Bedbug Hotel
Originally uploaded by Frank Synopsis
From the film “Nancy Drew: Reporter,” which was released in 1939, before DDT swept through such places.

Lots of news items are appearing, as the plan we heard of on Tuesday was officially announced yesterday.
NY1’s Cindi Avila quoted Gale Brewer as to the reason New York is taking action:
Last year, the city’s 311 hotline got 7,000 bedbug related calls, almost four times more than just three years earlier. Now the city is […]

Canadian news weekly Maclean’s has a story on bed bugs dated January 3, 2008 by John Intini.
The article conveys the scope of the problem and the speed at which it seems to be spreading:
To get a full sense of the bedbug boom, ask any pest control expert. [Carlo] Panacci, for one, used to have a […]

A robber has been dubbed the “bedbug bandit” by authorities after using pillowcases to cart off loot from a bank he robbed in Sacramento, California, according to Sacramento’s ABC News 10.

This came to me from an anonymous reader with username DocMaker:
A documentary film is searching for subjects in Vancouver, Canada who are battling the bedbug epidemic as we speak!
If all works out, we may be able to get you a free extermination!
If you are interested in sharing your tales, send me an email:
docmaker@email.com

Bed bug podcasts, bed bug news:

Pest Management Professional - Continued technological and educational advancement in pest detection, identification, treatment and control methods. | Web Exclusive | 10 Questions with Jerome GoddardTen Questions with Jerome Goddard (Pest Management Professional Podcast)–includes interesting discussion of whether bed bugs are potential transmitters of disease, or not. From 9/06, […]

David Cain is a PCO in London who only works with bed bugs, and he really knows his stuff.
He writes on our forums,
I have been asked by a TV company in London to offer a free bed bug treatment in exchange for being able to film the inspection and analysis work that we do. The […]

Apartmentratings.com is a way to check what other tenants are saying about your building. It is not widely used, but like anything else, can be another tool, along with the bedbugregistry.com. Don’t forget to leave your review and warn others. There are 623 posts today featuring “bed bugs.” Don’t forget to search […]

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 […]

National Post: Bed bugs invade Toronto
East Toronto city councillor Paula Fletcher asked the Toronto public health unit on Monday to study what it could do to eradicate the problem of bed bugs. Right now the public health unit does not track infestations, but simply offers phone advice to suff
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New York Magazine has a new bed bug story dated November 12th (print edition of 11/19), by Melissa Kirsch.
It contains lots of solid advice about not picking up curbside furniture, being wary of Craigslist finds, and searching for fecal spots and blood stains. But it also contains some advice we don’t normally […]

Tune into WBAI 99.5 in New York City tomorrow morning at 10:40 to hear longtime Bedbugger contributor Lou Sorkin (entomologist from the American Museum of Natural History) talk about bed bugs (and other bugs). I am not sure what proportion of the program will discuss bed bugs, but we can hope it will […]