Bedbugs News

One man wakes in the dead of night, when the bugs are most active, to round them up by hand.

Some women at a Racine homeless shelter said they're being eaten up by bedbugs, and they're showing the scars to prove it.

The school says bedbugs were reported in the Curtin Hall dormitory. Three rooms were treated, and all of the residence hall's rooms are being checked.

As we learned with the widespread use of DDT to control agricultural pests and mosquitoes, chemicals can bioaccumulate, meaning molecules may concentrate hundreds of thousands of times up the food web, eventually reaching people.

A home disaster is a scary and expensive experience. Here are six potential home disasters lurking in your home and how these DIYers fixed them.

I laid on the motherly advice as I waved goodbye to my 14-year-old, who was boarding a bus and heading to the Ohio Junior Classical League convention in Columbus this spring: It wasn't the first time I've recruited my kids to assist in my never-ending effort to travel the world without uninvited companions.

After a bit of sprucing up, the IFAS Lee County Extension Services office at 3406 Palm Beach Blvd.

People living in two Des Moines apartment buildings can now move forward with a class-action lawsuit over a bedbug problem.

The Iowa Supreme Court is ruling on a lawsuit filed by residents of 2 Des Moines apartment buildings who say their buildings were infested with bedbugs.

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIARecent media reports of bedbugs in Santa Clara County have raised questions about bedbugs - how to identify them, what steps to take if you suspect you have them in your home or business, or have seen them in a business or food facility, and who to contact.

Columbia Pest Control, a Portland based pest control company, has announced its commitment to further the company's role in serving the community by solving all types of pest control problems with environmentally safe means.

A lawsuit was filed in Columbiana County Common Pleas Court this week seeking damages from bed bugs allegedly discovered last summer by a guest at Barnett's Motel on U.S. Route 62 west of Salem.

An exterminator says his team has nearly wiped out a massive infestation of bedbugs that have plagued residents of Alderney Manor in Dartmouth for years.

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An ordinance to spur the eradication of bedbugs remains stalled in a City Council Committee as Aldermen question who bears more responsibility, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.

A report of bed bugs found at a Campbell Starbucks has left many itchy. According to the Santa Clara County Vector Control District, "bed bugs are small parasitic insects that feed on the blood of humans and other animals.

County housing authority officials seem to be responding forcefully to an infestation of bedbugs at the Franco Center apartments in downtown Stockton.

Editor's Note: The following news release was contributed by the Santa Clara County Vector Control District.

A report of bed bugs at a Campbell Starbucks has left many itchy. According to the Santa Clara County Vector Control District, bed bugs are small parasitic insects that feed on the blood of humans and other animals.

Just the mention of them elicits an "ew" factor: bed bugs. A recent news report of bed bugs at the Starbucks at 1686 S. Bascom Ave.