[BED BUG SUPPLEMENT] Market ‘Snapshots’

Critters That Bug Us Most
Adults who say they are “likely” to get expert help with these household pests:

An Expanding Market
There’s no immediate end in sight to the growth of the bed bug market with 30 percent of PMPs contacted by PCT via Insight Express describing the current state of the market as “growing dramatically” in 2011.

How would you characterize the current state of the bed bug business?
 

Sticker Shock!
The high-cost and time-consuming nature of bed bug treatments is beginning to take its toll on clients requiring re-treatment of their homes or businesses.
Are repeat customers beginning to balk at the cost of bed bug treatments

Yes............................44%
No..............................56%
 

Source: Insight Express

Bed Bugs by the Numbers
20 – Percent of U.S. exterminators who say they received calls concerning bed bugs in 2000.

95 – Percent of U.S. exterminators who say they received calls concerning bed bugs in 2009.

33,772 – Number of bed bug-related phone calls placed to New York City’s help line in 2009.

6.7 – Percent of New York’s adult population that reported battling bed bugs during the last year.

82 – Number of bed bug infestations in New York City in 2004.

4,088 – Number of bed bug infestations in New York City in 2009.

31 – Number of rare books, some more than 200 years old, that had to be destroyed by the Denver library after a bed bug infestation.

10 – Number of minutes a bed bug typically spends drinking a human’s blood, usually as the victim sleeps.

200 – Number of eggs a female bed bug can lay in its lifetime.

1 year – Length of time a bed bug can survive without eating.

Sources: Insight Pharmaceuticals, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, CNN.com, New York Times, Time magazine, BedbugRegistry.com, TheDenverChannel.com, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Time magazine.

America’s  Bed Bug-Infested Cities
Forbes magazine recently ranked U.S. cities with the most serious bed bug problems after consulting with Orkin and Terminix, which combined boast more than 800 offices across the country. Here are the cities that topped the list: