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Bed bugs are most commonly found in and around our beds, according to entomologist and professor Michael F. Potter. Properly identifying bed bugs is crucial as it is typically the first step in controlling an infestation. If you think you might have a bed bug problem, watch for some characteristic signs of bed bug activity.

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Chicago Tops Bed Bug Cities List for Third Year in a Row

Bed bug business increased 18 percent last year with nearly half of cities showing a rise in bed bug treatments

News Release from Orkin, January, 2015

Chicago tops the 2014 Bed Bug Cities List for the third year in a row. The list, released by pest control leader Orkin, ranks the cities by the number of bed bug treatments Orkin performed from January to December 2014. Bed bugs were in the news throughout 2014 in the Windy City, with reports of the blood-sucking insects on public transit and inside several downtown office buildings, as well as in police headquarters, a fire station, school, library and movie theater.

Bed bugs are a serious issue across the country, and theyre very difficult to control, said Orkin Entomologist and Technical Services Director Ron Harrison, Ph.D. Bed bugs are not limited to any level of cleanliness or income, which means they can be found in any home or hotel. Theyre great hitchhikers, and people often bring them inside on their clothes or in their luggage.

Seven cities made double-digit jumps on Orkins Bed Bug Cities List compared to 2013, including Omaha, Neb. (+16), Lexington, Ky. (+16), Sacramento, Calif. (+14), Grand Rapids, Mich. (+13), Buffalo, N.Y. (+12), Charleston, W.Va. (+11) and Louisville, Ky. (+10). Several cities also dropped significantly in the past year, including Syracuse, N.Y., San Diego, Miami, Greenville, S.C. and Atlanta. Four cities made the Bed Bug Cities List for the first time including Myrtle Beach, S.C., St. Louis, Bowling Green, Ky. and Ft. Wayne, Ind.

Bed bugs are in every region of the country, and Orkin has treated for bed bugs in all 50 states. Rollins saw an 18 percent increase in bed bug revenue in 2014. The problem is growing nationwide as well. According to an annual report on the pest control industry, Americans spent $446 million to get rid of bed bugs in 2013, the latest data available, compared to $70 million in 2004.

While the cities above topped Orkins list, homeowners, tenants and travelers across the country should take the following precautions to help prevent bed bugs:

Bed bugs are not known to spread human disease like many other pests, but can leave itchy, bloody welts on skin, and they are active year-round. Because every bed bug scenario is different, its important for homeowners to call a professional who can create a solution tailored to their homes needs.

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Honolulu Bed Bugs Crawl Up to 42nd Place > Hawaii Free Press

POSTED: 07:24 a.m. HST, Jan 21, 2015 LAST UPDATED: 08:42 a.m. HST, Jan 21, 2015

KRYSTLE MARCELLUS / KMARCELLUS@STARADVERTISER.COM

IHS guest service assistants Wendy Dumlao, left, and Cindy Lewis treat beds for bedbugs after an outbreak last year.

Honolulu crept up three notches to No. 42 in the U.S., on the annual Orkin Bed Bug Cities List, released Wednesday.

The pest control company ranked 50 U.S. markets by the number of bed bug treatments it performed during the 2014 calendar year, and Chicago topped the list for the third consecutive year.

The Windy City was followed by Detroit (up two from 2013), Columbus, Ohio, Los Angeles (down two from 2013), and at No. 5, the Cleveland, Akron, Canton market in Ohio, which moved up a notch.

"Bed bugs are a serious issue across the country, and they're very difficult to control," said Orkin Entomologist and Technical Services Director Ron Harrison, in a statement. "Bed bugs are not limited to any level of cleanliness or income, which means they can be found in any home or hotel. They're great hitchhikers, and people often bring them inside on their clothes or in their luggage."

Orkin parent company Rollins Inc. saw an 18 percent increase in bed bug treatment revenue during 2014, amid other evidence that bedbug infestations are growing.

