Bedbug infestation plaguing apartment resident
Las Vegas Sun
By J. Patrick Coolican (contact) Lawrence Cabrera has been complaining for months to the management of the Siegel Suites Twain II location about bedbugs. Finally, last week he called the Southern Nevada Health District, which found “significant bedbug …

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Local library treated for bed bugs
kwgn.com
Wherever we are we can take them with us,” says Karl Schlemann, supervisor at the Department of Environmental Health in Denver. The popularity of bed bugs in Denver pushed library staff members to be proactive. “There has been a lot of incident's about …
Professional bedbug hunter warns that getting rid of the pests can be expensiveLongmont Daily Times-Call
Longmont library being tested for bedbugsDenver Post

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Council's semester awards
Colorado Springs Independent
For example, at a recent meeting, Council spent 15 minutes on … bedbugs! Council took a serious view of the bedbugs and their reluctant host, the owner of an infested four-plex who didn't approve of city regulations that require him to hire a …

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Botetourt County couple called to service
Roanoke Times
She's had bedbugs crawling on her during bug-prevention training, carsick people throwing up in her van because they're not used to riding in cars. She's plastered gel bandages onto radiation-burned flesh and wept at the comfort it brought to a …

Ellie for hire: It's a 'ruff' job for this local bedbug-sniffing dog
Grand Junction Free Press
While bedbugs are not known to be a huge problem in Grand Junction — they do exist. Plus, the valley lies on a direct route from Denver — rated the sixth highest city in the nation for bedbug infestation, by the national pest control company Terminix …

Events in Connecticut
New York Times
NEW HAVEN Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University “Invasion of the Bloodsuckers: Bedbugs and Beyond,” exhibition featuring live specimens, films and models. Through Jan. 8. $5 to $9. Mondays through Saturdays, 10 am to 5 pm; Sundays, …

What on earth is bugging you?
Fairplay Flume
Obviously it's not my place to ask, Lord, but I just have to wonder about things like mosquitoes, deer flies, no-see-ums, sand fleas, dust mites and bed bugs. Really, now — what were Ya thinkin'? On each leg of every trip either Kizzy or I have …

Sleep tight, but don't let the bedbugs bite
9NEWS.com
1 city for bed bugs, and Denver comes close at No. 6. The numbers will continue to rise over the summer, which is a perfect time to travel. These small, oval-shaped bugs are about the size of an apple-seed and are a reddish brown. …

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Heartworm drug kills malaria-carrying mosquitoes, CSU researchers find
Denver Post
They spent their afternoons sorting the bugs, identifying their species and preparing some for shipment back to Colorado, where researchers would do more analysis. They found that ivermectin paralyzes older, malaria-carrying mosquitoes within several …
Colorado State University Researchers Discover Common Drug Kills Malaria …Colorado State University News (press release)

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North Richland Hills mom lands on 'New York Times' bestseller list
Fort Worth Star Telegram
A voracious reader, Williams got the writing bug the entrepreneurial way. "I finished one, and I said, 'I can do better than that,'" she said. This was in the late 1980s, when she had long paused her career in sales to raise three children. …

Floating row covers foil herbivores in the vegetable garden
Bangor Daily News
Floating row covers are a chemical-free way of denying plant-eating insects (herbivores), such as the Colorado potato beetle, access to your vegetable crops. They also keep out squash bugs, cucumber beetles and squash vine borers from squash, …

Wyoming Insect Expert Turns Author
New West
Lockwood's next book, slated to be completed next year, is about “entomophobia,” or the fear of bugs. It will cover everything from bed bugs to psychological disorders when people believe insects are creeping all over their bodies. …

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Rain forest living puts man up in the air
The State
You wish you were Thomas Dodson, even with the bugs and the snakes and the constant dampness and the uncertainty in his life. Unless you're related to Dodson or you're one of his old friends from Lexington High …

Boulder's Phantom Sculptor gets yanked from center stage
Daily Camera
( MARK LEFFINGWELL) sneaked a giant bug sculpture onto her lawn in 1987, but she caught him when he tried to retrieve the piece of art two weeks later. It's believed he lives in Louisiana. "He's crazier than a bed bug," Coughlin said Thursday. …

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Unforgiven, and never forgotten
Boston Globe
Sandra Devita, accustomed to fixing things herself rather than paying a repairman, had taught her son how to repair just about every part in their red Volkswagen bug and passed along to him her considerable mechanical skills. …

Christine Lewis Denied Treatment At Aurora Medical Center Because Of Bed Bug Bites
Huffington Post
Peggy SaBelle, RN, the Regional Infection Prevention and Control Director for Kaiser Permanente in Colorado, told Denver's 7News that counteractive procedures should begin immediately after any bed bug signs. In addition to hospital countermeasures, …

Woman With Bed Bugs Bites Denied Medical Treatment
ABC News
Christine Lewis of Aurora, Colo., said she was treated "like an AIDS patient" when doctors saw her bed bug bites. (ABC News) Christine Lewis said she was just being honest with the nurse at Colorado's Aurora Medical Center when …
Colorado woman Christine Lewis says she was denied care for bad back over …New York Daily News
Disabled woman refused back pain treatment at hospital… because she had BED BUGSDaily Mail

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Bite this! Handheld device sniffs out bedbugs
CNET
… out bedbugs, they started to come back with a vengeance, like a bygone sci-fi franchise re-emerging to produce some lackluster prequels. But while the nasty pests were busily frolicking from hotel rooms in Denver to movie theaters in New York, …

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They want to suck your blood
Colorado Springs Independent
Macaroni works across Colorado and the Western region with his handler, Walter Penny, who founded Denver's Bed Bug K9, LLC in 2008, after working in pest control. Macaroni was purchased from a company in Florida that trains dogs to sniff out just about …

Woman Turned Away From Hospital Because Of Bed Bugs
KMGH Denver
“Would your health centers refuse treatment to someone who was coming from a home infested with bed bugs?” we asked. “No,” said Peggy SaBelle, RN. SaBelle is the Regional Infection Prevention and Control Director for Kaiser Permanente Colorado. …

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National Healthy Homes Conference to Address Risks from Asthma to Bedbugs
PR Newswire (press release)
Next month, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is hosting a National Healthy Homes Conference in Denver that will explore the latest research and interventions from dozens of public health, housing, and environmental experts from …

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Husted: Denver artist revved as painting marks Indy 500 milestone
Denver Post
Then it's: June 10, Baroque Opera & Kimchi; June 17, the Iranian Revolution & Human Mating; June 24, Urban Spelunking & Blood Sausage; July 1, Bed Bugs & Astrobiology; July 8, Barnett Newman & Santería; July 15, Pop Art & Pigeon Racing; July 22, …

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National Healthy Homes Conference to Address Risks from Asthma to Bedbugs
PR-USA.net (press release)
Next month, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is hosting a National Healthy Homes Conference in Denver that will explore the latest research and interventions from dozens of public health, housing, and environmental experts from …

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No bed bugs only bat bugs for this school
Greeley Tribune
According to a report done by the Colorado State University Extension Office, bat bugs and bed bugs come from the same family of bloodsuckers. There are three other bugs that are closely related, as well. The CSU report said all the bugs are similar in …

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Bedbugs carrying superbug MRSA found
Baltimore Sun (blog)
They are the blood-sucking bugs infesting Colorado. As if the subject wasn't enough to make your skin crawl, now a new study finds bedbugs carrying deadly superbug germs. “It causes skin ulcers and it's resistant to move of our best antibiotics it's a …

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