Category: dorms
By nobugsonme on Jun 20, 2008 in UC Berkeley, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, college housing officials, colleges, dorms, how to get rid of bed bugs, institutions, universities, university administration | 0 Comments
Bed bugs thrive in colleges, for many reasons.
College students move often, sometimes from semester to semester.
They also tend to travel a lot, going back and forth to one another’s dorm rooms and apartments, visiting parents’ homes, friends’ parents’ homes, and vacationing at frat houses in Madison, Wisconsin, hostels in Amsterdam or […]
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 Apr 8, 2008 in bed bugs, bedbugs, canada, colleges, dorms, montreal, moving, quebec, student housing | 0 Comments
Bed bugs have infested rooms in McGill student housing buildings the New Residence, the MORE house at 522 Pins, and now in Solin Hall, the McGill Daily reports.
Student Aaryn Secker finally moved out after battling bed bugs in Solin Hall for months:
Secker notified Howard Zinman, Services Coordinator for Solin Hall, after discovering tiny red bites […]
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 Dec 15, 2007 in Brooklyn, apartments, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, craigslist, dorms, get rid of bed bugs, greenpoint, herpes, m4w, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc | 2 Comments
Remember this guy?
Well, he’s back. And it’s hard to believe, but he sounds even less charming than last time. He updates the world that his dorm bed bugs have come back, and he is now moving to a non-bed bug-infested apartment in Greenpoint.
(Dude, no bed bugs in Greenpoint?!? Maybe that old landlord […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 29, 2007 in bed bug buzz, bed bug hotel, bed bugs, bedbugs, college, dorms, grove hotel, new york, pace university, portland, students, university | 3 Comments
OHRL addresses bed bug concerns in residence halls - Pace Press
Bed bugs in dorms at Pace University in New York
The Portland Mercury | Blogtown, PDX | Rent Down At Grove Hotel
Speculation about bed bugs in Portland SRO. People are talking about bed bugs–this has got to be good.
By Nobugsonme on Nov 17, 2007 in bed bug epidemic, bed bug odor, bed bug smell, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, cornell university, dorms, get rid of bed bugs, journal-sentinel, kill bed bugs, landlords, mattress encasements, milwaukee, misinformation, odor, residence halls, spread, students, tenants, universities, wisconsin | 0 Comments
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Online: Stealthy bedbugs pestering the weary
Bed bugs in Milwaukee, WI. Mattress covers don’t need to be “airtight” and the best ones do let air circulate. Most do not smell “a musty, sweet odor like soda”. One landlord is letting tenants out of leases and paying for one treatment in new […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 14, 2007 in CurbedSF, SUNY, Tipping Point, Toronto Public Health, bed bug letter, bed bugs, bed bugs in dorms, bedbugs, binghamton university, business, california, canada, cascade hall, cayuga hall, colleges, consumer, dorms, health department, history, lawsuits, legal, marina district, media, new york, news, ontario, public health, san francisco, snopes, students, toronto, town hall meeting, universities, usa | 1 Comment
National Post: Bed bugs invade Toronto
East Toronto city councillor Paula Fletcher asked the Toronto public health unit on Monday to study what it could do to eradicate the problem of bed bugs. Right now the public health unit does not track infestations, but simply offers phone advice to suff
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By nobugsonme on Oct 26, 2007 in "bites", bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, cambridge, colleges, columbia, diagnosis, dorms, dr. michael alpert, entomologists, harvard, itchy, ivy league, massachusetts, mites, mosquitoes, mystery, new york, nyc, rashes, scabies, usa | 6 Comments
Ivy League gossip blog the IvyGate explained this week that the supposed scabies outbreak that forced everyone in the Pennypacker Harvard freshman dorm to be treated for scabies with a full-body pyrethrin cream application (not to mention making them all undergo the extensive laundering and calling-of-romantic-partners that condition requires), is now thought not to have […]
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 9, 2007 in Boston University, bed bugs, bedbugs, boston, colleges, dorms, england, ignorance, institutions, london, signs and symptoms, spread, students, study abroad, treatment, uk | 2 Comments
Some Boston University students claim they were bitten by bed bugs in a London BU dorm, that the infestation was not properly identified or treated, and that they were threatened with losing future study abroad privileges if they told anyone about their experience, according to this article by Matt Kaplan in the BU independent student […]