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Dealing with Bedbugs: Tips

Posted on June 11, 2008
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After dealing with bedbugs at the Norwood Apartments for many years, we have become unofficial bedbug experts. Despite our efforts there are still many apartments with bedbugs, and without organized bedbug extermination throughout the building, we fear it will be a long time before they are completely eradicated from the building.

Although bedbugs cannot be completely killed in one shot, if you stick to proven strategies you can win your battle with the critters.

Getting help from your building management or local exterminator should be your first step, but YOU CAN DO-IT-YOURSELF if you’re not getting a quick or adequate response. The tenants association at the Norwood has researched the proper chemicals and do-it-yourself methods online, and we have taken up a collection from tenants to assist them when bedbugs invade.

The most important thing to do is not get overwhelmed or embarrassed if you find out you have bedbugs. They were all but eliminated from American homes the 1950’s with the widespread use of the pesticide called DDT. Since the 1990’s, however, bedbugs have started to return in force.

Step 1: Educate Yourself, Then Do Something About The Problem!

There are many reliable resources on bedbugs available online. From academic research to blogs, there is a wealth of information and products available. Please see the Bedbugs Link section below for more information. Read more

Bed bugs bite family — comment on this story

Posted on May 17, 2008
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When a rash broke out all over Ericka Henshaw’s body, she was told it was a side-effect of being pregnant.

The Sudbury resident spent a week away from home, visiting family in the Sault, and the rash cleared up. When she came back to her Louis Street apartment, so did the rash.

Henshaw figured out the red bumps were a result of the little black creepy crawlies that have been making a comeback in cities across the country — bed bugs.

Since she first complained to her landlords — Sudbury Housing Corp. — in the fall, her unit has been sprayed four times to no avail.

On Wednesday, after Henshaw said she “caused a big hassle in there,” Sudbury Housing decided to move her, her fiancé Mike Cyr and six-month-old son Gage into a motel room.

“I had to sign a note today giving them permission to throw everything I have in the garbage,” Henshaw said. Read more

Vancouver’s Bedbug Plague

Posted on May 17, 2008
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At least once a week in Vancouver, bug exterminator Mark Amery enters a private home, lifts a mattress and watches the box spring move with blood-sucking vermin.

It’s an optical illusion caused by up to a thousand twitching bedbugs, each no larger than a lentil, which are infesting more houses, rental apartments and hotel rooms in Vancouver today than at any point in the city’s modern history.

“Four years ago we would get two calls a day for bedbugs in Vancouver, now we get 40 calls a day,” says Amery, whose growing company Vancouver Bed Bug Control Inc. has five exterminators working full time in the downtown core.

Infestations can vary from a few bugs to thousands, and they do not discriminate between the rich and poor (”all they care about is blood,” says Amery). He typically finds his customers sleep deprived, stressed to the point of tears, and peppered with itchy red bites and welts courtesy of Cimex lectularius, or the common bedbug. Read more

Traveler Warning: Keep Bed Bugs From Hitching Ride Home

Posted on May 17, 2008
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FORT WORTH, Texas — As more people travel, blood-sucking bed bugs are finding their way back into more homes across the country. But, there are ways to keep those horrible hitchhikers from invading your home.

Bed bugs hide virtually anywhere in homes and then feed on your blood, leaving welts on your body while you’re fast asleep.

Richard Cooper, an entomologist who is one of the world’s leading experts on bed bugs, said that the bugs don’t spread disease but that they can be problematic.

“As an entomologist, there aren’t a lot of insects that creep me out and bedbugs are one creepy insect,” said Cooper. “People are waking up with very itchy welts and sometimes reactions are quite severe and they have no idea what’s causing it.”

Richard’s brother Phil, with BedBugCentral.com, said it can be quite costly to get rid of an infestation once the bugs have moved in. Read more

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