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. Continue reading
“The project would start with a simple animation of an uneasy person with 6 rats on his left and a bunch of bedbugs squirming on his right. The user would then click on one of the two sides…” Continue reading
A statement like this from DOHMH was unthinkable just a few months ago. Continue reading
The NYC Department of Health will present at the EPA National Bed Bug Summit, in a section titled “How Public Health Agencies View Bed Bug Infestations” — but what will the workshop discussions really look like. This is an interesting glimpse into the types of disagreements that may emerge in a discussion about what direction to take to control bed bugs in our society. Continue reading
Finally, someone says something intelligent. Asked by KARE11 about bed bugs, Dr. Stephen Kells said:
We can now see the papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Urban Pests (Budapest, 2008), including the one I most wanted to read, the (S)-methoprene article.