How to Inspect a Bed for Bed Bugs (BBTV #43) 

I don’t see why people are being so mean, he’s not doing anything but trying to help, I personally like this guy and felt he was helpful

Also, if you think you have bedbugs, something that is pretty simple, yet effective, is that you can take a role of clear, packaging duck tape, and outline the bottom of your box springs and mattress (with sticky side on the outside), and if when those little bastards come sneaking out during the night to get their free blood meal, their legs will get stuck on the tape, and be trapped. Use push pins to secure the tape. I tried this on my sisters apartment, and after the 2nd night, we found like 10 bedbugs that got stuck on the tape....just a thought...

I’ve never encounter this bug in my life until recently. My father rented out one of our bedroom to his friend’s worker. That worker left after few months and my brother moved in, that’s where all the nightmares start. At first, he found out both of his leg were full of red rashes and were like bitten by some sort of insect but he didn’t know what has bitten him. Until one of the night when he is laying still on the bed, he feel something is “crawling” on his leg and he managed to caught one of the bed bug. The next day, he check his room and found out there are lots of bugs were sticking at the back of his mattress. And finally we got to know these bugs are so called bed bugs. He throws away his mattress and bed frame. He changed to a foldable plastic bed frame and bought a new mattress. Although he changed the sleeping bed, but he was still got bitten at night. That nasty bugs somehow found their ways and has spread to my room! 😭😭😭 I was bitten at night and got allergy reaction until my wounded area are all swollen. Since then, I’ve kept my lights on whenever I’m sleeping and I was so stressed out because I don’t really had enough rest. Unable to get pest control service because of the pandemic lockdown. I’ve googled and read a lot of bed bugs articles online. Try numerous method like spraying essential oil, spreading DE powder, put insect sticky traps under my bed, spray bed bugs repellent on my bed, wardrobe, drawer, wall. The bed bugs reduced but still I got bitten at night. After reading a lot of information in internet. I’ve decided I should bought a high temperature/pressure steam + vacuum machine to treat the bed bugs. I started to steam + vacuum my whole room and my bed. Double steam all of my clothes, wrapped my bed frame with few layer of plastic film, soak all my mattress cover in hot boiled water to kill all the potential bed bugs egg. The whole process took me more than a month. Every night, I will steam + vacuum my whole bed and floor an hour before I get on my bed. And I’m glad I’m finally bed bug free. Just need to be very thorough when doing all the cleaning and it take times.

Ok, I gotta stop watching videos about bed bugs! Fuck, I feel like they're crawling all over me now.

In my bed bug research this Jeff white fellow has the most thorough and clear explanation and instructions for bed bug behavior and treatment. well done Jeff

I want to throw out everything in my room even valuable items I don’t even care anymore I feel crawling all over my body but cant find any bugs and I feel itchy everywhere too and there are bumps everywhere. Its terrible

Bed bugs suck... Once you get them it seems like everybody judges you and looks at you like your trashy

I love this guy. Lol he's very clear , thorough, funny, and easy to understand.

just Burn the house Down,

thank you, the comments on this video are pretty innocent but some of the other videos I have on youtube the comments get nasty (I find them amusing) so it's nice to hear a positive comment from time to time

IF YOUR watching this at 4am stop now.

its pads the sharp edges on the bed frame from ripping and tearing the bed encasements that are on the box spring, the felt is a very important part of encasing your bed as it greatly extends the life of encasements

Me: *scratches bed bug bites on feet, while watching the video*

You say bed bugs don't generally go on the bed frames. But in my case I knew there were bed bugs but I could not find them, it happens to be they were hiding inside where the metal meets the wheel. Around 50 bugs in each wheel. Those sukers are a master in hiding.

For this being an 11 year old video it's pretty good quality

As a professional cleaner I appreciate you making this video to give some idea as to how to look for bed bugs in customer homes. At least I can to a visual inspection now with some degree of training behind me.

Great video. While checking the bed, it's also good to spray few seconds inside the boxspring with household insecticide, baygon or similar, if no bed bugs are visible after inspection. If they are hiding there, spraying won't probably kill them, but makes them come move around within an hour.

God damn it’s 2am and I’m right here. Found one on my shirt as I went to the bathroom and another one during a quick inspection. I need some sleep...work early and I can tell I’m in for a loooooong day.

