Bed Bug News
Aprehend® Paired with the Cimex Eradicator steam generator
This new case study shows how Aprehend® enabled Green Flag Services (Lake Mary, FL) to offer a low-cost, effective bed bug remediation service requiring just one treatment. The addition of steam using the Polti Cimex Eradicator allowed them to offer bed bug treatment with immediate relief…
Updated Client Preparation Instruction Sheets for Use with Aprehend® – Now Available for Download
Aprehend® supports current best practice, ‘minimal preparation’ by clients prior to treatment. Now available for download from the Aprehend® website (www.aprehend.com/documents), these editable preparation sheets (in English and Spanish) can be printed for handing to clients prior to treatment. The prep sheets can be edited to align with…
New Downloadable Trifolds for Aprehend®
Announcing the arrival of two new downloadable trifolds. The first is a revamped version of our original trifold, which explains how Aprehend® works. The second includes summaries of three ‘real world’ case studies from PMPs in the field. These are now available as PDFs on our…
Aprehend® case study: Eradication of bed bugs in a vacant apartment
This new case study describes the eradication of bed bugs from a vacated dwelling after the landlord’s indiscriminate use of “bug bombs.” This non-professional approach led to a 6-month infestation with bed bugs widely dispersed throughout the apartment. By using Aprehend® as a primary treatment, supplemented…
Aprehend® case study – Effective pairing with heat treatment
This new case study describes the effective pairing of Aprehend® with heat treatments to offer competitive solutions in price-sensitive markets. With an increased presence of (often unlicensed) heat treatment operators offering cheaper, but less thorough bed bug treatments, Bug Bakers™ (Columbus, OH) was looking for alternative…
Aprehend® case study – Mobile Home treatment in Oklahoma
This new case study describes the eradication of bed bugs from a single family mobile home in Oklahoma, using Aprehend®. The homeowners had been treating their home using pesticide products that were available from their local stores or on-line. The bugs always seemed to “come back.” Significant bed…
Aprehend® case study – Tennessee apartment complex
This new case study describes the eradication of bed bugs from a 32-unit complex in Tennessee, using Aprehend®, Cimexa™ and encasements. Property management had been battling bed bugs for over 6 years with no success. Over 50% of the apartments showed visual signs of infestation, with two apartments…
Summer is coming… how to handle Aprehend® as the temperature rises
As things start to heat up during the summer months, the care and use of a biological-based product such as Aprehend® can be a little different than the chemical pesticides you’re used to storing in the back of your service vehicle. Even here in Pennsylvania, we’ve…