Heat Treatment
I Found a Bed Bug in My Bed – What Should I Do?
If you have found what appears to be a bed bug in your bed, do not immediately start moving bedding, furniture or belongings around the house. The first step is to confirm that the insect really is a bed bug. If it is, carefully inspect the bed and surrounding area for further evidence before deciding…
Read MoreCan You Kill Bed Bugs with a Hair Dryer
Heat can kill bed bugs, but that does not mean a household hair dryer is an effective way to eliminate a bed bug infestation. A hair dryer may expose an individual bed bug to damaging or lethal heat if the insect is directly in the airflow for sufficient time. The difficulty is reliably delivering the…
Read MoreWhy Do Bed Bugs Exist
Few household pests generate quite as much frustration as bed bugs. After discovering them in a bed or bedroom, it is understandable to wonder: why do bed bugs even exist? Bed bugs did not suddenly appear because humans invented beds, and they do not exist because a home is dirty. They belong to an ancient…
Read MoreHow MothKill Uses AI to Improve Bed Bug Heat Treatments in the UK
Artificial intelligence is beginning to offer pest-control technicians another useful tool when planning complex treatments. At MothKill, AI-assisted analysis can be used alongside professional experience to review photographs or videos of rooms before a bed bug heat treatment. The aim is not to allow artificial intelligence to perform or control the treatment. Instead, it can…
Read MoreWhy You Should Consider Heat Treatment for a Moth Infestation
Is clothes moth heat treatment worth it? It can be when an infestation has become established across carpets, furniture or several rooms and repeatedly treating individual belongings is no longer practical. That does not mean every clothes moth sighting requires professional heat treatment. A small, localised problem may be manageable with careful inspection, cleaning, monitoring…
Read MoreThe Most Effective Clothes Moth Killer
What is the most effective clothes moth treatment? The answer depends on where the infestation is located, which life stages are present and how widespread the problem has become. There is no single spray, trap or product that is automatically the best clothes moth killer for every home. A washable wool jumper can be dealt…
Read MoreDo Bed Bugs Cause Scabies
If you have woken up with itchy marks or developed an unexplained rash, you may wonder whether bed bugs can cause scabies. The short answer is no — bed bugs do not cause scabies. Bed bugs and scabies are caused by completely different organisms. However, both can be associated with itching and skin reactions, which…
Read MoreBritain’s Bed Bug Hotspots
Where are Britain’s bed bug hotspots? Bed bugs can occur anywhere in the UK, from major cities to small towns, but some environments provide more opportunities for them to be introduced and spread. Large cities such as London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds and Sheffield contain many of the factors associated with bed bug movement: high…
Read MoreWhy Heat Treatment Is Different (Especially in London)
Bed bug heat treatment works on the same biological principle in London as it does anywhere else: bed bugs and their eggs are vulnerable to sufficiently high temperatures when effective thermal conditions reach them for sufficient exposure. What can make some London treatments more complicated is not a different type of bed bug. It is…
Read MoreCheapest Bed Bug Heat Treatment
If you’re searching for the cheapest bed bug heat treatment in the UK, comparing prices can quickly become confusing. One company may quote for a single room, another for several rooms, while another quote may include different equipment, monitoring, preparation requirements or follow-up. That means the lowest number on a quotation is not necessarily the…
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