bedbugs

It's evening, you're just settling down for a drink in your new hotel, and your wrists, your ankles, your neck, start to itch, and red lumps appear. Now you know you chose last night's hotel badly; it had bedbugs.

Increased travel, heavily heated rooms, a ban on some pesticides, and the sale of second-hand and reconditioned mattresses have been blamed for the increasing spread and concentration of Cimex lectularius, the most common bedbug in temperate areas.

Adult bedbugs can be seen with the naked eye, but being nocturnal and generally hiding in crevices and seams, in light switches, radios and other crannies, are difficult to see. 

Eradication usually requires the employment of a professional pest control company.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “bedbugs”

• in Technorati Women
  Bedbugs Plus MRSA Should Not Equal Panic
  MRSA found by researchers in three bedbugs. Should we panic?
  by dhdo411 / on May 12, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  The Bedbugs Are Coming! The Bedbugs Are Coming!
  They’re baaaack!
  by docentman / on Jan 3, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Bed Bugs Hit Swanky Juicy Couture in NYC
  Bed bugs continue to be a growing problem.
  by caroline1234 / on Dec 5, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bedbugs”

 

• BedBug Chasers Now Franchising

  
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  BedBug Chasers provides a 100% green and chemical free system for eliminating bedbugs using heat. According to a press release they just sent over, they’re franchising. Franchise info is here . BedBug Chasers, a World Class provider of heat remediation services and manufacturer of US made bed bug heat ...
  1 week ago

• What do you want to know by ProBest Pest Management!

  
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  Spiders are considered venomous , which means they secrete venom and inject it into their prey by biting. Some people mistakenly call spiders poisonous, but this is incorrect because they are not toxic if ingested. Mosquitoes have forty-seven teeth. Honeybees are far more dangerous than snakes. Bees kill more ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bedbugs Ordinance Stalls In City Council

  
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  City Law Department Senior Counsel Rose Kelly says the proposed ordinance means for both tenants and landlords to act quickly if there is an infestation of bedbugs in an apartment.
  2 weeks ago

• And .... theyre off!

  
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  Louisiana Parents Fear Elementary School Cafeteria Scanner Will Implant the Antichrist’s ‘Mark of the Beast’ on Kids’ Hands Congress: They dont work for you . Bedbugs in hospitals. We can blame Chile for deforming the earth . This PROVES we should let the oil companies build pipelines all over the ...
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• In the old days these would have been gone in 2 shakes…but not now!

  
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  In the old days these would have been gone in 2 shakes… but not now!   I remember those days as if they were only a year or so ago, wait they were. This Bed Bug problem in continuing and doesn’t look like it is going to let up very soon. These little biters are showing up in houses across the U.S. at ...
  3 weeks ago

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