The bugs that were once a large problem during World War I are now becoming a large epidemic all over the world.
Bed bugs are most common in hotel rooms.
Even five star hotels have been plagued with the bugs.
However, your home is also at risk for bed bugs.
The pest control business is frantically searching for new ways to get rid of the insects.
One new invention is the use of non toxic CO2 snow to freeze the bugs.
Another method is special heat sources that will dramatically increase the temperature of the room and then kill the bugs.
Dogs are the newest exterminators.
Dogs are used to find weapons, drugs, people, termites, cancer and they have now been taught to find bed bugs and their larva.
The exterminators are then able to find the most infested area of the room so that they can kill the largest colony first.
Dogs have around 200 million receptors in their nose.
To compare this to a human, the human nose can only cover one half a yard and contain five million receptors.
The average profit of the canine bug detection is $200 per hour.
However, the Connecticut Advanced K9 unit works for food and love instead of money.
The typical "K9" service provides the first detection but in the first appointment the bugs will not be treated.
The dogs can then help the exterminators find which spots to spray and in the follow up appointment, they can sniff to find out if all of the bed bugs are gone.
A dog trained in pest control can find bed bugs in a few minutes.
The dogs can usually detect the pests within a few feet.
However, they are not usually able to detect farther than that.