Sep
30
2008
Recently I was contacted by the Discovery Channel in regards to season two of their successful show, Verminators, which is a reality based look at the pest control industry. They are looking for people that are suffering from bed bugs. Boy have they come to the right place !!!
If you are a bed bug sufferer [...]
Sep
30
2008
Hotel Owners Give Notice To Managers To Leave
Source: DailyTimes.com (New Mexico)
FARMINGTON — A rash of complaints about bedbug bites at a local lodging establishment focuses attention on the lack of regulation in place to deal with the problem.Bedbugs, which measure from three-sixteenths to five-sixteenths of an inch in length, began making a comeback across the [...]
Sep
30
2008
Source: NY Sun
The bedbug boom has brought many people pain, but it does have at least one upside: Exterminators are profiting.
The president of PestAway, Jeffrey Eisenberg, who has a loyal following on the Upper West Side, said he receives between 600 and 700 bedbug calls each week, up from about a dozen calls each month [...]
Sep
29
2008
Source: TheTimesNews.net
Management and tenants of the John Sevier Center have been battling bedbugs for more than a year, most recently with a HUD directive to eradicate the problem.
After 18 months of efforts to exterminate the parasites in common areas and individual rooms in the 150-unit apartment tower, M&M Properties is pursuing a grant to treat [...]
Sep
28
2008
Source: The Register Guard
PORTLAND — For centuries the evening couplet “Sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite” settled like an itchy benediction on kids headed for dreamland. The word “bedbug” was not then mentioned in polite society.
But the apple-seed-sized insects, long subdued by insecticide, are making a comeback and are showing up in a place [...]
Sep
26
2008
Source: IrishTimes.com
AN INFESTATION of bed bugs at Listowel Community Hospital in Co Kerry has seen a number of patients relocated, all admissions cancelled and the closure of some wards in an effort to eradicate them, the HSE has confirmed.
Visiting is also restricted until fumigation takes place at the 63-bed hospital, which caters mainly for the [...]
Sep
25
2008
Source: NY Sun
Lawyers who visited Brooklyn housing court were abuzz recently, when bed bugs were reportedly spotted inside a courtroom on Livingston Street.
A spokeswoman for the courts insists the courts are insect-free, but the claim came as attorneys for landlords and tenants said bed bug disputes are filling the docket in New York City courts. [...]
Sep
23
2008
Source: TopNews.in
London, Sept 23 : A researcher from the University of Sheffield has found a unique organ on female bedbugs that could help in the battle against malaria.
Female bedbugs suffer serious problems from the amorous attentions of the opposite sex. The organ offers these females a degree of immunity from infections introduced by violent males.
The [...]
Sep
21
2008
Source: The Beacon
Recently some Wilkes University residents have learned to take the old cliche, “Don’t let the bed bugs bite,” as gospel.
Brenda Stanley, director of residence life at Wilkes University, confirmed an outbreak of Cimex lectularius, or bed bugs, in one of the University’s residence halls.
“The Office of Residence Life can confirm a report [...]
Sep
19
2008
Source: DallasNews.com
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – As Texas A&M students prepared to return to campus this semester, administrators were working to make sure another group of dorm residents wasn’t also making a comeback: bedbugs
That meant bringing in bug-sniffing dogs.
Students had reported several cases of bedbugs in dormitories since fall 2006, said Dan Mizer, associate director of [...]