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Bed bugs from Saskatoon to Salt Lake City »

Today, bed bug news from Saskatoon and Salt Lake City.
First, an entire apartment building is being treated for bed bugs in the Fairhaven area of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan after “a couple isolated incidents” of bed bugs. This appears to be a fairly proactive move, if it is true that the incidents were isolated and few […]

Salt Lake City Tribune on bed bugs: they don’t quite get it yet »

This more or less “standard regional bed bug article” (in this case on the spread of bed bugs to Salt Lake City) implies that many locals still believe that avoiding overseas missionary travel, or hosting “punks, drunks, and missionaries” in your home, will keep bed bugs at bay. Not so.
While it’s true that overseas […]

Snapshot: a few hours of Bedbugger.com visitors tells us something about the spread »

You can click here to see a map of the last 90 or so visitors to the site. It will look different from what I describe below, because I am writing about what I saw there about 4-5 hours ago. Now it’s almost midnight in New York, and the Aussies are starting to […]

Salt Lake City Firehouse closed due to bed bugs »

According to kutv.com, the firefighters blame the infestation on a homeless shelter they are called out to regularly.
“What are we going to do? Strip everyone down and make them take a shower before we let them in the shelter?” asks Diane Keay of the Salt Lake County Health Department. “I don’t think we’re […]