The Hamilton Spectator reports on the spread of bed bugs in that Ontario city.
The story focuses on Lisa Courtney’s bed bug battle:
Courtney tossed out her bed, mattress and linens. CityHousing, Hamilton’s social housing agency, had her Cumberland Avenue apartment treated and life returned to normal.
But now, the bedbugs are back. Courtney’s anxiety has shot up […]

This from the Vermont Cynic, the University of Vermont’s student paper, which claims bed bugs are in UVM’s Living/Learning’s B-Building, in German House (”bed bug” is die Wanze to our Deutsch-speaking friends).
Students in a suite of Living/Learning’s B-building were displaced last week after it was discovered that one of the inhabitants had been bitten by […]

recent bites from bed bugs
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Another bed bug bite photo from entomologist Lou Sorkin, who feeds his “pet” bed bug colony regularly. As odd as this seems to someone going through bed bugs, researchers like Lou go through all this just to learn more about our enemy, Mr. Cimex Lectularius. […]

Left hand, mm rule, 6 hours after Cimex feeding
Originally uploaded by louento.pix
Lou Sorkin says, of this bed bug bite photo:
6 hours after feeding 2 adults and 30 bed bug nymphs. Initially bite sites were raised bumps and somewhat itchy. Within 30 minutes swelling subsides, itching stops, but small red dots left where bed […]

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Today, bed bug news from Saskatoon and Salt Lake City.
First, an entire apartment building is being treated for bed bugs in the Fairhaven area of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan after “a couple isolated incidents” of bed bugs. This appears to be a fairly proactive move, if it is true that the incidents were isolated and few […]

WSJ.com reports that Logical Images, a Rochester, N.Y.-based medical diagnostic imaging service, says that bed bugs were the number one diagnostic image searched for (using their product) in 2007.
The popularity of such searches is not surprising, since bed bug bites are increasingly common, and nearly impossible to visually diagnose (because these allergic reactions take such […]

There is so much bed bug news now, that blogging even half of the major articles that come across my web browser is too much. I offer a selection, as well as an interesting tidbit from a NYC blogger. More news forthcoming, including an update on Cincinnati, and some exciting developments in San […]

We Bedbuggers know that bed bugs can be very difficult to find, even for trained Pest Control Operators. Time and again, people with bites are told they do not have any “evidence.” Since other conditions and pests can cause similar symptoms, it is of course important that other “signs” are present–but too often, […]

Lindsay Roberts reports for WVEC.com that bed bugs are flourishing in Virginia hotels in areas such as Newport News, Hampton Roads, and Virginia Beach.
One woman is interviewed who used to work as a motel housekeeper; she started getting bitten at work, and she quit her job because of it.
“If I’m getting bit up like this, […]

Bed bugs were the subject of a report on Morning Edition this morning.
While it is always good that bed bugs are in the news, I have a few issues with the way this story was presented.
First, NPR fell into the trap of describing bed bug bites as if they always look the same:
Mayhill Fowler first […]

In Reno, they have so few bed bug cases, that the health department called three residents of an apartment complex to tell them their building is infested. (New Yorkers, are you laughing?!)
Unfortunately, as Geralda Miller of the Reno Gazette Journal reports, the advice being given to tenants is not great:

“They’re an indoor critter,” [Jeff […]