McAllen Green Bed Bug Extermination

Complete Bed Bug Treatment for McAllen Homes

Finding bed bugs is one of those things that makes your skin crawl just thinking about it. And unfortunately, McAllen Green isn’t immune—bed bugs show up in hotels, apartments, homes, and even schools. They don’t care if your house is clean or dirty. They just want blood, and they’re incredibly good at hiding until they get it.

Colco Pest and Weed Control handles bed bug infestations with proven treatment methods that actually eliminate them. This isn’t a DIY situation—bed bugs require professional-grade products and treatment protocols to get rid of completely.

Think you have bed bugs? Call us at 956-777-6328 for an inspection. The sooner we treat, the easier (and cheaper) it is to eliminate them.

How Bed Bugs Get Into McAllen Green Homes

Here’s the thing—bed bugs don’t just appear out of nowhere. They hitchhike:

Travel: You stay at a hotel, your luggage sits on the bed or floor, bed bugs crawl in. You bring your suitcase home and unpack in your bedroom. Boom—you’ve got bed bugs. South Padre Island, Mexico trips, business travel—it happens.

Used Furniture: Someone finds a couch or mattress on the curb and brings it home. If that furniture has bed bugs, you just introduced an infestation into your house.

Visitors: Friends or family staying at your house can bring bed bugs in their luggage or clothing if they’re dealing with an infestation at their place.

Multi-Family Housing: Apartments, condos, townhomes—bed bugs travel through wall voids, electrical outlets, and plumbing chases. If your neighbor has them, you might get them too.

Laundromats: Bed bugs can hide in the seams of laundry baskets or in the machines themselves. If you use shared laundry facilities, there’s a small risk.

Schools and Daycares: Kids’ backpacks sit on the floor or in cubbies. Bed bugs from an infested home can crawl into backpacks and get carried to school, then potentially into other kids’ homes.

Signs of Bed Bugs

Bites: Small, red, itchy welts usually in a line or cluster. Often on arms, shoulders, neck, and legs—areas exposed while sleeping. Not everyone reacts to bed bug bites, so lack of bites doesn’t mean you don’t have them.

Blood Spots on Sheets: Small rust-colored or dark spots on sheets, pillowcases, or mattresses. These are from crushed bed bugs or blood from their feeding.

Live Bugs: Adult bed bugs are about 1/4 inch long, flat, oval-shaped, and reddish-brown (darker after feeding). They hide in mattress seams, box springs, bed frames, and furniture crevices.

Shed Skins: Bed bugs molt as they grow. You’ll find translucent, shell-like skins near their hiding spots.

Fecal Spots: Tiny black dots (digested blood) on mattresses, sheets, furniture, or walls near the bed. These don’t smear when dry.

Musty Odor: Heavy infestations produce a sweet, musty smell from the bed bugs’ scent glands.

Eggs: Tiny (1mm), white, and sticky. Found in clusters in hiding spots—mattress seams, furniture joints, behind baseboards.

Why Bed Bugs Are Hard to Eliminate

They Hide Incredibly Well: Bed bugs are flat and can squeeze into cracks thinner than a credit card. They hide in mattress seams, box springs, bed frames, furniture, behind baseboards, in electrical outlets, behind picture frames—anywhere dark and protected.

They Can Live Without Feeding: Bed bugs can survive 4-6 months without a blood meal in cool conditions. Even if you leave your house empty, they’ll just wait.

Eggs Are Resistant: Most pesticides don’t kill bed bug eggs. That’s why treatment requires follow-up applications—to kill newly hatched bugs before they mature and reproduce.

They’re Becoming Resistant: Many bed bug populations have developed resistance to common pesticides. That’s why professional-grade products and application techniques matter.

They Spread Easily: Once established, bed bugs move from room to room. A bedroom infestation can spread to living rooms, closets, and other bedrooms.

Our Bed Bug Treatment Process

Step 1: Detailed Inspection (45-60 minutes) We inspect every potential hiding spot in affected rooms—mattresses, box springs, bed frames, furniture, baseboards, outlets, closets, and clutter. Bed bugs are excellent at hiding, so thoroughness matters.

