“Menace in the Mattress” (chow time, really)
The Entomological Society of America (ESA) is featuring a bed bug video on its YouTube channel:
Month: July 2009
Serious social stigma (c. 1980)
“Minerva” of the British Medical Journal, July 1980: Council estates are becoming more popular with rats, cockroaches, and bedbugs, reports “Roof,” SHELTER’s housing magazine (14 July 1980). This is apparently due to early occupation by the vermin, which move in … Continue reading
The $250K bed bug management bargain
Note: The article is finally online and we talk about it some more here.
“Far more common than people were aware”
A reference to an anecdote (joke?) told by Ian Burgess of the Medical Entomology Centre, in a review of pest control workshops in the UK in April 1990:
Is this finally a DIY bed bug control protocol?
A recent Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station fact sheet on bed bugs—Bed Bugs – FS1098 (April 2009, Dr. Changlu Wang)—contains a summary step-by-step bed bug control protocol “for residents or property managers who want to control bed bugs themselves.”
IPM presentations
From the Northeastern IPM Center IPM in Multifamily Housing training program, Bed Bugs — IPM in Multifamily Housing Training (PPT), April 2009 — updated Nov 2009: see instead a new version of this presentation: Bed Bugs — IPM in Multifamily … Continue reading
Really?
An article is in the July/August 2009 issue of Dermatologic Therapy: Kolb, A, Needham, GR, Neyman, KM, High, WA (2009) Bedbugs. Dermatologic Therapy. 22:4. 347-352. doi: 10.1111/j.1529-8019.2009.01246.x
Michigan’s bed bug management decision flow chart
The Michigan Bed Bug Working Group has published a bed bug management flow chart (PDF)—additional working group materials are available at Michigan’s Emerging Diseases Issues website; see also our previous discussion of some documents that describe the goals and genesis … Continue reading
Section 18 exemptions under consideration?
Update – November 2009: Ohio has requested a Section 18 exemption for residential use of propoxur.
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