You can get bit and not even feel it at first. But be warned. That bedbug, the size of an apple seed, is now part of your life. It will hitch a ride home to live with you as an unwanted reminder of that expensive five-star hotel stay. And it will cost not only you, but the hospitality industry, insurers and cities nationwide a large sum of money. They are opportunistic, nondiscriminatory and -- worst of all -- stealthy, warns Calvin Sugiyama, a risk service specialist with Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Se

Bedbugs have invaded a North Carolina elementary school. Savannah Levins , WCNC 4:04 PM. EDT April 13, 2017 PHOTO: selvanegra/Getty CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Bedbugs have invaded a Moore County elementary school, forcing a backpack ban as exterminators work to solve the problem. Seven bed bugs have been discovered at West Pine Elementary School as of Wednesday. We brought in specially trained dogs that are trained to sniff out bedbugs, Student Suppo

WNCNMoore County elementary school bans backpacks over bed bug ...WNCNWEST END, N.C. (WNCN) Moore County Schools officials are asking students to leave their backpacks at home while they work to get rid of bed bugs.Check Your Hotel Room For Bed Bugs | WFMYNEWS2.comWFMY News 2all 4 news articles » More here: Moore County elementary school bans backpacks over bed bug ... - WNCN

Bedbugs are joining the resistance. The critters have started to develop a resistance against two common chemicals used to kill them, according to a new study from researchers at Purdue University. And it might start taking a lot more than a bug bomb to destroy infestations. To see if every city dwellers worst nightmare was growing stronger, researchers tested two common weapons in the bedbug sufferers arsenal: chlorfenapyr and bifenthrin. Chlorfenapyr is used by exterminators, while bifenthrin can be found in th

Bedbugs: How they hide and bite Bedbugs: How they hide and bite Adult bedbugs are 5 millimeters long, comparable to the size of an eraser on a No. 2 pencil. Oval, flattened bedbugs have no usable wings and cannot fly to you to suck your blood. Adult bedbugs can go long periods of time without feeding, typically living for six to 12 months. Bedbugs: How they hide and bite This is a baby bedbug, also known as a nymph. It's only 1 millimeter at

WESTBROOK, Conn. (WTNH) A couch sits on the front lawn of a Westbrook home. The family says it has had to throw out bedding and other items as well as put the living room couch outside because of the bed bug problem. Theyre so tiny you dont even see them until they die off and they get full blown and theyre black and I did research, said the Westbrook woman through tears. She did not want her face shown on TV but she had her stepdaughter take video of what they say are bed bugs throughout their house.

Bedbugs have been wreaking havoc in the Northwest for more than 10,000 years. The oldest fossilized evidence of the parasitic insects has been discovered in a cave in southern Oregon. Somewhere between 5,000 and 11,000 years ago, bed bugs fed on bats that roosted in caves near Paisley, Oregon. The bed bugs that we know from hotel rooms became a parasite of humans long ago, thousands of years ago, in the Old World, when people were living in caves with bats in them, archeo-entomologist Martin Adams said. His r

West End, N.C. Treatment is expected to begin Wednesday to battle bedbugs at West Pine Elementary School in Moore County. The school system is responding to what it described as a couple of incidents and a spokesperson for the school said the scope of the problem is limited. The director of student services said the initial case happened about a month ago, when a bug found in a classroom was identified as a bedbug. Following the discovery, school officials sprayed the building with pest control that is u

WEST END, N.C. (WNCN) A Moore County school will have chemicals sprayed repeatedly to stop a bed bug outbreak, officials say. Students at West Pine Elementary in West End are also being told to stop bringing backpacks to school this week, said Moore County Schools spokeswoman Catherine M. Murphy. Crews at West Pine Elementary first sprayed for bed bugs last month and school officials noticed more bugs had returned late last week, Murphy said. Over the weekend, crews swept the schoo

The oldest known specimens of bedbug relatives have been unearthed in an Oregon cave system where ancient humans once lived. The partial fossils from three different species in the bedbug family date back 5,000 to 11,000 years, predating a previous find from 3,500 years ago, researchers report April 4 in the Journal of Medical Entomology. The bedbugs that we know in modern times originated as bat parasites, and its believed that they became human parasites when humans lived in caves with bats, says study

Scientists are now experimenting to find the best way to tackle the creepy crawlies BED BUGS are nearing epidemic levels across Britain, with numbers of the pests estimated to have tripled in the past five years and predicted to only get WORSE in spring. UK homes are being swamped in the nasty insects, with fears many of the mites are becoming resistant to standard chemicals usually able to wipe them out. Reuters British Pest control expert Ranjen Gohri warned: Bed bugs are becoming more and more c

Bed bugs are small insects that feed on human blood. They are usually active at night when people are sleeping. The bite of a bed bug is usually painless, and a person may not even know that they have been bitten until a large itchy welt appears on their skin several days later. While these bites may be a nuisance, bed bugs do not transmit disease to humans. Adult bed bugs have flat rusty-red-colored oval bodies. Adult bed bugs are about the size of an apple seed. They are big enough toeasily see, but often hide

Long before the common bed bug terrorized apartments and ruined perfectly good sheets, their relatives were wreaking havoc in caves. A site in southern Oregon, which contains some of North America's oldest preserved evidence of human activity, was also once home to the bed bug's not-too-distant cousins, archeologists found. Remains in caves near Paisley, Oregon, are likely the oldest specimens ever found from the genus Cimex. The insects range between 5,100 and 11,000 years old, according to an upcoming stu

Bed bugs reach epidemic proportions. Dr. Michael Potter, University of Kentucky entomologist, was quoted recently as saying, Bed bugs are just going ballistic everywhere. It is going to really rock this country. Bed bugs are found today in hotels, apartments, dorm rooms, delivery vehicles, dry cleaners, jails, hospitals, churches, cruise ships, furniture rental stores and private homes. Rare for a time, bed bug bites are becoming all too common. Because pesticides are losing their effectiveness at treating bed bugs,