Comments on: A brief update on Toronto http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2008/10/15/a-brief-update-on-toronto/ NYC bed bug policy advocacy | archive Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:54:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: sam bryks http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2008/10/15/a-brief-update-on-toronto/#comment-436 sam bryks Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:38:40 +0000 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/?p=412#comment-436 date of my meeting with the director of major pest management organization was in 2006, not 2003. Conference at that time was on bed bugs in the hospitality industry and was jointly sponsored by NPMA and a hotel organization. Sorry for miscue on the date. date of my meeting with the director of major pest management organization was in 2006, not 2003. Conference at that time was on bed bugs in the hospitality industry and was jointly sponsored by NPMA and a hotel organization. Sorry for miscue on the date.

]]> By: Renee Corea http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2008/10/15/a-brief-update-on-toronto/#comment-435 Renee Corea Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:01:42 +0000 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/?p=412#comment-435 Mr. Bryks, how kind of you to comment. May I contact you? I mean, I hope I can contact you. I hope you are open to sharing your experiences in deploying IPM techniques in urban housing settings. We need greater understanding. I will be in touch. Thanks again for visiting. Mr. Bryks, how kind of you to comment. May I contact you? I mean, I hope I can contact you. I hope you are open to sharing your experiences in deploying IPM techniques in urban housing settings.

We need greater understanding. I will be in touch. Thanks again for visiting.

