Bed Bugs In Box Spring But Not Mattress. Even a heavy duty mattress and box spring cover will not stop bed bugs completely. Highly dense materials like memory foam and latex can do a good job of keeping them out of the center of your mattress but the bugs can still crawl into the box spring and adjacent framework. Sheets will not shield you from bed bug bites.
From your mattress to your box spring make sure you re protected against bed bugs. On the other hand 12 bed bugs escaped from the untreated mattress.
Bed bugs might not be able to live inside the encasement but they can live outside of it for sure says potter.
Label the mattress as bed bug infested with paint signs or marker. Highly dense materials like memory foam and latex can do a good job of keeping them out of the center of your mattress but the bugs can still crawl into the box spring and adjacent framework. Cut the mattress in various places to make it unusable. Box springs are notorious for harboring bed bugs.
