Author: Daniel Brooks

If you are reaching for diatomaceous earth to deal with bed bugs, the powder only does anything as a thin, almost invisible film puffed into the cracks and crevices... Read more.

If you are reaching for a steamer to kill bed bugs, the one thing that decides whether it works is heat at the surface with almost no airflow. Steam kills bugs and... Read more.

If you think you might have bed bugs, the smartest few dollars you can spend are interceptors: shallow cups that sit under every bed and furniture leg and catch... Read more.

If you have bed bugs, the best mattress encasement is not about thread count or how plush it feels. It is about the zipper. A true encasement zips your whole mattress... Read more.

If you are fighting bed bugs, there is no single best bed bug spray, only the right spray for the job in front of you. Match a ready-to-use contact-plus-residual... Read more.

If you found bed bugs in your couch, do not drag it to the curb. Tossing it usually just re-infests the next one, because by the time you spot them on the sofa they... Read more.

If you are weighing bed bug heat treatment, the case for it is simple: heat is the one method that kills every life stage, eggs included, in a single pass. That... Read more.

If you woke up with itchy welts and you are scanning the bed for proof, start by ignoring the bites. People react to bed bugs wildly differently, and a large share... Read more.

If you have bed bugs, the first thing to understand is that you did not cause them by being messy. Bed bugs are a hitchhiking problem, not a dirty-home problem,... Read more.