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Vermont Health Department: Stop Bed Bugs Safely

What are bed bugs?

Bed bugs are small insects that feed on human blood. They are usually active at night when people are sleeping. Adult bed bugs have flat, rusty-red-colored oval bodies. About the size of an apple seed, they are big enough to be easily seen, but often hide in cracks in furniture, floors, or walls. When bed bugs feed, their bodies swell and become brighter red. They can live for several months without food or water.

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Most bed bug bites are initially painless, but later turn into large, itchy skin welts. These welts do not have a red spot in the center like flea bites.

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Although bed bugs are a nuisance, they are not known to spread disease.

Signs and symptoms of bedbug bites will usually affect only the surface of your skin, revealing themselves as small itchy red bumps known as papules or wheals. You might find the lesions in a linear or clustered fashion, indicative of repeated feedings by a single bedbug.

Some people may develop allergic reactions or larger skin reactions such as:

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In most cases, people carry bed bugs into their homes unknowingly, in infested luggage, furniture, bedding, or clothing. Bed bugs may also travel between apartments through small crevices and cracks in walls and floors.

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Whitehall FD Reports Bed Bug Infestation, Develops Plan

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Updated: Friday, December 20 2013 5:31 PM EST2013-12-20 22:31:43 GMT

More than 24 hours after Target revealed more than 40 million customers may have had their credit and debit card information stolen from the retailer, Central Ohioans are still wondering what to do.

More than 24 hours after Target revealed more than 40 million customers may have had their credit and debit card information stolen from the retailer, Central Ohioans are still wondering what to do.

Updated: Friday, December 20 2013 5:23 PM EST2013-12-20 22:23:04 GMT

A 27-year-old Groveport man is facing drug charges after investigators reported finding a marijuana grow project that he was allegedly conducting from his home in southeast Franklin County.

A 27-year-old Groveport man is facing drug charges after investigators reported finding a marijuana grow project that he was allegedly conducting from his home in southeast Franklin County.

Updated: Friday, December 20 2013 4:54 PM EST2013-12-20 21:54:07 GMT

The Whitehall Division of Fire has developed a prevention plan after the department discovered in two bunk areas of the fire house Friday morning.

The Whitehall Division of Fire has developed a prevention plan after the department discovered in two bunk areas of the fire house Friday morning.

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Bed Bug Monitors Offer Best Protection Against Bed Bugs …

December 17th, 2013

An ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure, the old saying goes. While Ben Franklin may not have been thinking specifically about bed bugs when he coined the phrase during Americas colonial past, the advice certainly applies to these annoying, blood-sucking insects. With holiday travel, winter vacations, Valentines Day getaways and spring break trips crowding family calendars; your familys risk of coming into contact with bed bugs goes up. Every hotel room is an opportunity to pick up bed bugs and bring them home.

Bed bug monitors allow you to go on the offensive. A game-changer in Americas war on bed bugs, many hotels, rental properties, NYC co-ops, universities and business owners now rely on bed bug monitors to keep their properties pest-free and minimize bed bug extermination costs. To aid our residential clients, Stern Environmental also carries a full line of bed bug monitors and bed bug prevention and extermination products for home and travel use that have proven to be effective and affordable.

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Study: Bed bug cases on the rise in Arkansas | News | Jackson …

PARAGOULD, AR (KAIT)- You've heard the common saying "don't let the bed bugs bite." For Arkansans that may very well be the case.

Bed bug cases are on the rise in Arkansas. According to a new study by Terminix Arkansas has seen a 46 percent increase in bed bug calls in the past year.

Most people think bed bugs are only found in dirty rooms or hotels but bed bugs are usually brought into your home from somewhere else.

"It's just common in all homes right now," said Shannan Prince with Hyde's Termite and Pest Control.

She said they have noticed a big difference in the number of bed bug cases.

"It started out in the big towns and now it's all the way down to the small towns," Prince said. "We're seeing more apartment complexes, we are starting to get an increase in calls in residential."

And the bugs are not limited to one particular area.

"It is not a economical issue, it is not a sociological issue, it is everybody regardless of income, regardless of social status, everything," Prince said.

And most times bed bugs get a free ride to your home without you even knowing it.

"You can sit down in a seat that someone had bed bugs on their shirt it falls on the chair you sit down, it gets on your coat, falls in your purse, you carry it home," she said.

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Understanding and Controlling Bed Bugs

By nature, bed bugs are stow-a-ways. They enter homes or apartments by hiding out in the cracks and crevices of luggage, furniture, clothing, pillows, boxes and other objects when they are moved between apartments, homes and hotels. Bed bugs hide during the day and typically feed at night. Since bed bugs feed on blood, their presence has little to do with the cleanliness of the home, although clutter can provide hiding spaces for bed bugs and make them difficult to treat. Bed bugs can survive for months without feeding, so they may be present in vacant, clean homes when new tenants unpack. Once bed bugs are established, they rapidly reproduce and spread from room to room.

Bed bugs can be very difficult to control, even for trained professionals. Many insecticides are not effective at killing the eggs, so a repeat treatment is often necessary to kill the juveniles after they hatch. Even worse, some populations of bed bugs have developed resistance to common insecticides, making some sprays ineffective. Alternative methods include heat and steam treatments, structural fumigations and cold treatments.

The National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC) received hundreds of calls last year from all over the country about bed bugs. If you have questions about this, or any pesticide-related topic, please call NPIC at 1-800-858-7378 (7:30am-3:30pm PST), or email at npic@ace.orst.edu.

Last updated November 19, 2013

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