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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bedbugs”

• Bed Bugs Are Back: Are We Ready? report now available

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  The new report on Bed Bugs in Toronto which we mentioned on Monday can now be obtained from Woodgreen Community Services (click to download the PDF ), who sponsored the study along with Habitat Services and Public Interest , with funding from the City of Toronto and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. ...
  11 hours ago

• Ohio fighting to get Propoxur for residential bed bug applications

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  The Ohio Department of Agriculture has asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for an emergency exemption to allow the use of the pesticide Propoxur in residences; more than a dozen additional states are supporting this request, The Columbus Dispatch reports . The pesticide is currently in use for crops, ...
  12 hours ago

• So, it’s propoxur

  
  New York vs Bed Bugs — Authority: 114
  When we noticed the talk about the active consideration by EPA of Section 18 emergency exemptions for bed bugs, it wasn’t clear which pesticides were being discussed. The Columbus Dispatch reported today that Ohio is in a position to get propoxur for bed bugs . The story about today’s Central Ohio Bed Bug ...
  1 day ago

• “Bed bugs are back, and we’re not ready,” Sean Meagher tells Toronto

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  “Bed bugs are back, and we’re not ready.” Those are the words Sean Meagher told a crowd of 100 people who gathered in Toronto today to discuss a new report on the city’s bed bug problem. CBC has a video about this event here (though I was glad to see it, it also contained some dodgy suggestions for people ...
  2 days ago

• Reports from Toronto, including new Toronto Bed Bug Project updates

  
  New York vs Bed Bugs — Authority: 114
  There’s news from Toronto today, the presentation of a new report titled “Bed Bugs Are Back: Are We Ready?” commissioned by the city of Toronto and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care according to this news report . Here’s another story with a video segment . So, I can’t find it! Do send a ...
  2 days ago

• The Toronto Bed Bug Project is surveying residents about bed bugs

  
  New York vs Bed Bugs — Authority: 114
  Check out the online survey : Anyone can get bed bugs! Bed bugs can cause anxiety, allergic reactions, and financial hardship. The Toronto Bed Bug Project is working to develop strategies to manage bed bug infestations. Did you buy any over-the-counter products to deal with bed bugs? This is so encouraging. ...
  2 days ago

• 30 Rock, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: recent bed bug television storylines

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  The Los Angeles Times Show Tracker gives a rundown on this week’s “30 Rock” (”Audition Day,” Season 4 Episode 4) which featured a bed bugs sub-plot. While everyone else was on the lookout for new talent, Jack had his own mission: A quest for acceptance. With a nasty case of bed bugs (otherwise known as ...
  5 days ago

• Bed bug educational event in the Boston area

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  Parakeets helpfully recommends this upcoming bed bug educational event being run by Mass Housing on 11/17 in the Boston area. She tells us it costs $40, and directs you to the full information (and registration details) in this PDF . Bed Bugs: A Team Response An infestation of bed bugs can be very costly in terms ...
  1 week ago

• McSweeney’s on Bed Bugs part 3: who would you bite if you were a bed bug?

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  A taste of Alan Good’s latest Global War on Bed Bugs column in McSweeney’s: It is necessary to explain a biological fact before revealing the list of people I would bite if I were a bedbug: a bedbug partakes of five blood meals in its nasty journey from egg to adulthood. Consequently, your hematophagous narrator ...
  1 week ago

• Brookview Apartment tenants in Louisville display sign in window: “These apartments have bugs!!!”

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  Some Louisville tenants are trying to get their landlord’s attention, claiming their apartment building has many problems, including bed bugs. They’ve gotten 50 people from their building to sign a petition against the landlord. A photo included in this story from WHAS 11 news shows tenants hanging a banner in ...
  1 week ago

• Rightfully Pissed Off

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  Rightfully Pissed Off Originally uploaded by Social Interloper The sign reads, “No THANKS to Shi**y Apartments City Apartments AKA Prime Apartment Properties I, LLC This Couch HAS BED BUGS.” Another find from San Francisco’s amazing Social Interloper. Similar Posts: None Found
  1 week ago

• BASF’s bed bug prevention pitch

  
  New York vs Bed Bugs — Authority: 114
  Curiosity about PestWorld led me to these videos of some of the exhibitors . 1 BASF exhibitor (second video): … a printed bed bug solution guide which outlines a new protocol, which features Phantom, Phantom pressurized insecticide and Alpine dust. And for the very first time, we feel as though we have an ...
  1 week ago

• Bed bugs and furniture rentals: a risky business

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  Aaron Schalk told Channel Four in Nashville (see: Bedbugs Infest Family’s Sofas ) that his pest control operator suspected sofas from an unnamed furniture rental firm brought bed bugs into his family’s home: Schalk said the pest control worker asked where the couches came from. “She said, “Did you get them ...
  1 week ago

• Use of Bedbug Sprays

  
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  If you found out that you have bedbugs at home, the next thing to do is to find the site that is infested with these insects. Finding the site of infestation is really quite easy. First, observe the time when you had the bite marks. Where did you lie down that time? Once you already know which room, you now have to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Use of Bedbug Sprays

  
  blabstr.com — Authority: 162
  Do you have bedbugs at home? If you do, you must first identify the site of infestation. How can you do this?
  2 weeks ago

• “Crisis”

  
  New York vs Bed Bugs — Authority: 114
  EPA will give an update on the National Bed Bug Summit today at NPMA’s PestWorld in Las Vegas. Lois Rossi and Kevin Sweeney will: discuss steps the government has taken since April to address the bed bug “crisis.” Okay, don’t believe me on the scare quotes (PDF)? ? Also, when will the public get ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Smiths get bed bugs: HPD’s bed bug course

  
  New York vs Bed Bugs — Authority: 114
  The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has developed an online bed bug course: Meet Mrs. Smith, a middle income New Yorker; meet Mr. Smith, her husband of four years. They have a cat named Sweetpea. This family of three lives in a studio apartment. Mrs. Smith notices a rash along ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cambridge, Massachusetts City Council to look into how to address city’s bed bug problems

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  Wicked Local Cambridge (Massachusetts) reports the following in a brief recap of  last night’s Cambridge City Council meeting: Councilors voted to look further into bedbug extermination protocol and ways make the associated costs for residents more affordable. I had some trouble with this video of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bed bugs at Drew University, New Jersey

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  Drew University recently alerted its students that bed bugs were found in a student’s room.  The student was moved temporarily while the room was treated and furniture and mattresses were replaced. A campus-wide e-mail was sent out on Oct. 15 letting students know that two bed bugs had been found. Student ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYC Department of Health tells press about movie theater bed bug complaint

  
  Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com — Authority: 125
  The New York City Health Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) apparently received an anonymous tip last week that the UA Theater Sheepshead Bay 14 on Shore Parkway, in Brooklyn had bed bugs. Fox 5 News reports that A manager on site did not want to speak with Fox 5’s Ti-Hua Chang about the reported ...
  2 weeks ago

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