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Tips for Staying Bed Bug Free This Travel Season

Posted on April 17, 2014 by admin Click Here For Article

Evansville, IN (PRWEB) April 17, 2014

Since making a resurgence several years ago, bed bugs have proven to be a difficult and hard to treat pest, infesting homes and hotels, retail locations and even places of employment. Although a year-round concern, experts from the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) want people to be on high alert prior to heading into the busy summer travel season, declaring April 20th the start of Bed Bug Awareness Week. In recognition of the observance, Action Pest Control is advising people in Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois to be extra vigilant to help curb the spread of this blood-sucking pest.

Summer is a prime time for bed bug infestations because travel increases and people are more likely to pick up bed bugs during transit between locations, said Kevin Pass, President at Action Pest Control. We encourage all travelers, from college students coming home for break to families going on vacation, to keep a close eye out for bed bugs looking for a ride home in suitcases.

Public vigilance can start with careful inspections upon check in at lodging accommodations. According to 2013 research by the NPMA and the University of Kentucky, 75 percent of pest control professionals indicated that they have encountered infestations of bed bugs in hotels and motels in the past year. Hotels are taking a proactive stance on protecting their establishments from bed bugs with strict protocols that include routine inspections, but guests also play an important role in bringing bed bugs to managements attention and to help limit the spread of bed bugs to other locations.

To prevent an unwanted encounter with bed bugs this summer, Action Pest Control shares the following prevention tips for travelers:

For more information on bed bugs, please visit http://www.actionpest.com.

About Action Pest Control Action Pest Control is the largest independent pest control company in Indiana and Kentucky. With seven branches throughout Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois, they serve residential, commercial, and industrial clients throughout their service area. Action offers a full range of pest and termite control solutions for individual homeowners, large industrial facilities, and everything in between. For more information about Action Pest Control, visit http://www.actionpest.com.

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Health district reaches out to bedbug victims

Posted on April 17, 2014 by admin Click Here For Article

By THOMAS GALLICK ThisWeek Community News Wednesday April 16, 2014 8:25 AM

The Delaware General Health District hopes its new program will help take some of the bite out of paying for bedbug treatments.

The district announced last week it would launch the Bed Bug Treatment Forgiveness Loan program. Through the program, the agency will pay for half -- up to $500 -- of certain district residents' bedbug treatments.

Adam Howard, the health district's residential services manager, said one resident requested an application for the program in its first week. He said it's hard to discern how many county residents are living with bedbugs because there are no reporting requirements.

Bedbugs are brown, oval-shaped insects that feed on blood. The bugs often live in mattresses and other pieces of furniture.

"We believe it is an underreported problem," Howard said. "There is a stigma associated with it."

Although bedbugs have not been shown to spread disease, Howard said the district saw treatment of the pests as another opportunity to serve its residents. The district already collects and analyzes what information it can about bedbug infestations and offers workshops on how to identify and treat bedbugs multiple times per year.

The program will help to fund treatments at single-family homes in which the owner has lived for more than one year.

Howard said the program excludes rental properties.

"That's more of a cooperation that needs to occur with the owner and renter," he said.

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Bed Bugs Las Vegas Forum TripAdvisor

Posted on April 15, 2014 by admin Click Here For Article

2. Re: Bed Bugs

I have no idea if there are any hotels without bed bugs, but I certainly encountered no bed bugs in my recent stays at Encore and Venetian. I stayed in only two rooms total out of the 6,000+ roooms (4000+ rooms at Venetian and 2000+ rooms at Encore). That is obviously not a valid sampling.

I have no reason to be fearful of bed bugs, and I encountered none. Based on my allergic reactions to mosquitos, I suspect that if bed bugs had encountered me, I would have noticed it the next day!

I expect that the hotels have a good pest eradiction program in place and aggressively treat any infestation immediately.

I do not claim expertise in bed bugs, but I am told that they cannot survive the heat of a normal laundry cycle. They die almost instantly in 120 degree heat, and laundry dryers are much hotter than that. So if bedding is washed and dried, there are no live bed bugs in the bedding.

Of course, if a guest brings in bed bugs and they get into the carpet or into the frame of the bed, that becomes a different problem. I don't know how the hotels deal with it.

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Posted on April 15, 2014 by admin Click Here For Article

His girlfriend left him over problems in the bedroom, a caller told Barb Ogg, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Service.

It wasn't him.

It was the bed bugs.

Bed bug infestations have doubled locally since last year, and they're likely to double every year for some time, Ogg said.

"I probably took between 10-15 calls," in one recent week, Ogg said.

About three-fourths of the complaints come from multi-unit dwellings -- apartments, motels, retirement homes, halfway houses.

"This is the scary time of the year because school's starting and people are moving around and coming into apartments," Ogg said.

Tenants will learn later from neighbors their place had been treated for bed bugs, sometimes several times, Ogg said, and yet the problem remains.

The reddish-brown insects -- last seen in great numbers before World War II -- have rebounded nationally, infesting college dorms, hospital wings, homeless shelters and swanky hotels.

DDT, the main pesticide weapon against them, was banned in 1972 as a possible carcinogen and environmental hazard.

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Get Rid Of Bed Bugs DC, Maryland And Virginia | Bed Bug …

Posted on April 15, 2014 by admin Click Here For Article

1Bed bugs, as their name suggests, can be found on beds. Buttons and mattress seams are common places to find these biting insects. When you partner with American Pest, you can count on us to get rid of bed bugs wherever they are hiding.

2Bed bug experts suspect the resurgence in bed bug activity is related to the increase in both domestic and international travel. Taking precautions when traveling can help you avoid bringing bed bugs back home.

3Bed bugs are expert hitchhikers and will catch rides on luggage, purses, and bags. They are carried from one destination to another on people and clothing. American Pest understands how easily bed bugs are introduced and offer thorough bed bug inspection and treatment services.

4Bed bug activity is not confined to beds so tossing out your old mattress will not solve a bed bug problem. You can find these pests in nightstands and upholstered furniture as well as on electronics and household items.

5When it comes to bed bugs, no area is safe. That includes behind walls clocks, picture frames and other wall hangings. Even curtains could house bed bugs among the folds. Contacting American Pest for bed bug removal is the best choice when it comes to combating these pests.

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