Index

A bed bug task force for New York City^

• So, what will NYC do about bed bugs?
• The most difficult FAQ: what is happening with the bed bug task force?
• Silly red circles on a chart
• "We need to be aware and alert and the city needs to respond"
• In other news, an ambitious NYC public health intiative
• A small business owner writes to the mayor
• The NYC Health Department regresses
• New York City Bed Bug Advisory Board
• Lou Sorkin: loved, respected and essential to this endeavor
• One more letter
• So, what now?
• 3 months
• NYC's bed bug advisory board: no appointments
• NYC's Bed Bug Advisory Board: what is it and what is it for?
• NYC's Bed Bug Advisory Board: the Mayor's press release
• What is happening to the bed bugs in NYCHA properties?
• What we need is true collaboration
• Mayor will sign bed bug advisory board bill on March 18
• A bed bug advisory board for New York City
• Highs and lows, Part 2
• The am New York cover
• Highs and lows, Part 1
• Should we talk about rats first?
• Psst, CBS: there is no bed bug task force
• The 18th, 19th and 20th sponsors
• Giving bed bugs their due
• "the need to educate the public to identify and effectively exterminate bedbugs"
• The NYC Council will hold a hearing on three bed bug bills on February 24
• Reminder/plea: please write to your council member
• Stepping up our campaign: a sample letter to the Speaker of the City Council
• If you're satisfied your council member is already on your side
• We know it's not easy to get your council member's attention
• NYT editorial acknowledges Gale Brewer's cause
• Our online letter writing campaign for a bed bug task force
• A New Year, will this be the year?
• The 140th letter
• We still need your help
• The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is resisting pressure to act in the city's bed bug resurgence
• Heartfelt thanks to all of you supporting our efforts for a New York City bed bug task force
• Dr. Pollack and the 2006 NYC bed bug hearing
• Reminder: our CitizenSpeak campaign
• Our CitizenSpeak campaign
• A bed bug task force for New York City

Cincinnati, Toronto, Central Ohio and Other Places^

• Bed bug treatment specs in TCH's July 2009 RFP
• Bed bug treatment specs from ONPHA
• Toronto schools bed bug policy
• 2nd ONPHA video in planned series: bed bug treatment preparation
• Bed Bugs Are Back: Are We Ready? available from WoodGreen
• Reports from Toronto, including new Toronto Bed Bug Project updates
• The Toronto Bed Bug Project is surveying residents about bed bugs
• Central Ohio Bed Bug Summit on November 10
• "A continuous and sustained effort": Q&A with Dr. Stephen W. Hwang
• "The best thing people can do is know what one looks like"
• The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force, doing great work
• Michigan's bed bug management decision flow chart
• Beating Bedbugs guides from Greater London Pest Liaison Group
• Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association bed bug awareness video
• The NH Bedbugs project
• Michigan's Bed Bug Workgroup
• The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force: an interview with Paul Wenning
• Baltimore's Bed Bug Response Plan
• Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force
• For the "other cities" file: London to have best practices guidelines
• Do we want a bed bug summit of our own?
• Leadership and hope: Stop Bedbugs DC
• Stop Bedbugs DC: a bed bug summit to start the dialogue to end the bed bugs
• Washington, D.C. to have bed bug public education campaign (before NYC does)
• Multi-unit housing IPM: a Q & A with Sam Bryks
• Good on paper, poverty and silver bullets: not everyone thinks Cincinnati is all that
• Greater Cincinnati Survey: 14.5% of Cincinnati respondents (7.9%, Hamilton County) report a bed bug problem
• Franklin County October Bed Bug Summit, notes from OPCA
• Cincinnati's ambitious bed bug inspection program cancelled in budget crisis
• Toronto Public Health's bed bug portal: a closer look
• Franklin County, Ohio (update) and Columbus Public Health (asking for trouble)
• Linkages: a Q&A with Rima Zavys of WoodGreen Community Services and the Toronto Bed Bug Project
• WoodGreen's Bed Bug Resource Manual
• The prescience (and great bed bug photographs) of Dr. Tim Myles
• The Toronto Bed Bug Project - Medical Officer of Health's Report
• Franklin County, Ohio gets in on the bed bug task force idea
• The Cincinnati/Hamilton County Strategic Plan: getting the basics right
• Hamilton County Public Health's Jeremy Hessel: "We're all in this together"
• The Toronto Bed Bug Project: an update to the update!
• A brief update on Toronto
• The Cincinnati/Hamilton County Strategic Plan: the political frame
• Coming soon...
• Cincinnati may be unable to keep up with the demand for bed bug inspections
• Cincinnati's upcoming bed bug conference!
• Details of the projected budget needs for Cincinnati's Bed Bug Inspection Program
• Why so quiet, Cincinnati?
• Note to Cincinnati and Hamilton County: you are killing us
• A bed bug task force for New York City
• A small preview of the Cincinnati/Hamilton County bed bug task force report

