Category: treatment: single-family
By nobugsonme on Oct 23, 2007 in Red Roof Inn, Rockford, Winnebago County Health Department, bed bugs, bedbugs, big business, health, health department, hotels, illinois, motels, multi-unit buildings, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment: single-family | 7 Comments
According to the Rockford Register Star, the Winnebago County Health Department in Rockford, Illinois shut down 56 of 108 rooms in a Red Roof Inn in Rockford, due to bed bugs. The Health Department came to inspect after a customer collected samples of bed bugs from the bed in a room he stayed in:
Health […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 1, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, ozone, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, treatment, treatment: single-family, used furniture | 3 Comments
This is interesting: the St. Charles woman whose flea market nightstand left her bedbugged? She did not use Vikane or thermal treatments to clear her bed bugs, as we’d speculated. The $3000 treatment was a new one: ozone, piped into her home. According to the Beacon News, a Chicago Suburban […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 1, 2007 in bedbugs, best practices, consumer, flea market, furniture, illinois, news, signs and symptoms, treatment, treatment: single-family, usa | 2 Comments
CBS2 news in Chicago reports that a family in St. Charles, Illinois, believes they got bed bugs from a $10 flea market nightstand. First the little girl, then mom Amanda Thor and the baby were all bitten by bed bugs. (Click on the top right to view the video.)
Less than a week after […]
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 3, 2007 in FAQs, SROs, apartments, attached houses, bed bugs, bedbugs, condos, cooperatives, houses, landlords, multi-unit buildings, row houses, spread, treatment, treatment: single-family | 0 Comments
Often, people are embarrassed about dealing with bed bugs, and want to deal with their own infestation quietly and discreetly. Maybe they told the landlord before, and the problem was mishandled, eliminating the bed bugs for a short time, and the person wants to deal with things properly this time. Maybe they […]
By nobugsonme on Apr 6, 2007 in FAQs, bed bugs, bedbugs, multi-unit buildings, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, treatment, treatment in hotels, treatment in institutions, treatment: single-family, vikane | 23 Comments
Given that bed bugs are so hard to eradicate, and how long it can take to treat using traditional methods, we’re always on the lookout for better options.
Those of us in multi-unit dwellings often daydream about having our whole buildings tented and fumigated with Vikane. It’s one way to get rid of bed bugs […]
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