Eliminating Bed Bugs from Your Home
Bed bugs are on the rise across Canada, and even the cleanest homes can be at risk. These tiny pests feed on human and pet blood, and once they’ve settled in, they’re tough to detect and even harder to eliminate.
Drawn to warmth and carbon dioxide, bed bugs typically emerge at night to feed and hide during the day in mattresses, baseboards, carpets, and even wallpaper. Left untreated, a small problem can grow fast—up to 13,000 bed bugs in just six months. For a complete and lasting solution, you need a trusted bed bug exterminator.
Why Bed Bug Treatment Matters
Bed bugs are persistent, invasive, and increasingly common. DIY methods often miss the hidden infestations, giving them time to spread.
Health Risks
- Painful Bites: Bed bug bites can cause itching, swelling, allergic reactions, and loss of sleep. See how to identify a bed bug bite.
- Social/Mental Toll: Living with an infestation can lead to stress, anxiety, and embarrassment.
Home Impact
- Rapid Reproduction: A few bugs can quickly turn into thousands. Adults can survive up to a year without feeding.
- Widespread Infestations: They often start near beds but quickly spread to furniture, flooring, and walls.
- Hard to Find: Bed bugs hide in tiny crevices, making them nearly impossible to fully remove without professional tools.
- Reinfestation Risk: Without targeted treatment, bed bugs can return even after you think they’re gone.
How Does Lifetime Pest Control Keep Your Home Protected Against Bed Bugs
- Canine Bed Bug Detection & Inspection Services – Faster and more reliable than any other detection method, Lifetime Pest Control bed bug dogs are ideal for regularly inspecting multi unit apartment/condo buildings and homes. Our canine teams can inspect a room in minutes, ensuring you receive the peace of mind you deserve.
- Bed Bug Encasements – Lifetime Pest Control offers an array of bed bug encasement products to help stop bed bugs from spreading and help protect your beds and furniture from future infestations.
- Bed Bug Heat Treatments – In the event of a severe bed bug infestation, your local Lifetime Pest Control Pro may recommend the use of heat treatments to eradicate bed bug populations. This environmentally friendly approach uses sustained high temperatures to penetrate all bed bug harbourage areas, including furniture, electronics and walls.
- Aprehend® Proactive Treatments – Your local Lifetime Pest Control Pro may also use an environmentally friendly bio-pesticide called Beauveria conidia in an oil-based formulation as part of a proactive strategy, or as part of an overall treatment.
- Steam and Vacuuming – We use steam to kill eggs and bed bugs on contact, and to drive out of hiding spots. In addition to steam, we may also use a HEPA vacuum to remove live bugs, shed skins, eggs and debris before treating with residual or contact products.
- Contact and Residual Treatments – These types of bed bug treatments provide an instant knock down and ensure long term effectiveness when combined with a integrated bed bug control program.