Coping with bed bugs during Christmas and New Year
Having bed bugs during any holiday season is hard. You have to get some kind of treatment, whether it’s professional or D.I.Y, and you still feel the pressure to buy gifts and food.
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How to Contact Your County Health Department
Most county health departments have a Vector Control department. They often are able to identify your insect for free. If you have found an insect you think is a bed bug or any other insect, actually. Some County Health Departments, like Multnomah County in Portland, Oregon, have an entomologist who can identify your bugs for …
Bed Bugs Make a Cameo on Orange is the New Black
Bed bugs once again had their fifteen minutes of fame on tv this month on the Netflix show Orange is the New Black. While not exactly making bed bugs funny, there were many accuracies and well-made points during this episode, when the prison unit becomes infested with bed bugs. Below some choice examples and a …
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Scientists Develop Pheromone-Laced Bed Bug Trap
Researchers discover a molecule, a histamine so appealing to bed bugs, that in laboratory tests using human subjects, even hungry bed bugs did not seek out food once in contact with the histamine. Can they invent a substance that will make bed bugs choose to stay hiding, and not to feed? The Simon Fraser University …
