K9 Scent Detection

We recommend using one of our trusted partners to ensure the detection service you select is capable of delivering the level of service you expect.

Canine scent detection can be very effective, but it is important to realize that every bed bug detection dog and handler team is different from the next. It is important to know exactly what you can expect from the team that is performing the inspection.

• - Our partners have well -trained bed bug detection dogs that are able to identify very small numbers of live bed bugs, sometimes as few as one.
• - Additionally, they can discriminate live bugs and viable eggs from evidence left over from an old infestation (fecal spotting, caste skins, empty egg shells, carcasses).
• - Unless they are able to do this, it becomes much more difficult to distinguish between active and old infestations.

Dogs that are trained well can be effective in sniffing out bed bugs. However, it’s important that when a dog alerts to bed bugs, its handler follows up by visually confirming the presence of bed bugs. Without a visual confirmation, you have no way of knowing if this is a false alert, and false alerts do happen.

Canine scent detection is especially well suited for large scale inspections where visual inspections are simply not practical, such as periodic inspections of hotel guest rooms, college dormitories, entire apartment complexes, movie theaters, schools, or infestations in office buildings.

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