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By Nobugsonme on Nov 10, 2007 in Joe Fiorito, Lexington, The Star, bed bug epidemic, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and the elderly, bedbugs, best practices, canada, education, elderly, government response to bed bugs, health, health department, homelessness, housing laws, how to kill bed bugs, journalist, journalists, kentucky, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, ontario, pest control, public education, public health, public housing, social services, spread, toronto, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 0 Comments
LEX18 - Lexington, KY: Health Department Encourages Learning About Bed Bugs
“The Kentucky Department for Public Health is encouraging people to learn more about bed bugs, the small, brownish insects that feed on the blood of animals.” Paradoxically, this article contains almost no content or explanation of how they’ll do that.
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By nobugsonme on Nov 3, 2007 in bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, best practices, blame game, bracken county, children and bed bugs, detection, diagnosis, doe, employee, government, health, health department, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, ignorance, maryland, misinformation, new york, pest control, pest control in schools, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public health, scapegoating, schools, signs and symptoms, students, tools and weapons, treatment, treatment in institutions, treatment in schools, usa, warning, workplace | 1 Comment
More information about the Bracken County Schools bed bug situation. A new article from WCPO.com news says T&M Pest Control is treating Bracken County schools for bed bugs this weekend.
Terry says, “A pest control program for bed bugs is very detailed. You’ve got to get all the crevices. We are doing a little more […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 2, 2007 in KY, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs in schools, bedbugs, bracken county, education, kentucky, news, pest control in schools, preventive treatment, schools, signs and symptoms, treatment, treatment in institutions, treatment in schools, usa, workplace | 6 Comments
The Bracken County, Kentucky, school system’s response was to shut down all schools for one day for precautionary treatment, after a bed bug was found in a classroom, Lex18 news reported yesterday.
Bracken County schools will be closed Friday after a middle school student was found to have an infestation of bed bugs, and one of […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 24, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, california, colleges, dorms, stanford, students, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 0 Comments
According to the Stanford Daily, bed bugs are biting at Paloma, a West Florence Moore dorm. The bed bugs still appear to be ably handled by Rich Crane.
The article said,
“Student Housing has been informed of a few cases of bedbugs on campus for about the past six to seven years,” Imogen Hinds, associate director of […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 21, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, exposure, hospitals, misinformation, treatment in institutions, uk, wales | 0 Comments
Welsh Bedbuggers would do well not to put too much stock in this article from Wales on Sunday via icWales.com, since it repeatedly refers to bed bugs as “mites” (hint: bed bugs are insects; mites belong to the class Arachnida (as do spiders). Not bad for a humanities major, eh folks?
The article suggests hospitals […]
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 Aug 14, 2007 in bad ideas, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, government, new jersey, steam, treatment, treatment in institutions | 2 Comments
The once-monthly pest spraying at this halfway house wasn’t keeping bed bugs away (of course it wasn’t!) so the staffers have got some steamers.
It’s a state residential substance abuse program for women nearing the end of a prison sentence. (Withdrawl: bad. Withdrawl plus formication brought on by a bed bug infestation? […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 2, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, government, new york, nyc, nycdoe, public education, schools, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 2 Comments
No huge changes here, but I thought you’d be interested to see the “Bed Bug Kits” the NYC Department of Education is providing to school employees. Remember, teachers need to hunt down a bed bug in their classroom, have it mailed off for identification, and then action will be taken.
This is the information on […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 29, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, big business, heat, illinois, multi-unit buildings, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, thermal, tools and weapons, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment in institutions, treatment: single-family, usa | 7 Comments
Remember this Pest Control Technology Online article from January, which we blogged a few months ago?
You may recall how Dr. Michael Potter comments on thermal treatments for bed bugs:
STRUCTURAL HEATING. Elevating the temperature within buildings has been used to eradicate pests ranging from grain insects to termites. Structural and containerized heat treatments are also being […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 19, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, dorms, entomologists, health, heat, ice, multi-unit buildings, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, stephen l. doggett, technological advances, thermal, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment in institutions, treatment preparations, treatment: single-family | 2 Comments
Behold: new for July 2007, an updated draft of Australian bed bug researcher Stephen L. Doggett’s Bed Bug Code of Practice–click to load a PDF. You can also download a PDF of just the modifications to the new edition, which include the latest information on non-chemical uses of heat and cold, as well as […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 14, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, costs, freehold, government, health, homelessness, institutions, mental health, new jersey, social services, treatment in institutions | 2 Comments
Bed bug news, even the important stuff that can make a difference, is often considered unimportant, and squeezed into a paragraph under the bottom of an article on something else.
NJ.com reported Friday that in Freehold, NJ,
Keith Hamilton said that bedbugs have returned to some local social-service facilities and asked if the county can make money […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 8, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, misinformation, new york, nyc, schools, treatment, treatment in institutions, usa | 15 Comments
Angela Montefinise updated us today in The New York Post on the issue of bed bugs in the schools.
The good news:
Months after elected officials and parents complained the city was not doing enough to alert school communities about bedbug outbreaks, the Department of Education issued its first-ever policy to cope with the vermin.
Under the […]
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