Battle the Bed Bug Plague
A recent Toronto Sun article explored the issue of why bed bugs are back. One of the root causes — banning DDT because it was harmful to humans, wildlife and plants. According to the article:
Developing countries used DDT in the 1940s and 1950s to control the little bugs who drill into their human host sucking blood [...]
Bed bug infestations in the United States have increased by 71 percent since 2001, according to the National Pest Management Association. And, bed bugs don’t discriminate based on location or socio-economic status. Infestations have been reported in large urban areas and small rural towns.
To help prevent bed bugs from infesting and ruining a mattress, it’s [...]
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Tune in to Around the World Radio tomorrow (July 1, 2010) to listen to Bed Bug Central’s Rick Cooper offer travel tips to help you avoid bed bugs on your next vacation. You can listen in live on the web at 1:20 p.m. ET/12:20 p.m. CT, or if you’re in the Santa Barbara area, tune [...]
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Tampabay.com featured some great tips from NPMA on how to avoid bed bugs when vacation. We’d like to add one of our own that we’ve found helpful.
Always check behind the headboard on your hotel’s bed. Sometimes the hotel room headboards just snap off and you can take a look easily. In cases where the headboard [...]
Our company Protect-A-Bed now offers a full bed solution for those wanting to protect themselves from bed bugs. The new Protect-A-Bed Bed Bug Protection Kit includes all the products you need to keep the bed bug plague from taking over your bedroom.
Each Bed Bug Protection Kit includes the following products:
One AllerZip 6-sided Mattress Encasement
One Bed [...]
What does a bed bug bite look like? It’s a common question. And while we could easily describe the red itchy welts to you, we thought it would be most helpful this time around to share some amazing bed bug bite pictures from around the Internet. They may be gross, but if you’re wondering if [...]
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As you may have figured out based on our love of blogging and Facebook, we at Protect-A-Bed think social media is a great way to connect and share information about bed bugs. So, we thought we’d share a list of people we think you should be following on Twitter when it comes to learning about [...]
