Will Bed Bugs Just Go Away on Their Own in My Spring Hill Home?

You found evidence of bed bugs or you strongly suspect them and part of you is hoping that if you just wait long enough they will disappear on their own. Maybe the weather will get too hot. Maybe they will run out of food if you sleep somewhere else for a while. Maybe they will just move on.

They will not. Here is why.

Bed Bugs Have No Reason to Leave

A bed bug that has found a warm sleeping host and a dark undisturbed place to hide has everything it needs to survive indefinitely. Your mattress, your box spring, your bed frame and the wall voids behind your headboard provide exactly the conditions bed bugs are looking for. There is no temperature extreme in a Spring Hill home that eliminates them on its own. Florida homes do not get cold enough in winter to kill them and the heat of summer does not reach the temperatures inside walls and mattresses that are required to eliminate them.

Bed bugs can survive for months without feeding. If you start sleeping in a different room thinking you are starving them out you are giving them time to wait you out while simultaneously spreading the infestation to a second room as they follow their food source which is you.

What the Colony Is Doing While You Wait

Every week you wait the infestation gets larger and more established. A female bed bug lays between one and five eggs per day. In the warm temperatures of a Spring Hill home those eggs hatch in about a week to ten days. The nymphs that hatch feed immediately and reach reproductive maturity in four to six weeks. The small infestation you have right now is producing the next generation continuously without stopping.

An infestation caught early when the colony is small and concentrated in one area of the bedroom is a very different treatment situation from one that has been left alone for three or four months and has spread into the walls, into adjacent rooms and throughout the furniture in the room. Both can be eliminated with professional treatment but the time, cost and disruption involved scale directly with how long the infestation has been allowed to grow.

Why Home Remedies Do Not Work Either

Baking soda on the mattress does nothing. Essential oils do nothing. Diatomaceous earth applied to visible surfaces kills some insects that walk through it but does not reach the bed bugs hiding in wall voids, inside the box spring and deep in the mattress seams where they actually live. Cranking up the heat in your house does not get hot enough in the areas where bed bugs hide to eliminate them. Turning off the heat in winter does not get cold enough for long enough to kill them either.

Store bought sprays kill the ones they contact directly and scatter the rest deeper into hiding spots that are harder to treat. Foggers do not penetrate the surfaces where bed bugs actually live and are essentially useless against them. None of these approaches address the eggs which hatch after the treatment and replenish the population.

The Only Thing That Actually Eliminates Bed Bugs

Professional treatment works because it reaches the places bed bugs actually live. Heat treatment raises the temperature of the entire room to levels lethal to bed bugs at every life stage including eggs regardless of where they are hiding. Chemical treatment uses professional grade products applied directly to the nesting areas, the mattress seams, the box spring interior, the bed frame joints, the baseboards and the wall voids where bed bugs spend their time.

Both methods require professional application to be effective and both require a follow up inspection to confirm the population has been fully eliminated rather than just knocked back temporarily.

Waiting to see if bed bugs go away on their own costs you time and money. Every week you wait the colony grows and the treatment becomes more involved. Call us today. Our professional bed bug treatment starts with a thorough inspection so you know exactly what you are dealing with before anything else happens.