Bed bugs have become one of the most annoying insects that thrive in modern households In the United States, health experts and authorities that infestation of the insect ceased after the World War in the 1940s But somehow, in the 1990s, bed bugs reappeare…

The number of reported cases of bed bugs in schools, hotels, motels, cruise ships, dormitories, shelters, homes, movie houses and apartments are rising And the authorities are somehow already alarmed and concerned over the issue In the United States alone,…

Have you ever feel like you were not alone in your room, although there is no one else there beside you Have you ever experienced being alone in your room in the middle of the night, hence, you feel, and you are certain that there are other beings there wi…

Many people these days are unaware of bed bugs symptoms It is understandable since bed bugs together with some pests have been exterminated during the widespread use of DDT in the United States after World War I But because of international travel and immi…

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.

Something's got to give at the Tenant Resource Center, says longtime executive director Brenda Konkel. Hit by dwindling funding and a growing demand for its services, the nonprofit agency providing assistance on housing issues to low-income tenants — and landlords — has cut operating costs to the bone and is looking for new sources of funds, Konkel said in a recent interview. The center even …

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MORE than 6,500 complaints of pest infestation were made to the council between the summers of 2005 and 2007. There were also almost 4,500 reports of rodent infestations.

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.

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.

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.