This post mentions a product — Green Clean Dissolvable Laundry Bags — currently only available to the public via one supplier (Cooper Pest’s Bed Bug Central, which will be obvious from the URL included in the video).
I have not actually tried this product, though it does look like fun! Apparently, you seal your […]

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Scene’s from a Bedbugger’s life: the bedroom of bags.

Cincinnati held a meeting yesterday about bed bugs. Channel 9 (ABC) said yesterday:
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority will show the Health, Environment and Education Committee a presentation on the pests.
Officials said bed bugs are a big problem in the city’s public housing, which is overseen by the Housing Authority.
According to Channel 12, Cincinnati politicians […]

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 […]

Somehow I got behind on Nicholas Brown’s bed bug saga; two more installments have appeared.
He posted volume 3 last week, which chronicles the “laundry and first treatment” phase. Somewhat unconventionally, Brown as his roommates Katherine and Jihad had not done much prep before their PCO showed up. He was kind enough […]

A reader writes,
Hello,
I found your site and wanted to ask a question. I rent an NYC apartment and it has been confirmed by an exterminator that we have bed bugs. I am wondering about the transportation of bed bugs. For example, I work in a corporate office…What are the odds that I’ve […]

Monday’s Daily Telegraph featured a long article on bed bugs in the UK. Overall it was a typical story of the spread of bed bugs in Britain, and coming as it does from a well-respected source, it is a good thing. I was, however, disappointed in some of the information provided.
First, the journalist […]

Apartment Therapy has ended the suspense with the seventh installment of their “Bed bugs Take Manhattan” report on Amanda’s bed bug saga.
Amanda has now had (apparently) one treatment and one follow-up treatment from Metro Pest. (Their protocol is listed here.)
Apartment therapy’s Maxwell has the idea that “you have to keep the clothing out” of […]

More on the New Haven case described here on Friday.
A more recent article from News 8 in New Haven suggests that the
The infestation started in one unit and moved to 14 other apartments. The city paid for hotel rooms so the professionals could come in and steam clean room by room, bed by […]

Experts recommend washing and drying clothes on hot or dry cleaning them, and keeping them sealed in bags for the duration of treatment. The dry cleaning idea brings up a problem: you must tell the dry cleaners about the bed bugs before giving them your sealed-in-a-bag clothes.
A reader asked,
Did you have problems […]

Subtitle: killing the little b@#$%^&s
Laundry

This FAQ started out with the title: “Heat and bed bugs: 5 minutes in a dryer– really? Say it’s so!” The first part outlines my reaction to a brief article, and the second answers many of my questions with a more detailed article. I realize this is kind […]