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Bed Bug Success Stories: Collette and a professional steamer »

We have long had a success stories page. And though readers often forget to write and tell us of their success, when they do, I’ve been pasting the stories in there.
Some, however, are longer and more detailed than can fit into the page. So I have decided, from here on in, to give […]

Lavender oil won’t do it: do any “natural remedies” work for bed bugs? »

A new article in the UK’s FirstPost online magazine Thursday offers the usual warnings about travel and bed bugs, some data on the spread in the UK and the US, and the caveat that five-star hotels, too, can be infested.

Don’t think that booking into a five-star hotel will offer you protection. Earlier this year, a […]

Tampa Bay and Southwest Florida residents: do not use the DE from your pool »

Oh dear, yesterday’s news round-up missed the Tampa Bay CBS news website’s article about bed bugs, which kindly directed many Tampa residents here.
Well, I wish I’d seen it yesterday, so I could have warned more of the folks from Tampa. The CBS article isas originally posted, was wrong: do NOT use […]

Riding the bed bug wave »

Riding the coattails of the San Francisco Chronicle story Sunday, lots of less thorough reports on the “mysterious” bed bug outbreaks. I love how, according to the press, some weeks it’s as if there are no bed bugs at all, and others, they’re a postmodern plague.
This from CBS 5 news in San Francisco and […]