Category: getting rid of bed bugs
By nobugsonme on Jan 6, 2008 in 2010 Winter Olympics, Bloor Street, Paula Fletcher, The Star, Toronto City Council, bed bug dog, bed bug protocol, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bed bugs and health, bed bugs and public health, bedbugs, boston, canada, cincinnati, downtown eastside, get rid of bed bugs, getting rid of bed bugs, health, health department, laundry, london, new york city, notifying tenants, nyc, ontario, politicians, purity pest control, san francisco, south of bloor, toronto, vancouver | 0 Comments
Jennifer Brown of The Star reports that Toronto politician Paula Fletcher is agitated about bed bugs–and trying to do something about them.
She wants the health department to investigate whether they’re a health hazard:
Toronto Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth) has received so many calls from constituents she’s asked the health department to declare them a […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 29, 2007 in bed bug eviction, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and dumpster diving, bed bugs and hoarding, bedbugs, canada, curbside, dumpster diving, eviction, getting rid of bed bugs, hoarding, landlords, mental illness, sherbrook street, tenants, winnipeg | 4 Comments
Lindor Reynolds of the Winnipeg Free Press reports on a bed bug eviction case in Winnipeg: a woman was evicted from her Sherbrook Street apartment. It was infested with bed bugs. She is disabled and on social assistance. This is a heart-breaking story.
But this is also a complicated story: George […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 25, 2007 in 55 days, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, christmas, getting rid of bed bugs, gratitude, holiday, mangycur, new year, treatment | 4 Comments
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it.
And a special shout out to mangycur whose bed bugs unfortunately popped out on the 53rd day after they were last sighted, reminding us of the “55-day rule.” (If you remember, 55 days is the period of time Rich Cooper suggests you need to be free of bites […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 24, 2007 in BOB, CT, bed bug warnings, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bed bugs on craigslist, bed bugs on the internet, bedbugs, connecticut, craigslist, getting rid of bed bugs, oakville, waterbury | 1 Comment
We know bed bugs are all over Waterbury, CT.
And all over Craigslist.
Craigslist reader BOB warned fellow Craigslisters (namely residents of Oakville and the Waterbury area) to beware:
re oakville
Reply to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-20, 11:07PM EST
Watch out for bed bugs. THey are spreading fast. They are all over waterbury and the reactions are too slow. […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 19, 2007 in Fox News New York, TV, bed bug rumors, bed bugs, bedbugs, getting rid of bed bugs, gossip, media, new york, news, signs and symptoms of bed bugs, workplace, workplace bed bugs | 1 Comment
It was just over a year ago when a journalist claimed a reliable source told her of bed bugs infesting the midtown Manhattan offices of Fox News. The allegation was that the infestation “originated on the VIP couch,” a tidbit which might be apocryphal, but is too good to pass up.
Still, I was skeptical […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 14, 2007 in PCOs, bed bugs, bed bugs and business, bedbugs, business, consumer, crain's, getting rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, treatment | 8 Comments
This article on bed bugs in Crain’s New York Business quotes the owner of Liberty Pest Control, in Brooklyn, who calls bed bugs “the new moneymaker.” The article highlights how Pest Control Operators (PCOs) such as Liberty are gettinga huge portion of their revenues from bed bug cases, and targeting their advertising appropriately:
Liberty Pest […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 14, 2006 in bed bugs, bedbugs, getting rid of bed bugs, information and help, pesticides, tools and weapons, treatment | 13 Comments
We got a comment from Buggles on another post, and I wanted to address Buggles’s comments directly.
Hi Buggles,
First, we’re glad you commented. We encourage all our readers to click on the word “Comments” above any post and write back to us. It’s a small little link, but we have a free blog and we can’t […]
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