bedbugs

It's evening, you're just settling down for a drink in your new hotel, and your wrists, your ankles, your neck, start to itch, and red lumps appear. Now you know you chose last night's hotel badly; it had bedbugs.

Increased travel, heavily heated rooms, a ban on some pesticides, and the sale of second-hand and reconditioned mattresses have been blamed for the increasing spread and concentration of Cimex lectularius, the most common bedbug in temperate areas.

Adult bedbugs can be seen with the naked eye, but being nocturnal and generally hiding in crevices and seams, in light switches, radios and other crannies, are difficult to see. 

Eradication usually requires the employment of a professional pest control company.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “bedbugs”

• in Technorati Women
  Bedbugs Plus MRSA Should Not Equal Panic
  MRSA found by researchers in three bedbugs. Should we panic?
  by dhdo411 / on May 12, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  The Bedbugs Are Coming! The Bedbugs Are Coming!
  They’re baaaack!
  by docentman / on Jan 3, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Bed Bugs Hit Swanky Juicy Couture in NYC
  Bed bugs continue to be a growing problem.
  by caroline1234 / on Dec 5, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bedbugs”

 

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• How To Prevent Bed Bugs

  
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  Learn How To Prevent Bed Bugs And Sleep Peacefully Bed Bugs are everywhere. They are turning up in homes, apartments, hotels, movie theaters, laundromats and grocery stores. Bed bugs have been found on buses, in subways and even on airlines and cruise ships. Bed bugs have earned a reputation as world class ...
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• Bogus bedbug threat slowed Toronto’s response to Wellesley fire

  
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  Torontos ombudsman says confusion was rampant as the city tried to temporarily house 1,700 residents displaced by a highrise fire.
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• Newsstand: April 30, 2012

  
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  Morning. Youd be wise to escort yourself on a whirlwind tour of the city today, cause your April Metro Pass is about to expire. While you contemplate that, some news: Rob Ford is working on a three-year budget plan and looking, as hes wont to do, to the upcoming election; staff will explore bedbugs in a time of ...
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• How to Keep Bedbugs Out of Your Home When You Have Kids

  
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  When you tuck your kids in at night, do you tell them, “Sleep tight! Don’t let the bedbugs bite!”? Turns out that this could be a very real threat — not just a bedtime refrain. Bedbugs became epidemic last year, with outbreaks at hotels and homes around the country. If you were lucky enough to be spared the ...
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