With the recent Ohio State University study denouncing the effectiveness of bed bug sprays, it’s easy to feel hopeless in the crusade against bed bugs. Research entomologist Jeffrey White offers solutions should you find yourself sleeping with the enemy. You can find the complete list of suggestions here. Use pesticides in crisis mode, but do [...]
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In April 2012, students at North Carolina’s Elon University put their smarts and logic to the test when the class participated in a one-question assignment. The students were divided into two teams and challenged to find a way to give back to the community; two non-profit organizations in Alamance County benefited. One of the recipient [...]
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Sometimes, the best bed bug solutions are discovered by word of mouth. Canadian lawyer Bob Goldin, after noticing a pattern of bites on his ankles and determining he had a small bed bug problem, “discovered a company that sells specialty mattress and pillow covers with tightly woven fibres that don’t let bed bugs in or [...]
With bed bugs, the only thing bigger than the scope of the problem is the challenge of educating people about it. In an effort to increase education, September has been recently declared National Bed Bug Awareness Month, organized by BedBug Central. The campaign kicks off Sept. 1 with an interactive Howcast.com series of 14 online videos [...]
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Students are returning to college dorms across the country, and bed bug reports are on the rise as a result. According to NBC4 in Columbus, Ohio, bed bug-sniffing dogs recently found four rooms on the Ohio Dominican University campus infested with bed bugs, prompting the school to treat the entire building for the pests. “If [...]
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With some classes resuming session less than a week from now, students aren’t the only things going back to school. It’s a prime time for bed bugs to find their way from homes to the classroom, and possibly straight to your home by hitching a ride on your child’s backpack or into your dorm room [...]
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By Mike Simpson April 30, 2009 Sometimes people can get bed bugs from traveling, visiting friends or making service calls at locations that have had a bed bug infestation. This is a major source of the spread of bed bugs. No one wants to pick up and bring home (or to another location) unwanted pesty [...]
