Category: Photos
A (challenging) NYC apartment with a bed bug problem
A pest control company, Magic Exterminating, documents in this flickr set (slideshow) the condition of a NYC apartment where there are bed bugs.
Permanent prophylactic measures, city of plastic bags
Mangy_cur, a New York vs Bed Bugs cofounder, the awesome photographer of this flickr set, tells us that over a year since the start of the bed bug infestation (at the moment, but relatively recently, eradicated), this is still pretty … Continue reading
On page 5 of the NYS IPM Guidelines, a great photo
It’s a photo of the life stages of bed bugs (sans only one stage) arrayed in single file formations and I think of it as the marching dead bed bugs—but actually some of them look quite prosperous, engorged as they … Continue reading
Roll-over bed bug pics
We still have received no London bed bug survey map image as we were sort of, halfway, barely promised.
Nymph and staple
“Spotted from 2 metres.”
Lou Sorkin’s indispensable flickr photos
Entomologist Lou Sorkin is a beloved friend of the New York City bed bug-sufferer community, and a generous and trusted adviser to New York vs Bed Bugs. His generosity in answering questions and his commitment to ensuring that we all … Continue reading
Scenes from the battlefield: “NYC has an epidemic of them”
November 7, 2008, by udt007us:
The extravagant optimism of the DDT era
We write about DDT altogether too much here, all because once upon a time, all too briefly, it killed bed bugs dead. The mystique naturally persists.
The prescience (and great bed bug photographs) of Dr. Tim Myles
Dr. Tim Myles of the University of Toronto warned about the spread of bed bugs in 2003. Continue reading