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What Are Bed Bugs? Bed Bug Facts Identification

Bedbugs are small, nocturnal, wingless insects belonging to the insect family of Cimicidae. They feed on humans and other warm blooded animals. They are an oval shape and are up to 4-5 mm long when fully grown. Adult bed bugs have a flattened body and their skin colour is either rust brown or a deeper red brown. Nymph bed bugs are clear or a yellowish colour and are generally 1-4mm long. Bed bugs have two antennae and six legs. Red more on what a bed bug looks like.

Bed bugs have been known to travel over 20 feet from hiding in order to feed butwill generally hide within 3-6 feet of their host.

Due to the flattened body of a bed bug they can easily hide in small places such as baseboards, cracks in floors, under carpets, behind loose wallpaper, bed frames, sofas, behind picture frames and many other places which makes them very difficult to detect. They tend to stay together and large infestations will give off a sweet but unpleasant smell.

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The combination of re-introduction, increased international travel and the fact that pest control professionals no longer use older pesticides (such as DDT, Chlordane and Lindane) means that bed bugs have been able to stage a resurgence and become a very serious pest in the 21st century. They have a unique ability to hide and due to their ability to spread, new inspection and control methods must be far more thorough and extensive than with many other pests.

Bed bugs are parasitic insects that live near their hosts. Since they feed on humans (their hosts) their habitats include houses, hotels or any property that we frequent. All they require is a protected area in close proximity to a feeding source. Bed bugs bite people when they are sleeping usually on exposed skin. When looking for a meal bed bugs can move very quickly to feed and then back into hiding after their meal. Unless you know specifically how to look for bed bugs these pests can be easily overlooked.

Bed bug bites can also go unnoticed, and are even often misdiagnosed, making detection that much more difficult.

Bed bugs do not cling to people but they can accidentally get caught up in our belongings (i.e. suitcase, purse, laptop bags). From there they can move from their current home into new ones in homes, hotels, offices, hospitals, or any other building as well as modes of transportation. Sanitation and cleanliness of a property is not an issue as bed bugs are notorious hitch hikers and can show up almost anywhere.

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Newfoundland and Labrador (pronounced /njufndlnd nd lbrdr/; French: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Irish: Talamh an isc agus Labradar, Latin: Terra Nova) is a province of Canada on the country's Atlantic coast in northeastern North America. This easternmost Canadian province comprises two main parts: the island of Newfoundland off the country's eastern coast, and Labrador on the mainland to the northwest of the island.

A former colony and dominion of the United Kingdom, it became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on 31 March 1949, named simply as Newfoundland. Since 1964, the province's government has referred to itself as the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and on 6 December 2001, an amendment was made to the Constitution of Canada to change the province's official name to Newfoundland and Labrador. In day-to-day conversation, however, Canadians generally still refer to the province itself as Newfoundland and to the region on the Canadian mainland as Labrador.

As of July 2010, the province's population is estimated to be 509,739. Approximately 94% of the province's population resides on the Island of Newfoundland (including its associated smaller islands), of which roughly half live on the southern Avalon Peninsula. The Island of Newfoundland has its own dialects of the English, French, and Irish languages. The English dialect in Labrador shares much with that of Newfoundland. Labrador also has its own dialects of Innu-aimun and Inuktitut.

While the name Newfoundland is derived from English as "New Found Land" (a translation from the Latin Terra Nova), Labrador comes from Portuguese lavrador, a title meaning "landholder / ploughman" held by Portuguese explorer of the region Joo Fernandes Lavrador.

Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. The Strait of Belle Isle separates the province into two geographical divisions, Labrador and island of Newfoundland. The province also includes over 7,000 tiny islands.

Newfoundland is roughly triangular, with each side being approximately 400km (250 mi), and has an area of 108,860km2 (42,030 sqmi). Newfoundland and its associated small islands have a total area of 111,390km2 (43,010 sqmi). Newfoundland extends between latitudes 4636'N and 5138'N.

Labrador is an irregular shape: the western part of its border with Quebec is the drainage divide of the Labrador Peninsula. Lands drained by rivers that flow into the Atlantic Ocean are part of Labrador, the rest belong to Quebec. Labradors extreme northern tip, at 6022'N, shares a short border with Nunavut. Labradors area (including associated small islands) is 294,330km2 (113,640 sqmi). Together, Newfoundland and Labrador make up 4.06% of Canadas area.

Labrador is the easternmost part of the Canadian Shield, a vast area of ancient metamorphic rock comprising much of northeastern North America. Colliding tectonic plates have shaped much of the geology of Newfoundland. Gros Morne National Park has a reputation as an outstanding example of tectonics at work, and as such has been designated a World Heritage Site. The Long Range Mountains on Newfoundland's west coast are the northeasternmost extension of the Appalachian Mountains.

