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As college students pack their bags to head back to school, they might want to think about the potential of bed bugs living in their dorm room. There has been a significant increase in bed bug infestations in recent years, and college campuses are on the list of hot spots where these pests congregate, which also includes hotels, motels and multi-family housing complexes.

Bed bugs are harder to eliminate in multi-unit buildings like dorms because the insects are transient, attaching themselves to clothing or items that end up moving from room to room. Items that land on the floor, particularly clothing and bed linens, may be an easy target for bed bugs to attach themselves. A recent survey presented by the National Pest Management Association indicated 47 percent of pest professionals treat college dorms for infestations. The same survey revealed 67 percent of pest management professionals say clutter is the biggest challenge to infestation prevention.

While bed bugs do not transmit disease to humans, they can leave red, itchy bite marks, especially on the neck, arms and legs, which may be exposed while sleeping. The Rentokil Companies (Ehrlich Pest Control, Western Exterminator, and Presto-X Pest Control) want college students and their parents to be aware of these pests and offer the following advice:

Identifying bed bugs is easy. Adult bed bugs are about one-quarter of an inch long or about the size of an apple seed and resemble a flat apple seed or lentil. While bed bugs are most often found in mattresses and box springs, they can also conceal themselves behind baseboards, wallpaper, upholstery, electrical switch plates and beneath cushions in chairs and sofas.

Prevention includes:

Parents and students should not overlook this important part of their college survival kit. College dorms arent always thought of as havens of austerity, but they dont need to be a beacon for bed bugs either. Close living quarters, visiting friends and cluttered living space are inviting accommodations for bed bugs. Careful inspection of personal sleeping areas and the implementation of these prevention tips will help keep the bed bugs from biting.

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Bed Bugs Invading College Campuses: Expert Tips for College Students Returning to School

New York, NY (PRWEB) July 22, 2013

The bed bugs in Canada were on the rise. That was according to a report from winnipegfreepress.com posted on July 19, 2013. So to help the residents, My Cleaning Products suggested the use of a bed bug spray. It also offered samples of it to prove that it works.

As said in the report, the increase of bed bugs in Canada was revealed by a survey conducted by the COMPAS research, My Cleaning Products related. It was done for one pest-control company and revealed an eight percent increase of bed bugs annually for the past three years, it detailed.

There were two causes of the rise of bed bugs in the country based on the report, MCP said. As one of the employees of the pest-control company stated, they were people's lack of sufficient knowledge about the pests and delayed responses to bed bug presence, it shared.

However, MCP added that a local bed bug expert contradicted the survey's result. It relayed that Dave Funk, chairman of Manitoba's bedbug co-ordination committee, stated that the increase of bed bugs in Canada was not as quick as the survey suggested.

Below is a part of the post Bed Bugs Rising in Canada by My Cleaning Products.

United States isn't the only country suffering big from the tiny vampires that are bed bugs. Canada too is having trouble dealing with them. And based on a recent survey, Canadian cities have more of them to face.

The said survey was conducted by COMPAS research for one pest control company. Its collected data revealed that in the past three years, there's an annual increase of eight percent in the country's reported bed bug cases.

According to My Cleaning Products, the lack of sufficient knowledge about bed bugs and the failure to respond to bed bug presence early are indeed the reasons for the widespread of those pests not only in Canada but everywhere else. So, anyone who wants to prevent or kill bed bugs must learn everything about those critters and must act quick at the sight of them or of the tell-tale signs of their presence.

The company stated that early detection and elimination of bed bugs also makes the treatment process fast and inexpensive. As it explained, that's because early detection means fewer bed bugs to eliminate. And because, one could do that personally, there is no need to pay for a costly pest-control service.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) July 04, 2013

There are several methods available to kill bed bugs. However, according to a post from nbcnewyork.com published on July 03, 2013, one of them has caused several fire accidents. To help bed bug victims avoid such incident, My Cleaning Products suggested the use of a bed bug spray instead and offered samples of the one that it deemed the best.

In the post, the heat treatment was specified as the method that had been causing fire, My Cleaning Products shared. It added that its implementation had set many houses aflame, particularly, in Canada and the United States.

The post detailed that one of those fire accidents happened in 2011 in Edmonton, Canada where a 50-unit condominium building was burned, MCP stated. The exterminators said to have used the prohibited propane heaters to eliminate the pests, it relayed.

Another incident that the report gave occurred just last month in Woodbury, N.J, MCP said. Based on the account of a fire official in the post, the accident happened after the house owner attempted to exterminate the pests with his own version of bed bug heat treatment.

Here's an excerpt from the post Heat Treatment for Bed Bugs Sets Homes on Fire by My Cleaning Products.