The fact the bed bugs I had made a whole 4 hour trip to me and a 4 hour trip to the bottom of my bed is dedication that I don’t have. Anyway we threw out our hold bed frame and matress and now I’m traumatized

I actually found one following this video, tried to grab it with a chain saw and think i need a new mattress

the person that's recorded this video's nose is whistling...I thought I was doing it at first

I live in an old and unsanitary residence building. I found a bed bug crawling on me. I took all my sheets and everything off, shook everything off that I can't wash right away so I can sleep without worse anxiety... I examined every single item on my bed, including seams on the mattress (which is disgusting by the way, covered in stains and food, I hate this place but I'm stuck here until the end of the semester), and found no other bed bugs. Maintenance is going to come do something in a few days. I did find a hole in the cover of the mattress though, and I put tape over it lol to relieve my anxiety overnight. Maybe they live INSIDE the mattress??? I really don't know. I am now paranoid and am leaving bad reviews everywhere I can on where I am staying.

Those wall panels are heaven for bed bug eggs. Especially in the lines. Ugh those bloodsuckers are a nightmare

Beautifull ideas. I never thought of that. Thank you so much. You are great.

It 12 am and I'm scared of falling asleep

Hey Jeff, great information. Keep up the good work!

Watching these videos makes me glad I have a bunk bed and no box spring

2:16 Look at the top of the mattress in the piping and the label 3:39 lift the mattress and look in the piping on the bottom 4:05 look in the piping on top of the box springs. 4:25 look at the bottom of the box springs.

yes, they can infest just about anything inside the home but most commonly are found in the beds and the furniture and items surrounding the bed (i.e. nightstands, items under the bed, etc...)

it is currently 2:26 i saw a bug at 12:00 and i have ben looking at different pictures wondering if i have them. but one thing is for sure im not sleeping in my room tonight

I never knew "advertorial" was a word. Thank you Jeff!

I see bedbugs in my metal bedframe ALL THE TIME. Sometimes that's the only place they hide. Its very secure and private for them, and its rough lifting your whole bed out of it.

In all honesty, I thought bed bugs didn't actually exist and we're just a joke made up for some reason. Maybe it's because they are just called "bed" bugs.

I have bites on my arms, hands and fingers that itch since the beginning of summertime. I thought they were misquote bites. But no one I knew had them as bad as me. One of the first things my fiancé and I did was check our bed for bed bugs. And we didn’t see anything. So i posted a photo of my arm with the bites on a Ulcerative Colitis group I’m a part of since I have that disease. Some guy told me they look like bed bug bites because his girlfriend had the same thing. I went to our bed again to get ready for bed and sure enough there was 8 tiny bugs crawling on top of our sheet. So I killed them by smashing them and once they were dead we took the sheet off our bed and looked all over and no bed bugs anywhere on the mattress or box spring. I’m sleeping on an air mattress and my fiancé is sleeping on the couch for now. I read online you can buy a mattress protectors for bed bugs that you’re supposed to leave on for 1 year and it will help kill any bed bugs you currently have and prevent any new ones. It cost $20-$30 depending on the size of your mattress. We are getting that the next time we go to Walmart.

Best hand movements I've ever seen :P Great vid, thank you so much. About to go frantically check my bed, wish me luck!

I wonder if bed bugs get spread to hotels more because of people staying in them when they have bed bugs. I can see that it's tempting to go stay in a hotel if you think you have them, but I think it's really inconsiderate because you could have them on your clothes or belongings and just take them to a hotel and then spread it to tons of people. I got an air mattress and moved to the living room and haven't gotten bitten out there.

I just threw out my roomates couch because I saw a bedbug running on it and when we pulled it away from the wall and inspected the seams I found/killed about a dozen medium or big sized ones. The couch is now out of the house and ive cleaned up the wood laminate floor surrounding the area and inspected the beds upstairs, everything else seems clear, I hope I caught and got rid of it before it spread anywhere else or got worse!

