Bed Bugs Increasing in Oneida County

Bed bugs are real pain. And among the counties really feeling the headache that their increase in number brings is Oneida County in New York. The pests are now widely spread in the county that its health department gets up to 14 calls a week about the pests. Cathe Bullwinkle, quality improvement coordinator for the…

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Bed Bugs Now Immune to Pesticides?

Some of the good things about the warm months are that you could travel, have fun in the sun and bring home some great garage sale finds. The bad thing though, there is a bigger chance that bed bugs would hitch on you or your luggage for a ride. Worse, based on a recent study,…

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Vegas Fire Station Struggling from Bed Bugs

Even fire stations, bed bugs don’t spare. And another one of it in Vegas, the pests recently invaded. However, according to the local firefighters, their complaints about the said vampire-like insects are sadly not being heard. The fire station reported with the bed bug infestation is in Las Vegas’ Clark County. Particularly, the pests are…

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Bed Bugs Disrupt UC-Berkeley Campus Housing

It seems that bed bugs are loving the Griffiths Hall in Unit 2 of the University of California, Berkeley. Although for sure, it isn’t the only dormitory that got a bed bug problem, the pests were seen in the fifth and seventh floors of it for the past few months already. And needless to say,…

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Bed Bugs Hitchhiked Their Way to a Lincoln Care Facility

One thing that makes bed bugs infamous is their ability to attack without being noticed. That’s no thanks to them being good hitchhikers. And as a report has it, that sneaky hitchhiking ability got them to one Lincoln care facility. As the report said, particularly, the vampire-like pests have recently reached the Tabitha Health Care’s…

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Florida to Get $6 Million Pest Control Fund

Good news – Florida will get $6 million funding for disease-control and pest-eradication. Bad news – it was not specified if any of it would be used to fight bed bugs. According to a report, the said federal funding would be used particularly on eliminating the pests that threaten Florida’s agriculture. The said amount is…

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Bed Bugs Got Family Throwing Their Possessions

When bed bugs infest, one way to prevent their further spread is to throw away the items they invaded. And sadly for the Reynolds family in Omaha, they had to throw almost everything they own because of the bed bug infestation. But could there have been a way to get rid of the pests without…

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Bed Bugs Discovered Again in Somersworth Elderly Housing

Bed bugs were discovered in yet another housing complex. This time, it victimized the Fillion Terrace Senior Center in Somersworth, New Hampshire. And according to Somersworth Housing Authority Assistant Director Deborah Evans, it’s not the first time that the pests caused havoc to its residents. As shared by one resident of the Fillon Terrace, his…

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Passing It On? Bed Bugs Also Discovered in Taylor High School

Two weeks ago, bed bugs were found in Bernice McDowell Elementary School in Taylor. As a result, students were asked not to bring backpacks at school to prevent the further spread of the insects. But that wasn’t the end of it. Now, the vampire-like pests are giving a local high school the same headache. On…

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Bed Bugs and the Heat Treatment – What’s the Challenge?

As you surely know, there are several methods to get rid of bed bugs like using bed bug spray. Some of them requires more money, others take more work. However, among them, heat treatment is one of those that many pest-control experts love to implement. Should you then follow their lead on how to kill bed…

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