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How to avoid bedbugs during travel: Hotel guest’s three travel rules after dream holiday turned into ‘absolute nightmare’
A traveller has offered her three rules after her dream holiday turned into an “absolute nightmare” when she discovered she had accidentally brought bedbugs home. Aly Henry, from the US, shared a now-viral TikTok video explaining how the unwanted blood-sucking creatures made their way into her suitcase – despite her having stayed at a fancy five-star hotel. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Traveller’s warning to hotel guests. For more Lifestyle related news and videos check out Lifestyle >> She tried everything to get rid of the infestation in […]
Read moreBedbugs Are on the Rise in U.S. Hotels. Here’s How to Avoid Them.
This article originally appeared on Outside Any number of concerns are on our radar as we plan our next trip, from serious issues like how destinations are working to mitigate tourists’ environmental impact to inconveniences like months-long passport wait times. In this column, we’ll be addressing your questions about how to navigate the world. The other day I read that bedbugs are now in all 50 states and turning up in more and more hotels, even nice ones. I travel regularly, so this makes me nervous. How […]
Read moreHow to spot bedbugs in hotel room – tourists share tips | Travel News | Travel
There’s nothing worse than leaving a relaxing hotel break with some unwanted stowaways. Bedbug bites are painful and itchy and the bugs can travel home with tourists in their clothing. However, there are a few ways tourists can try to spot the animals before they get caught out. A regular traveller wrote on Reddit: “When you get to the hotel room, immediately inspect the mattress and see it is spotless without a bedbug in sight.” Tourists can lift the sheet on their bed to check that the […]
Read moreDear Annie: My mom’s house is infested with bedbugs, and she’s decided to just live with them
Dear Annie: My mother lives alone and has bedbugs in her living room and bedroom. She also has a lot of clutter. She had a professional treatment of one of the rooms, but the bugs returned. She says that preparing for further treatment would be too stressful, so she is choosing to live with the bugs. She has refused any assistance from me or my siblings. We have offered to help her prepare or get rid of the bedbugs. Lately, she is saying she thinks the bugs […]
Read moreBedbugs begone | | meadvilletribune.com
Meadville Housing Authority officials said this week that they are making progress in their efforts to eradicate bedbugs and other pests that have bedeviled residents in authority apartments. Following the authority’s monthly meeting Wednesday, Executive Director Vanessa Rockovich said there had “definitely” been improvements at Holland Towers, located on Market Street, and William Gill Commons on Walker Drive, over the past several months and expressed optimism regarding future pest treatment. “We have a good maintenance program, so we’ll be on top of it,” she said. “It’s not […]
Read moreAussie 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 […]
Read moreWhere Bed Bugs Come From
The number of reported cases of bed bugs in schools, hotels, motels, cruise ships, dormitories, shelters, homes, movie houses and apartments are rising. And the authorities are somehow already alarmed and concerned over the issue. In the United States alone, it is reported that six out of ten apartments have bed bugs. Because bed bugs are not known to transfer or spread out any form of disease, the alarm is somehow flamed down. Origins Bed bugs are tiny, wingless creatures that are scientifically labeled Cimex lectularius. They […]
Read moreAll About Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are rarely seen these days because of the widespread use of DDT during the 1940’s and 50’s to exterminate all sorts of pests in the United States. However, bed bugs are making a comeback. Hotels and motels are among the places that suffer from bed bugs infestation. According to studies, bed bugs’ comeback may be attributed to international travelling of Americans to countries with bed bugs infestation on hotels and motels and the immigration to the States by people from countries with bed bugs infestation. […]
Read moreBattling the Distribution of Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are insects that do not have wings. They are roughly shaped oval. They measure, once fully grown, from four to five millimeters long. You might find the next piece of information unexpected, but bed bugs are fast runners. There are easy to see on white linoleum or marble floors, but very difficult to spot on brown wooden floors. This is so because bed bugs are rust brown in color and they even change into a deeper red brown when they finish a blood meal. The […]
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