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Bed Bug Dogs
Meet Sara and Rex, both are certified Bed Bug
Dogs, trained by the Florida Canine Academy. 
Each has over 800 hours of training to detect bed
bugs in commercial and residential buildings. 
Both were originally rescued from a shelter in
South Florida and is now helping Action Termite
and Pest Control protect the environment of our
customers.
You've heard of Bomb dogs? Drug dogs? Arson dogs?
Now, Man's Best Friend is the latest weapon in
the war on bedbugs. Traditional bedbug detection
methods can be very time consuming and labor
intensive. Certified Bed Bug Dogs generate
quicker and more accurate results. ?The bedbug
canine can search the average hotel room in less
than two minutes.
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Bed Bug Dogs
Take a closer look at the Bedbug Dog...

• From a single drop of urine, the sniffing dog
  learns the marking animals sex, diet, health,
  emotional state, and even whether its dominant
  or submissive, friend or foe.
• Tracking dogs follow a biochemical trail of dead
  skin cells, sweat, odor molecules, and gasses.

• For dogs, a scent article is like a
  three-dimensional odor image - much more
  detailed than a photograph is for a person.
• Dogs can track a scent through snow, air, mud,
  water, and even ash.

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Bed Bug Dogs

• According to a report prepared by the Institute
  for Biological Detection Systems (IBDS) of Auburn
  University (Auburn, AL), dogs have the following
  capabilities
• Sensitivity Documented limits of olfactory
  detection for the dog range from tens of parts
  per billion to 500 parts per trillion.
• Discrimination Dogs are extremely good at
  discriminating a target vapor from non-target
  vapors that are also present, even at relatively
  high concentrations of non-target odors.
• Odor Signatures When being trained to detect a
  substance, dogs learn to alert to one or two of
  its most abundant vapor compounds.
• Multiple Odor Discriminations Dogs can easily
  learn as many as ten odor discriminations.

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What are Bed Bugs?

• The common bedbug (Cimex lectularius) is the best
  adapted to human environments.
• It is found in temperate climates throughout the
  world and has been known since ancient times.

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Bed Bugs

• Adult bedbugs are reddish brown, flattened, oval,
  and wingless, with microscopic hairs that give
  them a banded appearance.
• A common misconception is that they are not
  visible to the naked eye, but adults grow to 4 to
  5 mm (one-eighth to three-sixteenths of an inch)
  in length and do not move quickly enough to
  escape the notice of an attentive observer.
• Newly hatched nymphs are translucent and lighter
  in color and continue to become browner and molt
  as they reach maturity. When it comes to size,
  they are often compared to lentils or apple seeds.

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Bed Bugs Biology

• Traumatic Sexual Reproduction (TSR) the female
  has no natural opening for reproducing.
• The male has to tear open the abdomen of the
  female in order to penetrate and inseminate the
  female. The female does not like the experience
  and leaves the area where the mating took place.
  She is impregnated and will start to lay eggs
  shortly.
• Female bedbugs can lay up to five eggs in a day
  and 500 during a lifetime.
• The eggs are visible to the naked eye measuring 1
  mm in length (approx. 2 grains of salt) and are a
  milky-white tone in color.
• The eggs hatch in one to two weeks. The
  hatchlings begin feeding immediately.

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Bed Bug Biology

• Bed Bug nymphs pass through five molting stages
  before they reach maturity.
• They must feed once during each of these stages.
• At room temperature, it takes about 5 weeks for a
  bedbug to pass from hatching, through the stages,
  to maturity.
• They become reproductively active only at
  maturity.
• There may be 3 or more generations a year

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The Bed Bug Life Cycle
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Feeding Habits

• Bedbugs are generally active only at night, with
  a peak attack period about an hour before dawn.
• Given the opportunity, they may attempt to feed
  at other times of day.
• Attracted by warmth and the presence of carbon
  dioxide, the bug pierces the skin of its host
  with two hollow tubes.
• With one tube it injects its saliva, which
  contains anticoagulants and anesthetics, while
  with the other it withdraws the blood of its
  host.

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Feeding Habits

• After feeding for about five minutes, the bug
  returns to its hiding place.
• The bites cannot usually be felt until some
  minutes, hours, or days later, as a
  dermatological reaction to the injected agents.
• Some people dont have any reaction at all to the
  bites and dont even realize they have bed bugs
  until the population grows
• Although bedbugs can live for up to 18 months
  without feeding, they typically seek blood every
  five to ten days.

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How Bed Bugs Travel

• They can travel up to 100 feet for feeding,
  although they prefer to be 10 to 20 feet from
  their host.
• Consider that a very small bedroom is 10 x10
  feet. In apartment buildings, condominiums, and
  nursing homes, 100 feet gives them a lot of range
  which they usually take advantage of by moving
  both outward horizontally and upward to levels
  above by way of the wall voids.
• In a single family home with at least one person,
  the bedbug would remain very close to their human
  food source by living in a mattress, box spring,
  headboard, bed frame, nightstand, etc.
• If the population increases, the pressure for
  more food moves them out further and further into
  the home. This is when the possibility of
  hitchhiking insects or their eggs increases, and
  people may spread the infestation outside of
  their dwelling.