]]> By: sam bryks http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2008/10/15/a-brief-update-on-toronto/#comment-434 sam bryks Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:42:18 +0000 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/?p=412#comment-434 I was one ofthe speakers at the Town Hall Meeting on bed bugs held at Woodgreen. The original meeting had allocated only 15 minutes per speaker and I felt that this was just not enough time to do the basic elements of bed bug biology, control and the difficulties involved in this, so I asked for 30 minutes, and fortunately, the organizers gave me the courtesy of the extra time. Speakers included a legal aid advocate speaking of tenants' rights, a physician dealing with bed bug medical issues, public health department staff. There is an active linkage to others in the world by various experts through pest management associations, the Entomological Society of America and its publications and meetings, as well as by other experts in England, Australia and elswhere, but in fact, the bed bug web sites and their relationships to one another provide a rich source of information on what is going on world wide. The material is available and more is becoming available on practically a daily basis. There has been some focus 0n hospitality industry due to the public relations and business impacts.. If you are a major hotel chain with a reputation and a rating of 3 or 4 stars, having bed bugs is intolerable and dangerous to business. I met one of the directors of a major service firm in the U.S. that specializesi n the hotel industry at a conference in 2003, and we talked the area over a beer the night before the conference began. The degree of focus on solving problems and the costs were astounding. One of the newer approaches using heat that has been recently expanded charges $1800 to treat ONE hotel suite. If it were as simple as having funds to do it right, the problem would have been solved everywhere, but reality is such that not only are such funds not available, but the situation in multi-dwelling housing is quite different than treating a hotel room.... Much more difficult. Remi Zavys is right in many ways, but reality is such that the type of funding available to a major hotel chain is simply not there if infestation is rampant. The key element to controlling bed bugs is in the language of Integrated Pest Management.. it is the "management" aspect and the fact that the educational component is key.. For those in the pest control industry and professionals in IPM at universities and other institutions, it comes back to what IPM is really about. It is not merely using different methodologies, or combined methodologies although this is a key part of the "integrated" part of IPM. When we look at control of German cockroach which is still by far the most successful structural pest worldwide, it comes back to understanding spread of infestation, and the biology of the roach, and what it takes to achieve control and to limit spread. Early warning, understanding structural factors, importance of quality of services (you get what you pay for and if you hire a firm at a price impossible to do the job right, then the job will not be done right).. The spread of roaches in pubs, for example, was sometimes mediated by a cycle of return of beer bottles or containers from infested pubs to breweries and then the risk of breweries then sending infestation to other pubs. Without a careful program of managing such risks of spread, the problem never would go away, and the same applies to roaches and bed bugs in multi-dwelling structures, except bed bugs are harder to control than roaches and they feed on PEOPLE, and the "ugh" factor is far greater.. Few pest control firms usee vacuums for either roach control or bed bug control... easier to spray!!!! and it takes less time even though removal of insects facilitates control with roaches if you use baits, and with bed bugs because they are so resistant to most currently used products. The bigger picture has to do with understanding the bigger picture. If one understands spread factors and understands what it means to have pest reservoirs (i.e. places where infestation is unresolved, and from which it spreads to other places), and does the necessary things to limit spread, to enable good control not only in the individual unit but in the building and in the community, then there is a hope of stopping the infestations and reducing problems dramatically. It takes legislation and co-operation. It takes education and establishing high standards. It takes helping people who cannot help themselves.. all of these things are part of the IPM process... Getting that idea across is one of the hardest things to accomplish. Even with legislation for IPM in Schools in the U.S., IPM professionals have reported that true IPM is not necessarily done because the people who are supposed to be in charge of this simply do not understand it conceptually. If we can get people to understand IPM in its real meaning, not in some watered down notion of combined methodologies which is part of IPM but not the actual "engine of logic" that drives IPM and makes it work. IPM is a system based on information management and use of that information in order to implement appropriate methodology and combination of approaches. In our organization we call it Integrated Pest Management - Chain of Accountability Program or IPM CAP for short, and we emphasize that all stakeholders must be identified and educated and their roles carefully defined so that there is no element that falls through the cracks because someone says "not my job"... Bed bugs is a hot issue and it has huge impact on everyone in society, but it really does take Integrated Pest Management as a method of pest management that is not merely a catch-phrase but is used in its full scope of meaning and intention... The more that this starts to happen, the faster this problem will be solved.. and kept in check.. Sam Bryks, Board Certified Entomologist, Housing Services Inc. Toronto Canada I was one ofthe speakers at the Town Hall Meeting on bed bugs held at Woodgreen. The original meeting had allocated only 15 minutes per speaker and I felt that this was just not enough time to do the basic elements of bed bug biology, control and the difficulties involved in this, so I asked for 30 minutes, and fortunately, the organizers gave me the courtesy of the extra time. Speakers included a legal aid advocate speaking of tenants’ rights, a physician dealing with bed bug medical issues, public health department staff.
There is an active linkage to others in the world by various experts through pest management associations, the Entomological Society of America and its publications and meetings, as well as by other experts in England, Australia and elswhere, but in fact, the bed bug web sites and their relationships to one another provide a rich source of information on what is going on world wide.
The material is available and more is becoming available on practically a daily basis.
There has been some focus 0n hospitality industry due to the public relations and business impacts.. If you are a major hotel chain with a reputation and a rating of 3 or 4 stars, having bed bugs is intolerable and dangerous to business. I met one of the directors of a major service firm in the U.S. that specializesi n the hotel industry at a conference in 2003, and we talked the area over a beer the night before the conference began. The degree of focus on solving problems and the costs were astounding. One of the newer approaches using heat that has been recently expanded charges $1800 to treat ONE hotel suite.
If it were as simple as having funds to do it right, the problem would have been solved everywhere, but reality is such that not only are such funds not available, but the situation in multi-dwelling housing is quite different than treating a hotel room…. Much more difficult.
Remi Zavys is right in many ways, but reality is such that the type of funding available to a major hotel chain is simply not there if infestation is rampant.
The key element to controlling bed bugs is in the language of Integrated Pest Management.. it is the “management” aspect and the fact that the educational component is key.. For those in the pest control industry and professionals in IPM at universities and other institutions, it comes back to what IPM is really about. It is not merely using different methodologies, or combined methodologies although this is a key part of the “integrated” part of IPM. When we look at control of German cockroach which is still by far the most successful structural pest worldwide, it comes back to understanding spread of infestation, and the biology of the roach, and what it takes to achieve control and to limit spread. Early warning, understanding structural factors, importance of quality of services (you get what you pay for and if you hire a firm at a price impossible to do the job right, then the job will not be done right).. The spread of roaches in pubs, for example, was sometimes mediated by a cycle of return of beer bottles or containers from infested pubs to breweries and then the risk of breweries then sending infestation to other pubs. Without a careful program of managing such risks of spread, the problem never would go away, and the same applies to roaches and bed bugs in multi-dwelling structures, except bed bugs are harder to control than roaches and they feed on PEOPLE, and the “ugh” factor is far greater..
Few pest control firms usee vacuums for either roach control or bed bug control… easier to spray!!!! and it takes less time even though removal of insects facilitates control with roaches if you use baits, and with bed bugs because they are so resistant to most currently used products.
The bigger picture has to do with understanding the bigger picture. If one understands spread factors and understands what it means to have pest reservoirs (i.e. places where infestation is unresolved, and from which it spreads to other places), and does the necessary things to limit spread, to enable good control not only in the individual unit but in the building and in the community, then there is a hope of stopping the infestations and reducing problems dramatically. It takes legislation and co-operation. It takes education and establishing high standards. It takes helping people who cannot help themselves..
all of these things are part of the IPM process…
Getting that idea across is one of the hardest things to accomplish. Even with legislation for IPM in Schools in the U.S., IPM professionals have reported that true IPM is not necessarily done because the people who are supposed to be in charge of this simply do not understand it conceptually.
If we can get people to understand IPM in its real meaning, not in some watered down notion of combined methodologies which is part of IPM but not the actual “engine of logic” that drives IPM and makes it work.
IPM is a system based on information management and use of that information in order to implement appropriate methodology and combination of approaches. In our organization we call it Integrated Pest Management – Chain of Accountability Program or IPM CAP for short, and we emphasize that all stakeholders must be identified and educated and their roles carefully defined so that there is no element that falls through the cracks because someone says “not my job”…
Bed bugs is a hot issue and it has huge impact on everyone in society, but it really does take Integrated Pest Management as a method of pest management that is not merely a catch-phrase but is used in its full scope of meaning and intention… The more that this starts to happen, the faster this problem will be solved.. and kept in check..
Sam Bryks,
Board Certified Entomologist,
Housing Services Inc.
Toronto Canada

