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The article reports on effort of the French government to address bedbug infestation in Paris. Topics discussed include reason for the resurgence of the pests, according to Johanna Fite, an expert with the government health agency, remarks from Clement Beaune, the French transportation minister, and request of Emmanuel Gregoire, the deputy mayor of Paris, to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne.

The article focuses on a tenant's dilemma in a bedbug-infested, rent-stabilized apartment in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, seeking advice on how to break the lease due to the landlord's refusal to release them without finding a replacement tenant, despite ongoing pest issues.

The article focuses on the rising anxiety about bedbug outbreaks in the Asia-Pacific region, driven by recent cases in France and South Korea, leading to increased business for pest-control companies.

Provides information about bedbugs. Reproduction; Control strategies; Hiding places.

The article focuses on actor Posey Bartol and Theresa Alexander who lost jobs and roommate at start of covid-19 pandemic and mentions duplex apartment of Bartol and Alexander.

The article reports that the newly emerged Coronavirus, is likely to spare many people from being attacked by an ancient scourge, bedbugs. Topics include the drastic pandemic-induced reductions in travel and nights spent in hotels; the number of bedbug infestations increased by more than 4,500 percent in the early years 2020; and the insects have become especially problematic in the United Stares.

The article reports that authorities are investigating discovery of pill bottles filled with bedbugs inside supermarket Walmart in Pennsylvania and mentions that Walmart employee had found closed pill bottle with dead bugs on floor of men's department.

The article provides an answer to a question concerning control methods to bedbugs.

The article provides an answer to a question concerning how to get rid of bed-bugs in the apartment.

The article presents a research study conducted on the bedbug bites.

The article focuses on increase in bedbug violations for rentals in several borough in New York and mentions that the new law has spurred landlords to take infestations seriously.

The article discusses online survey of around 2,000 people visiting hotels for business and leisure revealing that only 35 percent of business travellers and 28 percent of leisure travellers could identify the bedbug and eggs that can be laid by them.

The article presents questions and answers related to real estate including making a formal contract for renovation of kitchen and bathroom in a condominium, the rule for renting co-operative housing, and uncovering issues of bedbug history in buildings.

The article focuses on the complaints by travellers concerning the infestation of bedbugs in hotels which affects hotel owners.

The article reports on the study led by geneticist Christopher Mason which found out that the bedbugs in northern Manhattan are closely related to that of in the southern portion of the island.

The article discusses the resurgence of bedbugs in New York City. All but eradicated by DDT after World War II, bedbugs have recently turned up in hospital maternity wards, private schools and elite apartment buildings. Entomologists and exterminators blame increased immigration from the developing world, cheap international travel, and the banning of strong pesticides. Once introduced into a home, bedbugs spread quickly. Although some people try to treat the problem themselves, most hire exterminators.

The article reports on the move of a group of American scientists to study the bedbug-leaf interaction by replicating nature's Roach Motel in the U.S.

The article discusses ways to eliminate the bedbugs commonly found on the hardcover of books borrowed on the libraries. It mentions that some patrons of libraries have decided to stop borrowing books. John Furman of Boot-a-Pest adds that several clients are buying PackTite portable heater to kill the bedbugs.

As a general practitioner with a practice in Nassau County, Dr. Fredric Cogan was familiar with the usual flus, fevers and fractures his patients dealt with. But after taking over as the official doctor for backstretch workers at Belmont racetrack two years ago, he now specializes in a new list of ailments, like horse bites, rat bites and bedbug bites, not to mention the damage that can result from being hit by a thoroughbred swinging its head. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

