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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Blood-sucking insects are on the rise in Alaska, and its not even mosquito season.
The state Department of Health and Social Services issued a bulletin Tuesday announcing a proliferation of bedbugs, the apple seed-size pests that can double in number every 16 days.
The biting bugs are more of a public nuisance than a health hazard, the bulletin said. Bites are at first painless but can turn into itchy welts. Some people do not develop welts.
Signs of an infestation include molted exoskeletons and white eggs or eggshells about one millimeter long. Bed bug excrement looks like small rusty or reddish stains on bed sheets, the bulletin said.
Bedbugs can arrive with people back from trips outside, or new residents.
Theyre the ultimate hitchhikers, said Tony Barrett, environmental health program manager for the municipality of Anchorage. They arrive and lay eggs in a couch or bed, he told the Anchorage Daily News (http://bit.ly/1fHEy7j ).
Bed bugs dont care if its a four-star hotel or a no-star hotel, he said.
Anchorage received 68 bed bug complaints in 2013, down from 84 in 2012. However, in 2007 and 2008, the city took just one call each year on bedbugs.
Ken Perry, general manager of Pied Piper Pest Control in Anchorage, has been dealing with bedbugs since 1987 but has seen high rates only recently. The company takes five calls per day on the pests.
Weve always done bed bug work, Perry said. Maybe one a year or two a year, its always been there. Its never completely disappeared. But then, we started seeing a huge increase in 2000, predominantly in the travel industry.
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