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Gaston County, N.C. health officials to hotel: bed bugs not a serious violation »

This story from Eyewitness News in Gastonia, North Carolina is about a woman named Patricia Starling who lived in a Super 8 motel with her two sons after they lost their home in a fire.
Starling said she went back the motel, captured some of the bugs and gave some to Gaston County health officials. Specialist […]

Bedbugged North Carolina: Bayer’s training grounds for bed bug detection and treatment »

This article about bed bugs in North Carolina comes from South Carolina’s The State (republished from the Raleigh, NC News and Observer).

“There’s a lot of folks who don’t bother to call us. They’re embarrassed. The social connotation goes back to the early 1900s; they were associated with slummy places. And that’s not the case now,” […]

Bed bug news round-up: South Jersey apartment complex; Charlotte, North Carolina Salvation Army shelter »

Some days, there’s so much bedbug news, I can’t keep up.
First, this item from NJ.com about an infested building South Jersey (Jamestown Square in Blackwood, NJ) makes me wonder: what if there was a newspaper item for every single infested building in New York?!? The New York Times would have to use a […]

Stirring up anti-immigrant sentiment in Charlotte: let’s start the blame game »

Okay, I think everyone here agrees that there were multiple causes for the rise of bed bugs after their 50-year disappearance in the US: the end of routine baseboard spraying which was done until the early 1990’s and fell out of favor with the invention of effective roach baits, the outlawing of DDT as […]

Why Marcos Island is going to have even more bed bugs soon »

I’ve heard reports from various areas that haven’t seen many cases of bed bugs yet that Pest Control Operators often don’t know how to deal with them. We’ve heard this from readers near Yellowstone Park, and in Yorkshire, England. It makes sense of course, but the reasonable response is to do your homework. […]

inspectors find 600 unsanitized mattresses at Charlotte, N.C. used furniture store »

A lot of the bed bug stories we see from around North America and the UK are the same old stuff: from the local subject, surprised to find he had bed bugs, to the “Be careful while you travel” box of tips, to the “Don’t let the bed bugs bite,” closing, it can be a […]

Bed Bug sightings in the media today: NYC, North Carolina, Vancouver Island. »

by Nobugsonme
I am glad that I’m not the only one who takes photos of curb-side bedbug garbage. Now Gawker has joined in, and thankfully, found stuff tagged with a bed bug warning. See East Village Bed Bug Outbreak. Oh, Gawker, if only it was just E. 10th St. If […]