Discover how bed bug heat treatments reduce pesticide use, deliver fast results, and what that means for eco-conscious pest control.
Heat treatments are often overlooked when thinking about green solutions, but they play an important role in the pest control industry’s shift toward more environmentally friendly practices. While many people may not associate pest control with being green, the industry has steadily become more sustainable over the years—driven by both education and increased demand for eco-friendly options. So, are heat treatments truly green? The answer is both yes and no. Let’s take a closer look.
In a home, it used to be flea treatments were one of the most intrusive treatments because they used three different materials, two insecticides and one insect growth regulator, to solve the problem and often times, depending on products chosen, the homeowner would need to leave for a few hours. People, rightly so, asked lots of questions. They wanted the fleas gone, but we needed to treat many more surfaces than when we treat for things such as spiders or ants. Yet, interestingly enough, they didn’t have a problem feeding their pet an oral flea treatment that has one of the same active ingredients we use at 100 times the dosage without questioning it.
Are Heat Treatments for Bed Bugs Truly Green? Balancing Efficiency with Environmental Impact
I say all this because treatments for bed bugs are similar, to an extent, as that for fleas. Except that now we often have to treat the mattress and/or box spring, which historically was not a site we could treat with most products.
So, given the intensive nature of bed bug treatments, and how one
treatment usually doesn’t do it, if one could use heat and lessen
or eliminate the need for pesticides, wouldn’t that be considered
green? This is the yes part.
The no part could be that to generate the heat we need, we are using a lot of energy, in the form of electricity, perhaps from diesel fuel or perhaps propane.
Since Adam’s offers heat treatments for bed bugs, are we being green?
I’m not 100% positive, and would like some feedback; But, I do know
this – we offer heat treatments in part to lessen the pesticides
needed, but more so to solve the problem quickly – within hours –
which pesticides don’t do, offering our customers the fastest
relief available.
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Eco-Friendly Bed Bug Solutions
Heat treatments are 100% chemical-free and environmentally safe. Learn why Adams Pest Control recommends heat as a green choice for bed bug removal.
