Category Archives: Bed Bugs Yukon

What are bed bugs?

Bed bugs are insects that, as adults, have oval-shaped bodies with no wings. Prior to feeding, they are about 1/4 inch long and flat as paper. After feeding, they turn dark red and become bloated. Eggs are whitish, pear-shaped and about the size of a pinhead. Clusters of 10-50 eggs can be found in cracks and crevices. Bed bugs have a one-year life span during which time a female can lay 200-400 eggs depending on food supply and temperature. Eggs hatch in about 10 days.

What do bed bugs feed on?

Bed bugs prefer to feed on human blood, but will also bite mammals and birds. Bed bugs bite at night, and will bite all over a human body, especially around the face, neck, upper torso, arms and hands. Bed bugs can survive up to six months without feeding. Both male and female bed bugs bite.

Can I get sick from bed bugs?

There are no known cases of infectious disease transmitted by bed bug bites. Most people are not aware that they have been bitten but some people are more sensitive to the bite and may have a localized reaction. Scratching the bitten areas can lead to infection.

Find out more by reading our Bed Bug fact sheet or visit Health Canada's Bedbugs - What are they?.

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Bed Bugs - Health and Social Services- Government of Yukon

A brother of a man who died while living in a home run by People Helping People, a neighbour who gave food to residents of another home, and a workergive an inside look at the organization under scrutiny after a fire Monday that led to a mans death.

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Kevin McNamee died alone, in a basement room on Fleming Dr. in Londons east end.

The 51-year-old had been in that locked room alone for about three days by the time another resident, who like Kevin had mental health issues, knocked down the door and found him Oct. 22, 2012.

Im horrified. I trusted (the organization) with my brother. Its been a big loss to me, said Robert McNamee, Kevins brother.

The organization caring for Kevin was People Helping People, now under public scrutiny after a fire Monday that killed a man in an apartment building on Oxford St. E.

The organization is run by Keith Charles, who says he is a former drug addict who started People Helping People about six years ago after noticing those with addictions and mental health issues had nowhere to go after being discharged from hospital.

The McNamees story is just one that The Free Press has heard since the Monday blaze, raising questions about the need for better housing for the mentally ill, and better oversight at unregulated homes that promise hot meals, help with taking medication and round-the-clock supervision.

Reached Thursday night, Charles said he remembers Kevin but could not answer any questions because he was standing in the rain and he needed to help residents of the burned-out Oxford St. building.

When Kevin was discharged from Regional Mental Health London in August 2011, he had nowhere to go, his brother said. When Charles approached the brothers in the hallway of the hospital about a place to live with hot food and supervision thrown in, Robert McNamee said he was thrilled.

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This is an interesting article by John Thompson of the Yukon News. Click here to view original article.

Think the Yukon is safe from the scourge of bedbugs because of our cold climate?

Think again.

The bloodsuckers have tormented Sherrill Armstrong, a social housing tenant who lives on the second floor of 408 Alexander Street in Whitehorse, since July.

As if that werent bad enough, Armstrong also had to worry about a threatening letter sent to her by the Yukon Housing Corporation, which owns the building. It warns her that she owes $711 for fumigation costs and the disposal of her bug-ridden bed.

Thats a lot of money for someone on a fixed income, such as Armstrong.

Failure to make arrangements to pay this amount by January 18, 2011 may result in a termination of your tenancy, warns the January 4 letter.

Armstrong never replied. Im not paying for something I cant control, she said.

Thankfully, the housing corporation has since stood down on its threat, following a phone call from the Yukon News.

The corporation typically charges tenants for the cost of damage to units, said housing corporation spokesperson Nathalie Ouellet.

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Bedbug Reach the Yukon | Canada Bedbugs

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Yukon Territory /jukn/ or the Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwichin. The territory's capital is Whitehorse.

