How to Detect Bed Bugs

• Telltale signs are: dots or specks on the headboard, bedframe, mattress and bed spread. These dots are in fact bed bugs feces.

  
• Spots can also be found in other locations where bed bugs can be found, such as edges of carpets, wooden surfaces, upholstered furniture and within electric outlets

• Rusty or reddish blood smears on bed sheets or mattresses from crushing an engorged bed bug.


• Cast bed bug skins may be found on mattress
• Bed bugs also have a distinctive odor, like that rotton coconuts. Severe infestations can also cause an offensive odor from the oily liquid the bugs emit.
• Pest control companies sometimes use dogs to sniff out bed bugs and find out where they are hiding