Category: bed bug spread
By nobugsonme on Jan 22, 2008 in CUSE, Center for Urban and Structural Entomology, Luxor Management, Texas A&M, Texas A&M research on bed bugs, bed bug research, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bedbugs, coat piles, colleges, curbside furniture, dorms, flea markets, how to avoid bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, parties, students and bed bugs, thebatt.com | 0 Comments
Independent Texas A&M student paper thebatt.com covers bed bugs this week. They mention the seminars in New York City, and the interesting research out of the Center for Urban and Structural Entomology (CUSE, housed at Texas A&M) on bed bugs and chicken farms. And–because it’s a college paper, perhaps–they dig right into the […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 10, 2008 in affordable housing, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, cincinnati, cincinnati department of public health, city policies, elderly, eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, joyce jones, laundry, low-income housing, northern kentucky, ohio, puclic health, senior apartments, seniors, smuel blackmon, stanley rowe | 2 Comments
Cincinnati held a meeting yesterday about bed bugs. Channel 9 (ABC) said yesterday:
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority will show the Health, Environment and Education Committee a presentation on the pests.
Officials said bed bugs are a big problem in the city’s public housing, which is overseen by the Housing Authority.
According to Channel 12, Cincinnati politicians […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 30, 2007 in 311, Lexington, activism, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in colleges, bed bugs in schools, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, california, cincinnati, department of health, government response to bed bugs, how to eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, hpd, kentucky, low-income housing, marymount manhattan college, mayor bloomberg, new york city, new york city department of education, new york daily news, nyc, nyc dohmh, nyc housing and preservation department, nycdoe, ohio, public housing, san francisco, tenants and landlords | 15 Comments
The lead story in the “News” section of today’s New York Daily News is on bed bugs. That’s good: it’s always good to see bed bugs in the news.
It’s not a particularly helpful story, however.
For starters, there are inaccuracies. Let’s start with this caption below a photo of an adult bed bug:
Unfed […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 22, 2007 in 311, CDC, PCOs, Toronto Public Health, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, canada, incidence, landlords, new york, nyc, ontario, pest control, public health, tenants, toronto, toronto sun, usa | 1 Comment
We haven’t had any real data about how many people in Toronto are suffering from bed bugs since the 2003 survey of Toronto PCOs.
But this article in Friday’s Toronto Sun has some interesting statistics. On the one hand,
According to Reg Ayre, the city’s Healthy Environments manager, Toronto Public Health received 194 calls for […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 22, 2007 in SFist.com, bed bug spread, bed bugs, california, san francisco | 0 Comments
And possible bedbuggers, in San Francisco.
Welcome to any SFist.com readers who might be feeling a bit itchy of late. You might need the FAQs, or the forums. It might be bed bugs, but we hope it’s a false alarm.
By nobugsonme on Dec 10, 2007 in affordable housing, astral, bed bug blog, bed bug epidemic, bed bug event, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, colorado, colorado pest control association, connecticut, glenwood springs, greenpoint, history, hotels, how to get rid of bed bugs, kill bed bugs, news, newyorkshitty.com, nyc, pest control, public education, stamford, tales of bed bug woe | 0 Comments
Slightly delayed news round-up:
newyorkshitty.com » ‘Tis The Season: Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite!
miss heather of newyorkshitty.com shares a current photo of suspected bed bug refuse at the Astral Apartments in Greenpoint, and shares an article from exactly 121 years ago, decrying the need for “quality affordable housing”, free of vermin.
Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Valley […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 2, 2007 in 311, apartments, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bedbugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, landlords, new york, new york city bed bugs, new york times, nyc, nytimes, real estate, tenants, the hunt | 1 Comment
Remember back in September, when the New York Times column “The Hunt” featured a young couple who moved five times in two-and-a-half years, only to end up in an apartment with bed bugs?
I am astonished to find that, not even three months later, a second “The Hunt” column results in a bedbugged apartment. In […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 28, 2007 in PCOs, bed bug news, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, california, cooperation, exterminate bed bugs, get rid of bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, landlords, nine treatments, pyrethroid resistance, rene laraine, repeated treatments, resistance, tenants, thousand oaks, treatment, usa, ventura | 7 Comments
Hungry bedbugs a rising problem in some areas : Ventura County Star
Rene Laraine of Thousand Oaks, California, has bed bugs.
Laraine said that after nine treatments performed by two pest control companies, the bedbugs are still there.
A representative for Essex Properties, the company that manages the complex, said the company is doing what it can to […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 27, 2007 in Yellowstone City-County Health Department, bed bug denial, bed bug epidemic, bed bug harborages, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs in shelters, beds, billings, homeless, how to get rid of bed bugs, mattresses, montana, montana rescue mission, pest control, shelter, usa | 3 Comments
BillingsGazette.com: “Bedbugs give shelter a challenge”
This article carries more details on the bed bug war going on in the Montana Rescue Mission men’s shelter than the one blogged last week. It is a harrowing reminder of how hard it is to get rid of bed bugs under certain circumstances.
More than a year ago, the […]
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