New York vs Bed Bugs

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This most recent iteration of the blog at New York vs Bed Bugs is near the end. I am writing one additional post that deals with landlord/tenant issues. A good way to be alerted to the last few posts is to subscribe to the site feed or subscribe to receive posts via email.

2011 National Bed Bug Summit public docket

Take note of the public docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0190 for this year’s national bed bug summit (this seems to be the same same docket for the 2009 summit) so that you can view any summit materials that are posted there, like the presentations and discussion outcomes, and submit a public comment to EPA. I encourage you to comment.

Toronto Bed Bug Workshop, March 15-16

The workshop is called Getting Rid of Bed Bugs / Keeping Them Out! - Sustainable Elimination through Integrated Pest Management. Details and registration here. This is the agenda (PDF).

A one-sheet for communicating with your neighbors

I hope you are not organizing your building to fight bed bugs all by yourself. But I know that you may be.

Hunger folds and a reminder about the law

Updated below.

Last night the Museum of the City of New York hosted a bed bug program. I’m very grateful to the museum and especially its director of public programs, Ryan J. Carey, for thinking of this problem and asking us to participate in discussing it. But unlike last year’s lecture at the NY Entomological Society, I don’t think I can offer a good recap (participation not being a good vantage point for observation). What I remember distinctly is that Lou talked about the hunger folds of bed bugs (conveniently expandable for taking in lots of blood), and that a certain gentleman from London said something terrible: that “whoever brought them in” should be responsible for eradicating them.