- The work of New York vs Bed Bugs has ended -- this site remains as an archive. We're making things simple and easier to maintain but we'll bring back the photographs our friends allowed us to use (perhaps you liked them too).
- Check out the innovative work of the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force
- HPD has streamlined the registration page for its online bed bug course and is now offering community classes for non-profits and tenant groups. More details here.
- Featured interview: Steven W. Smollens on landlord / tenant litigation history in Bedbug City
Category Archives: Interviews
An interview with Steven W. Smollens: law and history in NYC
Steven W. Smollens has practiced landlord and tenant law in New York City for 34 years. I have (in my History of the Misery of Bed Bugs collection) a set of notes, passed along like contraband, of his New York … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, History, Interviews, Issues and Challenges
Tagged bedbugs, case law, landlord tenant litigation, NYC
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Laundry and the motivating power of the bed bug web: Q&A with Richard Naylor
First, the study. Naylor, R. A., and C. J. Boase. 2010. Practical Solutions for Treating Laundry Infested With Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 103 (February): 136-139. doi:10.1603/EC09288. In keeping with our recent interest in the first line … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Interviews, Research
Tagged bedbugs, dispersal, laundry, Research, Richard Naylor, UK
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kdr pyrethroid resistance widespread in U.S. bed bug populations
The University of Kentucky announced yesterday that knockdown resistance (kdr-type) mutations, conferring resistance to synthetic pyrethroid pesticides, are widely prevalent in U.S. bed bug populations. The study, forthcoming1 in Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, finds that one or two … Continue reading
Teasing out the bubbles: Gerry Wegner shares a neat idea
Take a look at the photograph of a bed bug display vial accompanying this news story out of Columbus last week. Pretty neat, yes? For one thing they’re dead, but still look pretty good, and there they are, all stages, … Continue reading
“A continuous and sustained effort”: Q&A with Dr. Stephen W. Hwang
Dr. Stephen W. Hwang is a research scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, the Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of … Continue reading
The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force: an interview with Paul Wenning
Paul Wenning on the challenges and issues faced by the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force (COBBTF) in controlling the spread of bed bugs in Columbus and Franklin County. Continue reading
Posted in Action Plans - Other Cities, Featured, Interviews
Tagged bedbugs, Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force, Ohio
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David Cain on Pestex, bed bug monitors, liquid nitrogen and other tricky subjects
A podcast with David Cain of Bed Bugs Limited (UK) on the new bbalert active and passive bed bug monitors, liquid nitrogen and other bed bug technologies, plus the politics and challenges of bed bugs. Continue reading
Q&A with Lou Sorkin
Lou Sorkin is an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History. He is a beloved, indispensable figure for many New Yorkers struggling with bed bugs. You can see his incomparable photographs here. The NYT recently did a nice piece. … Continue reading
An interview with bed bug researcher Alvaro Romero
Alvaro Romero is a doctoral student at the University of Kentucky. His most recent paper is in the January issue of the Journal of Medical Entomology. We have long read about his research with avidity and the hope that we … Continue reading
Posted in Featured, Interviews, Research
Tagged Alvaro Romero, bedbugs, chlorfenapyr, Research, resistance
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Multi-unit housing IPM: a Q & A with Sam Bryks
Entomologist Sam Bryks is the Manager of Environmental Health Services at hsi solutions in Toronto. He has been in the pest management field for nearly 30 years, and managed the first Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program in public housing in … Continue reading
