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You wake up bite-free, knowing every bed bug is eliminated for good. No more checking sheets for blood spots or wondering if that itch means they’re back.
Your home becomes your sanctuary again, not a source of anxiety every time you turn off the lights. The psychological stress ends the day we finish treatment.
Our heat treatment reaches every crack and crevice where bed bugs hide, killing adults, nymphs, and eggs in a single visit. You won’t spend weeks dealing with multiple chemical treatments that chase bugs from room to room.
First Choice Pest Control has protected Middletown families since 2005. Roger brings 26 years of hands-on experience to every bed bug problem, backed by a team that knows Michigan’s unique pest challenges.
We’re one of fewer than 100 companies in the United States offering canine bed bug detection. While other companies rely on visual inspections that miss hidden infestations, our trained dogs locate live bed bugs and eggs with 95-98% accuracy.
You get the same experienced technician every visit—no part-time college students or rotating faces who don’t know your property. Just consistent, professional service from people who understand that your home is your sanctuary.
First, our canine detection team performs a comprehensive inspection. The dogs identify every area where live bed bugs are active, including spots human technicians typically miss. This takes minutes, not hours.
Next comes heat treatment. We use specialized equipment to raise room temperatures to 140+ degrees—lethal to bed bugs at all life stages but safe for your furniture, electronics, and belongings.
The entire process takes 3-6 hours depending on your home’s size. You can move back in the same day, and the bed bugs are gone permanently. No follow-up treatments needed, no waiting weeks to see if it worked.
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Michigan ranks second in the nation for bed bug infestations, with cities throughout the state climbing national worst-cities lists. Middletown’s mix of older homes and seasonal temperature changes create perfect breeding conditions for these resilient pests.
Your bed bug control service includes thorough canine detection, customized heat treatment, and follow-up verification. We treat mattresses, furniture, baseboards, and every crack where bed bugs hide—targeting the hiding spots common in Michigan homes.
Unlike chemical treatments that require multiple visits and leave toxic residues, our heat treatment is completely eco-friendly and eliminates the entire population in one session. You won’t deal with lingering odors, chemicals around your family, or wondering if survivors will rebuild the colony.
Look for small, dark red or brown spots on your sheets and mattress seams—these are blood stains from crushed bed bugs or their fecal matter. You might also notice sweet, musty odors in heavily infested rooms and itchy bite marks that appear in lines or clusters.
However, visual inspection by homeowners misses about 70% of infestations. Some people don’t react to bed bug bites at all, so absence of bites doesn’t mean absence of bed bugs.
Our canine detection service offers 95-98% accuracy and can detect bed bugs at the earliest stages when treatment is most effective and least expensive. The dogs detect the scent of live bugs and viable eggs with precision that human inspection simply can’t match.
Heat treatment kills bed bugs at all life stages—adults, nymphs, and eggs—in a single session. Chemical treatments often require multiple visits because pesticides can’t penetrate deep into mattresses and furniture where bed bugs hide.
Heat reaches 140+ degrees throughout the treatment area, which is instantly lethal to bed bugs but won’t damage your belongings. Bed bugs in Michigan have developed resistance to many chemical treatments, but they can’t adapt to lethal heat.
You won’t deal with toxic residues around your family or need to remove belongings from your home. Heat treatment is eco-friendly, safe for children and pets, and leaves no lingering odors or chemicals behind.
Our trained detection dogs achieve 95-98% accuracy, compared to about 30% accuracy for human visual inspections alone. Dogs can detect the scent of live bed bugs and eggs through mattresses, inside walls, and in other hidden areas where visual inspection might miss them.
A dog can inspect an entire room in 2-3 minutes, while thorough human inspection might take hours. This speed and accuracy means we can identify exactly where bed bugs are located and focus treatment on those specific areas.
The dogs distinguish between live, active infestations and old evidence from previous treatments. This precision saves time and money by ensuring we treat the right areas and avoid wasting effort on areas without active bed bugs.
In most cases, you don’t need to throw away any furniture or mattresses after professional bed bug treatment. Our heat treatment penetrates furniture and mattresses completely, eliminating bed bugs at every life stage without damaging your belongings.
Heat treatment reaches the exact temperatures needed to kill bed bugs but stays within safe ranges for electronics, furniture, and personal items. We’ll provide specific guidance about any heat-sensitive items that might need temporary removal.
This is one of the major advantages of professional treatment over DIY methods. Store-bought sprays and bug bombs often drive bed bugs deeper into furniture, making people think they need to discard expensive items when proper treatment would have saved them.
Initial canine inspection takes 30-60 minutes depending on your home’s size. Our dogs can clear a typical bedroom in just 2-3 minutes with extreme accuracy, much faster than human visual inspections that can take over an hour per room.
The heat treatment itself typically takes 6-9 hours, depending on the size of your home and severity of the infestation. Heat treatment kills bed bugs at all life stages immediately—eggs, nymphs, and adults die when exposed to temperatures of 120°F for 90 minutes or longer.
Most of our treatments eliminate bed bugs in a single day. You can move back in the same evening, and there’s no waiting period to see if the treatment worked. The entire infestation is eliminated during the treatment process.
We’re one of fewer than 100 companies nationwide offering canine bed bug detection, giving you 95-98% accuracy versus 30% with human-only inspections. This prevents costly misdiagnosis and unnecessary treatments.
You get the same experienced technician every visit—no rotating staff or part-time workers learning on your property. Roger brings 26 years of expertise to every job, and our family-owned approach means personalized service tailored to your specific situation.
We combine advanced detection with proven heat treatment methods, offer price matching and military discounts, and back everything with our commitment to complete elimination. Our 4.7-star rating from over 363 customers reflects our dedication to solving problems completely the first time.