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Bed Bugs Movement

• When you consider the high rate of reproduction
  and the distance that bedbugs can travel, an
  extreme infestation of a single room, apartment,
  home, or condo can create a domino effect.
• As the bedbug population grows, the pressure for
  more food can send insects scurrying through the
  wall voids or down the hallway.
• Before long, the infestation in one apartment can
  move to another, spread to a whole floor, then
  move between floors.

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Bed Bugs Movement

• Most of the time, there are no solid barriers
  between apartments or condos, so plumbing or
  electrical lines provides direct access to the
  next unit and conditions they favor,
• Once in the wall void, their search is aided by
  carbon dioxide exhaled by the occupants in an
  adjoining living area.
• The higher the occupancy, the more attractive the
  new space.

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How they Spread
4th floor 401 403 405 407 409 411 413 415 417
3rd floor 301 303 305 307 309 311 313 315 317
2nd floor 201 203 205 207 209 211 213 215 217
1st floor 101 103 105 107 109 111 113 115 117

• Apartments and condominiums can present the
  worst-case scenario for bedbugs. In multi-family
  dwellings, shared common areas (hallways and
  laundry), frequent high occupancy for each unit,
  and shared wall voids provide ample opportunities
  for spreading bedbugs very quickly.
• One apartment or hotel room with a moderate to
  severe infestation can infest whole floors and
  multiple levels over a period of months.
• From the point of origin, bedbugs usually spread
  out in a pyramid shape.
• With 109 being the start apartment the
  infestation quickly moves horizontally and
  vertically from the point of origin. This can
  take weeks or months depending on how promptly it
  is reported and how intense the infestation is.

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How Bed Bugs Find you.

• Bedbugs are attracted to the carbon dioxide that
  you exhale.
• Bedbugs come out for feeding when they detect the
  presence of carbon dioxide, which humans produce
  upon exhaling.
• Since they prefer darkness, this one sensory
  asset is their guide to where you are. It
  dictates where they will live, which is usually
  going to be no more than 10 or 20 feet from where
  you sleep.
• Carbon Dioxide also guides their movement if they
  have to find other food sources.

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Bed Bug Habits

• Bedbugs are often erroneously associated with
  filth.
• They are attracted by exhaled carbon dioxide, not
  by dirt, and they feed on blood, not waste.
• In short, the cleanliness of their environments
  has no effect on bedbugs. Their numbers may be
  reduced temporarily by vacuuming, but will
  recover and require vacuuming again, and again.

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Bedbugs have a food preference.

• Humans, this preference is so strong that they
  are more likely to travel a good distance to seek
  humans than feed on a pet that is easily
  accessible.
• Women and children are generally more sensitive
  to bites, although men do get bitten.
• Two people can even sleep in the same bed, and
  one person will be bitten while the other is not
  affected.
• Though it is more likely that both are being
  bitten, but one is more sensitive to the allergen
  in the bedbugs saliva than the other person.

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Bed Bug Feeding

• Bed bugs feed for about five minutes and
  immediately return to their hiding place.
• Should feeding be interrupted then multiple
  feedings can occur during the night.
• It then crawls into hiding, remaining there for
  several days to digest its meal. When hunger
  returns, the bug emerges from hiding and seeks
  another blood meal.

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Where they hide.

• Heavily used hiding places are evident by black
  or brown spots of dried blood excrement on the
  surfaces where the bugs rest.
• Eggs, egg shells, and cast skins may be found
  near these places.
• Usually there is an offensive odor where bed bugs
  are numerous.
• In early infestations the bed bugs are found only
  about the tufts, seams, and folds of mattresses
  and daybed covers later they spread to cracks
  and crevices near the bed area.
• If allowed to multiply, they establish themselves
  behind baseboards, window and door casings,
  pictures, and moldings, and in furniture,
  loosened wallpaper, and cracks in plaster and
  partitions.

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Treatment Procedures

• On the first treatment Action will steam and
  treat the entire interior of the residence paying
  special attention to the areas that the canine
  team alerted to.
• The treatment consists of a full crack and
  crevice treatment to the entire home. In the
  rooms that the canine team alerted,
• Action will treat the insides, underneath and
  exterior of all furniture and mattresses that are
  in the rooms.

• Any decorations that are on the walls will have
  to be treated. We will remove all outlet covers
  in the alerted rooms and dust the wall voids.
• We will then mist the interior and all occupants
  must be out for 3 hours after treatment.

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Treatment Procedures Cont.

• After the steaming and treatment process all
  mattresses must be covered with approved mattress
  covers that will stop bed bugs from exiting or
  entering the mattress.
• These covers can be purchased from Action at an
  additional fee. The cost depends on the size and
  quantity of the mattress and box spring.

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Treatment Procedures Cont.

• On the final treatment Action will perform a
  sweep to the structure.
• Whether the dogs alert or not to areas that were
  hit on the first sweep Action performs a final
  treatment to all those areas and any additional
  areas alerted on the final sweep.
• There is a 60 day warranty after the final
  Treatment

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