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Council bed bug treatment in the UK: rates going up »

The website This is Hampshire! reports that council (local government) extermination rates are going up, in Southampton at least. Now it costs more to get rid of bed bugs in Southampton.

CHARGES to get rid of bed bugs and vermin are to rocket as part of a hike of council fees and charges in Southampton.
Residents […]

What is it going to take to convince these people that bed bugs are not dust mites, or fleas?!? »

I finally had a chance to listen to David Cain’s UK radio appearance last Friday via the BBC iPlayer interface (which requires a RealPlayer plugin; I’m on a Mac and I was able to listen; I am sure Windows users will have no trouble).
Go to this link.
Find “The Breakfast Show with JoAnne Good” in the […]

This may be Leicestershire, but that is no bed bug »

Apparently, many journalists still don’t bother to find out what bed bugs look like!
As of writing (4 pm EST on 3/3/2008), this article from This is Leicestershire, which is obviously about bed bugs, contains a massive photo of a dust mite.
No wonder the article’s commenters think bed bugs are not such a big deal.

Bed bugs: “No one knows the true extent of the problem.” »

The bedbug resurgence in the developed world. We know the story, don’t we?
Virtually eradicated. DDT. International travel. Baseboards. Yadda, yadda.
No. Not at all. Not yadda yadda.
Let’s consider the bedbug resurgence in one developed country.
In October of 1999 the BBC reported the “return of the bed bug” […]

scaring British children; bed bugs and renter’s insurance; bed bug reality show »

Today’s bed bug news:

CBBC Newsround | UK | Look out, there are bedbugs about How to scare the children, from the Children’s BBC. Remember it was just a few years ago when the CBBC thought bed bugs were the same as dust mites. We’ve come a long way, babies.
San Jose Mercury […]

Bed bug hotel claim in Isle of Wight; study/travel abroad and bed bugs »

BED BUG CLAIM EARNS GUEST £630 (Isle of Wight, UK)
“A DISGRUNTLED guest who claimed his experience at a Sandown hotel ruined his break has won £630 in compensation. Keith Clack, from Brighton, took legal action against The Carlton Hotel, on Sandown Esplanade, claiming his room and bed were infested with
(tags: isleofwight bedbugs UK england nov2007 […]

Bed bugs in Edinburgh, Scotland »

From Musselburgh to Murrayfield, Leith to Morningside, Edinbugh is bed-bugging, accoding to this new article from the Scotsman.
The article is a pretty standard “bed bugs are spreading in our area” story. However, the section entitled “The Facts” gives a hint of how far the news media has come as far as understanding bed bugs. […]

Bed bugs taking over Wales too; hospitals and bed bugs »

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 […]

Boston University students claim they were threatened if they did not keep quiet about bed bugs in London BU dorm »

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 […]

News round-up: UK’s Daily Telegraph on bed bugs; Cincinnati’s finest are working to avoid bed bugs »

Monday’s Daily Telegraph featured a long article on bed bugs in the UK. Overall it was a typical story of the spread of bed bugs in Britain, and coming as it does from a well-respected source, it is a good thing. I was, however, disappointed in some of the information provided.
First, the journalist […]

Are you in the UK? Got bed bugs? Or have you had bed bugs? »

Have you had bed bugs? If so, drop a comment on this New Statesman article (scroll down). They want to know if bed bugs actually exist over there. (Yanks, please do not comment! They know we have bed bugs.)

Advice from private pest control experts, freely offered on the […]

News of the World: New Bedbug Horror Facing England »

News of the World covered bed bugs this week. The article comes under the banner “New Bedbug Horror Facing England,” and below a photo of a Titanic-like bed bug floating through a sea of white carpeting fibers:

(Photo by News of the World)
It is entitled, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers!”
NOTW journalist Sophy Ridge […]