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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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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“The other thing that fascinates me is how resilient they are. They can survive for so long and on so little,”

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All bed bug experts agree that you must encase your mattress and box spring with a durable, bite proof, leak-proof cover that will trap existing bugs inside the bedding and prevent new bugs from entering. Make sure that the zipper has a lock feature to ensure bugs do not enter or escape. (Even if you don’t currently suspect bed bugs, you might want to do this proactively, if you live in a highly infested area.)

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The biggest bedbug outbreak since World War II has sent a collective shudder among apartment dwellers, college students and business travelers across the nation.

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They also identify ideas and options for bed bug prevention, control, and management; creation of strategies for outreach and education; and development recommendations for action.

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Bed bugs tend to aggregate together when they are resting. It is possible that you are on the “bed bug side” of the bed. Bed bugs don’t switch back and forth from one host to another so if they find you first, you may be the only one bitten. It is also possible that your husband is getting bitten but does not have a significant reaction to the bed bug bites.

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