Bed Bugs on Your Commute? In Your Garage Sale Purchase? Stay Vigilant
Chicago ranked second last year for bed bug infestations. Experts attribute the rise to global travel; more garage sale and thrift store exchanges; and increased visits between homes and public spaces.
Bed bugs, according to their name, ought to be relegated to mattress pads and box springs. But alas, because there is a spike in bed bugs across the country, the opportunities to bring home the blood-sucking insects are increasingly prevalent on public transportation. "They are transported through public transportation," said Curt Colwell, an etymologist at the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) in Springfield. "They move from buses to planes to trains to taxis. It's pretty common." Bed bugs, which are about the size of a dog tick, are human pests that go through five stages of life and require human blood for each phase, according to Randy Allen, regional manager of Wil-Kil Pest Control, a pest management company that serves the …
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2:26 pm on Thursday, April 5, 2012
I'm not so sure that the mild winter will affect bed bug numbers or not. Bed bugs are only an inside pest therefore the outside temperature will not affect them. Personally, I don’t think that the weather will affect bed bugs like it may affect mosquitoes or other pests. But you can’t deny the fact that bed bug cases rise significantly in the summer months. Also, bed bugs tend to grow and … more ›