They are pesky and stubborn. Not to mention, they feed mostly on human blood. Because of that, bed bugs are considered as some of the most dreaded pests that could ever infest a place.

To eliminate those tiny vampires, several methods have been introduced. But among those methods, many stand up to the effectiveness of heat treatment. Some even consider it as the best way to eliminate those pests.

However, bed bug heat treatment presents a potential risk. As it requires the place to treat to be exposed to a very high temperature for a long period of time, it could possibly cause fire. In fact, there were already a number of fire accidents reported to have been caused by it.

Green cleaning company My Cleaning Products stated that bed bugs are so annoying that they just need to go. However, to avoid fire accidents, it advised the use of a bed bug spray to kill the pests instead of implementing a heat treatment.

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The debate over whether bed bug extermination treatments could pose a fire hazard is raging on in the tri-state area after several fires across the U.S. and Canada were determined to be caused by bed bug exterminations gone wrong.

In the summer of 2011, a 50-unit condominium in Edmonton, Canada fire burned when exterminators used a pest control treatment known as radiant heat, according to investigators there. It promises to eradicate bed bugs using industrial space heaters and fans to bring every square inch of an infested room above 120 degrees. Exterminators say more than an hour and a half of exposure to such high temperaturesensures a 100 percent bed bug kill rate.

The problem is, warming confined spaces with powerful heaters carries serious fire hazards, according to some experts.

The worst that can happen is you can burn your house down, and youre risking your life, said Glenn Waldorf of Bell Environmental Services in Fairfield, N.J.

After the Edmonton condominium building burned, Canadian fire investigators issued a $10,000 fine to Calgary-based pest control company Bed Bug Task Force. The exterminators were found to have used propane heaters against fire code. The owners of the apartment building are now suing Bed Bug Task Force for $3.5 million in damages.

Bed Bug Task Force did not return the I-Teams email seeking comment.

Radiant heat treatments have led to other disastrous fires closer to New York City. Last month in Woodbury, N.J., fire officials said a man accidentally set his house on fire while attempting to kill bed bugs with a do-it-yourself radiant heat treatment. In October of 2012, fire investigators in New Hampshire said a three-family home burned down during a heat treatment. Last Valentines Day, firefighters in Dayton, Ohio, responded to a second-floor fire and found a pest control company was using heaters and fans to kill bed bugs.

Consumers are panicked. You have bugs in your home. Youve got these little vampires in your bed biting you, and they imagine companies have solutions and dont think through what the issues are with any of the various solutions out there, said Waldorf.

Waldorf said that using cryogenic freeze technology is much safer than using heat to kill bed bugs. But while some pest control outfits warn against thermal treatments, others stand by radiant heat as the gold standard in bed bug extermination.

Robert Suriano, president of Bliss Pest Protection Services in New York City, recently invested tens of thousands of dollars in heaters and fans intended for bed bug eradication. He said the recent fires prove only that homeowners should trust trained professionals and avoid low-cost, do-it-yourself heat treatments.

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Material scientists at Stony Brook University have developed a web made up of extremely thin microfibres which can ensnare bed bugs and stop their nocturnal feasts on human blood.

The microfibres used are 50 times thinner than a human hair and are effective at entangling bed bugs and other insects. The technology is being commercialised by a company called Fibertrap which promotes non-toxic pest control methods.

The material was developed by researchers at Stony Brook's Centre for Advanced Technology in Sensor Materials. The nanotechnology results in entanglements that are millions of times more dense than woven products such as fabrics or carpets, according to lead researcher Miriam Rafailovich. The microfibres trap the bed bugs by attaching microfibres to their legs, preventing them from moving and therefore feeding and reproducing. The material is created using electrospinning, where an electrical charge is used to draw a very fine fibre out of a liquid.

The lab has tested the material with live bed bugs and termites. The microfibres are safe for humans and pets and don't rely on any pesticides or chemicals, which insects can grow resistant to.

Bed bugs are small, disc-shaped parasitic insects that feed on the blood of people and animals when they sleep. They are remarkably hardy and can survive a wide range of temperatures and atmospheric compositions. They can survive for five days at -10C but will die after 15 minutes at -26C. Meanwhle, at the other end of the temperature spectrum, they can survive temperatures of 45C, but will die at heats above 46C.

The bugs tend to hide during the day and emerge in the night, sometimes travelling up to 30 metres. The bites affect different people in different ways -- from creating tiny red dots to enormous welts.

Bed bugs have been proliferating in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia in the last few decades. In London alone, between 2000 and 2006, the number of pest control calls relating to bed bugs increased by an average of 28.5 percent per year. This is down to the creatures becoming resistant to pesticides and the increase in international travel.

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