IT has happened to everyone. You are standing in the kitchen and you see something out of the corner of an eye. Was it a mouse scurrying across the floor, or worse, a cockroach dashing along the counter? Do you start feeling itchy every time an advertisement for a bedbug removal service comes on television? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pests What's the Damage? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A room for a midweek night starts at $695 and can soar up to $4,500 for a suite, but this particular hotel on Central Park South may have a problem commonly, if unfairly, associated with more low-rent lodging -- bedbugs. And it may also have a bigger issue -- grumbling workers. A worker at the hotel, the Ritz-Carlton New York, said that a guest in Room 1005 reported to the front desk on Sunday that she had discovered a bedbug in her room. The guest then checked out, but not before producing a specimen of the bug, a wingless six-legged bloodsucker. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As bedbugs have made a comeback, aided by resistance to pesticides and spread by worldwide travel, scientists have found that panic over the blood-sucking pests may be more dangerous than their bite. Some people are misusing poisonous chemicals in a desperate bid to eradicate the pests, federal officials said Thursday. At least 111 people in seven states -- 64 of them in New York City -- have been sickened by the overuse or misuse of common pesticides against bedbugs over the last eight years, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. One person who became ill, a woman in North Carolina, died after dousing her home and herself with pesticides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patricia Valadez's past life of glamour can be found in a tattered black leather portfolio, filled with head shots and other photographs from her days as a performer. Last summer, Ms. Valadez endured a bedbug infestation in her apartment, which compelled her to throw away all her furniture, clothing and most other belongings. The portfolio survived the purge because she had already given it away to her daughter. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT was a year in which the daughter of one president was married in a largely private ceremony on a gorgeous summer day and one in which the daughter of a possible future president went on a prime-time dance show to give ''a big middle finger to all the people out there that hate my mom and hate me.'' It was a year in which one political candidate threatened to punch out a member of the news media, another resigned from office because of ''tickling'' sessions with male staff members and a third coined the political rallying cry of the year: ''The rent is too damn high.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A COUPLE of months ago when I woke up with small clusters of insect bites on my elbows, hands and knees, it happened to be the opening day of the first-ever North American bedbug summit, held in Chicago. I know this because I read about it in the newspaper on my way to work while scratching at a particularly irksome welt through the ugly blouse I had thrown on in my haste to flee my apartment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If any heroes have emerged in the bedbug epidemic sweeping households, movie theaters, retailers, schools, offices, you-name-it nationwide, it is surely bedbug-sniffing dogs. Cute, diligent and armed with highly sophisticated detection tools -- their noses -- these dogs are fast becoming the American equivalent of the St. Bernard rescuing the snowbound in the Alps. Commercials vaunt bedbug-sniffing dogs' prowess and purport up to 98 percent accuracy. In New York, a bedbug-sniffing beagle named Roscoe has become so well known -- he has a Facebook page and now an iPhone app -- that fellow beagles often are mistaken for him on the street. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rodents, the traditional scourge of New York City, are having a rough year. The rise of the bedbug seems to have rendered rats a has-been pest, a mere nuisance to be ignored rather than read about in countless alarmist news articles. The bedbug is a breakout media star; the rat is, well, still a rat. But there is one realm where the rodent still rules, where rats play the stars of an underground theater with a captive audience in the millions. Where else but the subway? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bedbugs are as likely to settle in luxury hotels as youth hostels. So, travelers may wonder, is there a way to figure out whether a hotel (or theater or restaurant) is infested? Well, now there's an app for that. The new Bed Bug Alert ($1.99 at iTunes.apple.com) app for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch shows users a GPS-enabled Google map that indicates nearby bedbug-infested sites as red push pins. The locations are based on addresses of bedbug outbreaks reported by the media, by governmental agencies and by users across the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEDBUGS have infiltrated more and more places in New York City, and now they've even found their way into co-op and condominium contracts. The New York State Legislature passed a law this summer requiring city landlords to disclose any history of bedbug infestation before leasing an apartment. Real estate lawyers and brokers say that even though the law was intended to address rentals, bedbug disclosure has become an issue in the sales market as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bedbugs have made their debut at Lincoln Center. The pests were sighted in the dressing room of the David H. Koch Theater, the New York City Opera confirmed on Wednesday, and at the Metropolitan Opera. City Opera, whose fall season opens Oct. 27, shares the theater with the New York City Ballet, whose season ended on Sunday. The outbreak was reported online on Wednesday by The New York Observer, which quoted from an Oct. 8 e-mail from Mark Heiser, the theater's managing director, who said treatment was under way. ''Please understand that this is an epidemic,'' Mr. Heiser wrote. ''Any signs of bedbug activity should not be considered a sign of an untidy house.'' The pests were also found at the Metropolitan Opera. ''Bedbugs were discovered in some isolated locations but not in any public areas,'' a spokesman for the Met said in a statement, adding that the areas were being treated and monitored. This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An article on Sept. 25 about bed bugs in the city's public schools misstated the timeframe during which a Staten Island company, Superior Pest Elimination, began working for the city's Department of Education. It started work in 2004, not in the 1990s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Having invaded New York City's bedrooms, retail stores, movie theaters and offices, bedbugs are now showing up with growing frequency in another place: public schools. There were 1,019 confirmed cases of bedbugs in the 2009-10 school year -- an 88 percent increase from the previous school year, according to Education Department records. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ROSEMONT, Ill. -- This may be the only place in the country where, for two days at least, the prospect of a bedbug infestation carries not the slightest, slimmest of stigmas. At a meeting here this week, a line of salespeople wore green hardhats decorated with large black bugs, red tongues protruding and legs wiggling, as they spoke about the urgent need to protect mattresses. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

