How To Use Bed Bug Spray

• Step 1 : Prepare the area
• Step 2 : Inspect
• Step 3 : Treat the surrounding areas
• Step 4 : Treat the bed
• Step 5 : Monitoring and trapping

1. Bed Bug Preparation Tips

Reduce Clutter:
Remove all personal items (stuffed animals, soft toys, blankets, electronics, etc) and anything that does not stay in the room permanently. Caution: Be mindful that items from the infested area can transfer bed bugs to other areas. It is best to bag them in plastic with Nuvan Strips.

Launder Infested Garments and Linens:
Launder or tumble dry any garments that are infested or suspected of being infested. Bag the garments and store them in a bed bug free area until the infested storage area has been treated.

Dismantle Bed Frames:
Dismantling bed frames in infested areas typically expose bed bug hiding sites. Having access to these areas during cleaning is important. Stand up the box spring and shine a flashlight through the gauze fabric and look for bed bugs. If the fabric is torn (possible hiding place), remove fabric to prepare for spraying. If the mattress and or box springs are infested, you may want to consider Encasements by Mattress Safe. Once covered with these encasements, bed bugs can not enter or exit. There is no need to treat the mattress or box spring when using these encasements. Keep them on for a year.

Remove Dresser Drawers:
Remove drawers from desks and dressers since bed bugs like to hide in these areas. Turn furniture over to inspect and clean all hiding spots. All furniture should be pulled away from the walls.

Clean the Area:
Scrub infested surfaces with a stiff brush to dislodge bed bug eggs. Vacuum the room extensively. Use a vacuum hose attachment to thoroughly vacuum cracks and crevices on furniture and along baseboards on the walls. Vacuum along baseboards, furniture, bed stands, rails, headboards, footboards, bed seams, tufts, buttons, edges of the bedding, as well as the edges of the carpets (particularly along the tack strips). A good vacuum cleaning job may remove particles from cracks and crevices to encourage greater insecticide penetration. Bed bugs cling tightly to surfaces, so it is best to vacuum by scraping the end of the vacuum attachment over the infested areas to pull out the bed bugs. Caution: It is not good to use a bristle attachment, because you may transfer bed bugs to other areas since they cling to the brush. Dispose of vacuum cleaner bags after you are finished in an outdoor trashcan.

Caulk and Seal:
Caulk and seal all holes where pipes and wires penetrate walls and floor and fill cracks around baseboards and molding to further reduce harboring areas.

Bed Bug Spray and Dust Treatments:

There are several products on the market that work well for bed bugs: Apply residual liquid, aerosol, or residual dust insecticides such as Spectre 2 SC, CrossFire Bed Bug Insecticide Concentrate, Temprid FX, D-Fense NXT, Cimexa Dust, Crossfire Aerosol,and Bedlam Plus Aerosol.

• It is best to use a combination of these products for application purposes.
• You can get these at discounted rates in be a form of kits: Bed Bug Kits
• The kits have the residual insecticide with the dust and aerosols

1. Spray liquid insecticides or aerosols:
2. Spray around and under the bed and along the baseboards near the bed.
3. After removing the drawers from the furniture, the inside of the cabinetry should be sprayed and the bottom and sides of the drawers.
4. Do not treat the inside of the drawers. If needed, the clothes in the drawers should be removed and laundered.
5. Spray around the inside of closets, door frames, and doors.
6. Spray molding at the top and bottom of the room.
7. Spray around windows.
8. Spray seams of drawers, both top, and bottom.
9. Spray dressers from below. Spray where dressers touch the floor.
10. Spray where the bed touches the floor, spray chairs, and underneath chairs.
11. Spray all baseboards, loose plaster, behind bed frames and headboards, beneath beds and furniture, and bedsprings and bed frames.
12. Do not apply to furniture surfaces or mattresses where people will be laying or sitting unless using a product labeled for that type of treatment.
13. Infested bedding should not be treated, but should be removed, placed in sealed plastic bags, and taken for laundering and drying at high temperature.