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With Halloween right around the corner, the focus is on goblins and other scary creatures that can haunt you as they go about in search of victims in the dark hours of the night. While it can be fun to watch scary movies or to dress up in ghoulish costumes…

The mere thought of having bed bugs in your home or place of business is enough to send property owners into a panic. Unfortunately, the odds of coming into contact with these pests is extremely high. Bed bugs spread easily and are infesting at alarming rates in the Northwest and across…

Bed bugs are notoriously difficult to get rid of and easy to track into your home. You can get them from other folks at work or even on public transit. It says nothing about the condition that you keep your house in or your relative level of sanitation. Bed bugs…

You spend an average of ⅓ of your life sleeping. The time of day where your body recharges, repairs and regenerates. Sleep is essential to life and when your sleep is affected negatively, it greatly impacts your health. Finding out you have bed bugs is enough to ruin your sleep…

You wake up in the morning itchy and notice a rash on your skin. That’s odd, it wasn’t there the night before. You are puzzled what it might be. But each morning, you wake and notice the “rash” is worse. It isn’t long before you or your doctor suspect the…

All throughout the Northwest, bed bugs are on the rise. They are spreading throughout big cities and small towns. It is getting more and more difficult to prevent infestations from occurring. Bed bugs have been found in hotels, motels, hospitals, schools, homes, offices, barracks, restaurants, movie theaters, and college dorm…

You have grown up hearing the phrase, “Sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite!” This old English phrase may not have had meaning up until now. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Europe was riddled with bed bugs and though people did what they could, most just accepted these…

With bed bug infestations on the rise, more and more people are finding bed bug bites. Did you know that bed bugs have been found in office buildings, schools, hospitals, restaurants, movie theaters, hotels, motels, and even public transportation? Whenever you leave your home, you run the risk of bringing…