Step 2: Preparation Instructions We’ll give you specific prep instructions before treatment:

• Wash all bedding, clothes, and fabrics in hot water (120°F+) and dry on high heat for 30+ minutes
• Remove clutter from floors and furniture
• Pull furniture away from walls
• Empty dressers and nightstands

Preparation is critical for treatment success. If you can’t do the prep work, treatment effectiveness drops significantly.

Step 3: Chemical Treatment Application We treat all hiding spots, cracks, crevices, and potential harborage areas with professional-grade bed bug pesticides. We use multiple product types to overcome resistance issues.

Step 4: Mattress and Furniture Treatment We treat bed frames, box springs, and furniture joints where bed bugs hide. We do NOT treat the mattress surface itself—those products aren’t labeled for direct mattress application.

Step 5: Follow-Up Treatment (10-14 Days Later) Bed bug eggs survive initial treatment and hatch 7-10 days later. We come back for a second treatment to kill newly hatched nymphs before they mature and reproduce. This follow-up is not optional—it’s required for complete elimination.

Step 6: Optional Third Treatment Heavy infestations or challenging situations sometimes need a third treatment. We monitor results and recommend additional treatment if needed.

Heat Treatment Option

We can also treat bed bugs using heat. This involves bringing specialized equipment that heats the entire room or affected area to 120-140°F for several hours. Heat penetrates into furniture, walls, and hiding spots, killing all life stages including eggs.

Heat Treatment Advantages:

• Kills eggs and all life stages in one treatment
• No pesticide residue
• Faster resolution (usually one day)

Heat Treatment Considerations:

• More expensive than chemical treatment
• Requires moving heat-sensitive items (electronics, certain plastics, aerosols)
• Doesn’t provide residual protection like chemical treatments

Call us to discuss which treatment method makes sense for your situation.

What You Need to Do

Bed bug treatment requires your participation. Here’s what you’re responsible for:

Laundry: Everything fabric—bedding, clothes, curtains, towels—needs to be washed in hot water and dried on high heat. Bag it immediately after drying to prevent re-infestation.

Declutter: Bed bugs hide in clutter. Reduce hiding spots by removing unnecessary items from affected rooms.

Follow Prep Instructions: We give you a checklist before treatment. Following it completely makes the difference between success and failure.

Don’t Move Infested Items: Don’t move infested furniture or belongings to other rooms or someone else’s house. You’ll just spread the problem.

Be Patient: Complete bed bug elimination takes time. Expect 3-4 weeks from initial treatment to complete resolution.

What Doesn’t Work

Bug Bombs/Foggers: These don’t penetrate into the cracks where bed bugs hide. You’ll just scatter them and make the problem worse.

Rubbing Alcohol: Kills bed bugs on contact but doesn’t have residual effect and won’t eliminate an infestation.

Diatomaceous Earth: Works slowly and requires bed bugs to walk through it. Can help as part of a complete treatment but won’t eliminate infestations on its own.

Essential Oils: No scientific evidence that these work against bed bugs.

Throwing Out Your Mattress: Bed bugs aren’t just in your mattress. They’re in your box spring, bed frame, furniture, and baseboards. Throwing out your mattress without treating everything else means you’ll just infest your new mattress.

Preventing Future Infestations

Inspect Hotel Rooms: Before settling in, check the mattress seams, headboard, and furniture for bed bug signs. Keep luggage on luggage racks or in the bathroom, not on the bed or floor.

Use Mattress Encasements: After treatment (or as prevention), encase your mattress and box spring in bed-bug-proof covers. These trap any remaining bugs inside where they’ll die and prevent new bugs from getting in.

Check Used Furniture Carefully: Never bring used furniture home without inspecting every crack and crevice first. Better yet, avoid used upholstered furniture entirely.

Launder Travel Clothes Immediately: When you get home from a trip, put all clothes directly into the washer. Don’t set luggage on your bed.

Reduce Clutter: Less clutter means fewer hiding spots and easier inspections.

Rio Grande Valley Green Areas We Serve

• All Rio Grande Valley Green neighborhoods
• Mission
• Edinburg
• Pharr
• Palmview
• Sharyland
• And surrounding Rio Grande Valley communities

Get Bed Bug Treatment Now

Call Colco at 956-777-6328 to schedule your inspection. Bed bugs don’t go away on their own, and the longer you wait, the worse it gets.

We’ll inspect, explain exactly what needs to happen, and get you back to sleeping peacefully.