January is bed bug season in the dispatch log, and it’s no mystery why: holiday travel means hotels, guest rooms, dorms, and borrowed couches — the exact places bed bugs wait for a ride. They don’t care how clean your house is; they care that your suitcase sat open on a hotel bed.
The early signs
- Bites in lines or clusters that appear after sleeping — often arms, shoulders, neck.
- Rust-colored spots or dark specks on sheets and mattress seams.
- Tiny white eggs or translucent shed skins in mattress piping and headboard joints.
The smart first moves
Contain, don’t relocate. Sleeping on the couch just gives them a second room. Strip the bed straight into bags, run everything through a hot dryer cycle (heat is the killer — 30+ minutes on high), and vacuum the mattress seams slowly, crevice tool, bag out to the bin immediately.
What not to do
Don’t drag the mattress through the house untreated — that’s a parade route. Don’t fog the bedroom with a store bomb — it scatters them deeper into walls without killing the eggs. And don’t wait it out: a female lays eggs daily, and the math only goes one direction.
Suspect they came home with you? Call (844) 611-1789 — discreet inspection, honest answer, and a plan that spans the full hatch cycle.
