This is a sponsored post. All thoughts are our own and the stories are true, even the ones involving bugs. We sat in on an Orkin presentation and learned about bugs. As it was with Orkin, the bugs were of the noun variety instead of the adjectival kind, but we’re familiar with both kinds…unfortunately.
My wife and I have a favorite bed bug story. Granted it’s unusual to have any favorite story with bed bugs. Just get rid of them you say, why would it entail a story? In a nutshell I said that I slept in a bed once that had bed bugs and she said, ‘was it my parent’s house’? The answer is no and after speaking with the Orkin bug expert that night it probably wasn’t a bed bug, but don’t tell my wife because that will just ruin the story.
When I grew up the saying “Don’t let the bed bugs bite” was just that a saying because they were so uncommon. It wasn’t until 2000 that our Orkin bug expert said that they started getting calls about bites that could’ve been them and in fact were.
Here is a friend of mine getting purposely bit on her arm.
Here is what the little critter looks like up close.
They’re nasty biting little creatures that feed on human blood at night. Think Dracula, but crawling and leaving a black poop trail. Bed bugs are popular with travelers. If you’re traveling this year keep your luggage off the floor and away from the bed. Is there a bathtub? Keep it there and check the mattress for brown or red spots on the bedding. It’s not just the dives that you stayed at when you’re young and single-any hotel can have bed bugs. One of the things that can really kill them is heat, specifically over 120 degrees. I know, that sounds like a bad boy band, but in this case it kills those blood suckers dead.
We get stink bugs in our house. They’re devil looking bugs with angled heads that creep out of the walls once the temperature heats up. Sure enough, as spring hits its stride, we’ve seen those wonky looking bugs in our house. Hint: remove the dead stink bugs to improve odds on them not returning.
There are also good critters in our house, like the dog, Wilson. Having said that, it’s not just dogs that get ticks, people, anyone can get ticks and you don’t have to be in the deep woods to get them. Lyme Disease has been in the news lately and that is delivered by ticks. Ways to prevent ticks are to trim those shrubs from around the house and do a careful check. Oh, and those tips about Vaseline, alcohol and burning ticks are all myths too.
It was a night of bug myths and lots of facts that we didn’t know about. We do DIY, but we don’t do DIY bug and critter removal, that is something that we pay to have done. It’s better off to get the bugs out and know that it’s done than to experiment with how to accomplish the goal with watered down products. I used to be a real estate investor and one of the popular adages was, “How do you kill termites?” The answer, in a droll tone, is, ‘with a check book’, but it’s true and not something that you should DIY.
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