Bed Bug Exterminator

If you suspect your home may be infested with bed bugs, let Jenkins Pest Control's professional exterminators come out and inspect your home for these blood-sucking insects. Identifying bed bug bites can be very difficult, so don't take a chance. Bed bugs are on the rise in the United States and they have already been reported in the San Antonio area. Jenkins Pest Control has been serving San Antonio since 1987 — over 35 years — and our professional exterminators can identify and rid your home of bed bugs.

Bed bugs are parasitic arthropods from the family Cimicidae. They are typically less than 1 cm in length and reddish-brown in color. Bedbugs can be found in furniture, floorboards, peeling paint, or other small spaces, most commonly in areas of clutter. They come out at night in search of prey upon which to feed, with peak feeding times just before dawn. Bedbugs are typically attracted to body heat, carbon dioxide, vibration, sweat, and odor. Human infestation with bedbugs, lice, and mites are common causes of dermatological symptoms.

Although these organisms thrive in conditions of overcrowding and decreased sanitation, Americans of all socioeconomic backgrounds may be at risk of a bed bug infestation.

Bed bugs are nocturnal insects that feed mostly at night when their hosts are asleep. In the day, they hide in cracks and crevices of walls, bed frames, bookshelves — basically anywhere that gives them easy access to humans — although they are fast-moving insects that are able to travel far distances.

Bed bugs bite their hosts by using their sharp beak to pierce the skin and inject their saliva. Like mosquitoes, their saliva contains an anticoagulant (to prevent coagulation of the blood) as they suck, and also acts as an anesthetic agent to prevent the victim from feeling the bite. Therefore, while sleeping, humans rarely feel any sensation of being bitten, but will only realize it the day after.

Even though bed bugs are really bothersome and considered a nuisance, bed bug bites are fairly harmless and not known to spread diseases. Nonetheless, on very rare occasions an allergic reaction to the bites has caused nausea, sickness and even shock. Some people may also be affected psychologically with an inability to sleep.