The Structural Pest Management Association of British Columbia (SPMA of BC) is considering hosting a free info session on bed bugs for the general public.  They are considering a date in November but nothing is finalized yet.
The SPMA does not know how many people will attend and is uncertain of the size of venue needed.  [...]

Source:  MSNBC
Laptops, textbooks and new jeans are among the must-haves for college students heading back to campus, but the most common back-to-school item may well be the blood-sucking bedbug. Colleges around the U.S. are reporting a scourge of the little buggers infesting dormitories, and the problem only gets worse when they hitchhike on their coed [...]

Source:  Victoria Times Colonist
The bedbug, virtually eliminated decades ago, is taking a fierce new bite out of Victoria, with experts reporting an exponential increase in outbreaks in homes, apartments and hotels.
“Since 2003 there have been huge increases year upon year,” says Blair Dooley, owner of Old Island Pest Control.
“All the data I get from associations [...]

Source:  Winnipeg Free Press
International travellers are bringing some unwanted guests back to Manitoba, and that’s creating a boom in business for one local exterminator.
Poulin’s Pest Control has seen a 600- to 700-per-cent increase in bedbug calls in the last four or five years, general manager Lincoln Poulin said in an interview.
And Poulin attributed the increase [...]

Source:  The Durango Herald
German visitors find infestation in Cortez hotel

German tourists Billy and Helga Held didn’t travel to Cortez to have a close encounter with bedbugs, but that’s exactly what they got.
In the wee hours of Aug. 18, before they were to visit Mesa Verde National Park, [...]

Source:  Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN — As reported in the Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn complaints to the city about bedbugs have surged more than 1,900 percent since 2004.
“Now, I notice mattresses stacked up everywhere on the sidewalk,” one reader commented. “It’s one of those rare stories that really changes the way you walk down the street.”
While everywhere [...]

Source:  Los Angeles Times
A growing number of new and returning college students may be signing up for an unexpected entomology class this fall as they descend upon campus housing, say experts: About 15 years after bedbugs began to reappear in American homes and hotels, a growing number of campuses are finding the blood-sucking pests to [...]

Source:  Peterborough Examiner
My friend Bob retired early from teaching high school and now manages a movie theatre in a Big City. The local TV station,
always seeking sensationalism, decided to host a panel of experts on what it called “the growing bed bug epidemic” (two infestations last year, three this year = one epidemic).
The researcher discovered [...]

Source:  Connecticut Post
So you wake up one fine morning only to discover two itchy, pink welts on your neck. Three scenarios immediately come to mind:
1. You had a visit from Count Dracula last night.
2. You were bitten by mosquitoes.
3. You have bedbugs in your house.
Bedbugs, the scourge of fleabag hotels a century ago, have moved [...]

Source: News Radio 1200
The itchy little critters have made a resurgence in dorm rooms.
By Michael Board
Students will soon be moving back into the dorms at Texas A&M, but first the school has to get rid of some unwelcome guests, who have been sleeping in their beds.
“We’ve been dealing with bedbugs in several buildings,” says [...]