According to third-party research and service directories like HomeAdvisor, t he average cost of bed bug removal services can range between $1000-$2500, depending on the size of your home and the extent of the infestation. When surveying pest control specialists, 68% say that bed bugs are the hardest pests to eliminate.

To avoid these costly treatments, early detection is vital. Learn more about how Bed Bug Plug™ can protect your family from a painful and expensive extermination process.

True to their sneaky form, bed bugs take a slow growth approach when invading our homes. While most insects reproduce quite rapidly, bed bugs multiply much more slowly. Adult female bed bugs only lay an egg about once a day, and each bed bug egg takes ten days to hatch. It takes another five to six weeks for the offspring to develop into an adult. However, it’s also worth noting that a female bed bug is capable of laying up to 500 eggs in her lifetime, giving even a small population the potential to become a massive problem.

While this allows for time to detect an infestation before it gets worse, it also makes it much harder to detect bed bugs on your own. Because bed bugs multiply so slowly, they don’t leave as much evidence behind, and can quickly become an afterthought. Be sure to include an early detection solution like Bed Bug Plug™ in the defense of your home, so that you can catch the critters before it’s too late.

Bed bugs live much longer than most household insects. The average lifespan of common bed bug varieties is about ten months, but some have been known to live much longer. In fact, some bed bugs have been found to live up to a year without feeding at all, making them extra difficult to exterminate just by vacating the infected area.

Bed bugs are known to feed on the blood of their prey (us!) about once a week. It often takes 5-7 days for bed bugs to digest their meal, and in the meantime they’re busy hiding in the cracks and reproducing.

While this is a good thing for your sleep, it’s not a good thing for detection. Because bed bugs don’t venture out terribly often it can be difficult to catch them in the act.

From the 1950’s to the late 1990’s, bed bugs were almost nonexistent. So how did they make their comeback? As society and technology have grown, there have been several factors that contributed to the re-introduction of bed bugs.

Bed bugs were thought to have been eliminated by certain potent pesticides. Those same pesticides are now banned, and bed bugs have developed resistance to the new pesticides.

Combine that with increased business and leisure travel, new trends for purchasing older furniture and household decorations, and the consistent growth of the population in general, and it’s the perfect recipe for a bed bug comeback.

With bed bugs on the rise, early detection products have become a popular method of protecting homes from these pests. So which products work best?

A better question would be which products work at all? The most popular products on the market are sticky pads and chemical pesticides. After lab testing, it has been found that bed bugs are adept at spotting and avoiding sticky pads, and are often resistant to pesticides.

In clinical studies, Bed Bug Plug™ was easily the most effective solution for detecting and capturing bed bugs. Our unique design doesn’t just hope to catch bed bugs by chance; instead, it simulates the warmth and vibrations of humans to lure bed bugs deep within a trap. In fact, a recent study shows that Bed Bug Plug™ was able to capture 57% of bed bugs, while competitor products weren’t able to catch any at all.

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