Category: PCOs
By nobugsonme on May 15, 2008 in AMF Pest Management, Austin Frishman, Boca Raton, PCOs, PMP, Sneaky Simes, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cyanide!, how to kill bed bugs | 0 Comments
This article for bed bug pros from Pest Management Professional gives you some idea of what pros might consider the bed bug best practices.
Author Paul Bello interviewed PCOs in various cities about their current bed bug-fighting tactics, including Austin Frishman of AMF Pest Management Services in Boca Raton, Fla., who did many bed bug jobs […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 17, 2008 in PCOs, bed bug treatment, britain, council, england, get rid of bed bugs, hampshire, southampton, treatment, uk | 0 Comments
The website This is Hampshire! reports that council (local government) extermination rates are going up, in Southampton at least. Now it costs more to get rid of bed bugs in Southampton.
CHARGES to get rid of bed bugs and vermin are to rocket as part of a hike of council fees and charges in Southampton.
Residents […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 3, 2008 in LA Times, Los Angeles Times, PCOs, bed bugs, bed bugs and history, bedbugs, history | 0 Comments
The LA Times wants everyone to know how long bed bugs have been sharing living space with humans:
Hard evidence for a long human association turned up fairly recently, when British archaeologists excavating an ancient Egyptian village found the oldest bedbug on record: The fossilized fellow dated back about 3,500 years, to before the time of […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 5, 2008 in NJ, North Jersey, PCOs, The Record, bed bug epidemic, bed bugs, bedbugs, detect bed bugs, get rid of bed bugs, how to avoid bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, inspections, new jersey, tenants and landlords | 0 Comments
Marsha Stoltz provided a typical regional bed bug news story in The Record Sunday:
Creepy crawly creatures have always been a predictable, if dreaded, part of multi-housing life because of the ease with which they move from unit to unit along shared pipes, wires and cable lines.
Landlords and buildings managers typically address these concerns with monthly […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 22, 2007 in 311, CDC, PCOs, Toronto Public Health, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bed bugs in apartments, bed bugs in hotels, bedbugs, canada, incidence, landlords, new york, nyc, ontario, pest control, public health, tenants, toronto, toronto sun, usa | 1 Comment
We haven’t had any real data about how many people in Toronto are suffering from bed bugs since the 2003 survey of Toronto PCOs.
But this article in Friday’s Toronto Sun has some interesting statistics. On the one hand,
According to Reg Ayre, the city’s Healthy Environments manager, Toronto Public Health received 194 calls for […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 28, 2007 in PCOs, bed bug news, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, california, cooperation, exterminate bed bugs, get rid of bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, landlords, nine treatments, pyrethroid resistance, rene laraine, repeated treatments, resistance, tenants, thousand oaks, treatment, usa, ventura | 7 Comments
Hungry bedbugs a rising problem in some areas : Ventura County Star
Rene Laraine of Thousand Oaks, California, has bed bugs.
Laraine said that after nine treatments performed by two pest control companies, the bedbugs are still there.
A representative for Essex Properties, the company that manages the complex, said the company is doing what it can to […]
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 […]
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