If You Left Idaho For Christmas You Need to Check Your House For Bed Bugs Now

The holiday season is over and many of you left your homes to visit family and friends in other cities and states. If you did travel, getting the flu from those you were visiting isn’t the only thing you need to worry about bringing home.

Bed bugs are a huge issue in many places and there’s a good chance you brought some home if you visited certain locations.

If You Went to Any of These States Over the Holidays You Better Check Your House for Bed Bugs

If you traveled for Christmas or New Year’s or if you had visitors at your home, you may need to check for bed bugs. Even if you think the people you visited or who came to your house are clean people, there’s still a chance they have bed bugs.

The bug specialists at Orkin crunched the numbers and found these 50 cities to be the most infested with bed bugs. If you visited, or had visitors from, Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia, or LA you are among the most-likely to have a new headache to worry about in 2025.

There’s good news to gather from that list - Idaho and Utah don’t have any cities that made the list. So if you didn’t leave Idaho or only went to Utah you’re pretty much in the clear. You could still check though.

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A recent story claims that the top destinations for Idahoans over the holidays were Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Orlando, and Seattle - all of which are on the list of the most infested with bed bugs.