The Bed Bug Handbook

Bed Bug handbook: The Complete Guide to Bed Bugs and Their Control

The Bed Bug Handbook is a complete and up-to-date guide to bed bugs and their control. Extensively illustrated and with 286 pages, the handbook provides practical step-by-step guidance for preventing bed bug infestations and for controlling bed bug outbreaks. It includes details on bed bug inspections and methods of control including mechanical (encasements, vacuuming), thermal (dry heat, steam, and cold), insecticide treatments, and fumigation.

The Bed Bug Handbook also includes chapters on bed bug biology and habits, how bed bugs spread, business and management considerations, and medical and social impacts. There are also checklists for preventing and controlling bed bugs in apartments, hotels, furniture rental warehouses, and other sites.

The Bed Bug Handbook and co-author Richard Cooper have been featured on NBC's Today Show, the CBS Early Show, in USA Today, and in many other newspaper and magazine articles.

Written for Professionals, by Professionals

Written primarily for professionals…pest control specialists and the managers of hotels, apartments, and other commercial operations susceptible to bed bug infestations…the Bed Bug Handbook is a valuable resource for anyone interested in bed bugs and their control. The authors are entomologists with extensive experience dealing with bed bugs. Rick Cooper is the Technical Director of Cooper Pest Solutions of New Jersey, and one of the pest control industry’s leading experts on bed bugs. Larry Pinto and Sandy Kraft are pest control consultants and publishers. They have written dozens of pest control books and hundreds of articles, and have published Techletter for pest control technicians since 1985.

Publisher: Pinto & Associates, Inc. (publishers of Techletter^®); softcover, 7x9 inches, over 175 photos including 8 pages of color plates, 286 pages. Publication date: December 2007; ISBN 978-0-9788878-1-0.