Bedbug Services

Keep Visitors Happy by Making Sure Bed Bugs Aren’t in Your Hotel In the words of Warren Buffett, “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” Bed bug infestations are a constant problem throughout hotels in the New York City and Long Island area. At Standard Pest Management, our biggest goal is to reduce the impact of any unwanted guests by providing discreet, effective hotel pest control in NYC.

Hotel Bed Bug Treatments – Making Sure the Problem Is Gone! While bed bugs can be a headache for anyone, those in the hospitality industry are especially susceptible. It should be clear that this isn’t because your establishment is “dirty” or not well-maintained; it happens because so many guests come and go every day, parking luggage on beds and furniture, putting clothes in closets and bureaus, and using the linens.

Bed Bug Treatment Techniques from the Experts If you haven’t experienced any bed bug horror stories, then you most likely have heard a few. Although the bed bug epidemic of 2010 might be over, according to Brooklyn Magazine, they are still around and ready to attack. Bed bugs can result in serious issues, from lawsuits to closing up shop. Here are the insider techniques of an expert pest technician, which you can use to keep your business–and bed bugs–under control.

14 Bed Bug Tips – Do’s and Don’ts Dealing with bed bugs is not easy. Hopefully you read our last post on developing a bed bug treatment plan. Either way, here are a few bed bug tips to keep in mind if you encounter any infestations. Feel free to use these to supplement your bed bug action plan. DON’Ts Do not overreact and vacate the premises—unless the bedbugs are taking over your entire building.

Hotel Bed Bug Treatment Plan You wake up on a normal day. The sun is out and you are feeling great, as if nothing can bring you down. You head to the hotel you manage and with a smile you greet your guests and staff as you walk through the lobby. You enter your office when a few moments later your phone rings. You answer and it’s the front desk. The last thing you ever want to hear, which you could not have even fathomed is:

Standard Pest has ZappBug Heat Chambers available for your use. You can either have us bring it to your location or bring an item to us. Heat chambers kill bedbugs in all stages including eggs without the use of pesticides. Once the heat inside the chamber reaches a lethal level all stages of bedbugs are eliminated. This is great for anyone who is traveling and wants to treat a suitcase before bringing it home or a way to treat sensitive items.

Standard Pest Management quoted in AM New York Article Full article here Exterminators agreed that the bedbug education campaign has affected how the pest management industry deals with the pests. Gil Bloom, president of Standard Pest Management in Queens and a former bedbug task force member, said clients are calling for his company’s services earlier than before, when there was a stigma about finding bedbugs. “We’re not seeing a decline in volume of calls, but we’re seeing a decrease in the severity of what we need to respond to,” Bloom said.

Bed Bug Heat Treatment Standard Pest Management performs a specialized bedbug treatment called thermal heat treatments, the process of killing bedbugs using high temperatures. This is an attractive approach for eliminating bedbugs as it is chemical free, we can heat an entire structure in one treatment and you can be bedbug free by bedtime! Bedbugs and their eggs will die immediately at temperatures above 122ºF. We monitor the heat wirelessly on a laptop & inspect with thermal imaging technology to ensure temperatures reach lethal levels and stay there for the correct period of time to eliminate the customers bedbug infestation.

Standard Pest now offers Heat Chamber services at our main office in Long Island City. Due to customers inquiries if we could heat certain items we felt the need to offer this service. We now have the capabilities to heat certain items in our chamber. This is perfect for a piece of furniture or an item of concern, or something a scent detection K9 has alerted to. Once in the chamber the item will be brought to a lethal temperature and kept there.

Freshman’s Guide To Avoiding Bedbugs Bedbugs are back! Much to the chagrin of Americans from the city to the plain, these cryptic biting insects have witnessed a steady resurgence over the past decade. Causing near hysteria from homes and hotels to hospitals and public transportation, the hard-to-find, difficult to treat, hard-biting bed bug has a reputation as a nuisance that is truly well earned. One area where concerns have recently been on the rise is the college campus, where the climate is ripe for the proliferation of these blood-sucking bugs.

Rest unassured: In the city that never sleeps, bed bugs are still a major cause of insomnia for thousands of New Yorkers trapped in infested apartments and buildings. Whether you’re renting or buying, here’s how to minimize the chance that bloodsucking freeloaders will greet you at your new front door.

The Verifi™ bed bug detector offers homeowners and property managers huge new advantages over traditional detection methods. Not only is Verifi a more affordable, more discreet way to determine if a bed bug infestation is present, it works around the clock to help give you continuous peace of mind. Featuring replaceable attractants, the Verifi bed bug detector is the first device to provide ongoing detection for up to 90 days at a time.