SCARC Bed Bug Training Education, Treatment and Prevention - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

 SCARC Bed Bug Training Education, Treatment and Prevention

History of Bed Bugs • Bed bugs and mankind – Cavemen and bat bugs • Humans moved out of caves and started agricultural civilization • Early 1900’s through 1945 • Re-introduction of bed bugs to the US • Global economy

Allergic reaction?????

We are not alone • This is the first of its kind for SCARC. • Bed bugs have become an epidemic in the USA and around the world. In 2013“Nearly half the cities in the US show a rise in bed bug treatments. #1 is Chicago with NY coming in 17 th , Syracuse #14. • There are many other ARCs and agencies in NJ that are dealing with this issue or have dealt with it in the past.

Where did we get bed bugs? • Traveling and staying in • Movie Theatres a hotel • College dormitory • Clothing stores • Sleep away camp • Offices • Buying used or new furniture • Doctor’s offices • Nursing Homes

Biology of Bed Bugs Lifecycle • Five developmental • Shedding their skin is stages called molting • Feed exclusively on • Nymphs need to feed to blood molt successfully • Need a blood meal to • Adult males & females develop into next life need a meal to stage reproduce • All insects have an exoskeleton

Biology: Lifecycle • Egg to adult in 37 days • If bed bugs are starved under optimal of food they most likely conditions will die from dehydration. • Adults lifespan can be • Adults can go 12 up to 1 year or more depending on regular months or more access to food without food but will likely die after that.

Biology: Feeding Behavior • Secretive lifestyle • Breakfast, lunch and dinner bite pattern • Active at night between • Feed 5-10 minutes 12:00am to 5:00am • Can travel yards to feed • Return to aggregate sites hiding in cracks & • Attracted to CO2 and crevices body heat • Begin to digest & • Like to aggregate near excrete fecal matter where we sleep • Feed every 3-7 days – Box spring, headboards, bedframes, nightstands

How big are these little critters?

A better look!

Biology: Egg production • Females lay between 1- • Female can lay on 7 eggs per day average 150 eggs during her lifetime • Can produce 5-20 eggs from a single blood meal • Male to female ratio: – 1:1

Important to know? • Bed bugs are human parasites. • Bed bugs are not necessarily attracted to unsanitary conditions. • Bed bugs do not jump or fly, they crawl. They are known as excellent “Hitchhikers”. They love to travel in or on bags! • Bed bugs do not transmit disease. Research is ongoing. • Bites go unnoticed while they are feeding. • Bed bugs like stillness.

Where do they aggregate? • Tufts, seams, button on mattresses • Inside and under box springs • Bed frames and covers • Couches and chairs • Window and door moldings • Behind wall paper and pictures • Cracks in hardwood flooring • Under carpet along walls • Wall voids behind switch plates and outlets • Luggage, backpacks, clothing

Visual Inspection • Seams of the mattress • Look for fecal matter • Box spring • Bed bugs • Bed frame • Shell casings from molted bed bugs • Headboard • A good flashlight helps!! • Encasements • If there is a suspicion, • Interceptors contact the Facilities Department, your Director or AOC.

Canine Inspection “Pheromone Sniffers” Dana Pest Control Specialists Lucy Walter

Treatment Options • Pest Control Treatments- Chemical • Heat Treatment combined with pest control products

Pest Control-Chemical Treatment Process • Treat mattress and box • All steps mentioned are springs repeated three times over a period of a month to • Treat bedframes break the bed bugs • Treat night stands lifecycle. • Treat all emptied dressers – 1 st Treatment • Treat all emptied closets – 2 nd is one week later • Treat all baseboards – 3 rd is about two weeks • Treat light and outlet later boxes • Treat couches

Bed Bug Chemical Treatment Preparation • Empty all bedroom dressers, night stands, closets and place all bedding, clothing, curtains, linens, stuffed toys (from bedrooms) in a dryer on high heat to kill the bugs and eggs for at least 45 minutes. • After drying the items, put them in new large plastic bags and live out of the bags for 30 days. Dirty laundry should be bagged separately and when cleaned placed in new clean plastic bags.

