Via Pest, a London local authority pest control group has completed a series of best practice guides for residents, landlords and property owners, and healthcare professionals, plus an inspection and treatment guide for pest control professionals and a bed bug treatment preparation guide for residents. The guides will be released this month according to the Pest article, Beating bedbugs in London (PDF). Notice on the left page a story about David’s passive monitor.
Every major city should develop clear bed bug control guidelines and policies! This is certainly on our wish list.
So, your turn, New York City.
Further notes:
Also in this issue of Pest there is a list of industry bed bug resources (PDF). I thought I’d read one, the Killgerm Bed Bug Manual (PDF, 2008), and found it interesting for it contains a section on statistics, UK local authority bed bug treatments from 2002 to 2007 (excluding London authorities)—close to 900 treatments in 2006/2007—and requests for technical support (2005-2007) and identification services (2001-2007). We love our stats here, so thought I’d share.
The local authorities in the UK perform pest control services for public and private premises, residential and commercial, with charges, or the availability of free services, varying widely. In case you are interested, there’s a recent article that examines the organization of local authority pest management services in the UK (PDF) and this caught my eye:
While historically pest management has been viewed as a core function within environmental health departments, this view appears to be changing.
Murphy, G., Battersby, S., Oldbury, D. (2009) The organisation of local authority pest management services in the UK Journal of Environmental Health Research 9:1 25-32.
There is in fact a bed bug reference in this article, maybe, in that there’s a chart depicting the percentage of bed bug inquiries per month in several areas, characterized as frequency of liaison with another agency, but I think there must be some error because the text references to the chart are all about rodent baiting, so not sure what that is about.
Nobugs posted something today about a local authority in Hertfordshire that will no longer provide free bed bug treatments to those who cannot afford them.
I guess there will be bed bugs then.
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