What to shake in summer. According to a study conducted by the Union of Canine Detection Experts and the Association of Health Protection and Environments that BFMTV reveals, the number of cases of bedroom infestations increased by 50% in June 2025 compared to the same period last year.
“The summer season confirms the resurgence of risk, especially in the areas of rotation of the population poorly prepared or high. Although the general figures of the year show an improvement, summer remains a period of vulnerability, where infestations are increasing,” says the unions on the initiative of this study, while there are no national data provided by the government.
In fact, if the beginning of summer shows an impulse of fever, the situation softened a lot, with a drop in positive cases of around 26% in the first months of 2025. It was still 76,687 interventions that took place in the first 6 for the year.
“Generalized awareness”
These more numerous interventions before summer are partly explained by “a generalized consciousness” on bed bugs, according to unions. “The actors request more upstream experience, which makes it possible to intervene before, even to avoid massive infestations,” say professionals in the sector.
“This drop in positive cases confirms the growing efficiency of control and prevention measures, and underlines a professional turn in bedbug management,” said the press release.
The study of the SEDCPL welcomes the professional sector in particular that contributed to the decrease in these brown creatures. “Technical interventions are better and better controlled,” he rejoices the union that points out “an increase in the skills of hygienist applicators.”
Summer, a conducive period for the dissemination of bed bugs
Questioned by BFMTV in early July, Stéphane Bras, spokesman for the Association for Health and Environments, had indicated that summer is conducive to the diffusion of bed bugs.
“With the summer period, there is a more important elaboration. We are in a tourist country, people will come to rentals, in hotels, in trains …”, said Stéphane Bras.
The hotels would be, after a bad pass, less subject to these infestations, thanks to a prevention policy. “The hotel industry, historically exposed to the risk of errors, has massively invested in prevention protocols. The impact is final: the infestations detected in this sector have been divided by three,” the study said.
The fact is that prevention is the best way to avoid carrying these pests from your holiday place. It is recommended to always see your holiday place before depositing your things there, starting with inspecting bedding in search of insect traces or waste. And, upon his return home, to apply great surveillance before keeping his things.
Source: BFM TV
