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.
One of the landmarks of British documentary film, the short film Housing Problems (1935) depicts the plight of people living in overcrowded and dilapidated housing. It is a slum clearance propaganda film and one worth thinking about. (It was funded … Continue reading
It’s always about bed bug sex, but check this out, a new focus for a bed bug researcher. Well, new to me. I’m smiling because it’s as if the research gods have answered my prayers.
“Minerva” of the British Medical Journal, July 1980: Council estates are becoming more popular with rats, cockroaches, and bedbugs, reports “Roof,” SHELTER’s housing magazine (14 July 1980). This is apparently due to early occupation by the vermin, which move in … Continue reading
A reference to an anecdote (joke?) told by Ian Burgess of the Medical Entomology Centre, in a review of pest control workshops in the UK in April 1990:
The Greater London Pest Liaison Group’s Beating Bedbugs best practice guides are finally out and you may download them on the group’s new website. Not since the days of stalking the Cincinnati Board of Health meeting minutes for news of … Continue reading
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
The Louisa Richards’ (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) study we’d heard so much of, a study of resident bed bug service requests to pest control teams in London from 2000 to 2006, has been published. The study found an average 28.5% yearly increase in calls about bed bugs to seven boroughs in London. Continue reading
A London local authority pest control group has completed a series of best practice guides for residents, landlords and property owners, and healthcare professionals, plus an inspection and treatment guide for pest control professionals and a bed bug treatment preparation guide for residents. Continue reading
Report No. 72, UK Ministry of Health, 1933. Continue reading