Category: north carolina
By nobugsonme on Feb 15, 2008 in NC, bed bug stories, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumers and bed bugs, eliminate bed bugs, gaston county, gaston county health officials, gastonia, get rid of bed bugs, hotels with bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, kill bed bugs, north carolina | 0 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 29, 2007 in Charlotte, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, consumer, delivery trucks, dr. michael waldvogel, entomologists, furniture, mattresses, north carolina, notification, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, tools and weapons, training, treatment, usa | 0 Comments
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,” […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 14, 2007 in apartments, bed bugs, bedbugs, homelessness, multi-unit buildings, new jersey, north carolina, shelters, spread, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 2 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 14, 2007 in Charlotte, bad ideas, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, conspiracy theories, consumer, government, hotels, immigration, journalist, mattresses, misinformation, news, north carolina, rage, rumors, spread | 1 Comment
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 22, 2007 in bad ideas, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, florida, lice, marcos island, misdiagnoses, misinformation, north carolina, other causes of itching, pesticides, spread, treatment, usa | 4 Comments
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. […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 26, 2007 in avoid bed bugs, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, government, how to avoid bed bugs, legal, mattresses, news, north carolina, rage, used mattresses | 7 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 3, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, british columbia, canada, consumer, new york, north carolina, signs and symptoms, usa | 4 Comments
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 […]
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