A selected site index, 2008-2010.
For policy and best practice documents, see the resources page.
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