I have them and I caught an adult and that thing moved fast! The only reason I caught it is because I was already holding a piece of packing tape. I caught it as it ran by. It moved in a funny way, too, kind of "ambled" while it ran. But I also caught a tiny baby one that was not moving at all. You should google pictures and compare it to the pictures. They can look different and be different sizes depending on their stage. The most helpful picture I found showed them at a variety of stages.

this actually helped ny doing this i found 24 bed bugs and i think that was the last of it cause i fell nothing anymore. thanks :)

13 year old video still the most helpful video on how to check the box spring because every other video focuses on the mattress…. Thank you this was very helpful

Well now I will throw my mattress out of the window!

Oh not my priceless plastic end caps!

I found out a woman 2 floors up was infested and it didn't help that I lived next to the laundry room (they could fall out of someones laundry basket and creep into my place). I brought anything made of fabric to the laundrymat and put everything in the dry on high, steamed the shit out of all the furniture, vacuumed everyday (took the vacuum outside to change the bags) and bought a new mattress set and encased them with bed-bug covers. Haven't seen once since (except for one carcass).

Bedbugs usually visit you 5 times in their life cycles-they get bigger and darker as they age, but they are quite small and light when they first bite. By the way they are one of the few insects that feed their young.

it's tough for one person to comment about another persons reactions, everybody reacts differently and reactions aren't a good way to determine if you have a problem or not, I would recommend seeing a dermatologist because the reaction only lasting 15-20 minutes isn't consistent with most other descriptions I've received

this guy kinda reminds me of dewie from malcom in the middle

Great job on this video. Very informative and helpful.

Bed Bug Removal I started to notice some bites in January of this year but new nothing about killing bed bugs. To prepare I watched video after video showing the different methods of removing them. I could not afford a professional service so I did this. I waited until we had a forecast high of 115F or 45C. I did this so the bugs could not go deep into the walls and survive. With the outside temperature hot enough to kill them on its own, I blasted the heat and fans inside. I held between 122 and 126 for almost 8 hours in my trailer using the excessive temperature to kill. I used heat from three 1500 watt baseboard heaters. Then instead of renting big fans at about $40.00 per day I bought a 20 inch or 50 cm box fan from Canadian Tire for the same price to add to the 5 household fans I already own. If your area is larger buy more fans. I had plans to buy three box fans but they were sold out because of our heat wave. For me this was OK because I have a floor standing air conditioner and used the fan to compensate. With a combination of laundering and heat drying all fabrics, including all bedding and clothes, then heating my place up to a sufficient temperature, I am now bug free. People remember heat treatments work best at the hottest part of the year when bugs can not find holes in the vapor barrier and crawl near the outer wall to stay safe, because the outside temperatures are too hot for that option. In winter heat will not work for this reason, but during hot days it is pretty much a sure kill, if you have enough heat and fans. Hope this helps some of you as well as it did me. My total cost for laundry, fans and power, was about $190.00 and I now own all the fans. The heaters I already owned. If you need to buy them this of course this will up costs. To give you an idea my trailer is my holiday trailer and the floor area is 200 sq. ft. Scale your equipment up as needed. If it happens again I am now prepared in full .

The bed bugs that I find on my mattress look more like tiny centipedes which makes me think that they're carpet beetles. And I never get bug bites. I'm never itchy or anything nor do I find any bite marks. So my question is do carpet beetles behave in the same manner? i.e shell casings, reproduction.

update, if anyone cares or would find it useful: i used a steamer meant for clothes and steamed out each spot i found an infestation. then vaccuumed up the bodies. sprayed windex on the area for good measure to make sure the bugs+eggs were dead. havent seen any for 2 days but i will keep an eye out. i also put my beddings in the dryer first on a hot cycle for 20 mins to make sure that if any were hiding in the sheets, theyre dead.

Thank you thank you! What's your favorite products to use?

You share excellent channel! Great information.

My mother had them 6 months ago it cost her $2700 to have cleared. I am now extremely pairnoid. I had a pco come out to my new apartment because I had bits on my legs. The pco said he found nothing but spiders. He sprayed for the spiders. I know he looked and found nothing but I am still freaked out. I check my bed daily and just order a moniter. I would like to take his word for it but I can't.

that was my favorite comment ever on any of the videos I've shot, absolutely classic

if you have a box spring it's a preferred location for them to hide, if you don't have a box spring they will find somewhere else to hide, whether you have a box spring or not will not affect whether or not they infest your home...it only affects where they are hiding

Thanks for the info (12 years later)!

I wonder why a person would dislike this video?

