Pete Grasso live-blogging the EPA bed bug summit

Please write to support the Community Integrated Pest Management Program at Cornell

Check out some notes on the New York Entomological Society's January bed bug seminar

"Every now and then you stumble over a blinder, involving a bloody steak and a roll of sellotape, which keeps the motivation up!"

Please help disseminate the NYC Health Department's new bed bug guide:

NYC info: Bed Bugs in New York City

New from the National Center for Healthy Housing, What’s Working for Bed Bug Control in Multifamily Housing: Reconciling best practices with research and the realities of implementation (PDF)

New research on the active spread of bed bugs in buildings, essential reading for policy makers and property managers

Check out the innovative work of the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force

For property managers: bed bug management contract specifications, Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association.

Recommended article: Bed Bugs: A Systemic Pest Within Society (PDF), Stephen Kells, American Entomologist, 2006

Bed Bugs Are Back: Are We Ready? (PDF) from WoodGreen Community Services, Habitat Services and Public Interest in Toronto

Fecal traces on paper
© Louis N. Sorkin

Cimex feeding
© AMNH Sorkin & Mercurio

A mattress van in East Harlem
© Ray Lopez

I dunno, does this look like a bug?
© mangy_cur