http://www.instapaper.com/u/folder/243609/nyvsbbhttp://www.mikecolle.com/DocumentEN.aspx?id=22On Wednesday, September 29, 2010, I will be hosting a Bed Bug Summit at Queen’s Park. I am inviting key stakeholders, who are involved in the front line efforts in fighting the Bed Bug infestation, to come to Queen’s Park to put forward recommendations and to share best practices in dealing with Bed Bugs.Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:34:49 EDThttp://www.thestar.com/staticcontent/7878052009 Toronto bedbug reports per 1,000 householdsWed, 01 Sep 2010 18:54:53 EDThttp://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/Topics/bedbugs.htmNEW! Biology and Control of Vectors and Public Health Pests: The Importance of Integrated Pest Management – updated free online CDC-sponsored course includes sessions on the identification and management of bed bugsWed, 01 Sep 2010 18:19:49 EDThttp://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/855193--how-a-tweet-sent-cineplex-on-bed-bug-scrambleNo, this is not a story about bed bugs infesting Scotiabank Theatre. That never happened, according to Cineplex Entertainment, which owns the downtown Toronto theatre and had it inspected Monday night.Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:18:47 EDThttp://nehacert.org/moodle/course/category.php?id=22CDC1001: Biology and Control of Vectors and Public Health Pests: The Importance of Integrated Pest ManagementWed, 01 Sep 2010 17:25:24 EDThttp://www.tvn24.pl/28377,1671261,0,1,plaga-nowojorska,fakty_wiadomosc.htmlPluskwy zjadają Nowy Jork.Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:50:44 EDThttp://pesticidestewardship.org/homeowner/Pages/ReadingtheLabel.aspxThe pesticide label is your best guide to using pesticides safely and effectively. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:33:37 EDThttp://www.sbsun.com/living/ci_15894068Can health care providers team up with clients to force genuine reform of sub-standard housing? Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:32:50 EDThttp://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41553&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1“What we need, among other things, is legislation that will actually prescribe the type of healthy, safe, and effective methods that will actually deal with bedbugs, and to significantly ramp up the enforcement and punishment for failure to comply,” Mazzoni noted.Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:17:02 EDThttp://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100825hub_enrolls_coeds_in_bid_to_squash_bedbugs/Warning stickers and spray paint failed in years past to discourage migrating coeds from Dumpster diving for furniture and unwittingly spreading the blood-sucking parasites. So city Inspectional Service crews are now on a search-and-destroy mission for couches, beds and other comforts of home left curbside.Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:04:58 EDThttp://esa.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/esa/jme/2010/00000047/00000004/art00010A pyrethroid-resistant strain showed >9,375- and 6,990-fold resistance to deltamethrin and λ-cyhalothrin, respectively.Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:11:11 EDThttp://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/courses/courses.shtmlHPD has streamlined the online bed bug course registration and now offers community classes and on-site instruction for nonprofits/tenant groups - more details on NYvsBB NYC pageTue, 24 Aug 2010 15:23:21 EDThttp://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/08/18/bedbug-summit-EPA-insecticide.htmlOne glimmer of hope for Propoxur might come from recent tests that EPA scientists conducted on a house sprayed with Propoxur, said Lois Rossi, the federal agency's director for pesticide registration. Results of those tests, so new that she had not had time to review them, could help the agency revise its exposure estimates.Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:18:55 EDThttp://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local&id=7615220AMC Empire 25 was closed late Tuesday night so exterminators could treat each theater. The theater would reopen on Wednesday. AMC planned to repeat the process in two weeks. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:20:12 EDThttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2011509,00.htmlAlthough the EPA rejected Ohio's propoxur plea in June, the agency has scheduled an Aug. 18 meeting with state and municipal leaders to try to formulate an abatement strategy everyone can live with. Among the meeting's participants: representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and, no joke, the Department of Defense.Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:18:16 EDThttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2915.2009.00847.x/fullTue, 17 Aug 2010 18:21:22 EDThttp://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2010/08/17/2010-08-17_untitled__b17bedbugs.html"It's a highly emotional situation that people are sick over, and people try to take advantage of them. Dogs work great, but not when they're being used as a part of a scam," he said.Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:32:49 EDThttp://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/17/2010-08-17_a_bloody_horrible_tale_bedbug_city_from_wburg_apt_to_das_office.htmlHe persisted, and after a crash course in navigating the Byzantine halls of Housing Court, won a settlement giving him a 100% waiver for 81/2 months' rent. There was only one stipulation - that he move out at the end of this month.Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:32:46 EDThttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1948-7134.2010.00063.x/fullBedding (31.1%), the headboard (30.3%), and cracks and crevices along the baseboard, wall, and floor (23.5%) were the top three most prevalent locations infested by C. hemipterus in our survey Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:28:27 EDThttp://www.thestar.com/article/844968--can-the-city-defeat-growing-bedbug-crisisThe city has three staff members who help to investigate and support vulnerable people caught in the middle of severe infestations, he said. This year, they have helped more than 100 individuals.Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:44:54 EDThttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=2334124The data indicate that in the majority of cases the degree of infestation increases along with the order of magnitude of the town ; one or two exceptional cases are discussed. Comparison of the figures for inland towns and seaports suggests, though more data are desirable, that a low degree of infestation is common in the former whereas the majority of the latter show a moderate or heavy infestation.Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:36:33 EDThttp://www.philly.com/inquirer/health_science/daily/20100815__quot_The_most_difficult__challenging_pest_problem_of_our_generation__quot_.html?viewAll=yAsked why Penn's bedbug-control guide mentions five cases in two years, he said, "We've had isolated incidents, not infestations."Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:35:04 EDThttp://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/361/1466/269.full?sid=58398955-e02e-4940-b7ac-b0c57f57e8a8Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:16:32 EDThttp://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/16/2010-08-16_untitled__bedbugs16m.htmlThe poll results suggest that more than 800,000 New Yorkers have had bloodsucking bedbugs crawling in their sheets.Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:34:13 EDThttp://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01089465During the last years, the investigators were the witness to the increase of a old emerging pest due to bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) in the world. Insecticides resistances apparitions and internationals transports increases seem to be the reasons of the pest. Cimex lectularius as vector of parasites, bacteria or virus was often suggested although not much observation are recently investigated in France. This study intends to examine the vectorial ability and the direct pathogenicity of Cimex lectularius.Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:36:25 EDT