I missed this article in the April edition: PCTOnline.com – Who You Gonna Call?
Chicago vs. Bed Bugs and Bedbugger are listed in a section on online resources for PCOs. I think the bedbugger forums are an especially good place for bed bug pest control people to go to hang out, make themselves useful if they want to, and learn by listening to so many bed bug stories and sharing information with other pest control people.
The article itself features Dr. Susan Jones of the Cincinnati/Hamilton County and Central Ohio bed bug task forces on our bed bug troubles, making sense as is her wont:
“Nobody wants to take responsibility. Nobody has the resources. And bed bugs are a resource-intensive bug.”
Mm-huh.
And offering a very interesting tidbit about unintended consequences:
“The fact that there was this big push prior to the Cincinnati area task force to get people to get rid of infested items, that helped with [bed bugs] becoming the epidemic they are now,” Jones said. “You’re scattering the bugs as you are moving them down the hallway without wrapping the furniture properly.” In addition, furniture that was simply set out by the trash, would often be taken by others for their own use, thereby spreading the infestation into additional homes.
I’m unfamiliar with the history of this policy in Cincinnati but this makes absolute sense, of course.
There’s a great deal more.
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