Now you know where to find bed bugs: 2021 Edition
by Tommy Underhill, GreenTech Heat
June 9, 2021
Every year, a major pest control company publishes a list of the top US cities for bed bugs. While it’s been out for a while, I finally completed my New Year’s resolution and cleaned off the top two inches of my desk... and found the press release.
Many sources across the internet will inform you (and those of us at Armor & Shield know first-hand!) that treating for bed bugs can be expensive and traditional chemical treatments can require several weeks or more to knock out an active infestation. Bed bugs are expert hitchhikers, and easily move from place to place. The National Pest Management Association lists the top three places bed bug exterminators find bedbugs are in single-family homes, apartments, and hotels. Now that the economy is open again, You don’t need to live in one of these cities to have a potential bed bug problem... the person next to you could have traveled through one and brought them to visit you!
The 2021 list is based on treatment data from the metro areas where this nationwide pest control company performed the most bed bug treatments from December 1, 2019 – November 30, 2020. The ranking includes both residential and commercial treatments.
- Chicago, IL (+2)
- Baltimore, MD
- Washington, DC (-2)
- Detroit, MI (+3)
- Columbus, OH
- Cleveland, OH (+5)
- Indianapolis, IN (+2)
- Cincinnati, OH
- Los Angeles, CA (-5)
- Grand Rapids, MI (+8)
- Charlotte, NC (+9)
- New York, NY (-6)
- Atlanta, GA (-3)
- Philadelphia, PA (-2)
- Champaign, IL (+1)
- Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX (+1)
- Raleigh, N.C. (-3)
- Charleston, WV (+8)
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Denver, CO (+7)
- Flint, MI (+10)
- San Francisco, CA (-9)
- Greenville, SC (-1)
- Norfolk, VA (-9)
- St. Louis, MO (+3)
- Richmond, VA (-5)
- Toledo, OH (+23)
- Dayton, OH (+21)
- Buffalo, NY (-5)
- Omaha, NE (+5)
- Nashville, TN (-2)
- Milwaukee, WI (+1)
- Ft. Wayne, IN (+13)
- Greensboro, NC (-9)
- Cedar Rapids, IA (+6)
- Knoxville, TN (-13)
- Houston, TX (+1)
- Davenport, IA (-1)
- Tampa, FL (-5)
- Youngstown, OH (new to list)
- South Bend, IN (new to list)
- Phoenix, AZ (+3)
- Lexington, KY (new to list)
- Seattle, WA (-1)
- Orlando, FL (-9)
- Louisville, KY (new to list)
- Miami, FL (-15)
- Lansing, MI (-18)
- Peoria, IL (new to list)
- Minneapolis, MN (new to list)
Congratulations to cities that moved down the list. For everyone in new cities and those that moved up the list (and especially folks in the greater Oklahoma City area, Armor & Shield has the best one-day bed bug solution.
Traditional bed bug exterminator treatments can be expensive and time consuming
According to the 2018 “Bugs without Borders Survey” by the National Pest Management Association (NPMA), 97% of pest professional have treated bed bugs in the prior year— the majority of them report that overall bed bug service work and the prevalence of these pests are increasing. The top three places for finding bed bugs are single-family homes (91%), apartments/condominiums (89%) and hotels/motels (68%). Homeguide.com reports the average cost of a bed bug treatment for a home is between $1,000 and $2,200. Industry surveys show hotels spend an average of almost $6,400 per bed bug incident. Armor & Shield does bed bug heat treatments right, wiping out your entire infestation in just 1 day.
Traditional bed bug treatments can take weeks and can destroy your reputation in the interim— it makes no difference if the infestation is in your home, your restaurant, your movie theater, or your hotel! Heat is the only single-treatment protocol effective for all life stages of bed bugs and other insects. Join the thousands of hospitality managers, property management companies, and homeowners who have decided that having Armor & Shield treat their property with heat is their most effective and economical method of bed bug elimination available. One treatment kills bed bugs and their eggs.
Heat will make your home or business a better place by killing bed bugs and other insects, dust mites, bacteria and other microbes. Trust Armor & Shield to kill all your insect and microbial pests. We do it right and do it safely the first time— in a single one-day treatment that even prevents an immediate reinfestation by killing all the eggs. Call us at 405-698-6090 safely kill all your bed bugs with heat today.
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