October 18, 2008
Late breaking news
Joseph Lancman thinks the little buggers may be a bigger problem than most people realize. He's right. In August, after finishing work on his Ph.D. in biological sciences from the UW-Madison, Lancman moved into a new apartment. His bed became infested with bedbugs, a once-common pest that's enjoying a worldwide resurgence. Lancman tried to get rid of the small, wingless insects, which like to …
Goucher College said that only weeks after students at one off-campus housing location had to be relocated because of bedbugs, the creatures have been reported at the hotel where the students were moved.
Five rooms at a Ventura motel on Thompson Boulevard were yellow-tagged this week for substandard housing violations, including bedbugs and water leaks, authorities said.
A family new to the area say they complained about what was crawling in their sheets at a Kansas City motel and then found themselves evicted.
Celizic: In a town where celebrities are as thick as bedbugs in a flophouse mattress, Manny Ramirez stands out. In just over two months, he took over Los Angeles.
Gail Banach will remember one thing about her visit to Omaha. Not the shopping. Not the restaurants. Not even the zoo. No, Banach, of Syracuse, N.Y., will remember the bedbugs.
A Toronto municipal councillor wants the city's health board to take steps to declare the growing problem of bedbugs a "health hazard."
FARMINGTON An infestation by thousands of bugs about a quarter-inch long ultimately will cost owners of Days Inn $63,000. "We are replacing everything," said Rez Chowdhury, who owns the bedbug-infested structure.
Days Inn replacing carpet and bedding
The first time I saw a house centipede was shortly after moving into my home. If youve never seen a house centipede, or Scutigera coleoptrata, youre lucky. They are freakishly creepy looking little buggers, perfect for Halloween season. The first one I saw was in the guest bathtub dead, but I still screamed bloody murder at the sight of the alien carcass. A few weeks later, I groggily went …