If the headline alone doesn't have you feeling a little itchy, you do not have a healthy fear ofthe mighty bed bug. Bed bugs are an alarmingly common problem in big cities (and hotels).Maybe that's because you don't live in a city that madeOrkin's annual list of the most bed bug-infested cities. This year's list has changes from last year and, despite the common association, it's not Los Angeles or New York climbing up the ranks. The pest-control company creates the annual list using data from "the metro areaswhere Orkin performed the most bed

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NEW YORK CITY Roaches and bedbugs were caught crawling through city public housing almost 60,000 times last year, attorneys announced Monday.NYCHA residents filed about 59,770 bug infestation complaints in the first nine months of 2019, according to the Legal Aid Society. Judith Goldiner, Attorney-In-Charge of the Civil Law Reform Unit, called the findings troubling but added NYCHA's quick response time was encouraging."This is a clear byproduct of more staff on the ground and resources," said Goldiner, even though, "The high number of work or

A new list by pest control company Orkin says Oshawa has one of the biggest bed bug problems in the country.Their 2019 list of the top bed bug cities in Canada has put Oshawa at number eight one of six Ontario cities to make the top 10.Toronto took the top spot, with other urban centres like Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa not far behind.Whitby also made the top 25, coming in at number 20.Branch Manager for Orkin Durham Region, Kevin Shanahan says bed bugs are travellers, so theyre common in large cities and urban areas.He says there are things

WATERTOWN The Jefferson County Health Department has updated a bed bug Webpage on the health department website.The Health Department added a new link from Cornell University, called How to Get Bed Bugs Out of Your Belongings.Some minor changes and edits also were made.The public can access the site by visiting jcphs.org and scrolling down the left side of the page to the Bed Bug Information tab, or directly link to the site at http://wdt.me/owFsHS.The health Department also is asking for help to refer people to the site who are having issues

AdvertisementAn annual ranking of the best Canadian bed bug cities has been released and Vancouver has fought its way to third place.Mark van Manen / Vancouver Sun.An annual ranking of the best Canadian bed bug cities has been released and Vancouver has fought its way to third place.AdvertisementOn the 2019 list published by Orkin Canada, Vancouver is only ahead of Toronto and second before Winnipeg. St. Johns follows in fourth place and Ottawa in fifth.The only other B.C. The city that made it into the top 25 is Burnaby, which started at 19.As

Do you remember when dont let the bed bugs bite was just anexpression?Over the last few years, bed bugs have become a serious problem across the countryand bedbugs remain an issue in Mississauga, as the city made the list of Canadas Top 25 Bed Bug Cities Of2019.The list, released by Orkin Canada, outlines the worst cities for bedbugs in thecountry.Mississauga came in at number17.According to the data, the 10 cities where you are most likely to encounter bed bugs are asfollows.While Mississauga managed to escape the top 10, it has more bedbugs t

If the last thing on your mind when staying at a glitzy Paris hotel is having to worry about getting bitten by critters, think again.A Paris hotel group head has admitted that even high-end hotels in the French capital are affected by a pest infestation thats getting worse across France.Frances bed bug problem has seen the number of cases go from 180,000 to 400,000 in just two years.In 2018 alone, there were 100,000 bed bug infestations in Paris, according to the French Union for Pest Control (CS3D), a scourge that is now also affecting the cap

Bedbugs are vicious creatures that come out from hiding to attack people in their sleep. Maybe someone trained these critters to be such night assassins. They bite people throughout the long night, but they are courteous, though. The hollow tubes bedbugs use to pierce the skin and suck the blood out of it contain a strong but temporary painkiller, so people wont feel their handiwork till the morning.Who wants to wake to a zigzag pattern of small red bumps on their skin? Most of the people dont pay much attention to them, but these pests still n

SaturdayJan4,2020at6:18PMJan5,2020at8:25AMState police report bed bugs were found in men's fitting rooms at the Washington Township Walmart.EDINBORO State police in Girard are investigating reports that someone released bed bugs in a men's fitting room at the Walmart at 108 Washington Towne Boulevard in Washington Township.The incident was reported on Thursday. A Walmart manager contacted state police and reported that store staff found a closed pill bottle that contained live bugs crawling inside of it, police said.The pill bottle was found i

Theres something very strange going on in the Walmart store in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Its a story with a number of bizarre twists and lots and lots of tiny little bugs. So strap in, because things are about to get weird.It all started this past weekend when employees of the Walmart store claimed they found at least one pill bottle that appeared to contain insects. The bottle was found inside a jacket that was still on the rack, suggesting that someone had slipped the bottle in and then left. The bottle was not open, however.Believe it or not,

KEY POINTSSometimes, you can tell what room you are in just by its smell. Kitchens normally emit the scent of food, while bathrooms usually take on the smell of soap. Smelling a musty odor in your bedroom, however, is something else and should cause you to worry.One of the biggest problems a home could have is the proliferation of bed bugs. While you may keep your rooms clean at all times, the parasites which may have stuck to your clothes as you sat on the train could spread in your house. In fact, bed bugs that can invade your house may come

Bed bugs are parasites easily picked up on trains, planes and in hotels, spreading into ones home. Generally it takes at least seven weeks for a bed bug to grow from an egg to an adult. If many adult bugs are present one can reasonably assume that the infestation has been there for more than seven weeks. Smelling a certain odour emanating from the bedroom could mean youre at risk. David Cain of extermination company Bed Bugs Limited said: The problem of bed bugs has been spreading globally since the late 1990s, and there is literally no country

Police in northeast Pennsylvania are searching for those responsible for releasing bed bugs inside a local Walmart. WENY-TV reports that police in Girard, Pennsylvania, were contacted on Friday when a manager at a Walmart store in Edinboro found a closed vial full of bugs tucked inside a boy's jacket that was for sale. A local Ecolab affiliate later identified the bugs as bed bugs.A second closed vial that contained some dead bed bugs was fou