Bed bugs are back after a long dormancy and are on the rise in Madison, Green Bay and throughout Wisconsin. They are rapidly infesting homes as well as many commercial facilities especially those with high turnover rates such as: hotels, movie theaters, college dorms and hospitals.
In the age of the “sharing economy,” companies such as Airbnb and HomeAway have drastically changed options regarding travel accommodations. With nearly two million combined [...]
You've heard the old saying, "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen?". Well, in the case of bed bugs it's, "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the house." If you've discovered bed bugs in your home, someone may have told you this already. Heat is how you get bed bugs out. But heat alone will not solve a bed bug problem.
For more than 30 years, the National Pest Management Association has celebrated Bed Bug Awareness during the month of April. This year was no different, the NPMA spent April 20th-26th spreading awareness and preventive information about this dreaded pest.
Bed bugs are a problem in both homes and businesses in Wisconsin; locating these pests can be a challenge but eliminating them can be even more difficult. The professionals at Wil-Kil Pest Control have been treating bed bugs effectively for years; our professionals have the tools and control methods to eliminate bed bugs, often in just one visit.
Avoiding bed bugs during the holiday season can be more challenging than during the rest of the year. With people traveling to see friends and families for the holidays, there will be even more bed bugs around than usual. Visiting hotels, using public transportation and even visiting the homes of friends and families can all cause you to come into contact with bed bugs. And when you’ve come into contact with these hitchhiking bloodsuckers, there’s a very good chance you will unknowingly pick them up during your journeys.
As we get ready to travel for the holidays, so do bed bugs. These insects are excellent hitchhikers, catching a ride on anything they can find so that they may follow you to your next destination. If you have bed bugs in your home, they may hide away in your suitcase, joining you on your holiday travels.
Have you made your holiday travel plans yet? If not, now is the time to book plane tickets and reserve hotel rooms as the price is going up and the space is running out. Along with securing your travel and lodging, we advise you to be on the lookout for bed bugs this holiday season!
Whether the kids are just at a day camp or gone for most of the summer to an overnight camp, a pest threat all parents need to be on the lookout for this summer is bed bugs. These blood sucking insects have made their way across the country to hotels, dorms, schools, and now even summer camps. As with most pest threats, prevention is the best way to avoid any problems.
Bed bugs have been spreading across the country recently like wildfire, and unfortunately folks in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin know this first hand. At Wil-Kil, our Wisconsin exterminators have been working towards finding the best possible bed bug treatments available on the market. Fortunately for us, we live in a time where extensive research has been done on what is needed to solve the bed bug problem, so we have quite a few treatment options to choose from. But like most things, this has not always been the case, and although people have been dealing with these bugs for thousands of years, no fool proof pest control methods had ever been determined. Although the world has never lacked interesting bed bug treatment options!
