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Sorry– the post is gone: removed at the request of the young person who wants to forget the whole thing ever happened. Traditional steps are being taken to eradicate bed bugs, and we wish this individual well.
Sorry to delete your comments which were so well-conceived, but we were all young once– Nobugs too!

This is just horrible. The Arab News reporrts that in Jeddah, two sisters died tragically and a third is hospitalized after their father used an industrial insecticide not meant for home use, in an attempt to kill bed bugs in their home.

I love apartmenttherapy.com. I really do. But with all due respect, I think Maxwell is still misunderstanding some key points about bed bugs.
Two months ago, as you may recall, loyal Bedbugger S. wrote to Maxwell to correct some misinformation in the Apartment Therapy: The Eight Step Home Cure book, which suggested something to […]

A news round-up for today:
This article in the Quad-Cities Online reported yesterday on bed bug infestations in a public housing complex in East Moline, Illinois. The reporter quotes one resident who has been battling bed bugs since fall.
“I work too. My tax dollars are going to support places like this (government run low-income housing). […]

In most cases, no. At least not as a sole treatment plan.
I feel pretty strongly about this. We just heard from Nero, an intelligent and enthusiastic Bedbugger in NYC, in the “Son of Share your tales of bed bug woe” thread, and it sounds like Nero’s planning to do the family’s pest […]