We leave behind a line they can't cross twice. The Bedbug Experts spray a thin barrier of live fungal spores across the routes bed bugs already use, and it keeps killing them for up to three months after we lock the door behind us.
Manhattan/Brooklyn/The Bronx/Staten Island/Northern NJ
Our flagship Aprehend service. We map the paths between where bed bugs hide and where they feed, then lay narrow spore barriers along them. Bed bugs pick up the fungus as they travel, carry it home, and spread it through the harborage. One visit protects the room for up to three months.
Best for: active infestations, post-heat clean-up, and quarterly prevention in buildings that keep getting hit.
Full details on our Aprehend serviceThe complete job: inspection, targeted treatment of mattresses, frames, furniture and voids, vacuum extraction of live bugs and eggs, encasements, and scheduled follow-ups until monitors come back clean.
Best for: heavy or long-running infestations, multi-unit spread, and anyone who wants the whole problem handled end to end.
See what removal includesNot sure which you need? Most jobs start with an inspection and end with an Aprehend barrier either way. Call (838) 7 Bed-Bug and we'll tell you straight.
Adults are flat, oval and reddish-brown, about the size of an apple seed. They have no wings, six legs and a broad shield behind the head. After feeding they swell and darken, which is why the same insect can look like two different pests on two different nights.
Young bed bugs are the ones people miss. Nymphs are smaller and close to translucent until they feed, so a serious infestation can be well established before anyone sees something they recognize.
Aprehend is a biopesticide built around Beauveria bassiana, a fungus that infects insects. It behaves nothing like the contact sprays most companies still lead with.
A conventional spray kills what it lands on and then it's over. Aprehend stays viable on the surface for up to three months, so bugs that hatch after treatment still walk into it.
Spores hitch a ride on any bug that crosses the barrier and transfer to others back in the harborage, including the ones tucked into cracks no sprayer can reach.
Bed bug populations across the country have grown resistant to pyrethroids. A fungal infection isn't something an insect can develop resistance to the same way, and Aprehend works on resistant strains.
We apply narrow bands at low pressure in targeted spots. Nothing is fogged into the air and nothing is applied to sleeping surfaces you make contact with.
We confirm it's bed bugs, find the harborages, and trace the routes between them and where people sleep or sit. That map is what the Aprehend application is built on. Guessing wastes product and misses bugs.
Narrow bands go down along bed frames, box spring seams, furniture legs, baseboards, and entry points between units. Low pressure, targeted, no fogging. Most rooms take under an hour.
Heavy infestations get more than a barrier. We vacuum out live bugs and eggs, treat voids and seams directly, and fit mattress and box spring encasements so anything left inside can't get out.
Interceptors and monitors stay in place and we come back to read them. The barrier is still live while we do, so follow-up is about confirming the job worked, not starting over.
Bed bugs don't care what a building costs. We run Aprehend service and bed bug removal in:
Single-family houses, co-ops, condos and rentals. Discreet unmarked arrival on request.
Bed bugs move between units through walls and outlets. We treat the neighbors too, or the problem comes back.
Quarterly Aprehend barriers in high-turnover rooms catch introductions before a guest ever notices one.
Upholstered chairs, cubicle walls and break rooms. Treated after hours so you don't lose a day.
High-turnover, high-contact rooms where a long residual matters more than a fast knockdown.
Cars, vans, buses and cabs pick them up from passengers and hand them straight back.
We cover four New York City boroughs and Northern New Jersey, seven days a week.
Upper East and Upper West Side, Midtown, Chelsea, Lower Manhattan, Harlem and Washington Heights.
All neighborhoods, including brownstone blocks and large multi-family buildings.
Apartment buildings, walk-ups and single-family homes across the borough.
Houses, condos and rentals island-wide.
Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Passaic, Morris and Union County.
Just outside the map? Call anyway. We will tell you honestly whether we can get to you and service you properly, rather than taking the booking and finding out later.
We book inspections seven days a week and can usually get to you within the same week. If you have an infestation in a hotel, a rental turnover, or anywhere a delay costs you money, say so when you call and we will tell you honestly what the soonest realistic slot is.
Most straightforward jobs are resolved within three to six weeks. Bites usually stop first, then sightings. The reason it is measured in weeks rather than days is the egg cycle. Eggs laid before treatment hatch afterwards, and they have to walk into the Aprehend barrier before the job is truly finished. Anyone promising same-day eradication is selling you something.
Not always, but you do need the adjacent units inspected. Bed bugs travel through wall voids, pipe chases and outlet boxes, so treating one apartment while the source sits next door is how people end up paying three times for the same problem. We check neighboring units as part of the inspection and tell you what we find.
In most cases yes. Aprehend is applied as narrow low-pressure bands rather than fogged into the air, so the disruption is far smaller than with older whole-room methods. Your technician gives you the specific re-entry interval on the day, following the product label. Tell us in advance if anyone in the home is pregnant, immunocompromised, or has a respiratory condition.
Almost always they were carried in. Luggage after a trip, secondhand furniture, a bag set down on an infested seat, a guest, or a neighboring unit. It has nothing to do with how clean your home is. A spotless house is just as vulnerable as a cluttered one, because bed bugs feed on people, not on crumbs.
Often, for a single room caught early. Larger or long-running infestations need supporting work such as extraction, direct harborage treatment and encasements, plus follow-up visits. What makes the difference is that the Aprehend barrier stays live between visits for up to three months, so follow-up is about confirming the treatment worked rather than starting the job again.
Our Aprehend bed bug treatment is the barrier application itself, the right call for early infestations, prevention, and cleaning up after a heat treatment. Our bed bug removal service wraps that barrier in the full job: inspection, vacuum extraction, harborage treatment, encasements and scheduled follow-ups. The inspection tells us which one you actually need.
Send the details and we'll come back to you. If it's urgent, call instead, because the phone is always faster.
Tell us what you're seeing and where. We'll book an inspection, usually within the same week, and quote the Aprehend treatment before we touch anything.