More prepping! • Prior to each treatment, VACUUM mattress(es), box springs, bed frames, night stands, dressers, closets, baseboards, picture frames. Discard or empty vacuum contents outside. Vacuuming should be a daily activity with extreme vacuuming at least once per week. • 1 st treatment: remove all light and outlet switch-plates in bedrooms. (Pest control technician or SCARC maintenance will do this) • Must not return to location for at least 4 hours after treatment. • Following the last treatment mattress and box spring encasements go on. • Sheets must be changed at least once per week!

Heat Treatment • A company will heat up • Most time companies an entire house to a will use the heat sustained temperature treatment in of 140 degrees. combination with some sort of residual (liquid) • The temperatures are application. monitoring via heat sensors.

Bed Bug Oven

Current Plan • Locate the bed bugs – Canine Inspections (Lucy and Walter) – Inspections will occur on a quarterly basis – Once located, a treatment plan will be put into action

Treatment Plans • A strategy will be determined by the type of situation, location or possibly other conditions: – Options: • Relocation until treatment can be scheduled and home/program can be prepared for treatment, return after 1 st treatment, or • Treat in place without a relocation • Plan will be decided in consultation with our Pest Control company regarding the best strategy to use.

Vehicles • Vehicles can be a aggregate for bed bugs, but unlikely. To date we have not had an alert on any vehicle. • Why? • No food source • Not comfortable for them • “May hitch a ride on someone”

Basic Tools for staff to use • Tyvek coveralls and Protective footwear for use during initial preparation for chemical treatment. • Rubber gloves (standard for universal precautions) • Rubbing Alcohol in spray bottles (kills bugs, eggs on contact) • Large supply of plastic bags (for use to dispose of bug invested items and to use during 30 day period.

Bed Bug Inhibitors • Mattress encasements • Interceptors • Chemically treated (RV) strips for bags of items that you cannot launder.(available only through an extermination company)

Some suggested repellents • Lavender scented items – Dryer sheets with lavender – Linen spray with lavender – Rubbing Alcohol (70 or 91%) in spray bottles (a mixture of lavender can be used) – OTC insecticides such as, OFF, Deep Woods. – Grapefruit seed extract – Garlic!! They don’t like garlic in the skin..

Treatment Challenges • Cluttered conditions • Intricate bed frames, platform beds • Stuffed Toys!! • Poor cooperation/follow thru • Reintroduction of bed bugs

Where might we be picking them up from??? • Shopping malls • Big-box stores • Bowling alleys • Movie theaters • Other peoples’ homes • Libraries • Apartment buildings • Buses/trains/taxis • Hotels • Anywhere!!! They are now firmly entrenched in the Northeast US

Preventative Measures to lessen the spread • Hot clothes dryers, on for at least 45 minutes will kill them • Rubbing alcohol will kill them on contact with a 15 minute residual effect. Make sure you have plenty of rubbing alcohol spray, and spray beds routinely as you change the sheets each week. • Bring as few items into the environment as possible; leaving coats, purses and other personal items in your car. • Avoid sitting or placing items on beds, couches or upholstered chairs. • Be aware by doing self-checks inspecting clothing, shoes, purses, backpacks, etc. • Ensure that all rooms are clutter-free. • Utilize the bedbug interceptors on all beds, and check them weekly. Make sure they have a small amount of talcum powder in them. • Ensure all beds have encasements on the mattresses. • Be constantly vigilant!!!

The end….for now???

Bed Bugs Quiz Directions  Go to the ClassMarker website: www.classmarker.com  At the top of the page (in the yellow boxes), enter your username and password (scarctest) .  Go to the “Bed Bugs” quiz and click on “Start Test.”  Your results will be automatically sent to Jackie once completed.