What if you don't have a box spring? Just the mattress by itself and a bed? With those layers out sticks. If you know what I'm talking about?

I have the same bed and box spring in this video.... I have bed bugs & idk if I've ever seen one. I've seen carpet beetles, fleas, spiders, silverfish, and maybe mites. Anyways, all I saw were black spots and red spots. There were tons under the box spring. But the worst place..... were my 3 curtains hanging next to my bed. It looked so bad with all the spots. Encasing the mattress, box spring, and pillow in cheap $9 vinyl cases helps a lot. Make sure to duct tape the zipper line. GL! It's war!

Thank you so much for help!

tough to say without seeing it myself, what I can say is that I've had mysterious reactions show up in 3's and rows (all typical of bed bugs) and not had bed bugs, sometimes random reactions show up in 3's....it happens

I'm so GLAD I bought a memory foam mattress and metal bed frame. That was the best decision ever!

Great information on how to look for bed bugs!

my son is coming up w what looks like allergic reaction bumps on his back. I'm not sure if it's bed bugs . I've not seen signs of them otherwise.he, at one point, was getting little rashes here or there that were in a shape of an"s" . these allergic reactions are different big skin rash that looks like they are filled fluid, they get larger with time. I have not seen bed bugs nor do we have box springs. we've two beds side by side in one bedroom to accommodate the children. the older child has no bumps, rash, reaction. our couch is dark brown leather. I can follow the directions for the mattress to check for dead bugs, blood or encasements, but have not seen them. I'm thinking maybe child is allergic to something on bed but not sure.how can I check the dark couch and do bedbugs live in leather?

110 degrees will push the bugs off of the mattress, meaning they will try to escape, therefore if you get the mattress off of the ground that temperature will probably flush bugs off of the mattress but it will not kill any eggs that may be on it

Thx Jeff. We are not taking any chances, getting sprayed tomorrow again and having him back 2 weeks after that. Then I think it is off to a psychiatrist, LOL!!! Will keep you posted! Thanks again! - Sue D'Angelo (using my son's account, he was the one who slept at a friends and brought them home, so it's only fair!) LOL!

Very clear information. Thanks.

I love how Micheal Scott is sitting in the quintessential room that would harbor a massive infestation. Those wooden walls man are a nightmare

I've never had these bugs until yesterday. I saw about 10 different bites on my arms after washing my clothes and inspecting my couch in living room I went to my bedroom and I found a dead one right in the middle of my bed, squeezed it and it was full of fresh blood (it was an adult). I used all your instructions in the video and my mattress, box and frame are super similar to the ones in the video. I didnt find any sign of them at all except that one dead one that i mentioned. could this be an isolated case of one bed bug that I brought from outside only?

Do you help people with spider mites indoors too ? This was a helpful video. I hope I don’t ever have bed bugs . You’ve got me wanting to check now tho . Lol . I’ll be checking to be on the safe side . I have every other bad bug you can think of on my property. They’re eating every plant on the property too. And seeing spider mites under my microscope makes my skin crawl and feel itchy . Don’t know if it’s psychosomatic or what . Thanks for the video either way 😊

there are several different types on the market, we use Protect-A-Bed when servicing bed bugs and have always felt they were the best and you can find those on our site BedBug Central and other sites, obviously there are many other encasements out there with many different price points, I encourage you to shop around

I have been told when bed bugs move in they don't just get in your bed. They will hide in electric recepticals, (sp) couches. they are very difficult to eradicate.

Jeff you said you were going to tell us about the green strip of felt on the bed spring, you forgot to do so.

I have been getting bit at night for about a month and I looked at my bed but my eyesight isn’t that good and I thought I was having allergic reactions to my meds so I had the doctor look and she just said to take Benedryll which didn’t help then I had a idea to get a strong flashlight and inspect my mattress . Those things were all over my bed and I didn’t even know . Now I start the long process of cleaning and getting a new bed . I checked my couch also and the blanket on it had a big bed bug so I watched this video and I am not in good health at all so my daughter is helping me but I am 58 and never seen a bed bug . They are terrible and I would not wish those things on anyone . The video helped me a lot so I will let my daughter check my new mattress 2 times a week because I am allergic to those things . Disgusting creatures .