Interviews^

• An interview with Steven W. Smollens: law and history in NYC
• Laundry and the motivating power of the bed bug web: Q&A with Richard Naylor
• kdr pyrethroid resistance widespread in U.S. bed bug populations
• Teasing out the bubbles: Gerry Wegner shares a neat idea
• "A continuous and sustained effort": Q&A with Dr. Stephen W. Hwang
• The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force: an interview with Paul Wenning
• David Cain on Pestex, bed bug monitors, liquid nitrogen and other tricky subjects
• Q&A with Lou Sorkin
• An interview with bed bug researcher Alvaro Romero
• Multi-unit housing IPM: a Q & A with Sam Bryks
• Q & A with NYC pest management pro John Furman
• Talking bed bugs with David Cain, take 2
• Linkages: a Q&A with Rima Zavys of WoodGreen Community Services and the Toronto Bed Bug Project
• New IPM bed bug manual for homeless shelters and group homes: a Q&A with Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann
• An interview with urban pest management expert Clive Boase
• Inquisitiveness, leather trousers and shooting sticks
• Sorry, a bit crackly that one: a transcript of our chat with David Cain

The public health interest^

• A pest of significant public health importance, cont’d
• Bite sensitivity, new data
• #44
• Ohio's Section 18 exemption request, draft labels and public comment period
• Australian medical entomologists on what GPs should know
• So, it's propoxur
• The city's new flu portal
• New guidance for bed bugs in health care facilities
• "A continuous and sustained effort": Q&A with Dr. Stephen W. Hwang
• New case report of severe anemia in a patient with an advanced infestation
• The Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force, doing great work
• The CDC's... key
• Section 18 exemptions under consideration?
• Beating Bedbugs guides from Greater London Pest Liaison Group
• IPHPW presentations
• 311 finally has bed bug category
• NYC Department of Health at National Bed Bug Summit (plus agenda and webinar details)
• "They could almost be considered like a disease themselves"
• A bed bug survey in Oahu
• An International Public Health Pesticides Workshop
• Bed bugs and public health at the 6th International IPM Symposium
• EPA's National Bed Bug Summit April 14-15: announcement and conference details
• Resource: Department of Veterans Affairs Information Letter on bed bugs
• Stop Bedbugs DC: a bed bug summit to start the dialogue to end the bed bugs
• Should we talk about rats first?
• Extraordinary (breaking) news: an EPA bed bug conference in Washington on April 14
• Bed Bugs are a Pest of Significant Public Health Importance
• Reenactment of Article 151 of the NYC Health Code was adopted
• We are reviewing the new NYS Department of State proposed mattress sanitizing regs
• DEC backs down from announced consumer ban of total release foggers
• WNYC Radio has news item about Intro 873
• A New Year, will this be the year?
• Greater Cincinnati Survey: 14.5% of Cincinnati respondents (7.9%, Hamilton County) report a bed bug problem
• Toronto Public Health's bed bug portal: a closer look
• Franklin County, Ohio (update) and Columbus Public Health (asking for trouble)
• The Toronto Bed Bug Project - Medical Officer of Health's Report
• Actually, this is what our used mattress regs could look like!
• Rats! This is exactly what we want
• Franklin County, Ohio gets in on the bed bug task force idea
• NYC Health Code, Pest Prevention and Management
• NYS DEC will classify total release foggers as restricted-use products
• Hamilton County Public Health's Jeremy Hessel: "We're all in this together"
• The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is resisting pressure to act in the city's bed bug resurgence
• New IPM bed bug manual for homeless shelters and group homes: a Q&A with Jody Gangloff-Kaufmann
• Saturday questions: Usinger's anemia
• An interview with urban pest management expert Clive Boase
• Public health significance of bed bugs: a new tool for action
• Dr. Pollack and the 2006 NYC bed bug hearing
• The public health question

