Category: uk
By nobugsonme on Mar 17, 2008 in PCOs, bed bug treatment, britain, council, england, get rid of bed bugs, hampshire, southampton, treatment, uk | 0 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 6, 2008 in BBC, BBC Breakfast Show, David Cain, JoAnne Good, John Kettley, bed bug information, bed bug misinformation, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, central heating, dust mites, everyone has bed bugs, fleas, london, radio, uk | 2 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Mar 3, 2008 in Leicestershire, bed bugs, bedbugs, england, idiocy, journalists, misinformation, photos of dust mites, uk | 0 Comments
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.
By hopelessnomo on Jan 9, 2008 in 1980s, Fiona King, Institute of Environmental Health Officers, bed bug epidemic, bed bug history, bed bugs, bed bugs in the UK, bedbugs, britain, clive boase, dr. j. k. anand, dr. janice bates, dr. john paul, environmental health, health, history, how to get rid of bed bugs, new scientist, public health, resurgence, robert usinger, spread, uk, united kingdom, why did bed bugs come back | 9 Comments
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” […]
By Nobugsonme on Dec 16, 2007 in BBC, CBBC, bat bite, bed bug blame game, bed bugs, bedbugs, bedbugs children, bee attack, cost of bedbugs, costs, discovery channel, fun, hanta virus, insurance, rabies, reimbursement, renters' insurance, san jose, sensationalism, snake attack, tell your tale of woe, uk | 5 Comments
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 […]
By Nobugsonme on Nov 24, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, college, england, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, isle of wight, law, lawsuit, legal, monetary claim, study abroad, travel, travel and bed bugs, uk | 4 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 16, 2007 in Scotsman, awareness, bed bug epidemic, bed bugs, bedbugs, edinburgh, how to detect bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, scotland, signs and symptoms of bed bugs, spread, spread of bed bugs, uk | 0 Comments
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. […]
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 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 […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 9, 2007 in EMTS, Rentokil, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, curbside, england, firefighters, furniture, hospitals, journalist, laundry, london, mattresses, northern ireland, ohio, police, scotland, spread, tips, tossing stuff out, treatment, uk, usa, used furniture, wales, workplace | 1 Comment
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 5, 2007 in Press, bed bugs, bedbugs, england, maps, new statesman, news, northern ireland, scotland, spread, uk, wales | 0 Comments
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 […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 30, 2007 in David Cain, News of the World, Press, Rentokil, bed bugs, bedbugs, england, journalist, media, news, northern ireland, scotland, spread, uk, wales, we're doomed | 3 Comments
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 […]
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