Jul 28 2009
Source: Daily Herald (Chicago)
Monina Finklea wasn’t concerned when she spotted a lone bug – about the size of an apple seed – on her bed in the Naperville hotel where her family is staying while waiting to move into their new home.
But that next morning, the Woodridge woman said she awoke to find about 100 [...]
Jul 27 2009
Source: Dayton Daily News
The downtown Biltmore Towers apartments will be emptied and fumigated for a week to fight a bedbug infestation.
The all-out battle on the tenacious bloodsucking insects represents a new front in a two-year war inside the privately owned brick building at 210 N. Main St.
On Aug. 22, workers from Terminix will tape and [...]
Jul 27 2009
Source: The National (United Arab Emirates)
ABU DHABI – Bedbugs are on the march, sparking sharp increases both in business for pest control firms and in hospital visits by people who have been bitten.
While they thrive in labour camps and high occupancy dwellings, the bugs, which feed on human blood, are moving increasingly into single-family homes, [...]
Jul 23 2009
Source: SILive.com
About a dozen tiny bugs were clustered earlier today in a pill vial atop a dresser in Edward Reed and Juanise Rayford’s single-room apartment in the Midland Motor Inn.
Some were dead. Others scuttled along the container’s plastic bottom.
Reed, 42, and Ms. Rayford, 43, say the tiny critters are among the scores of bedbugs that [...]
Jul 22 2009
Source: CBS2chicago.com
A family filed a lawsuit against a northwest suburban hotel Wednesday after the room they rented was allegedly infested with bed bugs—which they unwittingly ended up bringing to their home.
Chowdhury Taher, Batool Farooq and their child Rehan Chowdhury went to the Holiday Inn Select-Chicago O’Hare, 10233 W. Higgins Rd. in Rosemont, on August 25, [...]
Jul 21 2009
Source: The Tennessean.com
A Nashville woman is suing Rent-a-Center for $575,000, claiming the furniture she rented late last year was infested with bed bugs.
According to the suit, filed in Davidson County Circuit Court on Monday, Evangela Cowan of Hillside Avenue signed a rental contract for the furniture, which included a mattress and box springs, at a [...]
Jul 14 2009
Source: New York Times
Bed bugs are expert travelers. They can hitchhike their way from room to room, building to building, and even to your home (via suitcases).
The blood-sucking critters have been on the rise and the hotel industry is taking note.
As my colleague Joe Sharkey reports in today’s On The Road column, the New York [...]
Jul 08 2009
Source: CBC.ca
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling Dragonfly II mosquito traps and NightWatch bed bug monitors over laceration or burn hazards.
The Dragonfly II Model 503 is a cylindrical unit made of metal and plastic with a black, silver and dark graphite finish.
The units are about 91 cm tall and 20 cm in diameter.
The [...]
Jul 08 2009
Source: Insciences
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Bedbug infestations are notoriously hard to eliminate, but University of Florida researchers have developed a low-cost, low-tech method to kill the bloodsucking insects in furniture and bedding, using heat. With less than $400 in equipment they created a portable chamber big enough for a bed or dresser. Heaters inside the [...]
Jul 03 2009
Source: Associated Press
NH city rallies around refugees to banish bedbugs
By HOLLY RAMER – 1 day ago
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — After all the officials took turns explaining a plan to end a bedbug infestation in an apartment building where mostly refugees live, Michel Ndayavugwi simply pointed to the young boy dozing in a [...]