Source: 10tv.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A task force was unveiled Thursday by the Franklin County Board of Health in hopes of avoiding increasing cases of bed bugs.
According to the county, there have been two major bed bug infestations this year.
Bed bugs can fester for months inside homes and their bites leave marks, 10TV’s Andy Hirsch reported.
COLUMBUS, [...]

Source:  The Columbus Dispatch
Move over frogs and locusts, the bedbugs are coming.
“Ladies and gentlemen, they’re here,” said Bill Willis, an lawyer who handles landlord-tenant disputes. “I field three to five bedbug problems a day. I want it to stop.”
With concern mounting over the resurgence of bedbugs, the Franklin County Board of Health is establishing an [...]

Source:  KOB.com
Keeping the bedbugs from biting has been a challenge at one Four Corners motel. A rash of customer complaints now has other hotels in the area taking action to keep the nighttime nibblers at bay.
A Days Inn near downtown Farmington became the spotlight of the problem a month ago when more than ten people [...]

Source:  wmtw.com
PORTLAND, Maine — A Portland detoxification shelter closed Sunday night because of bed bugs.
The Milestone Foundation at 65 India St. will have an exterminator visit Tuesday and has plans to reopen Tuesday night, said Kevin House, a shelter attendant.Other local shelters are helping to take in anyone who had planned to stay at the [...]

Source:  The Vancouver Sun
What it’s called: The bed bug, or in Latin, Cimex lectularius.
What it looks like: A small wingless oval-shaped insect, no more than half a centimetre long, that looks like something out of the Cretaceous period. Its light tan to deep brown flat body is formed by six distinct horizontal plates that give [...]

Hello All,
Now that PestWorld has finally arrived I can speak freely of another bed bug monitor set to hit the market.  Up until now I was under a non-disclosure agreement and had to keep things tight lipped.
The initial launch of the CDC 3000 (Cimex Detection Case) is this week at PestWorld.  However, they are only [...]

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Source:  The Daily Times
FARMINGTON — An infestation by thousands of bugs about a quarter-inch long ultimately will cost owners of Days Inn $63,000.
“We are replacing everything,” said Rez Chowdhury, who owns the bedbug-infested structure. “We’ve already ordered new carpet and bedding, and we’re waiting for results of an investigation by Ecolab.”
Rocky Jordan, the Ecolab employee [...]

Source:  CBCNews.ca

A Toronto municipal councillor wants the city’s health board to take steps to declare the growing problem of bedbugs a “health hazard.”
Howard Moscoe said he will urge the board to ask the province to make the necessary changes under the provincial Health Act.
Last year, pest control companies reported a marked increase in bedbug infestations.
One [...]

Source:  TriCities.com
Many of the 137 people who live at the John Sevier apartment building in Johnson City haven’t been sleeping all that tight for at least the last year-and-a-half. For months, the government housing apartment complex, home to seniors and people with disabilities, has been infested by bed bugs.
“Vampires are real,” Bryan Saunders said of [...]

Source: The Toronto Star
Rima Zavys helps people who need a little help living on their own. Her office is in the Woodgreen Community Services building, on Queen near Logan.
Her staff is in and out of all sorts of housing, helping all sorts of people, all the time; and as you might guess, her staff [...]