September 2, 2007
Late breaking news
By Adam Voiland For Kyle Anderson, 19, the battle began with a row of welts on his stomach. Soon the Arizona State University student, who was living in a private apartment complex in Tempe, was waking up repeatedly at night to smash anything that moved. His prey? Cimex lectularius, those notorious nocturnal, lentil-size bedbugs that feed on human blood, can travel on anything from luggage to a …
No more bedbugs are biting at a Syncrude campsite after an isolated case of the critters has been fumigated out of existence and no others have been found.
Cockroaches, termites, fleas, ants and bedbugs are enjoying the summer at least as much as you are, with new invaders arriving all the time.
The saying "Don't let the bedbugs bite" might have seemed like a thing of the past. The little blood-sucking critters were mostly eradicated in the 1940s, but they seem to be staging a creepy return, causing great discomfort among sleepers across the country.
Chris Dyson bid adieu to Ocean Towers yesterday and hopes he'll sleep tight from now on.
A recent spike in bedbug incidents may come down to Halifax's growth, says a local zoologist.
Heather Hale and her fiance thought they had taken every precaution. They moved their bed to the middle of the room, ditched the headboard, covered the legs with a plastic container filled with oil and cayenne pepper and spent $80 on protective bed covers for the bed and boxspring.