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AUGUSTA, Maine -- A Maine man who was angry he didn't qualify for assistance slammed a cup of livebed bugs Friday on the counter of a local municipal office and released around 100 of the tiny pests, the Kennebec Journal reports.

Theman went to the code enforcement office earlier Friday to complain about bed bugs at his former apartment before leaving and later returningafter he showed the cup of the bugs to a manager at his new apartment and was told he couldn't live there.

When he returned to the Augusta City Center, he was told he did not qualify for assistance -- which made himangry.

"He whipped out a cup (full of live bedbugs) and slammed it on the counter, and bam, off they flew, maybe 100 of them,"City Manager William Bridgeo told the newspaper.

Some of the bugs landed on an employee on the other side of the counter.The incident forced officials to close the city office for the rest of the day as exterminators were called in to kill the bugs.

It is not known if charges will be filed.

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Published: Wed, March 1, 2017 @ 12:49 p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN The Mahoning County Department of Job and Family Services, including the county Child Support Enforcement Agency, closed at 11:15 a.m. today, sending home a total of 200 workers, due to a client who entered the lobby with visible bedbug infestation, said Robert E, Bush Jr., county JFS director.

JFS will reopen for business at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Bush added.

At the time the infested man was present, about 12 other clients were in the waiting room, Bush said.

The man carrying the bedbugs spoke to a caseworker over a house phone in the lobby and never left the first floor, Bush said.

An exterminator was called to Oakhill Renaissance Place, where JFS and CSEA are housed.

At 12:15 p.m., Joyce Kale-Pesta, director of the county board of elections, sent some elections employees home as a precaution though the office will remain open with a small crew. Also, the auto title department and veterans service commission remained open for business.

The board of elections, auto title department and veterans service commission offices are on Oakhills first floor.

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JFS closes early due to bedbug fears - Youngstown Vindicator

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) Mahoning Countys Department of Job and Family Services was evacuated after abed bug sighting on Wednesday.

The closure is only supposed to be for Wednesday afternoon. The county expects to reopen the office Thursday morning.

JFS Director Robert Bush said county employees saw a client with sores and numerous bedbugs in his clothing. The client was in the lobby and in JFS offices.

Sheriffs deputies said they saw bedbugs falling off the mans clothing.

Bush said he made the decision to close the office.

Workers were sent home with pay for the rest of the day. Exterminators were brought in as a precaution.

No other offices were impacted.

No one is allowed intoJob and Family Services into an exterminator inspects it.

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Youngstown Job and Family Services evacuated after bed bug sighting - WKBN.com

Bed bugs feed on blood

They emerge from hiding places at night to seek their meal.

As a survival instinct, bed bugs are elusive. They know to stay out of view during the daytime, hiding in mattress crevices, box springs, baseboards, behind electrical switch-plates, in picture frames, and even behind wallpaper. But at night time, the carbon dioxide we exhale often tempts them out of their hiding spots.

Bed bugs can exist for extended periods of time without food. Adults can survive up to one year without feeding.

Females can lay up to 200 eggs in their lifetime at rates of up to five per day when food is abundant.

Eggs are attached to surfaces in cracks and crevices with cement produced by the females.

Bed bugs are usually found within 4-8 feet of food source and generally are more horizontally mobile than vertically so they will look for hiding places at same level as food source.

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Published: Thu, February 16, 2017 @ 9:59 p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

The board of commissioners of the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority has approved a contract with a pest-control company for bed-bug treatment in its buildings.

The one-year agreement with Bug Patrol of Ohio LLC of Columbus, which the board approved Thursday, begins April 1 in an amount not to exceed $30,000, with three one-year renewal options under those terms.

About 60 of the authoritys more than 1,200 apartments have required bed-bug treatment over the past year, most of them in high-rise buildings, said Jim Winston, the authoritys director of operations.

The high rises may be more susceptible to bed-bug transmission because of their concentration of apartments close to each other and because of their common areas, such as community rooms, he said.

I just wish we didnt have to deal with them. Thats unfortunate that people have to deal with bugs biting them. I dont like people dealing with that, so we do address these immediately, Winston said of bed-bug complaints.

When bed bugs are found in an apartment, that apartment and the apartments on either side of it and above and below it need to be treated, he said.

Winston said YMHA likely spent more than $30,000 on bed-bug treatment last year.

The cost is outrageous, Winston said. However, he added: We are reducing the cost, just by education and awareness, including information presented at resident council meetings.

Its something that comes and goes. We get like a rash of them [bed-bug complaints], but our biggest challenge is: People are not reporting to us. Then it gets a little out of control, Winston said of the bed-bug problem.

People dont want to admit that they have bed bugs. ... People are ashamed, so our challenge is, one, getting it reported in time, and two is educating the residents concerning bed-bug identification and prevention and remediation strategies, he said.

The authority does not charge its residents for bed-bug treatments, but it does not reimburse them for furnishings and other belongings that must be discarded due to bed-bug infestation, Winston said.

In other action, the board adopted a resolution and renamed its meeting room at Amedia Plaza in honor of Carmelita Douglas, its executive director, who will retire Feb. 28.

I am really grateful for the 23 years of service that I have spent with YMHAs family, and we are a family, Douglas told the board Thursday during her last board meeting as executive director.

Jason Whitehead, the authoritys deputy executive director, will succeed Douglas.

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