Aug 31 2009
Source: UPI.com
ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 30 (UPI) — Florida hotels are changing their inspection policies to actually let inspectors into rooms to search for bedbugs, hotel inspection officials said.
The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported a new policy by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s Division of Hotels and Restaurants
, which provides for inspection, formal warnings and [...]
Aug 28 2009
Hello All,
I am just returning from the NPMA Bed Bug Symposium in Seattle and wanted to fill you in on the details.
First I would like to tell you how pleased I was to see that the attendees were made up of roughly 90% non-pest control people. The audience was primarily composed of Hotel Associations, Apartment [...]
Aug 28 2009
Source: Komo News
SEATTLE — Bed bugs are making a nasty little comeback, so say officials at the “Bed Bug Summit” held Thursday in Seattle.
“They’re elusive, we just don’t typically see them,” said Greg Baumann with the National Pest Management Association. “They’re nocturnal; they only come out at night.”
And the painful pests are on the rise. [...]
Aug 28 2009
Source: MyNorthwest.com
Having a hard time sleeping at night? Bed bugs are becoming a growing problem and it’s the topic of a summit being held in downtown Seattle Thursday.
Bug experts say they’re seeing a lot more of them in hotels on the west coast. But it’s also a problem [...]
Aug 28 2009
Source: Seattle Times
When a problem makes it into a late-night monologue, it’s gone mainstream.
From Conan O’Brien on Monday’s “Tonight Show”: “Former President Clinton recently had to clear out of his office for a few days because it’s infested with bedbugs. Experts are calling it the 500th reason President Clinton shouldn’t be allowed to have a [...]
Aug 28 2009
Source: Springfield News-Sun
SPRINGFIELD — Cole Manor residents are picketing outside the Burnett Road apartment complex Wednesday, Aug. 26, demanding action on a bedbug infestation there.
Some residents say they aren’t satisfied with the way the Springfield Metropolitan Housing Authority has addressed the problem.
“They need to give us more resolutions,” said Patricia Clay. “I don’t know what else [...]
Aug 28 2009
Source: ConnPost.com
MILFORD — A New York man who stayed one night at a city hotel is suing the hotel over bedbug bites he said he got there two years ago.
According to a lawsuit transferred this week to Milford Superior Court from New Haven Superior Court, Luis Jorge, of Glendale, N.Y., is seeking more than $15,000 [...]
Aug 28 2009
Source: Winnipeg Free Press
The Salvation Army and Manitoba Housing are working secretly with a local inventor on a treatment that kills bedbugs using heat.
But Poulin’s Pest Control Services has been using a similar method since December and the local pest exterminator said there’s nothing secret about it.
“We just raise the heat to a lethal temperature [...]
Aug 28 2009
Source: The New York Times
IF you buy an apartment in a building with bedbugs, you will want to make sure your new home is bug-free by the time your first moving box crosses the threshold.
For an inspection, pest control companies charge anywhere from $75 to several hundred dollars, said Gil Bloom, the vice president of [...]
Aug 28 2009
Source: The New York Times
THE elegant two-bedroom co-op in an Upper East Side prewar building had drifted on the market for nine months by the time the first-time buyers laid eyes on it this spring. They fell hard for its original detail, convenient location and friendly price.
The sellers, a family with a third child on [...]