Depending on where you live, the health department may conduct their own investigation and issue orders for your landlord to take care of the infestation. If a landlord knows or suspects that a unit has bed bugs, they are not allowed to rent it out.
If you are looking for an apartment and ask the potential landlord about bed bugs, the landlord must disclose to you whether the unit has contained bed bugs within the past 8 months. If asked, a landlord must also disclose the last date the unit was inspected for and found to be free of bed bugs.
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Do you have bed bugs? But bed bugs are very adept at hiding and reproducing behind floorboards and trim, in upholstered chairs and sofas, and even in the frames of televisions. They will hide until emerging when hungry. Luggage is another common way for bedbugs to get into a home. Be sure to check yours closely after your travels. Diseases Associated with Bed Bugs Bed bugs are not significant transmitters of disease; however, the bites can be itchy, and scratching the bites could possibly lead to other infections.
Bedbugs can be introduced into even the cleanest, high-end homes, lodging establishments, apartments or office buildings. Adequate hiding places for the bed bugs furniture, crevices, cracks, etc. Note: If you have an emergency , please call If you need to report a crime or ask a police related question, please call the Larimer County Sheriff's Office at Bed bugs can also be found in secondhand furniture and clothing. Everyone visiting an infected area is at risk.
Bed bug bites do not usually pose a serious medical threat. The best way to treat a bite is to avoid scratching the area, use antiseptic creams or lotions and take an antihistamine. Bed bugs infestations are commonly treated by insecticide spraying. If you suspect you have an infestation, contact your landlord or a professional pest control company familiar with treating bed bugs.
The best way to prevent bed bugs is to regularly look for signs of an infestation. These treatments must directly contact the bed bugs during application. Bed bugs that walk across a treated surface but were not directly contacted with the insecticide during application may not be killed. Available insecticides also do not effectively kill egg stages of bed bugs.
There is little residual activity of currently available insecticides. Repeated insecticide applications will always be required to kill bed bugs that later hatch from eggs, along with those that were missed during earlier treatment. Currently, available insecticides used for bed bug control are primarily of the pyrethroid class of pesticides.
These include bifenthrin, lambda-cyhalothrin, deltamethrin, and beta-cyfluthrin. There are several professional products as well as numerous over-the-counter household insecticides sold to homeowners that contain these as active ingredients. Few, if any, insecticides sold over-the-counter are formulated and labeled for use in critical sites such as to mattresses or around electrical wiring.
All insecticides must be used in strict accordance to label use instructions. Application equipment can be useful in successful use of these insecticides. Deep injection of insecticides into cracks and crevices is better achieved with sprayers equipped with a fine point nozzle. Dust formulations can be blown into wall voids or other hard to spray spaces. Improved dispersal is also possible with fine atomizer sprayers. These types of application equipment are normally unavailable to homeowners through retail outlets.
Silica aerogels are also useful as desiccant dusts to control insects by drying and are widely used by professionals, but are not normally available over-the-counter. At most these can be expected to kill a few of the insects that are directly contacted with sufficient quantity of the insecticide. However, they will fail to adequately penetrate hiding sites of many bed bugs resulting in failure of eradication. High temperature treatment has received considerable attention as the primary non-chemical means of killing bed bugs.
Specialized equipment has been developed that can force high temperature, dry steam heat into areas where bed bugs are present. They are particularly useful for treating bed frames, box springs, and mattresses where insecticide uses are limited. Such equipment is only available through professional pest control operators and requires experience for effective use.
Temperatures at the surface of treated areas must reach toF to kill bed bugs hiding in adjacent crevices and it is important to constantly monitor surfaces with a thermometer while using steamers to ensure sufficient heat has been applied.
Steam treatment is time consuming and may take 15 seconds or more to treat a 1 foot-long area. Cold treatments have little application for control of bed bugs and their relatives.
All of these insects are well adapted to periods of very cold temperature and can survive normal freezing exposure. The use of a sealed vacuum during bed bug treatments is useful. Models with strong suction and a directed nozzle can be used to help extract some bed bugs hiding in protected crevices. Vacuums can also be useful for picking up individuals when seen and a general vacuuming of floors and other surfaces may pick up bed bugs that have migrated or been dislodged during bed bug treatments.
The addition into the vacuum bag of a drying agent, such as diatomaceous earth, can be useful to kill collected insects. Immediately after use, vacuum bags should be removed, sealed in plastic, and discarded to reduce chances of accidentally spreading bed bugs.
Isolation of beds can be done to determine if bed bugs are present and, after control efforts have been completed, to insure that the bug infestation has been eradicated. With bed isolation the box spring and mattress are encased and the frame is treated to insure no bed bugs are present. Then, the four posts that touch the ground are placed onto sticky traps. The homeowner then sleeps in the bed making sure to not let sheets or other bedding to touch the ground. Bed bugs that are in the room will come to feed and get caught in the sticky traps.
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