1st Stryke is a locally owned business that provides everything from insect control, including the extermination of bedbugs cockroaches, and termites.
We also offer the control of rodents and small animals.
We are a friendly, family owned, environmentally aware company trained and experienced in handling a wide variety of pest management issues.
Bed Bug Extermination
Bed bugs are hitchhiker insects. They are transported in luggage, purses, shoes, clothing, just about anything including yourself. The female (has a more rounder thorax) will feed on human blood until adult and start to lay eggs. With optimal temperatures and feeding conditions from egg to adult could be from 3 weeks to 5 weeks. Once she has deposited her eggs it can take up to 10 to 20 days to hatch. Bed bugs are parasites and need human blood to complete each stage of its life cycle. They can live up to 1 year with out feeding. Bed bugs can detected the presence of blood through the exhaling of carbon dioxide through your respirations. This would give a reason why most bites occur in an early infestation near the head, neck, back and arms. As the population grows bites can extend downwards. Not everyone will show signs of a bed bug infestation. In many of our situations a husband and wife sleeping in the same room with have mixed results to the bites of a bed bug. This is due to the the saliva with anticoagulant that is injected in the skin at each feeding site, reactions are subjective, the reaction can be from no reaction to extreme allergic reaction that results in a trip to the hospital.
Bed Bug Detection: Bites to the upper and lower body.
Typical bites are raised, found on the upper body, multiple bites in a row, welted, and typically not pointed in the center as seen with a spider or mosquito bite. Bites on the lower part of the body can be a sign of other insects to include fleas, and spiders.
