Find out where bed bugs are hiding in your home

Use a bright flashlight to examine bedroom furniture for bed bugs or their dark droppings.

You should check:

behind the headboard
in the seams and tufts of the mattress, and around or inside the box spring
along the crevices of bedroom baseboards, especially the baseboard area below the headboard
inside and around nightstands
behind or within other items or cracks in the bedroom (for example, window and door casings, pictures, and moldings, nearby furniture, loosened wallpaper, and cracks in plaster and partitions, and clutter)
In addition to using a flashlight, carefully aiming a hot hair dryer into these crevices while looking will help force bed bugs out.