Good practical video. Thanks for putting it up.

hi Jeff, please reply as i am extremely paranoid. here is my case, on one of the mattresses there are a few black dots i breifly remember that i would do my homework with pen and sometmes sharpie on that matress , this mattress is oldest in the house, also i have not seen anymore on that matress, the other matresses have nothing on them. I told my parents to call terminix to do inspetion but they say that they would lie to make money. Also i get rashes but they don;t resemble bedbugs and is it true most people who report bedbugs see them

What was the purpose of the green felt on the bed frame?

My parents have an Extremely heavy bed, so thats a relevant tip. Also, with any subject one is looking into, more than one source is always required. He doesn't talk about look or size of the bugs but this is still a helpful video. In fact, from all the other videos I've watched, other than not speculating on their appearances, this has been the most organized, step by step. Others tend to focus Only on how ugly the little bastards are so there's plenty of those. Thanks for the info.

I'm waking up with little patches of small scabs on the back of my neck. They're like pin size and they're not itchy. I'm not sure what it is but its annoying. When I think about it, I get itchy at night, but I'm not sure if it's in my head or actual bugs

Do you think the bed bugs can get in the box springs if their still wrapped with the plastic they came with

Step one. Don't sit on a bed you think might have bed bugs.

I have bed bugs and the only reason the pest control confirmed it is because I caught some under clear packing tape. I live in an apartment, so I don't get to choose the pest control company. Of the two guys sent out here, both tried to find them just by looking and neither could. I guess the bed bug inspection dog they have is just for show, to attract business. If I hadn't caught them, I bet they would have told me I didn't have them, even though I got lots of bites, some in a row.

If it's a bad infestation are there many thousand? If I am there only host, they all can't be using me as food. I just went through getting alot of bites, probably 75-100. And now, that's stopped. Do all the ones who didn't attack me die? I started looking on the internet and had to face the fact, these bites aren't fleas or mosquitoes but are the dreaded bed bugs. I've ordered a bunch of stuff to try and treat for them and the bed casings you recommend and the DE and a brand new Dyson. So far I think they're only in one room but I'll treat with DE in all electric plates. Thanks.

I am so glad I sleep in a hammock.! Were I work, with 260 beds and that will increase by 65 in two months, we have to treat 2 - 4 rooms daily.

2:00 "an actual bed itself" lol

I freakin love this vid. watched the whole thing

That guy remains me of me lol switched on man at job at hand! Well done.

The only thing I found wrong was the thing about the metal frame, in my years, They are almost always in the metal framing all the way around, due to it being warm and Dark

I’ve been dealing with these guys for too long. They infested my room four years ago, and we threw out tons of stuff: my clothes, desks, couch, the vacuum, etc. We chainsawed my wooden bed frame, threw it out, and replaced it with a new metal bed frame. We called in an expert two years later to inspect the room and clean everything, as well as replace the carpet with a new one. Even with all of that, I woke up yesterday with several red welts, and I came back home this afternoon and found a nymph on my mattress. I’m going to explode.

My son keeps getting bites all over him , but I can't find one bug. No one else in the family is getting bitten apart from him. I am sure they are bed bugs because of the patterns they leave.

yep its a lot of caulking around the baseboards and keeping everything in vacuum seal bags

Im not sure if we have bed bugs at home but i got a rash last night that has three bite looking marks next to eachother and next to them is a few marks also but not linear, i asked my parents to check the bed and they didnt find anything, there were some sweat marks as i describe them and on the underside was 1 little thing that had squished to my bed on my leg side

so this damn video just had me tearing my room apart and inspecting the floors and every crack and crevice like a meth head.....no bed bugs, found a dead micro snail thing on the floor and a fossilized Cheeto however. thank God that's all.

thank you so much for your help....now I know much more about the enemy and I m ready to fight back...lol...thanks.

I saw a bed bug crawling on me 💀 I flicked that thing so fast across my room and now idk where it is I’m scared.

Thank you for the help.

Thanks dude. Now I´m gonna sleep on the floor.

all questions for your doctor, what I can tell you is that everyone is different in regards to how much the bites itch and how long they take to go away

I find liberally dousing my bedding with gasoline and setting it afire just a few moments prior to retiring for the evening is an excellent method of keeping bedbugs under control.

Bought a second hand bed. Thanks for this