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,

Shreveport, LA - Bed bugs lurk in cracks and crevices. They're about the size of an apple seed and are flat and round. On April 4th the nurse at J.S. Clark Elementary School found active bed bugs on a student. The Director of Elementary Schools, Brenda McDonald says in her 30 years with Caddo Parish Public Schools this is the first incident of bed bugs that she's been made aware of at a school. All parents of students received a letter notifying them of the situation. "We took action imm

13News Now Jaclyn Lee has the story Jaclyn Lee, WVEC 7:11 PM. EDT April 06, 2017 Bed bugs (Photo: De Agostini/Getty Images) NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- Over the past two weeks, Lake Taylor High School has had five separate incidents of bed bug sightings. Carrie Lonecke said she found a dead bed bug in her sons backpack. "Its disgusting...upsetting, said Lonecke. "Its not good. Its just not a good thing. Parents like Lonecke have repeatedl

Please enable Javascript to watch this video NORFOLK, VA. Some Lake Taylor High School parents are upset after saying bed bugs were found in the school. Connie Wood told News 3 she's gotten multiple robocalls about this issue in the past few weeks. "It should have been rectified a couple weeks ago- when it first started instead of waiting," Wood told News 3. Wood said she has pulled her son from school Thursdayand Friday. Carrie Lonecke also said she has removed her son from classes T

Our tipsters continue to alert us on important issues and notable happenings around the cityhere's a look at we've received in the last two weeks. To join in on the fun, you can either tweet us@Hoodline, email us attips@hoodline.com, or text us at (415) 200-3233. Today, we start things off in the Richmond District, where tipster D.W. sent in photos of vandalism that he saw at Mountain Lake Park on March 25th. Both the sidewalk and a construction fence were tagged with "Black Lives Matter." We spoke with R

Q We rent our home. Lately my whole family has a lot of bites and itching. At first, we didnt know if it was fleas from the dog or what. Turns out we have bed bugs! What responsibility does the landlord have to remedy this? Is he going to try to say its our fault? L.H., Hawthorne A The landlord has a well-established legal duty to provide habitable premises, and, of course, bed bugs negatively affect habitability. So review your rental agreement for any pertinent provisions as to your rights and obligations,

For about as long as humans have been living in places, bed bugs have been infesting them. In a new study in Journal of Medical Entomology, researchers present evidence of the oldest bed bug ancestors ever uncovered: tiny fragments of insidious insects from some 5,000 to 11,000 years ago. Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus, the species that haunt our nightmares (and sometimes, if we're really unlucky, our apartments) are thought to have split from their close relatives at least 98,000 years agoperhap

Karl Gehring/Denver Post/Getty Images It was always sweet when mom used to say stuff like, "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite." Like you really had a choice in the matter. Nobody in the history of beds or bugs has ever actually wanted those pesky little bloodsuckers chawing away on their skin all night. But, inevitably, it can happen. In case you aren't an aspiring Gil Grissom, bed bugs are the common name for Cimex lectularius, a flat, louse-like insect that lives off the blood of o

POCONO TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) - A family says a fun weekend at a Pocono resort ended in an itchy nightmare. A woman claims after staying at Great Wolf Lodge, her kids woke up covered in bed bug bites. The photos of kids blanketed in bites got thousands of shares on Facebook. The poster is a mother named Lynn Rosenberg from from Brooklyn, New York. According to the post, her kids woke up with bites that her doctor later confirmed were from bed bugs. Lynn goes on to write, Great Wolf decontaminate

Common bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) have some painful mating behaviors, including traumatic insemination. For some people, the mere idea of a bed bug infestationcan be shudder-inducing. But if bed begs' penchant for feeding on your blood while you sleep isn't enough to get your skin crawling, know that the sexual behaviors of these tiny, parasitic insects are even more cringe-worthy. Though bed bugs have been making headlinessince the early 2000s, they've been pestering people for thousands of years. "They were o

Experts offer tips to avoid bedbugs during spring break travel KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - It's spring break for most West Michigan schools, which means many people will be traveling and staying in hotels. It also means it's prime bedbugs season. But experts say there are some things you can do to protect your family from them. The sight of bed bugs is enough to put a damper on your vacation, and the bites can cause a variety of symptoms. Travel experts say a few simple steps when you fir