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Sleep Tight: How to keep bedbugs from biting

Sleep Tight: How to keep bedbugs from biting

From UF/IFAS With recent media exposure of bed bug activity impacting travelers worldwide, the public perception of this species tends to draw some concerns over its potential for harming humans and pets.  University of Florida experts at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) weigh in with science-based research on recognizing the species, their impacts on humans and pets, and how to keep them from hitchhiking home with you after traveling. Let’s begin with a few bites about bed bugs.  “Bed bugs are blood-sucking insects, well […]

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How To Check If Your Hotel Room Has Bed Bugs

How To Check If Your Hotel Room Has Bed Bugs

Bed bugs and the itchy, red bites they impose are definitely not souvenirs you want to bring home after vacation. But, unfortunately, these hardy, fast-multiplying critters can hitchhike into hotels—and not just the cheap, roadside lodges, but luxury hotels and resorts, too. If you stay in a room that’s got them, the bug can also catch a ride home with you in your suitcase, invading your space, and causing a costly and stubborn infestation. “Bed bugs are a primarily hitchhiking insect as opposed to a foraging one, […]

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Franklin Towers residents concerned about growing bed bug infestation

Franklin Towers residents concerned about growing bed bug infestation

FBI AGENTS AND BOSTON POLICE SPENT MUCH OF THE DAY ON CAMPUS INVESTIGATING. AFTER LOSING POWER – SOME RESIDENTS IN FRANKLIN TOWERS ARE STILL LIVING WITH LIMITED ELECTRICITY… BUT THEY ALSO HAVE ANOTHER CONCERN – BED BUGS. RESIDENTS OF FRANKLIN TOWER REACHED OUT TO EIGHT INVESTIGATES – LOOKING FOR ANSWERS. NORAH HOGAN ASKED PORTLAND HOUSING AUTHORITY WHAT THEY’RE DOING TO SOLVE IT. <NORAH HOGAN> “BEDBUGS ARE HARD TO GET RID OF. THE EXTERMINATION PROCESS IS LENGTHY AND EXPENSIVE. SO, ONCE THEY SHOW UP IN AN APARTMENT BUILDING […]

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Aussie travellers face ‘traumatising’ new pandemic, and we have La Niña to thank

Aussie travellers face 'traumatising' new pandemic, and we have La Niña to thank

How the holiday from hell could happen to you, too. It was the holiday they needed. After Melbourne’s gruelling lockdown measures had them housebound for the better part of two years, friends Justine and Anna were pumped for sun, surf and everything a summer trip to Gold Coast entails. Well, not everything. After checking into their hotel, besties Justine and Anna were “left traumatised” after they began to“feel things crawling on them” once they got into bed. The women alerted hotel staff who moved them into another […]

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Chemical Free Bed Bug Management

Non Chemical Bed Bug Removal

Clutter Removal Very cluttered homes as well as bed rooms offer bed insects with numerous places to hide, and also makes dealing with the house with insecticides nearly difficult. As a result, decreasing mess will greatly boost your opportunities of getting rid of bed pests. Before having your home treated for bedbugs, place piles of clothing that are laying on the flooring into secured bags for laundering. Get rid of all products from under the bed, but do not place anything on top of the bed or […]

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Habits of the Bed Bug

Bed Bug Habits

As someone that is looking to eliminate bed insects, it is essential to understand just what these animals like to do. The habits of bed insects may astonish you despite the fact that you really do not like them. The bed bug is not an animal any one of us really want to learn more about, however understanding more about them will help you to get rid of them. Consuming The bed bug prefers to feed at night. He is a nighttime blood feeder. He likes to […]

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Exterminating Bed Bugs

Exterminate Bed Bugs

Bed bugs are tiny little creature that sucks blood off their human prey. Often dismissed as a nuisance, bed bugs are now a serious problem both at home, in the offices and luxury establishments. Why the infestation? There are two reasons for the increase in the number of bed bugs found in homes and other establishments recently. One of them is the increase in the number travelers and immigrants who stay in motels and unknowingly bring these insects along with them back home. The second reason is […]

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How To Get Bed Bugs Out Of Clothes

How to get bed bugs out of clothes

Bed bugs have been exterminated from the US soil sometime in 1940’s and the 1950’s. The use of DDT has been successful in eradicating these pests. However, international traveling and immigration have brought back to the US the exterminated, blood sucking pests. And establishments that are said to be the bed bugs exchange centers are: One, buses, two, trains, three, cabs, four, airplanes, and five, hotel rooms, six, motels and breakfast-inns. Don’t you notice that the places where you can see bed bugs from and out of […]

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