The territory was created in 1898 as the Yukon. The federal government's most recent update of the Yukon Act in 2003 confirmed "Yukon", rather than "Yukon Territory", as the current usage standard. The largest ethnic group in the territory is English, followed by First Nations. Yukon law recognizes First Nations languages, but only considers French and English as official languages.

At 5,959 metres (19,551ft), Yukon's Mount Logan, in Kluane National Park and Reserve, is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest of North America (after Mount McKinley in the U.S. state of Alaska). The territory's climate is Arctic and subarctic, resulting in long cold winters, short summers, and little precipitation.

The sparsely populated Yukon abounds with snow-melt lakes and perennially snow-capped mountains. Although the climate is Arctic and subarctic and very dry, with long, cold winters, the long sunshine hours in short summer allow hardy crops and vegetables, flowers and fruit to grow.

The territory is the approximate shape of a right triangle, bordering the U.S. state of Alaska to the west for 1,210km (752 miles) mostly along longitude 141 W, the Northwest Territories to the east and British Columbia to the south. Its northern coast is on the Beaufort Sea. Its ragged eastern boundary mostly follows the divide between the Yukon Basin and the Mackenzie River drainage basin to the east in the Mackenzie mountains. Whitehorse is the territorial capital.

Most of the territory is in the watershed of its namesake, the Yukon River. The southern Yukon is dotted with a large number of large, long and narrow glacier-fed alpine lakes, most of which flow into the Yukon River system. The larger lakes include Teslin Lake, Atlin Lake, Tagish Lake, Marsh Lake, Lake Laberge, Kusawa Lake and Kluane Lake. Bennett Lake on the Klondike Gold Rush trail is a lake flowing into Nares Lake, with the greater part of its area within the Yukon.

Canada's highest point, Mount Logan (5,959m/19,551 ft), is in the territory's southwest. Mount Logan and a large part of the Yukon's southwest are in Kluane National Park and Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Other national parks include Ivvavik National Park and Vuntut National Park in the north.

Other watersheds include the Mackenzie River and the AlsekTatshenshini, as well as a number of rivers flowing directly into the Beaufort Sea. The two main Yukon rivers flowing into the Mackenzie in the Northwest Territories are the Liard River in the southeast and the Peel River and its tributaries in the northeast.

Notable widespread tree species within the Yukon are the Black Spruce and White Spruce. Many trees are stunted because of the short growing season and severe climate.

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Bed Bug Registry Database Yukon, Canada, National Bed Bug ...

Nancy on 04/27/2010

Twin Arms Apartments is under new management and they have worked to try and alleviate the bed bug problem in my apartment. Fortunately, I believe the bugs are gone now.

Nancy on 04/13/2010

Bed bugs were present in Twin Arms Apartments at 1205 Yukon St Apartment #102, Lakewood CO 80214 from January to April 2010. A professional exterminator was used twice to spray for the bed bugs. Hopefully they are gone now.

I started to develop welts in January on my arms and had no idea where they were coming from, so I went to a dermatologist. They biopsied the welts and determined they were hives, but couldn't tell me what they were from, so I just dealt with the welts.

I had never h

ad to deal with anything like this, so I didn't know what to look for (i.e., the black spots on bedding, etc.). I discovered a few bugs in late February and early March but didn't know what they were. I went to the Denver Butterfly Pavilion in early March and they had a poster with a description of what bed bugs were and the signs to look for. They also had a sample of a bug, so I finally knew what they were. Thank you to the Pavilion. I contacted my apartment complex and they had my apartment sprayed by an exterminator in mid March. When I kept seeing the bugs they sprayed again two weeks later. I am not seeing any signs as of mid April, so I think they are gone.

This has been the worst experience I have ever been through. The psychological stress of not being comfortable in my own bed was the worst. But, having to prepare for the exterminator was also stressful. I'm glad it is done, and now I know what to look for in the future.

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Bed Bug Report for 1205 Yukon St, Lakewood, CO