Archive for the ‘Ed's Bug Blog’ Category

Six Hour Remedy For Bed Bugs

Monday, May 11th, 2009

We are often called upon as a last ditch effort.  When all else fails our phone rings.  The EPA and Entomologists have shown that chemical treatments are unsuccessful treating bed bugs for many reasons.  The main reason is bed bugs have become resistant to certain chemicals. Bed bugs can sense where and what has been treated.  Once this has been done they tend to distance themselves from that area.  This in turn makes them spread to other rooms or apartments.  This is why we are seeing them in multiple apartments.

Here at Ridder Thermal Management we use NO CHEMICALS! We are 100% Eco friendly.  All we use is heat to treat an infested area.  It takes six hours to rid your life of bed bugs forever.  We heat the whole house or apartment to 130 degrees.  A bed bugs body is made up of waxy molecules which break down at high temperatures.  At 114 degrees the bed bugs molecular composition starts to break down and they die in a matter of seconds.  We then continue to heat the room to 138 so the heat can penetrate every surface,  thus ensuring you will be bud bug free.  It’s that easy and simple. Heat is the only effective way to kill bud bugs.  It is safe quick and very effective in terminating your pest problems. Our thermal treatment will give you piece of mind knowing your little friends will not be paying you a visit at night.

Cooking Bedbugs

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Cooking Bedbugs is the name of the game. We were treating a house a few weeks ago. Generally, we need to divide the house in half with a custom-designed plastic divider system. So that we don’t have to sit on any infested furniture, we bring our own folding metal chairs to sit in while things heat up. So that we don’t cook ourselves, we sit in the regular room-temperature area. I was sitting next to a brand new sofa chair and I looked down for a second and, yep, there they were.

New couch! Bedbugs! yuck!

New couch! Bedbugs! yuck!

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Bedbugs keep crawling on my head

Monday, November 24th, 2008

In over 20 years in the pest control business, I have seen some crazy things. Hopefully you’ll be entertained by some of the stories I have to share. (more…)