a room had been treated for bed bugs the hotel may have had to have taken it out of the pool of available rooms for 7 to 14 days. Now rooms can be returned to renting immediately after treatment.

Cryonite can be used in residential bed bug treatment programs too. Here we recommend that the sensitive areas be treated with Cryonite – your bedding, but all other areas be treated with insecticide.

If you are looking for a green or non-toxic solution for bed bug control Cryonite it the answer. Not only is the Cryonite snow non-toxic, but the carbon dioxide gas used has been recycled from industrial processes and so adds no additional carbon dioxide to the environment.

Cryonite is the perfect solution for rapid hotel and motel bed bug treatment, residential bed bug treatment for bedding areas, and a green and non-toxic solution for bed bugs. To find out more about this European treatment that is new to the United States, click our blog post title to visit our website.

Bed Bug Information, Bed Bug News, Bed Bug Resources, Bed Bugs

The Bed Bugs… They’re Mutating!

What’s scarier than a bed-bug in your bed? How about a bed-bug that can’t be killed with insecticides? Researchers are now finding that bed-bugs found in apartments and homes are becoming immune to the insecticides that are provided to kill them. Researchers used pyrethoid insecticides to solve the issue of the infestations that were building in apartments, but to the dismay of the researchers, most of the bugs withstood direct sprays from the pyrethoid insecticides. The talk of the bed-bugs becoming immune to the sprays prompted an experiment.

The experiment was between bed-bug samples collected and maintained in a laboratory for thirty years and one group of twenty years, and four different colonies from apartments. When sprayed with the pyrethoid insecticide, the laboratory bed-bugs who were never before sprayed were decimated completely, while the four colonies of apartment bed-bugs experienced little to no mortalities. The scary thing about that is that the four colonies were immune to sprays that were two-hundred to three-hundred times the recommended dosage prescribed by the companies who produced the insecticide.

The interesting realization that derived from this particular experiment was that when one of the bed-bugs from the lab set and another from the field set mated, the offspring were only partially immune to the pesticide, which showed that the immunity of the field bed-bugs is a genetic trait, which is passed along through latter generations.

It’s a growing problem, but a lot of factors that deal with a seemingly useless bed-bug fight could be that bed-bugs can hide anywhere, and maybe you’re just not getting all of them. Hopefully, the issue with immunity to pesticides will be solved before they take over the Earth! Or maybe just your bed…

You can read the full testing information from the University of Kentucky here.

Bed Bugs

Pennsylvania 6-5-oh-oh-oh! Bed Bugs!

Most of us have heard the famous tune by Glenn Miller, “Pennsylvania 6-5000,” written about New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania, the sensational, twenty-two-story hotel, erected in 1919. Self-proclaimed to be “The World’s Most Popular Hotel®,” this Manhattan giant has 1700 rooms, and it centers the hot spots of New York City, such as Madison Square Garden, Amtrak’s Penn Station, Macy’s, The Empire State Building, The Javits Center, as well as the Theater District. Inside can be found all sorts of fitness centers, and the high-quality front-desk and transportation services make for an extremely comfortable stay. They even have valet parking! Needless to say, this hotel is one hot spot. Too bad they forgot to take care of one little thing… bed bugs.

The Hotel Pennsylvania is taking a nearly $100,000 hit because of six tourists who claim to have had a bad run with bed bugs while staying at the hotel. Two of these tourists were women from Switzerland who said that they were “eaten alive” by these tiny vampires of the night in 2005.

The hotel is now taking measures to protect its guests and prevent the infestation of bed bugs in its rooms. Even still, be wary when staying at Hotel Penn, or any hotel, for that matter; bed bugs are everywhere where there are people checking in and out.

Nuisance Wildlife Control, Rats, Rodent Control

The Rat Monster of the Marshes in New Jersey!

As if regular rats weren’t enough, imagine gross, hairy, dirty rats the size of dogs and they are being found in New Jersey of all places! As odd and even scary as this may sound, these horror-story creatures do, in fact, exist. This furry fiend is called the nutria, and, currently, it’s making its home in the Garden State, New Jersey.

Originally from South America, this 12-20 lb. rodent, somewhat resembling a beaver, is capable of living in water and on land. It is found mostly in Latin America and in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi. Female nutrias can be pregnant with three litters a year, and they are able to get pregnant again within a day of giving birth. However, these creatures aren’t too scary… At least, they won’t eat you. The nutrias are plant eaters. They can devour twenty-five percent of their body weight, every day!

In the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century, nutrias were actually bred for their fine furs. As this trend of nutria farming spread throughout the South and along the Gulf Coast area, the population of these rodents grew and grew. This wouldn’t be such a problem if they weren’t considered to be one of the most damaging creatures to happen upon the marshlands. In just the past half-century, they’ve devoured about 7,000 acres of salt marsh. They’ve been making their way up the Eastern Seaboard, throughout Maryland and Delaware. Maryland is taking firm action to keep the population of nutrias to a low and to protect our waters and marsh life.