If you go to the library, you should check out what’s between the pages of your favorite books. “Bed bugs are definitely attracted to inanimate objects that have narrow spaces that they can hide in,” Michael Draney, a biologist with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay reported. “They’re small insects and they hide in very …

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Bedbugs are attracted to clothes that have been worn, and might be climbing into suitcases that have dirty laundry in them, researchers reported recently. So people may be unwittingly helping to spread them by carrying around luggage full of dirty clothes, the team at Britain’s Sheffield University said. They found bedbugs were twice as likely to …

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You may think bed bugs are found only in unsavory hotel rooms and apartment buildings. But experts say they’ve actually been spotted all over our towns and cities: on trains and airplanes, in movie theater seats, offices, schools, libraries, laundromats—even restaurants. Bed bugs generally live within 8 feet of where people sleep, according to the …

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There has been an increase in lawsuits involving hotels having liability for bed bugs in hotel rooms as victims of these bites have the right to file personal injury lawsuits against at fault parties which may include hotel owners, managers, staff and their insurance carriers. We can also see these type of lawsuits extending to …

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A new study has revealed that bed bugs have developed a thicker skin that enables them to survive exposure to commonly used bug sprays, according to University of Sydney research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. Bedbugs are bloodsucking parasites and their meal of choice is human blood. There has been a resurgence of …

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