The north-south extent of the province (4636'N to 6022'N), prevalent westerly winds, cold ocean currents and local factors such as mountains and coastline combine to create the various climates of the province. Northern Labrador is classified as a polar tundra climate, southern Labrador is considered to be a subarctic climate while most of Newfoundland would be considered to have a humid continental climate, Dfb: Cool summer subtype.

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Consequently, measures are urgently needed to determine whether bedbugs are present in a dwelling, in order to implement control measures. Yet these small creatures are notoriously difficult to find, and current methods for detecting bed bugs are somewhat clunky and expensive.

The good news is that researchers from Simon Fraser University in Canada recently reported the recipe for the signal that bedbugs use to find one another.

This should make it much easier to rouse the little critters from their hiding places and determine whether they are causing an infestation, and it might also be useful for exterminating them.

The first step in conducting these experiments was to grow a colony of bed bugs. This was a challenging prospect, as bed bugs only feed on blood. One of the scientists in the study, a member of a husband and wife research team, volunteered her arms for nearly 200,000 bites to keep the colony healthy and growing. (Her husband apparently wasnt a suitable donor, as he developed a severe itch when bitten.) As a consequence of all this feeding, the bed bugs produced a large volume of shed skin and feces, which was the raw material for isolating the aggregation signal.

The scientists used chemicals to extract the key components that caused bed bugs to aggregate from 18,000 of their shed skins. It took about 18 months to collect the number of skins needed for their experiments.

They also allowed 300 bed bugs to poop on pieces of paper for a month, and then analyzed the fecal material contained on the paper with a machine called a gas chromatograph/mass spectrophotometer to detect the various individual components excreted by the bed bugs.

To test whether they found the correct compound, the researchers put bed bugs in a central round glass container, connected by small tubular passageways to two other containers with either a control scent or a test scent they had extracted from bed bug skin and feces. They then allowed the bed bugs to roam the chambers overnight, and determined where they ended up the next morning. If the bed bugs were attracted to the test scent over the control scent, the researchers knew they were on to something. By testing a variety of compounds isolated from the bed bug skins and feces, the researchers ultimately determined that a cocktail of histamine plus five other volatile chemicals was sufficient to attract and keep bed bugs in place. As the final test, the scientists went into infested apartments in Vancouver, British Columbia, and determined that their scent mixtures did effectively attract bed bugs in the wild.

This research will hopefully lead to more effective ways of detecting and eliminating bed bugs from a dwelling, and thereby eliminate the rashes and sleepless nights experienced by people who share their homes with these nasty little creatures.

More information is available in the article by Regine Gries and others entitled Bed Bug Aggregation Pheromone Finally Identified in Angewandte Chemie 54: 1135-1138, January, 2015.

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One bed bug was discovered on a student's sweater at Holy Heart High School Monday, prompting the school to call in sniffer dogs to search the area.

A teacher spotted the single bed bug on a student's sweater when he took off his jacket at the start of the school day.

Staff immediately notified the Department of Health and Community Services and Eastern Health, and pest control workers were sent to the St. John's high school.

"They have sniffer dogs that they use to comb the area where the student was present and thebelongingsofany otherstudent who was in the room at the time," principal Sheldon Barry said.

Pest control workers gave the school the all-clearafter a 20-minute search.

However, Barry said there will be a followup to ensure it was just the lone bug that got in the school. Bed bugsusually hideon clothing, beds and other furniture,

"We'd just check the clothing of the student;usually it's in the seams of the sweater or a pair of jeans," Barry said.

"After a day or so if there's no other insects found, then everything is presumed fine and we just continue as normal from there."

The school also brought in extra cleaners Monday night as a precaution.

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Mother Accidentally Kills Her Baby Using Pesticide To Get Rid Of Bed Bugs

Society By Jonathan Constante, Tue, February 24, 2015

A Canadian mom was trying to kill bed bugs by fumigating her apartment with a chemical she brought from Pakistan. Instead, she killed her 8-month-old baby and left her other four children in critical condition, the NY Daily News reports.

The mother was using anagricultural pesticideto get rid of the bed bug infestation in the familys Fort McMurray, Alberta, apartment.

The substance, which is strictly controlled in Canada and requires special training to use, releases phosphine gas when exposed to air. The gas is not only colorless and odorless but also extremely toxic, the Daily Mail reports.

After just a few hours of fumigation, all five children in the home showed signs of serious illness.

According to the firefighters, a reading of 1 part per million can be hazardous, and it only takes 15 minutes to reach that level. The reading in the bedroom was at a staggering 4 parts per million. The substance becomes immediately lethal at 5.

There was significant exposure, one emergency worker said.

All five children were vomiting, but they were not taken to the hospital until the next morning.

The mothers 8-month-old baby died at the hospital on Sunday. The other four, aged between 2 and 7 years, remain in critical condition.

Wood Buffalo RCMP Cpl. George Cameron said that the incident appears to be an accidental poisoning. The mothers sister, Shazia Yarkhan, also stated that it was an accident.

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