My husband and I have a friend who discovered bedbugs in his apartment. After repeated treatments, he still has live bugs -- and keeps asking us over to help him clean the apartment. We want to be good friends, but even after explaining the risks of bringing bugs back to our place, he doesn't seem to get it. We know we can catch bedbugs anywhere, and don't want to make him feel like a leper, but we don't want to risk infestation, either. What should we do? Anonymous Call me a nitpicker (har har!), but you seem to be tying yourself into needless knots. It's great to be supportive, especially to the bedbugged, who can feel isolated and ashamed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An article on Wednesday about the spread of bedbugs referred incorrectly in some copies to the founding of bedbugregistry.com, a Web site that reports infestations. It was started in November 2006, not this past November. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

International CHINA'S LEADERS SEEK [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent reports that bedbugs have infiltrated office buildings, movie theaters and stores in New York did not come as a surprise to Wes Tyler, general manager of the Chancellor Hotel on Union Square in San Francisco. ''Short of putting a bedbug-sniffing beagle at your door to check everyone before they come in, you're going to get bedbugs,'' he said. ''Dealing with them is the cost of doing business these days.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To the Editor: ''They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists'' (Aug. 31) emphasizes that bedbugs do not appear to spread disease -- and can even kill certain kinds of germs. Let's think outside the box: does the bug have a biochemical property that kills disease, and if so, can it be isolated for development of a new antibiotic? Research is clearly called for. Joseph Attanasio [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As people across the nation try to eradicate bedbugs from the crevices of their homes, a battle is being waged online among pest control companies over whose ad will be the first one most people see as they race to the Internet to learn about these insidious pests. In the battlefield of search advertising, finding success is not easy. ''The competition is fierce,'' said Bill Carlson, 44, whose Web site, Bed-Bug.net, sells do-it-yourself products to kill bedbugs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ACRA, N.Y. You have perhaps heard about the bugs. In fact, it's hard to turn on the television or read a newspaper without hearing more about bedbugs. In your mattress, at the office, the theater, the Brooklyn district attorney's office, the Empire State Building -- from New York to Portland, it's the summer's It bug. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As bedbugs proliferate once again in New York City and other major urban areas, it is tempting to pray for a technological miracle to zap the pests into extinction. Alas, there is none. Frustrated New Yorkers and other victims will have to rely on an array of techniques that can often be costly, cumbersome, time-consuming -- and only partially effective. After virtually disappearing from this country for decades, bedbugs may have been brought back by travelers from abroad. The bugs are showing up in all sorts of places -- not just where people sleep, like hotels and residential units, but also in the occasional movie house or clothing store. A survey last year by the New York City health department found that 6.7 percent of adult New Yorkers -- some 400,000 people -- reported a problem with bedbugs that required an exterminator in the previous 12 months. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BOSTON -- As if all the double-parked moving vans, anxious parents and mountains of discarded furniture and trash are not enough to fray nerves on the day when thousands of college students move into their apartments here, city officials on Wednesday were up against a tiny problem that poses a huge threat. Bedbugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a summer when bedbugs have crawled deep into New York City's psyche, no one is more anxious than those shoppers who live to scout secondhand clothing shops and used-furniture stores. They are connoisseurs of what is hot, hip, a bargain. They know where the flea markets are and when the vintage shops are open. And they are scared that bedbugs from the home of a former owner still call that $20 designer jacket or that fabulous $65 chair their castle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Don't be too quick to dismiss the common bedbug as merely a pestiferous six-legged blood-sucker. Think of it, rather, as Cimex lectularius, international arthropod of mystery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bedbug experts and the government both say there is no miracle bedbug pesticide. Some bedbugs are resistant to most approved chemicals, and sprays or foggers will just drive them to spread. There is a public outcry for regulators to ease restrictions on older compounds now banned or restricted to farm use. That may happen, but using them yourself is dangerous, especially to children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They don't want to hug you anymore, they don't want you coming over. You're like a leper. JEREMY SPARIG, on how friends reacted to his battle with bedbugs. [A1] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jeremy Sparig spent months fighting bedbugs. Now, to some people, he is like a mattress left on the street, something best avoided in these times. ''They don't want to hug you anymore; they don't want you coming over,'' said Mr. Sparig, of East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. ''You're like a leper.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]