LOWELL — Sleep tight. Bedbugs are back in abundance and exterminators couldn't be happier, according to Donald Rivard, an environmental management consultant, who has extensive knowledge of the critters.

Lisa Courtney won't go to bed at night without first checking thoroughly for bedbugs. Last August, she had no concept of them. Even her doctor didn't know what the bite marks were.

Sleep well? You might not after reading this. Bedbugs, the bloodsucking pests that rose from relative obscurity several years ago, have been quietly fanning out and infiltrating hundreds of beds across the city.

Bedbugs are a growing problem around the country and right here in the Susquehanna Valley.

LOWELL — Sleep tight. Bedbugs are back in abundance and exterminators couldn't be happier, according to Donald Rivard, an environmental management consultant, who has extensive knowledge of the critters.

Bedbugs are a growing problem around the country and right here in the Susquehanna Valley.

Bedbugs - they're back. After a worldwide 30-year near-extinction, the creepy, crawly, miniscule, blood-sucking insects have found their way into homes, dormitories, hotels and homeless shelters since the turn of the century. Not only have …

Bed bug infestations have hit epidemic proportions in the tri-state area, so much that earlier this year New York City health officials created a bed bug "task force" after receiving thousands complaints about the microscopic critters. Now there's a new weapon in the fight against bed bugs, and its barking up a storm where the bed bugs bite.

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