| Over the last two years, the city's shelters and rooming houses have gradually become severely infested with bedbugs. |
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| Fears that an infestation of giant, blood-sucking bedbugs is plaguing south Dublin have been raised after a second outbreak was confirmed. |
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| Up to a quarter of an inch in size, bedbugs feed when it's dark, piercing your skin while you're sleeping and gorging themselves on your blood. |
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| In the last couple of months I have been bitten by bedbugs and had to deal with this problem. |
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| She says she and her two teenage sons, Miguel and Alan, were bitten by hundreds of bedbugs at the inn across from the theme park's main gate. |
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| Infected premises have to be doused with pesticides, but bedbugs are becoming resistant to the chemicals usually used to kill them. |
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| One of the bedbugs even managed to stay latched on behind my left knee for the drive back to Dublin. |
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| I went over to her side of the room and looked to find the bed and the room covered with bedbugs. |
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| If a homeowner had his home treated for cockroaches, for example, the insecticide would kill bedbugs and other insects as well. |
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| But I've stayed in worse places, at inns with mattresses that had to be checked for bedbugs. |
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| Bloodsucking bedbugs are sneaking back between the sheets some 50 years after being all but wiped out in the developed world, a new study says. |
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| To avoid bedbugs, wash bedding regularly at a high temperature and replace old mattresses and pillows regularly. |
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| It's not uncommon at all to battle bedbugs for a period of months, and some infestations as much as a year. |
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| From townhouses to the most humble homes, New York City is being invaded by bedbugs. |
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| In such cases, relocating the person or removing the bedbugs has caused the syndrome to disappear over time. |
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| The biggest pest threats to hotel accommodation areas are bedbugs and other biting insects. |
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| An insecticide-treated net also kills or keeps away other insects, such as head lice, bedbugs and fleas. |
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| First call was to a Paris slum hotel, where long lines of bedbugs marched over ceilings all day, and at night fed on the blood of half-starved residents. |
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| We wished to avoid the constant and real threat of bedbugs, fleas, and other insect pests which we had brought home in our bags, topclothing, and soiled linens. |
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| Insects such as houseflies, bedbugs, locusts, butterflies, honeybees, silkworms, lac insects etc. are well known to mankind, largely due to their economic importance. |
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| Integrated Pest Management Because they are small, nocturnal and can detect and avoid many chemicals, bedbugs are often hard to control. |
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| Government agencies should try to address problems related to low incomes in dealing with bedbugs and housing or building quality. |
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| Crowded, cluttered and poorly maintained homes offer bedbugs places to hide. |
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| The lethal pesticide was also used for other purposes including to get rid of lice, bedbugs, termites and similar vermin. |
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| Common bedbugs are up to 7mm long, oval, flat and brown, with three-segmented beaks. |
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| Common bedbugs have been found to naturally contain 28 human pathogens, but have never been proven to transmit them. |
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| You not only need to get rid of the mice but also of all other parasite carriers such as cockroaches, bedbugs, lice and so on. |
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| Its liquid formula is adapted to the treatment of floors or carpets where bedbugs hide during the day. |
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| The remaining pages are divided among dscussions of fleas, lice, bedbugs, triatomine bugs, cockroaches, mites, and argasid and ixodid ticks. |
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| They provide innumerable harborages for bedbugs and must be examined and treated in the same manner as residential areas. |
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| Fortunately, bedbugs don't transmit diseases. |
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| It feeds on book lice, carpet beetle larvae, clothes moths, and bedbugs. |
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| This nursery rhyme fails to convey the true nightmare of bedbugs. |
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| A credulity-straining plan is hatched which involves loaded dice, the massive excavator that dug the Chunnel, bedbugs and seismology. |
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| When pests like mice, cockroaches and bedbugs infest a block of homes, the problem is extremely difficult to control without co-operation from every householder affected. |
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| The floury bedbugs are an important group of insects, in which there are many plagues worldwide recognized, for the serious affectations that they cause on cultivations of agricultural interest. |
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| But bedbugs, despite the ick factor, are clean. |
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| The argument can be made that bedbugs are an economic boon — certainly for exterminators, janitorial services, dry cleaners, mattress sellers, and mental-health professionals. |
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| New ways of controlling bedbugs are also needed, as is an assessment of the effectiveness and practical use of extreme temperatures, especially heat, to eliminate bedbugs. |
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| I read that they were investigating the l train for bedbugs the other day. |
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| He makes light of the difficulties, delays and discomforts of voyaging through a part of the world where bureaucrats and bedbugs plague the traveller. |
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| All hotels are at risk from bedbugs, but especially those where there are large numbers of international travellers or those that have patrons that move frequently between hotels. |
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| No one wants cockroaches in their residences or bedbugs in their beds. |
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| Bedbugs can't get through the encasement to infect mattresses and box springs. |
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