A place to start might be the excellent NYS IPM Program Guidelines for Prevention and Management of Bed Bugs in Shelters and Group Living Facilities. This is an excellent handbook for anyone, not just shelters.

Steam treatments and thermal treatments are two non-chemical options that work. I’m not so convinced about other novel methods.

Mahalo,

It’s baffling to me.

Why is there an Australian Code of Practice?

Why were there bed bug questions in the Greater Cincinnati Survey?

Someone said, hey, we’re going to do this. That’s why and that’s how.

But, of course, we should ask. In case the answer is complicated and elusive instead of simple and elusive.

I’d really like to know what inspired the person responsible for conducting this study to do so, and what inspired the people who followed up on the study and generated this report to do so.

What is it? Why do some cities and states respond to an obvious rise in reported bed bug infestations this way– with concern and interest and action– and others don’t? Why did the DOHVCB support this study and even co-author portions of this report? And why don’t we have any sort of tracking or reporting system at all for bed bug infestations here in Chicago, much less an in-depth survey of pertinent stakeholder facilities and pest management companies?

I don’t get it. But I know that “it” is the key. Maybe we should contact the DOHVCB and see if we can figure it out…

I guess maybe we’ll tack that on our ever-growing to-do lists, won’t we?

Good work, my friend.