Bedbugger recently brought us up to date on the latest news out of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. The city and county have released a draft report of the joint bed bug task force.
The draft report is not available online as far as I can tell but Peggy O’Farrell’s report in The Cincinnati [...]
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When we heard that the the New York City Housing Authority’s Chief Exterminator estimates that 70% of bed bug reports are “actual” infestations, that 70% resonated.
I just remembered where we heard 70% before.
In an interview with Pest Management Professional, medical entomologist Dr. Jerome Goddard said that his review of the research indicated that 70% of [...]
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Posted in wrap up, tagged news, squishy on March 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Events completely overtook our plans this week, but we are ready to get back to work.
In the next few days we’ll offer some specific suggestions to you — give you something to do, if you’re up for it — so keep an eye on that space above for a “Take Action” page. It will [...]
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That’s Mr. Howard Marder, public information officer for the New York City Housing Authority.
What I can tell you is that the revised year-end number for 2007 of all bed bug complaints was 1,720 and that our Chief Exterminator says that in his experience about 70% of cases reported there is actual infestation.
Well.
Let’s play bed bug [...]
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We still haven’t heard from New York City Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder.
Surprised, you say?
But we did get a nice email from David Segal wishing us well in our efforts.
We know you want to know why this matters. Why do we care that the Washington Post dismissed the bed bug problem in [...]
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Today we wait for New York City Housing Authority spokesman Howard Marder to confirm the numbers cited for public housing infestations in David Segal’s Washington Post piece.
We are rather impatient to hear whether it is indeed true, as Mr. Segal wrote, that there were fewer than 500 actual bed bug infestations in New York City [...]
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Posted in HPD, NYCHA, statistics, tagged bed bugs, NYC, press on March 25, 2008 | 13 Comments »
This is how New York City’s bed bug statistics have appeared in recent press articles:
Daily News, Douglas Feiden, December 30, 2007:
In the fiscal year that ended in June, 6,889 infestation complaints were logged and 2,008 building owners were hit with summonses.
and
Those travel patterns [bed bugs hitchhiking on clothing, etc.] account for the 1,708 verified bedbug [...]
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Posted in photos, tagged bed bugs, nymphs on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Can’t resist — Nobugs gave us plenty to go on!
A first instar is 1 mm long.
Have a trusty ruler?
I remember drawing a 1 mm line dot on a small post-it and carrying it around for a few days.
The thickness of a credit card. Roughly 1/32 of an inch.
That is what we’re talking about…
AMNH - [...]
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Posted in fun, introducing... on March 22, 2008 | 9 Comments »
In the black corner, Cimex L.
Mahogany Flats,
the Red Bomber,
Sneaky Simes,
Bed bug!
In the white corner,
The City of New York!
Gotham,
New Amsterdam,
the Big Apple.
All right, we don’t usually have multiple parties in each corner of the ring, so this is gonna get a bit messy.
But let’s come out fighting, gloves (and dust masks) on!
Is everyone ready to RUMBLE?!?!?!?
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