Posts in September, 2010

Sep 21 Bed Bugs Came Out of Nowhere! - Explaining the Surprise

I often hear, "They just came out of nowhere! What happened?" The apparent surprise attack of the bed bug is not driven by climate ...

Sep 14 Hotels Save Thousands with Dogs and Heat

As a hotel owner once told me, the pesticide extermination of a hotel room with bed bugs is an expensive affair. Shut down of room ...

Sep 10 New Bed Bug Pesticides - Not a Reality!

DDT does not work, EPA won't approve propoxur without deep research and there are no new chemicals in the pipeline because there ...

Sep 10 Old/New Research on Bed Bug Pesticide Resistance

I'm fairly certain that it is poor taste to blog someone else's blog, but Bug Girl has her Ph.D. in bugs and does a great summary ...

Sep 10 EPA Bed Bug Pesticide Alert

Does anyone remember why DDT was banned in 1972? No other pesticide has done more for mankind than DDT worldwide. It has ...

Sep 09 Unchartered Waters - NPR Interview With Michael Potter

A great NPR interview last night with Michael Potter, Professor of Urban Entomology, at the University of KY. He called the bed ...