Resources
University Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets from Health Departments and Other Organizations
Comprehensive Guides to Bed Bugs
Bed Bug Policy Advocacy Groups
Bed Bug Blogs and Personal Accounts
Other Sources of Information and Support
French
Spanish
Information on Pesticides
Information for Landlords and Tenants
Information for the Hospitality Industry
Information for Shelter Operators
Register Infested Addresses
Selected Research Studies
Audio, Video, Photos of Bed Bugs
Information on Biting Mites, Bird Mites, etc.
Fact Sheets and Bed Bug Pages (university)
- Cornell Integrated Pest Management FAQ List for Bed Bugs
- Harvard’s bedbugs page
- University of Kentucky on bed bugs
- Ohio State (PDF)
- Penn State
- Purdue University
Fact Sheets (local, national, and international agencies)
- Controlling Bed Bugs (US Environmental Protection Agency)
- Health Canada on bed bugs
- New York City DOHMH bed bug factsheet (PDF)
- San Francisco Dept. of Health info on fighting bed bugs (PDF)
- Vancouver Coastal Health: Guide to Bed Bug Control (PDF)
- WHO: The Public Health Significance of Urban Pests (2008) (while not a fact sheet, this report is a very useful resource for anyone claiming bed bugs are not a health problem)
- WHO fact sheet on bedbugs
Comprehensive Guides to Bed Bugs
- Armed Forces Pest Management Guide to Bed Bugs (by Harold Harlan)
- U of Minn: Inspection / Treatment Guide for PCOs (PDF)
- Bed Bug Code of Practice (by Dr. Stephen Doggett, Australia)
- Michigan’s bed bug page and ?Michigan Manual for the Prevention and Control of Bed Bugs (PDF)
- University of Florida’s Bed Bugs Manual (PDF; includes information on methods developed at U of F to heat treat furniture and belongings in a controlled manner; see “Economical, Localized Heat Treatment for Control of Bed Bugs infestations” in the Table of Contents). Other U of F resources here.
- Guide for the Prevention and Control of Bed Bug Infestations in California (PDF) (August 2007)
- Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Bed Bugs in Shelters and Group Living Facilities (from the NY State IPM Program at Cornell)
- The Nitty Gritty of Bed Bug Inspections (PDF of presentation from the California Department of Health Services, Vector Borne Disease Section)
- Protocols for the Prevention and Control of Bed Bugs in Multiunit Housing (City of Boston, Housing Division)
- Larry Pinto, Richard Cooper, and Sandra Kraft, “Bed Bugs in Office Buildings: the Ultimate Challenge?” (PCT Magazine, Feb. 2010)
Bed Bug Blogs and Personal Accounts
- A Big Fat Waste of Time: Tales of a Bedbug Refugee
- a picture of me
- Bedbugger’s Success Stories
- bugged out
- the bed bug blog: caitlin’s blog
- Unlucky in Bugs
- The War on Bed Bugs
- windy city mike’s bedbug genocide [note: this resource is offline for the foreseeable future; we hope it will return in future]
Other Sources of Information and Support
- Bed-bugs.co.uk: site of UK PCO that exclusively deals in bed bugs, with lots of informationBed Bug Beware page on disposing infested items, with downloadable WARNING label for infested refuse
- Multi-lingual bed bug warning label from EffeCi
- Bed Bug Resource
- bedbugger yahoo group
- Wikipedia on bed bugs
- Sante Canada: punaises de lit (fact sheet)
- La cibole de cimex (from Montreal) (blog)
- Preguntas Frecuentes en Espanol (our Spanish FAQs)
- Spanish Bed Bugs Fact Sheet (Boston Public Health)
- Pesticide Emergency Resources (from US National Pesticide Information Center)
- National Pesticide Information Center’s advice about bed bugs — note: you can call their hotline (1-800-858-7378, 7 days a week/6:30 am – 4:30 pm PST) or email NPIC for specific advice about pesticides)
- Pesticides Labeled for bed bugs (includes products labeled for mattresses, and not for mattresses!)
- This Bedbugger post outlines some research done on the relative effectiveness of Suspend, Kicker, Phantom, Bedlam, and Steri-Fab, which was reported by Dr. Mike Potter at PestWorld 2007 (and taken from a brief PCT Online article.)
- Chicago tenants can get advice from Metropolitan Tenants’ Organization
- Tenants in Minnesota can get advice from HOMELine
- NYC Tenants can get advice from Met Council
- Toronto Tenants Unite is another local tenants’ organization
- San Francisco Department of Public Health provides information on prevention (PDF) and treatment (PDF) for residents and on prevention (PDF) and treatment (PDF) for landlords. You may find the latter useful when dealing with your landlord, even if you don’t live in San Francisco.
- Bed bugs: a handbook for shelter operators (PDF)
- New York State IPM’s wonderful Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Bed Bugs in Shelters and Group Living Facilities
- Stephen L. Doggett, The resurgence of bed bugs in Australia (PDF), 2004
- Tim Myles, Beth Brown, et. al. Bed bugs in Toronto (PDF)
- World Health Organization, The Public Health Significance of Urban Pests (2008)
- Note: you can also search for bed bug articles on the Armed Forces pest management library (it’s free and lots of the articles are hard to come by otherwise).
- (National Geo)graphic video of bed bug feeding
- bed bug photos / bed bug bite photos on flickr
- Bed bugs on Leonard Lopate Show (NPR) 2007
- Bed bugs on Leonard Lopate Show (NPR) 2006
- Bedbugger’s bed bug bite photos
- Bedbugger’s bed bug photos
- CBC’s wonderful in-depth segment on bed bugs
- kyle scott tekiela’s bed bug video
- lou sorkin’s bed bug photos and bed bug bite photos on flickr
- U of Toronto photos of bed bugs











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