Category: students and bed bugs
By nobugsonme on Apr 30, 2008 in bed bug treatment, bed bugs, berkeley, colleges, dorms, manure pesticides?, students, students and bed bugs, university of california | 3 Comments
Bed bugs in student housing in Berkeley, at the University of California, the Daily Californian reports.
Three apartment units at the Smyth-Fernwald Complex near Clark Kerr Campus could have been infested with bedbugs as early as March, according to Jeff Urdahl, campus director for housing operations, maintenance and environment.
Yadda, yadda… it happens, and is probably happening […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 29, 2008 in bed bug bites, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, dorms, students and bed bugs | 0 Comments
This from the Vermont Cynic, the University of Vermont’s student paper, which claims bed bugs are in UVM’s Living/Learning’s B-Building, in German House (”bed bug” is die Wanze to our Deutsch-speaking friends).
Students in a suite of Living/Learning’s B-building were displaced last week after it was discovered that one of the inhabitants had been bitten by […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 30, 2008 in College of New Jersey, Cromwell Hall, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, colleges, cromwell hall bed bugs, students, students and bed bugs | 0 Comments
Bed bugs have recently been a problem at the College of New Jersey, according to the Signal.
Jessie Lamotta, now a junior history major at the College, was pestered by bed bugs on Cromwell 3 from move-in day to sometime in October during her freshman year.
“My roommate woke up with little red bumps on her body, […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 22, 2008 in CUSE, Center for Urban and Structural Entomology, Luxor Management, Texas A&M, Texas A&M research on bed bugs, bed bug research, bed bug spread, bed bugs, bedbugs, coat piles, colleges, curbside furniture, dorms, flea markets, how to avoid bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, parties, students and bed bugs, thebatt.com | 0 Comments
Independent Texas A&M student paper thebatt.com covers bed bugs this week. They mention the seminars in New York City, and the interesting research out of the Center for Urban and Structural Entomology (CUSE, housed at Texas A&M) on bed bugs and chicken farms. And–because it’s a college paper, perhaps–they dig right into the […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 15, 2007 in MIT, bed bugs, bed bugs at MIT, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, boston, colleges, connecticut, dorms, how to avoid bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, massachusetts, students, students and bed bugs, treatment, usa, waterbury | 4 Comments
Bed bugs creeping their way around Waterbury, CT, the Republican-American reported on Friday that the Waterbury Health Department has gotten complaints from around the city:
The health department also received complaints of infestations of two apartments at 553 South Main St., and one apartment each in apartment buildings or multifamily homes at 42 Pine St. (the […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 4, 2007 in Quincy, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, consumer, curbside, dumpster diving, eastern nazarene college, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, massachusetts, mattresses, students, students and bed bugs, usa | 4 Comments
The Patriot Ledger of Southofboston.com (2/2008: link removed; no longer working) reports that even students’ own furniture cannot be brought into dorm rooms, say Eastern Nazarene College officials, who are trying to prevent bed bug outbreaks on campus.
That means no mattresses, no sofas at the school in Quincy, Mass. The policy only applies to […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 10, 2007 in University of Texas at Dallas, bad ideas, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, colleges, dorms, students and bed bugs, texas, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 1 Comment
The latest college to be hit (or, at least, to admit it): The University of Texas at Dallas campus, reports NBC5 in Dallas / Fort Worth.
The university acknowledged that they’re dealing with an infestation of bed bugs. School officials said 15 units on campus were found to have bed bugs. The school has received more […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 17, 2006 in McGill University, Royal Victoria College, York University, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, canada, colleges, get rid of bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, montreal, multi-unit buildings, quebec, students, students and bed bugs, treatment | 6 Comments
We just heard about the recurring bed bugs at the Ryerson dorms in Toronto. Now another Canadian University, McGill in Montreal, is seeing red (well, rust-colored bugs, anyway), as reported by the McGill Daily. Students in MORE House (a brand new building) are battling a bedbug infestation that’s been in the same […]