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Houston Chronicle update on the U of Arkansas / Texas A&M research on bed bugs in chicken breeding facilities »

A new article picked up by the Associated Press offers more information on the chicken industry-bed bug connection being researched by scientists at the University of Arkansas–Fayetteville and Texas A&M University.
Scientists say bedbugs bed down in chicken breeder houses | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Arkansas entomology professor C. Dayton Steelman, who collects laboratory samples, says […]

“I can’t live they’re until they’re gone” — English woman says of bird bugs »

According to thisishereford.co.uk, a resident of a Richmond Churches Housing Trust Property in Chessington, England has bird bugs from a Starling’s nest in the house she rents. Yes, they’re bird bugs, not bed bugs, but to all intents and purposes, in the absence of a nice bird, they bite humans just like bed bugs […]