Bed Bug Central is coordinating charitable bed bug treatments for the holidays.
If you operate a facility in NYC or are dealing with an infestation at home, you can apply to receive a single treatment that is intended as a palliative:
These efforts are not intended to eliminate all bed bugs from your home or facility but to better the situation and provide you with some comfort as the holiday season approaches.
Details of the program and how to apply here:
In areas where participating companies are located (NJ and PA), pest control professionals will arrive at your home or facility on the 12th or 19th of December and render pest control services in an effort to better the situation and provide some relief from the stress created from dealing with a bed bug infestation.
I know that the holidays are an especially difficult time to cope with a bed bug infestation.
The companies that would provide the service are part of Bed Bug Central’s bedbugFREE network. (In the five boroughs, the company that would participate in this program is Parkway Exterminating.)
We have a no-advertising policy here and this is a form of marketing, but I think this will do someone somewhere a great service in a time of need. Well done, Jeff White, for thinking this one up. (You can see Jeff’s bed bug education videos here. I like the one about vacuuming. I think the message that vacuuming is effective but not a complete control method needs to get more play. Jeff would do well to get out from behind the desk more often, don’t you think?)
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