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Boss the Dog can help detect your bed bugs
Bed bug search dogs are the latest weapon depoloyed by a pest control company in Crawley experiencing exponential growth whilst tackling the blood sucking bedroom critters.
Bed Bugs on Islands
A few years after Island hotels started to notice increasing problems with bed bugs, people are starting to take the problem home as well. Some pest control companies on P.E.I. are reporting their bed bug business is bigger than ever. The owner of Atlantic Graduate Pest Control Services in Charlottetown, told CBC News on Friday that business has almost doubled over last year, mostly because people are travelling more and carrying the bugs back with their luggage.
You get to choose the diagnosis
Doctors Jane Pritchard and Stephen Hwang report in The Canadian Medical Association Journal the interesting case of a 62-year-old man who complained of generalized fatigue....
...the apartment was treated by a pest control operator and six months later the man's anemia was resolved.
A website that drives landlords buggy
A website started in 2008 is proving a popular source of information on where bed bugs can currently found in US and Canadian cities, in hotels and apartments. It was set up by a traveller who suffered the effects of bed bugs when staying in an hotel in San Francisco.
Bed Bugs Comeback
The US government is hosting its first-ever bed bug conference amid a comeback by the blood-sucking insects.
Thought to have been virtually eliminated decades ago, bed bugs have re-emerged in dormitories, hospitals, shelters and hotels in several cities.
Bed bugs live in the seams of mattresses, sofas and sheets, emerging to feed on their victims at night.
Bedbug cases on the rise
Most tourists visiting New York bring something back with them. Usually it's a plastic Statue of Liberty or an 'I heart NYC' T-shirt. For Rebecca Riis it was bedbugs, picked up in a notoriously grotty Manhattan hotel.
"I woke up in the middle of the night and was really itchy and thought, 'Oh no, what is this?' I realised I had basically been bitten all over," said Rebecca.
The London-based lawyer believes the bugs were then carried back to the UK on her flatmate's clothes.
Bed Bugs - Why Are They a Big Issue Right Now?
Bed bugs, tiny little rust-colored insects of the Cimicidae family, live by feeding on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts. They get their name from their favorite habitat: mattresses (they like sofas and other cushy furniture, too)...
...Modern insecticides are proving to be somewhat ineffective against bed bugs,” he reports, adding that insects can also develop some level of resistance to insecticides in general.
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Boss, The Merlin Group's bed bug sniffer dog, was featured on the front page of Business Matters.