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I stayed at the Trump Waikiki with my husband for our honeymoon for 5 nights, we booked through Jet Luxuries on Expedia, the king non smoking city view (room 1006). Our first impressions and experience at the hotel was great. The staff were all very friendly, helpful, welcoming and great employees. The hotel is beautiful, the room was a nice size, and the location was convenient. It was great being close to the trolley lines and slightly off the main Waikiki beach drag, the quiet area was perfect. The trouble started our third night. We went out for dinner around 8pm and our room hadnt been made up yet. We came back after ten and the turndown service had just been done and the bed made up. After changing I noticed something crawling across the bed, and caught it and killed it in a tissue and realized it was a bedbug. I called the front desk and 2 staff came and took the bug. I got a call back and asked if we wanted to change rooms since they confirmed it was a bed bug, of course we said yes. We had to pack up all of our stuff, and we were moved to a "sleeper room" (a temporary room just for that night) by this time it was 1am. We were settling in and I unfolded a pair of shorts that was sitting on the bed in the first room (1006) and another bed bug crawls out! I catch it (photograph it) and call the front desk again. 2 staff came up and retrieved the bug. At this point I am in total panic and feeling disgusted. Now that 2 have been found, I decided to pack up ALL of our clothes and luggage and have them taken away. Our luggage along with new clothing we'd bought had been sitting in the previous room for 2 days, I had no idea if there were more bugs that could have crawled into our luggage or not. As it was the middle of the night there wasnt much more to be done. I tried to sleep but the thought of bed bugs and bringing them home kept me awake most of the night.

In the morning I talked to the night manager (Akimi) and told her I wanted all of our clothing and luggage cleaned and treated. I was informed that the previous room (1006) was checked for more bugs and the room came back negative for signs of bed bugs. She was apologetic and of course nice, but when I asked her simple questions about how our clothes and luggage would be treated for bed bugs she could not answer right away and had to call house cleaning. After a sleepless night and morning spent looking up treatments for bed bugs I found out that high temperatures, pesticides, freezing temperatures and dry cleaning were effective methods for killing bed bugs and their eggs. I was told that our luggage and delicate clothing (wool sweaters) had been treated with a water based pesticide and the remaining items were washed and dried. But they did not spray the inside of our luggage with the pesticide since they did not want it to stain our luggage...which I didnt really understand since they supposedly sprayed our clothing with it. They brought our luggage and things back but as I am someone who wants to be extra sure and careful I packed up our clothing and requested that our luggage be put in the freezer overnight, which they did. We were upgraded to another room for our last 2 nights and were given free breakfast vouchers and laundering for the remainder of our trip. I tried to enjoy the last few days of our trip but the bed bug issue and lack of sleep really put a damper on our honeymoon and my peace of mind.

I asked to have Jet Luxuries call me about this situation but after 2 days no one called me from their headquarters. So I called them (after being on hold for 15 min) and spoke to Amanda, who was unhelpful and spent the phone call trying to wipe her hands clean of the situation, putting the issue of compensation on the hotel. Infuriating.

The day of our check out, Jeff O. (another manager) came up to our room and apologized again for our bad experience and gave us a 2 night voucher for an ocean view room, if we ever come back again. All in all a refund for our night of hell and sour second half of our honeymoon would have been more of a compensation, but the hotel did try their best to make us happy and restore our peace of mind, we did appreciate that effort.

In the end we learned a lot from this trip and will never book through a second agent again, especially not Jet Luxury! It wasn't worth the small savings. Would we stay at the Trump Waikiki again? I think we would, but directly through the hotel. After learning a lot about bed bugs and reading about how they spread I think this situation was bad luck. With the thousands of people coming through these hotels daily from around the world and from neighboring hotels and restaurants it is easy to see how bed bugs could be found in even a 5 star clean hotel.

We really did like the hotel and the staff, but gave a 2 due to this experience alone. I hope others who read this will pack smart when going on vacation. Keep clothes in plastic bags and off the bed, furniture and floors. I will never travel the same way again...

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KANSAS CITY, KS (KCTV) -

A KCK assisted living facility is battling a case of bed bugs.

The Net Giver operates Delaware Highlands Assisted Living, located at North 126th Street and Delaware Parkway, which is a publicly subsidized facility.

The owner of the Net Giver, Jeremy Whitt, says the staff has found bed bugs in three of the residents' rooms, beginning with one room two weeks ago.

"It all depends on the level of severity,"Whitt said about deciding how to handle the situation. "This was a minor incident, and that's not our opinion, but the opinion of (the exterminator) Orkin."

Whitt says the management had Orkin fumigate only the affected room when that first sighting arose. They told maintenance and cleaning staff to keep an eye out but did not inspect other rooms or notify other residents.

"We didn't want to create mass hysteria or confusion with partial information or incomplete information, especially on the first round of this incident," Whitt said.

By Friday staff noticed signs of bedbugs in two adjacent rooms and management stepped up its response, Whitt said.

Monday, Orkin fumigated not just those rooms, but two rooms in every direction on that floor as well as the rooms above and below. Then they began planning how best to inform the rest of the people who live there.

"I didn't know what a bed big looked like so I was kind of curious, said resident Jackie Faught.

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