entomologists podcasting; bed bugs and disease; another bedbugged motel closed; Singapore, Hawai’i
By Nobugsonme on Dec 21, 2007 in Ventura motel closed due to bed bugs, alvaro romero, bed bug podcast, bed bugs, bed bugs and disease, bed bugs and health, bed bugs in Singapore, bed bugs in hawai'i, bedbugs, california, dr. jerome goddard, history, media, news, rick cooper, travelers beach inn, ventura
Bed bug podcasts, bed bug news:
- Pest Management Professional - Continued technological and educational advancement in pest detection, identification, treatment and control methods. | Web Exclusive | 10 Questions with Jerome GoddardTen Questions with Jerome Goddard (Pest Management Professional Podcast)–includes interesting discussion of whether bed bugs are potential transmitters of disease, or not. From 9/06, but new to me and maybe you too.
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- PCTOnline.com :: Article :: [Focus On Public Health] Do Bed Bugs Carry Disease?Article from PCTOnline by Jerome Goddard (11/2003) on whether bed bugs spread disease.
(tags: bedbugs disease health diseasevector Dr.JeromeGoddard PCTOnline)
- Pest Management Professional podcast | 10 Questions with Alvaro RomeroInterview with Univ. of Kentucky bed bug researcher / graduate student Alvaro Romero. From April 2007.
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- Pest Management Professional Podcast | 10 Questions with Rick CooperInterview with Rick Cooper of Cooper Pest, NJ–focusing on pesticide resistance. September 2007.
(tags: rickcooper interview podcast sept2007)
- San Jose Mercury News - Bedbugs, electrical problems force evacuation of Ventura motel“A bedbug-infested low-rent Ventura motel was shut down by authorities, forcing poor families and disabled tenants to spend the Christmas season hunting for cheap lodging.” The 37-room Travelers Beach Inn hopes to reopen in a week.
(tags: bedbugs hotelclosure ventura california travelersbeachinn motel code dec2007 2007 budgetmotel)
- Review of Judith McNeil’s The Girl with the Cardboard Port :: Sarah Chew, thestar.com.my“She recalled with humour the shock of discovering squat toilets, bed bugs, and corpse-eating rats…” From a review of an Australian woman’s memoir of life in 1950s/early 1960s Singapore.
(tags: singapore bedbugs 1950s 1960s judithmcneil memoir dec2007 2007 bookreview)
- Rats: Hawaii’s first invasive species - The Molokai Times“In cities, rats are one of Hawaii’s biggest pest problems after ants and bed bugs, said Tim Lyons, director of the Hawaii Pest Control Association.” Bed bugs are #2? Not for long, I suspect.
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kraystone | Dec 22, 2007 | Reply
My dad said he had the bugs when he was very young, probably 40 years ago in Singapore. Nowadays very little people hear about these blood suckers. Maybe it has to do with our building material in Singapore, steel and cement.
Our apartment’s floorings are white tiles