Editors note: Its Bug Bed Awareness Week. Bed bugs were rare in the United States from 1930 to about 1980. Since 1980, most U.S. cities and even many small towns have become infested with bed bugs with the rate of bedbugs doubling every five years or so. There are many theories about why bed bugs were absent and why they have come back, but there is no actual facts other than that this phenomena is going on all over Europe, U.S., Canada, and Australia. One interesting theory is that the war against cockroaches

AUGUSTA, ME (AP)-- A municipal office building in Maine has reopened after officials say a disgruntled man slammed a cup full of bedbugs on the counter, releasing about 100 of the pests. Augusta officials told that Kennebec Journal that exterminators are confident all the bedbugs were killed before the City Center building opened Monday. City development director Matt Nazar said a man came into the citys General Assistance office on Friday seeking help with bedbugs at his apartment. Nazar said the apartment

Subscribe today for full access on your desktop, tablet, and mobile device. 82 Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about The city manager in Augusta, Maine, says the municipal office building had to be sprayed for bedbugs after a man threw a cup of the pests onto an office counter and about 100 of

@teddyhomernews tweeted this photo of a man tossing bed bugs on an Augusta, Maine, city counter.(Photo: USA TODAY screenshot) A Maine man frustrated because he didn't qualify for government assistancethrew a cup of live bed bugs at a city employee. The incident caused an Augusta, Maine, office building to abruptly close over the weekend so pest control professionals could rid the building of a possible infection. Augusta, Maine, Code Enforcement Officer Rob Overton said the incident

Get today's popular DigitalTrends articles in your inbox: Why it matters to you Bedbugs are a health risk. The Automated Insect Monitoring System is the gadget that will do something about them. From smart thermostats that intelligently control the temperature in a room to smart devices like the Roomba vacuum cleaner that hoover up dirt, connected devices are capable of carrying out all sorts of functions in the places we sleep. Heres one weve not come across before, though: A Wi-Fi enable

Please enable Javascript to watch this video EARTH CITY, MO (KTVI) - Guests at the Extended Stay America hotel in Earth City say their rooms are infested with bed bugs and management isn't doing anything to fix the problem. "This is absurd. You can't treat people like this" said hotel guest Aaron Scales. "You're taking money from us, you're putting us in difficult situations, you can't just say you're going to do something and then not do it" he said. Scales has been bitten multiple times by what he

Subscribe today for full access on your desktop, tablet, and mobile device. Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about The city manager in Augusta, Maine, says the municipal office building had to be sprayed for bedbugs after a man threw a cup of the pests onto an office counter and about 100 of them scattered off.

AUGUSTA, ME (FOX 32 News) - A man in Augusta, Maine who was angry with the service at a government office released hundreds of live bed bugs as payback. The man entered the municipal code enforcement office Friday and slammed a cup of the bugs on the front counter, releasing hundreds of the tiny pests. Earlier that day the man had made a complaint at the office against his landlord, claiming a bed bug problem in his apartment building. He became angry after being told that he did not qualify for assistance.

After a month of dealing with bedbug infestations, the Charleston Fire Department announced Monday that all city fire stations are now free of the pests. Firefighters who were relocated from four stations in recent days and weeks were allowed to return to their respective stations Friday. All 16 of the department's stations were inspected and cleared by K-9s trained to detect bedbugs. Crews from two stations on James Island were forced to move to air-conditioned tent shelters, while firefighters from a station

Grossness is subjective, but bed bugs are objectively pretty disgusting. "The common bed bug (Cimex lectularius) has long been a pest feeding on blood, causing itchy bites and generally irritating their human hosts," says the Environmental Protection Agency. If the concept of blood-sucking bugs isn't creepy enough, learning about their amazing reproductive abilities and mutated features will really make your skin crawl. In observance of Bed Bug Awareness Week, here are five nasty facts about these buggers.

Bed Bug Hotel and Apartment Reports. Click on the city below to find our latest bed bug reports in New Hampshire on hotels. To report a new bed bug incident, navigate to our city page below to see further details. Recommended tips after hotel check-in: 1. Pick up the mattresses in the rooms and look under it. Check around the edges of the box springs. 2. Check under the box spring. 3. Lift up each headboard an lie it on the bed. Carefully inspect the hole where the headboard was lifted out

fox8.comAngry man denied assistance releases around 100 bed bugs in city officefox8.comAUGUSTA, Maine -- A Maine man who was angry he didn't qualify for assistance slammed a cup of live bed bugs Friday on the counter of a local municipal office and released around 100 of the tiny pests, the Kennebec Journal reports. The man went to the ...Disgruntled man releases bedbugs in government officeFOX 5 DCAngry man denied assistance releases 100 bed bugs in city officeNew York's PIX11 / WPIX-TVDisgruntled man throws cup of bedbugs in Maine ci

Updated: Jun 5, 2017 - 6:47 PM WEYMOUTH, Mass. - A Weymouth apartment building is infested with bed bugs. Some say its been a problem for years and nothing has been done about it. The problem seems to be especially critical on the sixth floor of Pope Towers where a little girl was bitten last weekend and where, several sources say an elderly woman was bitten so badly, she had to seek medical help. The housing authority says this is an intermittent issue, but that's not how some tenants describe it. Thre

Rex is a certified bed bug detection canine. Fire officials say he sniffed, searched, and inspected for tiny pests at sixteen Charleston Fire Department stations. (Brian Heins/WCIV) Man's best friend became a savior for the Charleston Fire Department. Rex is a certified bed bug detection canine. Fire officials say he sniffed, searched, and inspected for tiny pests at sixteen fire stations. "When he goes in a home, he doesn't care if he finds bed bugs. He cares about finding a little tennis ball.