Have you ever seen the movie “Wedding Crashers,” in which Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson become masters of infiltration to meet new people? Some Cincinnati pals of mine were planning a very similar effort, and had the genius idea of hanging out around wedding dresses to meet fancy bed bug ladies. What? Did you think [...]

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Last night I was lucky enough to feast on a lovely French woman visiting from Naples, so naturally I woke up in a great mood this morning. That is, until I read a story from the New Tampa Patch about how some hotshot researchers from Canada have evidence indicating that bed bugs might carry infections. [...]

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Wouldn’t you give anything to go back to your college days? I would, and apparently some of my friends actually gave it a shot. Kentucky.com reported yesterday that they found us trying to start a bangin’ party in a lounge in the University of Kentucky Student Center. The party-poopers shut the whole lounge down until [...]

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Put on your suit and tie, bed bugs; we’re going into the insurance business. While crawling around the computer screen of this wonderfully hospitable chap in California (side note: his mattress is really, really comfortable), I saw this article from the Los Angeles Times about an increasing demand for bed bug insurance. Apparently lawmakers are [...]

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Apparently exterminators think they can outsmart us bed bugs. Alibi.com reports that an Albuquerque, New Mexico, exterminator recently hired a canine companion, Captain Dale, to sniff us out. How clever! They’re supposedly 99 percent effective when it comes to finding us. We’ll see about that, Dale. We’ll just see about that. On a side note, [...]

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Whew! It’s been five days, and the Bed Bug Blog still hasn’t been able to get rid of me for good. The rumors you’ve heard are true… the bed bugs really are fixin’ to stay. We just love beds and the people that sleep in them! What are you going to do, call the police? [...]

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Ha, Ha! I finally did it! I’ve successfully hacked Bed Bug Plague. Maybe now I can use this platform to convince the world that bed bugs are not so bad after all. Sure, we’re rough, tough and we often overstay our welcome when we visit homes and offices, but we need validation too. One new [...]

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Today, Protect-A-Bed launched it’s latest tool in the war against bed bugs: an interactive bed bug game. Bed Bug Plague, part of the bed bug-fighting app from Protect-A-Bed, is a fun, interactive iPhone game designed to let users battle a continuous rush of bed bugs that are trying to make it across the screen to infest [...]

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Did you know? Bed bug reports have increased 80 percent since the year 2000, according to a recent Huffington Post article. What’s more: no one is immune to the pesky critters, which can bite anytime, anywhere and anyone. That means our four-legged friends are also vulnerable to bed bug bites, especially because they are partial [...]

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