Short takes 2/2
In the meantime, some links.
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 [...]
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. As a follow up to the letter to building management discussed recently:
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 [...]
2nd national EPA summit agenda
A draft agenda (PDF) is now available at the EPA summit page.
“found 7 of them put them on the sticky tape, and here is what I got”
This photo set at flickr is very interesting — is this what happens when photographers are exposed to bed bugs? It seems intuitive that we would all reach for what we know best, even at a time like this.
Government of Ontario bed bug website
The provincial government of Ontario bed bug website that was announced as part of the new funding push to fight bed bugs in the province is now live: bedbugsinfo.ca. See The Star, our brief note and do take a look at The Star again today on the criticism by some stakeholders of the Ontario funding [...]
Fines for Article 151 violations and a new player
Remember Article 151, the revised pest prevention and management section of the New York City Health Code?
