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By nobugsonme on Nov 6, 2007 in Men's Health Magazine, avoiding bed bugs, bed bug hotels, bed bugs, bedbugs, big business, consumer, consumer warning, delivery trucks, detecting bed bugs, detection, gender, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, travel, travel and bed bugs | 0 Comments
Men’s Health magazine on bed bugs, this month: it’s just a brief snippet in an article of travel tips, but it hits home:
Some Souvenirs Have Legs
Hotels are a haven for bedbugs. Pest-control companies say hotels account for more than 37 percent of their bedbug business, according to Pest Control Technology magazine.
I don’t think I’ve […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 5, 2007 in John Morley, Joni, Pro-tek, australia, bed bug dog, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, consumer, detection, diagnosis, dry steam, get rid of bed bugs, hotels, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, mattresses, motels, natural remedies, new zealand, news, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, spread, steam, technological advances, tools and weapons, travel, treatment, treatment in hotels | 2 Comments
In an article today entitled “Hard-worker sniffs out bedbugs,” from the Taranaki Daily News (New Zealand), Sharon Marris writes about bed bug dog Joni who works with Pro-Tek Systems owner John Morley in New Zealand.
We’re familiar with bed bug dogs, here at Bedbugger, but it is interesting to read of the situation in NZ.
“She’s not […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 30, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, health department, hotels, travel, usa, virginia | 17 Comments
According to this ARTICLE: Virginia Beach hotel sued over alleged bed bug attack (The Virginian-Pilot - HamptonRoads.com/PilotOnline.com), the Rodeway Inn on Atlantic Avenue in Virginia Beach is being sued for $400,000 by a woman who claims she was bitten by bed bugs there.
The plaintiff Elizabeth Glenn and her daughter stayed at the Rodeway Inn, and […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 27, 2007 in Cadwalader, activism, allergies, apartments, awareness, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, bloomberg, cambridge, colleges, condominiums, consumer, curbed, denial, detection, good ideas, gossip, harvard, health, hotels, ignorance, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, mental health, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, public education, public health, real estate, rumors, spread, tenants, treatment, usa, we're doomed, workplace | 0 Comments
Curbed.com, the real estate blog, claims that 30 Lincoln Plaza, currently being redeveloped into pricey condominiums (Curbed mentions a price of $1,185,000 for 647 sq/ft one bedrooms), is infested with bed bugs:
UPPER WEST SIDE—It seems there is a little detail about the condo conversion at 30 Lincoln Plaza that may have been overlooked: “You failed […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 24, 2007 in CWT, Cadwalader, Taft, Wickersham, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs at work, bedbugs, big business, blame game, employee, law, new york, news, nyc, usa, workplace | 3 Comments
Back in June we blogged the story of alleged bed bugs on the 33rd floor of the oldest Wall Street law firm (c. 1792), Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft. The memo implies the infestation was blamed on an employee, who was then apparently let go.
Having heard nothing since then, I was glad to see that […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 23, 2007 in Red Roof Inn, Rockford, Winnebago County Health Department, bed bugs, bedbugs, big business, health, health department, hotels, illinois, motels, multi-unit buildings, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment: single-family | 7 Comments
According to the Rockford Register Star, the Winnebago County Health Department in Rockford, Illinois shut down 56 of 108 rooms in a Red Roof Inn in Rockford, due to bed bugs. The Health Department came to inspect after a customer collected samples of bed bugs from the bed in a room he stayed in:
Health […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 5, 2007 in Halcyon House, SROs, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, cincinnati, colorado, costs, curbside, doctors and nurses, elderly, furniture, good ideas, government, health, hospitals, hotels, ignorance, illinois, institutions, kill them now we're doomed, low-income housing, motels, multi-unit buildings, ohio, public education, public health, public housing, rage, schools, shelters, signs and symptoms, slumlords, social services, spread, tenants, tools and weapons, tossing stuff out, treatment, usa, washington, washington DC | 6 Comments
According to Channel 12 WKRC in Cincinnati (doesn’t Howard Hesseman work there?), residents at the Hillrise Apartment building, which is owned by Cincinnati Business & Professional Women’s Retirement Living Incorporated, are suffering from various issues including bed bugs.
Calvin Merritt’s problems at Hillrise Apartments are pretty simple.
“Mostly bugs, roaches and all that…”
The “all […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 27, 2007 in bed bug dog, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, certified bed bug free, hotels, new york, nyc, travel, usa | 3 Comments
We knew this was coming, but this is the first actual report I’ve heard of a hotel displaying a sign saying they were bed bug-free. The Blue Moon Hotel in the Lower East Side of New York City is a boutique hotel where, Tripadvisor tells us, the average room costs $637 a night. […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 11, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, big business, canada, consumer, footage of bedbugs feeding, good ideas, hotels, saskatechewan, treatment in hotels | 3 Comments
The Star-Phoenix reports today that one attender of a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan professional conference, held at the Hilton Garden Inn, claims to have found bed bugs, and bed bug feces in her hotel bed. Two others had serious bites. But nothing here is conclusive as far as the hotel is concerned.
A teacher (Sonya Johnstone) who […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 1, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, big business, hotels, lawsuits, legal | 13 Comments
LegalNewsline.com reports on a new bed bug case proceeding in New York’s Southern District.
A woman spent two nights in a Hilton in Ohio, got 150 bed bug bites, and is proceeding with a $5 million dollar lawsuit charging physical scarring, emotional distress, and embarrassment.
The plaintiff, Sai Kim, alleges that she checked into Room 336 at […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 29, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, heat, illinois, multi-unit buildings, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, thermal, tools and weapons, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment in institutions, treatment: single-family, usa | 7 Comments
Remember this Pest Control Technology Online article from January, which we blogged a few months ago?
You may recall how Dr. Michael Potter comments on thermal treatments for bed bugs:
STRUCTURAL HEATING. Elevating the temperature within buildings has been used to eradicate pests ranging from grain insects to termites. Structural and containerized heat treatments are also being […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 16, 2007 in American Housing Preservation Corp, Halcyon House, Miami Heat, Urban Inc, affordable housing, bed bugs, bedbugs, big business, celebrities, colorado, denver, disabled, elderly, misinformation, multi-unit buildings, news, shaq, treatment | 20 Comments
This one is going to break your heart, and piss you off. The Rocky Mountain News reported Friday on a Denver infestation in a 197-unit building called Halcyon House that houses disabled and elderly people in affordable units. Nasty, badly kept, bed bug-infested affordable units (oh, and did I mention the plumbing was […]
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