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Bedbugged North Carolina: Bayer’s training grounds for bed bug detection and treatment »

By nobugsonme on Oct 29, 2007 in Charlotte, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, consumer, delivery trucks, dr. michael waldvogel, entomologists, furniture, mattresses, north carolina, notification, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, tools and weapons, training, treatment, usa | 0 Comments

This article about bed bugs in North Carolina comes from South Carolina’s The State (republished from the Raleigh, NC News and Observer).

“There’s a lot of folks who don’t bother to call us. They’re embarrassed. The social connotation goes back to the early 1900s; they were associated with slummy places. And that’s not the case now,” […]

Stirring up anti-immigrant sentiment in Charlotte: let’s start the blame game »

By nobugsonme on Jun 14, 2007 in Charlotte, bad ideas, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, conspiracy theories, consumer, government, hotels, immigration, journalist, mattresses, misinformation, news, north carolina, rage, rumors, spread | 1 Comment

Okay, I think everyone here agrees that there were multiple causes for the rise of bed bugs after their 50-year disappearance in the US: the end of routine baseboard spraying which was done until the early 1990’s and fell out of favor with the invention of effective roach baits, the outlawing of DDT as […]