Bed Bug Treatment Services in The Kings Lynn Area

If you have bedbugs in your property or at your business then you have a predicament that is not going away easily, without expert assistance. Pest Professionals in Kings Lynn can help to provide you with instant advice and services if you have a bed bug issue in two incredibly easy and effective stages:

The no obligation telephone consultation service applies to both residential and business customers in the Kings Lynn area. No bed bug job is too large or too small for us to consider. Where relevant we are able to advise on any immediate action needed to protect your health, property or possessions in advance of a visit. If a visit is required we let you know if there will be a call out fee and also advise on the probable fees of any bed bug treatment should it be necessary.

Bed Bug Issues

Bed bugs are a rapidly growing problem in the UK both in residential and paid-for accommodation environments. They are expert hitch hikers and if you start getting bitten in your sleep soon after a trip away from home or in a new property, they could be the cause.

Bed bugs like to live alongside their blood meal. They have a flat profile and can harbour in the smallest of cracks and crevices between joints in the bed or bedroom furniture, or behind head boards. The seams of mattresses are another preferred harbourage point and bed bug mattress encasements should be considered as a strategy to cut down on bites quickly. Bed bugs emerge at night, reacting to changes in your carbon dioxide output when you are sleeping. They use their mouth parts to pierce the skin, injecting an anti-coagulant and anti-biotic all at once so they can readily feed on your blood without you feeling it. They normally feed for 5-15 minutes until they are full, which can result in them being three times their normal size.

Bed Bug Bites and Effects

There is no one typical reaction to bed bug bites. We have encountered properties with severe infestations, yet the inhabitants show no signs of bites. Others may experience a row of reddish bites and for others a true irritation. One of the most common and very real consequences of a bed bug infestation is psychological, causing occupants to be unable to go to sleep and (not that unusually) go through significant stress and trauma.

Bed Bug Identification

Bed bugs are often mistaken but are not difficult to identify. An adult bed bug is 4-5mm in length and easily visible to the human eye. They are six-legged and have two prominent antennae protruding from the head near to the eyes. They have five defined life stages with nymphs being small and often translucent. Eggs are about 1mm long, and white or yellowish in colour.

Bed Bug Signs

Because they hide so easily it can be very hard to find bed bugs. Nevertheless, after they have fed they are often too big to get into their hiding place and have to excrete to get back into a safe place. This deposits black spotting around their living area, which can be seen by the human eye. There are a variety of bed bug monitors available. We recommend the Cimexine Bug Drawer Monitor which has a quick-view window allowing you to check for bed bugs without having to risk coming into contact with them.

Bed Bug Treatment

Bed bugs are one of today’s problem pests because they are tricky to locate, and hard to kill. They are proficient in developing resistance to even professional strength insecticides and regrettably you are extremely unlikely to have any success tackling the problem yourself. We specialise in bed bug removal regularly independently test the insecticides available to pest controllers against bed bugs that we know have developed resistance to insecticides. We know which ones are the best and which ones attain only poor results. We recommend heat treatment for bed bugs when the outbreak is well established, including GUARANTEED BED BUG ERADICATION through our sister company Cimexine.

If you need sound advice or speedy solutions to bed bug troubles anywhere in Kings Lynn or the surrounding towns and villages in North Norfolk – get in touch.