Bed bug research^

• The workmanlike chlorfenapyr
• Girault, cont'd
• Bite sensitivity, new data
• Laundry and the motivating power of the bed bug web: Q&A with Richard Naylor
• A tendency to synchronize feeding
• The active spread of bed bugs in buildings: the stakes for cities
• Detecting bed bugs using bed bug monitors, Rutgers Cooperative Extension
• kdr pyrethroid resistance widespread in U.S. bed bug populations
• Compensation
• Australian DE trial
• More tales of CIN-1: PBO and deltamethrin
• Bed Bugs Are Back: Are We Ready? available from WoodGreen
• The wandering females
• Fungus!
• Learning from the bed bug on the treadmill
• Bite sensitivity, ciao Johnson, post-feeding behavior, signals and more: ESA meeting abstracts
• "They are also able to withstand chilling, thawing, rechilling and again thawing"
• Behavior of bed bugs in response to heat
• Baited pitfall traps for bed bugs
• Active dispersal, baby
• UF heat research (and a 1924 detour)
• Use the Force
• An excited condition
• Finally, researchers on the efficacy of dusts
• "The most useful application of the bed bug alarm pheromone may be to cause dispersal."
• DE vs chlorfenapyr
• One more ICUP paper
• New study of bed bug bites suggests most people do react
• Worked 17 years ago
• Greater London bed bug infestation study
• The proceedings of ICUP Budapest are now online
• A bed bug survey in Oahu
• Articles from the Summer 2006 issue of AE
• Caught in a situation trap
• Problem 1D: USDA ARS
• Johnson's hut, part 1.75
• Johnson's hut, part 1.5
• Johnson's hut
• An interview with bed bug researcher Alvaro Romero
• More incidence clues: bed bugs in Denmark (plus Busvine reflecting on bed bugs in 1984)
• Strange indicators: bed bug infested electronics in 1968 Finland
• The bed bugs are winning
• NY-BB
• Walking bed bugs
• Bed Bugs Ltd to present the results of its London bed bug survey on December 15
• Saturday questions: Usinger's anemia
• Public health significance of bed bugs: a new tool for action
• DDT resistance: once more, with tables and sources

Old Cimex l. in history^

• An interview with Steven W. Smollens: law and history in NYC
• WWII army barracks disinfestation photos
• Johnson's hut, now online
• Girault, cont'd
• Girault and the bed bugs
• "so convenient, so safe because the DDT is fixed to the paper"
• Old timey bed bug news
• "The kind of thing your eye slides over, registering nothing"
• Of considerable tact and other incongruities
• The vermin in the walls is wicked
• Millard's Intercepting Trench Trap for Bugs
• Anti-bug conscience
• "They are also able to withstand chilling, thawing, rechilling and again thawing"
• You have been on a Dundee tram, I perceive
• Serious social stigma (c. 1980)
• "Far more common than people were aware"
• Systems of shame
• 1960, New Jersey, #4
• The challenges in 1941
• No good in an ambush
• New York vs Bed Bugs (1944)
• Morituri
• Worked 17 years ago
• How long will it take?
• Johnson's hut, part 1.75
• Johnson's hut, part 1.5
• Johnson's hut
• Caution South Korea: your ID of a bed bug does not necessarily equal 'first case'
• More incidence clues: bed bugs in Denmark (plus Busvine reflecting on bed bugs in 1984)
• Strange indicators: bed bug infested electronics in 1968 Finland
• Nobugs takes a very cool picture, a glimpse into highly infested London in the 30s
• The poet and the bed bugs
• The extravagant optimism of the DDT era
• Bed bugs in the subway, sorta
• The prescience (and great bed bug photographs) of Dr. Tim Myles
• "The next day, there were no bed bugs... the soldiers had not been bitten the night before"
• An interview with urban pest management expert Clive Boase
• Bed bugs, poverty and filth - Part I
• DDT resistance: once more, with tables and sources
• No DDT, thanks, we're good
• Monday reading: the sad history of bed bug committees