Two women were sitting down in a rest area in Parkdale Mall when one of the women noticed something crawling on her. Sheri Aldrich, KBMT 10:49 PM. CDT June 11, 2017 BEAUMONT - Two women were sitting down in a rest area in Parkdale Mall when one of the women noticed something crawling on her. The two women noticed bed bugs on the couch. "The couch was infested with thousands of those nasty bed bugs" stated Jerica Cane-Landry. The bed bugs were all hidden in

Birthday Bed Bugs in the holiday mattress was what this guy encountered on his birthday break in this Manhattan landmark hotel No one wants to deal with something like this during their holiday. Picture: AP ARE you one of the thousands of Australians escaping winter and heading to Europe or the United States for the northern summer? In addition to packing up that travel size shampoo, sunscreen and beach gear, you might want

Checked in mid-July for family gathering. Room seemed fine. Nothing special. There were bugs flying around in the room when we arrived. Even with the window shut, the bugs managed to find their way in... The nightmare is real... I work for Lexus. Our Eastern Area headquarters is in Parsippany, so I, and other employees from Maryland frequently stay in the Holiday Inn since we have a business account w... Stayed here in mid-December and left cover

Are you one of the millions Americans traveling this summer? In addition to packing up that travel size shampoo, sunscreen and flip flops, you might want to bring along a small flashlight and your own sleep sack. This summer, Airlines for America is predicting a 4 percent increase in U.S. airline travel, and if youre flying the friendly skies or shacking up in a hotel that means theres a much greater chance of encountering bed bugs during the warmer months, according to experts from theNational Pest Management

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.