Bed Bug Treatment In Alexandria VA

Bed Bug Control Services In Alexandria VA

Miche Pest Control is a family owned and operated pest control company that provides high quality residential and commercial bed bug control services for homes and businesses in Alexandria VA and the surrounding areas. Our expert bed bug exterminators get rid of bed bugs from homes and businesses fast, and use preventative treatments to keep the bed bugs from coming back after they've been eliminated. Miche Pest Control has a 4.9 star rating and over 1,000 reviews online - contact us today!

Bed Bugs in Alexandria VA

Alexandria VA averages millions of visitors per year. That means there are millions of opportunities for bed bugs to be brought in, and millions of opportunities for bed bugs to be taken out. Known for being hitchhikers, bed bugs are often transported with luggage and other belongings. Fortunately, hotels and motels have improved their bed bug detection training and methods since bed bugs made their resurgence in recent years, but the risk of accidentally transporting bed bugs and getting an infestation of bed bugs in your home or business is too great to ignore.

Bit By Bed Bugs in Alexandria VA?

If you're wake up with what you suspect are bed bug bites, there are a number of possibilities as to what can be going on. Everybody's body reacts differently when they get bit by bed bugs, so it's hard to know exactly what is going on, unless you can positively identify the presence of bed bugs. That is why we recommend starting with an inspection to determine whether or not you have bed bugs in your home or business in Alexandria VA. Contact us today to learn more, or to request your free inspection.

Get Rid Of Bed Bugs In Alexandria VA With Miche Pest Control

In recent years, it's come to light that bed bugs are becoming increasingly resistant to a lot of the DIY bed bug products on the market, and are becoming resistant to even a lot of the commonly used professional bed bug control products. That makes getting rid of bed bugs on your own tricky in the best of circumstances, but nearly impossible without the help of professionals like the team at Miche Pest Control. If you suspect that your home or business in Alexandria VA has an infestation of bed bugs, the best way to get started is to schedule a free inspection. To request your free inspection, contact Miche Pest Control today!

Checking For Bed Bugs In Alexandria VA

In Alexandria VA, if you have a bed bug infestation, it is best to find it early, before the infestation becomes established or spreads. Treating a minor infestation, while an inconvenience, is far less costly and easier than treating the same infestation after it becomes more widespread.

However, low-level infestations are also much more challenging to find and correctly identify. Other insects, such as carpet beetles, can be easily mistaken for bed bugs. If you misidentify a bed bug infestation, it gives the bugs more time to spread to other areas of the house or hitchhike a ride to someone else's house to start a new infestation.

Bites on the skin are a poor indicator of a bed bug infestation. Bed bug bites can look like bites from other insects (such as mosquitoes or chiggers), rashes (such as eczema or fungal infections), or even hives. Some people do not react to bed bug bites at all.

A more accurate way to identify a possible infestation is to look for physical signs of bed bugs. When cleaning, changing bedding, or staying away from home, look for:

• Rusty or reddish stains on bed sheets or mattresses caused by bed bugs being crushed.
• Dark spots, which are bed bug excrement and may bleed on the fabric like a marker would.
• Bed bug eggs and eggshells, which are tiny (about 1mm), as well as pale yellow shed exoskeletons, that nymphs shed as they grow larger.
• Live bed bugs.

What Do Bed Bugs Look Like In Alexandria VA?

Adult bed bugs are reddish brown in color, wingless, and are about the size of an apple seed. Immature bed bugs can also be seen with the naked eye but they are smaller than adults, and translucent whitish-yellow in color. There are 5 immature or nymphal instar stages.

What Do Bed Bug Bites Look Like In Alexandria VA?

For most people, bedbug bites result in itchy bumps where the bite occurred, within a day of being bitten. The bites usually look like mosquito bites and will appear as a somewhat swollen red spot that might itch.

But the bites will look different from person to person, and some people won’t develop any reaction whatsoever. The same bed bug could bite two different people, and one could have no reaction at all, while the other can have an extreme reaction with a swollen arm or itchy rash. In response to the bite, some people end up developing a rash that looks like eczema.

It’s also possible that you won’t see a reaction the first time a bedbug bites since it sometimes can take the body a while to react. Some people will have an immediate reaction, while for others it could take two weeks to emerge. Your body will likely become more sensitive to bed bug bites over time, and if you get bitten repeatedly, it could be only a matter of seconds before your body shows a response.