Sniffer dogs deployed to seek out bedbugs in UK hotels and homes

Firms with specially trained dogs that can detect infestations are increasingly in demand

Hotels and homeowners are calling in specially trained dogs to sniff out bedbugs that can lurk in cracks and crevices in bedrooms amid concerns that infestations are on the rise in the UK.

The spread of bedbugs declined during the Covid crisis as hotels closed and travel ground to a halt but, since the world reopened, dormant populations have begun to bounce back, if not yet to the level reached before the pandemic.