]]> By: The Toronto Bed Bug Project - Medical Officer of Health’s Report — New York vs Bed Bugs http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2008/10/15/a-brief-update-on-toronto/#comment-433 The Toronto Bed Bug Project - Medical Officer of Health’s Report — New York vs Bed Bugs Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:44:00 +0000 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/?p=412#comment-433 [...] staff report on the Toronto Bed Bug Project. (We have briefly reviewed the Toronto Bed Bug Project here and [...] [...] staff report on the Toronto Bed Bug Project. (We have briefly reviewed the Toronto Bed Bug Project here and [...]

]]> By: Toronto and Cincinnati/Hamilton County bed bug updates : Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2008/10/15/a-brief-update-on-toronto/#comment-432 Toronto and Cincinnati/Hamilton County bed bug updates : Got bed bugs? Bedbugger.com Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:35:05 +0000 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/?p=412#comment-432 [...] Bed Bugs is bringing the updates on the Toronto Bed Bug Action Committee Toronto Bed Bug Project here and here, and a rundown on what’s up in Cincinnati / Hamilton County Joint Bed Bug Task Force [...] [...] Bed Bugs is bringing the updates on the Toronto Bed Bug Action Committee Toronto Bed Bug Project here and here, and a rundown on what’s up in Cincinnati / Hamilton County Joint Bed Bug Task Force [...]

]]> By: The Toronto Bed Bug Project: an update to the update! — New York vs Bed Bugs http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/2008/10/15/a-brief-update-on-toronto/#comment-431 The Toronto Bed Bug Project: an update to the update! — New York vs Bed Bugs Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:12:43 +0000 http://newyorkvsbedbugs.org/?p=412#comment-431 [...] For the previous update see this. [...] [...] For the previous update see this. [...]

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