I just heard on the news that bats have bed bugs, too. Now I’m worried because we have had bats in our attic before. Could their bed bugs get down into the house to bite us? A. D., Medway, MA It is true that bats have their own bed bugs, Cimex adjunctus and Cimex pilosellus,
VIEW MOREAs it does every year about this time, pest control giant Orkin has just released its new list of the most bed bug-infested cities in the U.S. The list is based on the number of bed bug treatments done by Orkin in each of 50 cities in 2014. Not a very scientific analysis, and dependent
VIEW MOREShe did it all for the sake of science. Biologist Regine Gries became a human pincushion for a thousand hungry bed bugs. And she did it over and over again every night for five years! Gries and her husband, Gerhard, are biologists at Simon Fraser University. For eight years, they have been studying bed bugs. If
VIEW MOREBed bugs are so hard to control because they’re small and hidden, don’t venture out every day, aren’t very affected by many bed bug insecticides, and more.
VIEW MORELast year, there were three times the number of bed bug-infested cities in the North as there were in the South. So what gives?
VIEW MORE“Bed bugs are best treated by an experienced professional. Let me say that again…If you have bed bugs, and you can hire a professional who knows what they’re doing, then do it. It can save you much grief and lost sleep.” The expert advice above comes from Mike Merchant, an entomologist and professor at Texas
VIEW MOREIt is a great question. With their piercing/sucking mouthparts they certainly have the equipment to do so. Think about it for a moment. Bed Bugs are quick feeders like mosquitoes, which are notorious disease vectors (malaria, yellow fever, dengue, etc) and they may have multiple hosts throughout their lifetime. What if the bed bug that fed
VIEW MOREOver the last year, my daughter’s school has had both head lice and bed bug infestations. What’s the difference between these two pests? Won’t the same methods kill them both? S. L., Hampton, NH From your viewpoint, bed bugs and head lice may seem like almost the same insect but I assure you that from
VIEW MOREI recently had 4 live bugs found in my kitchen entry that were confirmed as bed bugs. The pest control people did not inspect my apartment, they just did a heat treatment and drilled holes. There were no signs of bed bugs in other rooms or beds and no one has been bitten. The apartment
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