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CLINTON, Tenn. (WVLT)-- Danae Phelps is worried about her mother living at The Village of Carriage Hills in Clinton because she has a big problem: bed bugs.

"It's been going on and off for almost a year and my mother said that they [the apartment complex] have come out and sprayed. However, to my knowledge that's not how you handle a bed bug problem, you use heat," said Phelps.

The site manager at the complex wasn't allowed to go on camera because of company policy. But she did tell us they follow the guidelines set by Rural Development of Tennessee.

In Phelps mother's case, they got the complaint and wrote a formal letter to the mother with a checklist of things to do within 5 to 7 days.

After that, the complex came in and sprayed cedar oil. And according to reports, most of the times it does the job for the complex - but Phelps said the cedar oil didn't work for them.

We contacted Mark Nadolski from Russell's Pest Control for expert advice concerning bedbugs and cedar oil.

"There's some studies that say cedar oil does work. It's enviromentally safe but it's also a product that you can apply without having a licenses through the state of Tennesse," he said.

So what's the best solution to get rid of these pesky bugs?

"They can't survive over about 115 degrees so we use a steamer- something you;d find in a clothing store and that will typically kill the bed bugs we see and it will kill the eggs. We also use a pesticide after the steam treatment," Nadolski said.

But it's not a one time deal, he notes - sometimes it takes numerous treatments because bed bugs are stubborn and can hide in the smallest places.

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. -

An official on Friday called a costly bed bug clean up at a Spartanburg public housing complex "regretful," and vowed to make changes so that it doesn't happen, again.

The several weeks long bed bug clean up at Archibald Rutledge Apartments, which cost taxpayers $85,000, is expected to wrap up Friday night.

"The circumstances are certainly regretful," said Daryl Dalton, the executive director of the Spartanburg Housing Authority. "It's terrible that so many people lost so many items."

Dalton said over the past five years, the housing authority has spent about $100,000 on exterminators in its effort to rid the decades-old complex of a bed bug infestation.

He said the infestation was so widespread that it affected an adjacent senior center, where officials had to throw out much of the furniture.

"This is totally unacceptable," said Sandra Owensby, who manages the Senior Centers of Spartanburg County. "You know, denial is not a river in Egypt, and they were in denial about the bed bug problem for so long."

Dalton said there is a chance that if the housing authority acted sooner to combat the infestation, it may not have gotten to this point. "I certainly wish that we had been able to address the problem earlier on than what we did, and maybe if it had been done earlier on, we wouldn't have had to treat the entire building."

Dalton said the housing authority will now require tenants to report bed bug issues immediately. Under its new policy. it will not charge tenants for reporting bed bugs, which it said may have deterred tenants from reporting problems in the past.

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KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) -

A KCK assisted living facility is battling a case of bed bugs.

The Net Giver operates Delaware Highlands Assisted Living, located at North 126th Street and Delaware Parkway, which is a publicly subsidized facility.

The owner of the Net Giver, Jeremy Whitt, says the staff has found bed bugs in three of the residents' rooms, beginning with one room two weeks ago.

"It all depends on the level of severity,"Whitt said about deciding how to handle the situation. "This was a minor incident, and that's not our opinion, but the opinion of (the exterminator) Orkin."

Whitt says the management had Orkin fumigate only the affected room when that first sighting arose. They told maintenance and cleaning staff to keep an eye out but did not inspect other rooms or notify other residents.

"We didn't want to create mass hysteria or confusion with partial information or incomplete information, especially on the first round of this incident," Whitt said.

By Friday staff noticed signs of bedbugs in two adjacent rooms and management stepped up its response, Whitt said.

Monday, Orkin fumigated not just those rooms, but two rooms in every direction on that floor as well as the rooms above and below. Then they began planning how best to inform the rest of the people who live there.

"I didn't know what a bed big looked like so I was kind of curious, said resident Jackie Faught.

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Reports of bed bugs in Nashville, and the rest of United States are increasing. We are currently monitoring the internet for reports of bed bugs in Nashville hotels to help you identify which Nashville hotels have bedbugs. Each Nashville hotel has at least one mention of bedbugs in the last 12 months. Please take into account that individual reports of bedbugs in Nashville hotels have not been confirmed by an independent third party. Below is the bed bugs hotel list for the city of Nashville.

We bring you up to the minute information and reports about bed bug incidents in Nashville hotels & motels from all over the web. If you had any recent bed bug encounters, please share it with the rest of raveable community by submitting a bed bug report.

Executive Inn and Suites

I did not stay but my grand daughter did we signed her in on the 18th and was asked to leave on the 21st . And did leave!. When she ck'd in & went to bed around 3am she was awaken by bed bugs all over the bed sheets and cover. She tried to get them to give her clean linen and they said could do nothing till Tuesday. They asked her to leave because she wanted bug free linen . I went and got her and moved her out. She is 8 mos. pregnant and no where to stay, I told the manager and he said tha... read full report

Econo Lodge Nashville

Comfort Inn Nashville-White Bridge

Hilton Garden Inn Nashville-Vanderbilt

Thrifty Inn

Holiday Inn Nashville-Vanderbilt -Downtown

Days Inn Nashville Airport

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A mother and a daughters stay in one motel in Tennessee ended badly. And the culprits are the small yet horrible bed bugs.

Mother Telika Howard and her daughter spent a night in a Mid-South motel on April 10 while waiting to transfer to their new place. But the morning after, her kid was itching all over. After a look at their sheet, they found out that it was because of the bugs.

A local hospital confirmed that the marks in Howards daughter were bed bug bites. And so, the motel management transferred them to another room.

Nonetheless, Howard wasnt satisfied of that move. According to her, the manager was not nice at all and even said that they couldve brought in the critters. Upset, she expressed that she did not get the kind of service that she paid for.

Shelby County Health Department shared that the hotel was already reported for bed bugs twice. It relayed that they happened on April 14 and April 17 of this year.

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A young girl was bitten by bed bugs in a Mid-South motel, and her mother wants answers.

They were staying at the Motel 6 on Austin Peay Highway.

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