Category: rumors
By nobugsonme on Oct 27, 2007 in Cadwalader, activism, allergies, apartments, awareness, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, bloomberg, cambridge, colleges, condominiums, consumer, curbed, denial, detection, good ideas, gossip, harvard, health, hotels, ignorance, landlords, law, lawsuits, legal, massachusetts, mental health, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, public education, public health, real estate, rumors, spread, tenants, treatment, usa, we're doomed, workplace | 0 Comments
Curbed.com, the real estate blog, claims that 30 Lincoln Plaza, currently being redeveloped into pricey condominiums (Curbed mentions a price of $1,185,000 for 647 sq/ft one bedrooms), is infested with bed bugs:
UPPER WEST SIDE—It seems there is a little detail about the condo conversion at 30 Lincoln Plaza that may have been overlooked: “You failed […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 27, 2007 in CWT, Cadwalader, Taft, Tipping Point, Wickersham, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, blame game, employee, lawsuits, legal, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, rumors, signs and symptoms, treatment, workplace | 19 Comments
Legal blog Above the Law has reproduced a memo from the Chairman of a well-known law firm announcing to employees that there is a bed bug problem on the 33rd floor in the Word Processing dept. of that firm. (MediaBistro’s FlishBowlNY blog is also covering this, so the leaked memo is getting around.)
In it, […]
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 19, 2007 in bad ideas, bed bugs, bedbugs, rumors, signs and symptoms, tools and weapons, treatment | 24 Comments
This is a less-frequently asked question than some, but it comes up surprisingly often. Today someone googled into the site via the query “what eats bed bugs?”
Put it out of your head! Um, yes, some insects will eat bed bugs, but it really isn’t a good treatment plan.
House centipedes have been […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 15, 2007 in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, hope, research, rumors, signs and symptoms, tools and weapons | 26 Comments
A pest control professional confirmed for us today the reports Parakeets heard about bed bug aggregate pheromones being developed.
We’re told that within 2-3 months, assuming the red tape is cut swiftly enough, glue traps should be available for sale which use a bed bug pheromone to attract bed bugs to aggregate there.
This is very exciting: […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 6, 2007 in bad ideas, bed bugs, bedbugs, new york, news, rumors, usa | 0 Comments
Overheard in NY on bed bugs: this is a site that records conversations overheard in public (via Caryn’s comments).
Add it to this one from December.
By parakeets on Dec 14, 2006 in bed bugs, bedbugs, health, misinformation, rumors | 3 Comments
I found this website, a supposed health information website recommending that if you have bedbugs it is good to leave your windows open
… because of the sunlight that will help eradicate the bugs.
Regarding your bed,
Never redo your bed right away. Leave it totally undone as long as possible. Bed bugs will asphyxiate.
Where is this […]
By nobugsonme on Dec 14, 2006 in bed bugs, bedbugs, misinformation, multi-unit buildings, rumors, tools and weapons, treatment | 18 Comments
I started to respond in a comment to Bugzinthehood’s article below, about Brent Herbert’s ideas about Bedbugs evolving into trash-eaters, and as it became longer than the original post, I decided I’d better move it here. I have to say, Brent Herbert is off on these other issues, and I am getting a […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 25, 2006 in bed bugs, bedbugs, information and help, rumors, tools and weapons, treatment | 3 Comments
I am as wary of pesticides as the next person. I am sensitive to them, and a recent neck-to-toe 12-hour application of Elimite (permethrin) for the treatment of what my doctor thought was scabies (it was bed bugs), made me ill.
But I am even more worried that some people think they can avoid “chemicals” […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 11, 2006 in bed bugs, bedbugs, celebrities, news, rumors | 4 Comments
So Claudia’s blog reports:
We are reliably informed that the Fox News tower in midtown Manhattan has bedbugs. Dangerman reports that they originated on the VIP couch. . .
Is Claudia teasing us? Don’t believe everything you read, folks, but if they do have bed bugs in the VIP couch at Fox News, then I’m […]
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