Bedbugs

[+ LIguy]

It seems like the epidemic is getting worse and I'm having secong thoughts about staying in hotels this spring and summer.Has anyone here had a problem in NYC?

http://bedbugregistry.com/

[+ Lucky]

Bug Me Not

 

I was happy not to bring any new friends home with me, and satisfied that my hotel is not one of the 118 in its area to have bedbugs. Even the Westin Times Square makes the list, so it doesn't necessarily matter how much you pay!

[seaboy4hire]

A couple weeks before I left for SF I made the mistake of taking a gander of bed bug bites from reviewers on Trip Advisor. OH the horror!!!!! I am so paranoid now when I check in. I now pull off the sheet and inspect the mattress and keep clothes off the floor of the room. It is true what Lucky said that it doesn't matter who much you pay for the room.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[OneFinger]

It seems like the epidemic is getting worse and I'm having secong thoughts about staying in hotels this spring and summer.Has anyone here had a problem in NYC?

http://bedbugregistry.com/

 

Great link!!!

 

Thanks for sharing it.

[Guest LeoWalker]

Seems like bit of an annoyance...but I'll still remain more worried of getting something like scabies while staying at a hotel. The bug bites you and leaves. When you check out of the hotel, the chances are that they won't be going with you.

[+ LIguy]

Lucky,what hotel diid you stay at in NYC?

 

Leo,read the facts on the site i linked.You definitely do bring them home with you.

[Romann]

I'll share with you a very nasty fact that I discovered while researching new mattress a handful of months ago when I was redoing my bedroom. Over the course of 10 years, a mattress will double in weight due to the amount of dead skin cells that the average human will shed during that time AND from dead and living bed bugs/mites. Let that sink in for a few minutes.

 

With that said, there is a cheap and fairly efficient resolution to such a horrid fact. You can purchase ultra-violet wands that are compact which will destroy bed bugs/mites on contact. I purchased mine through the SkyMall magazine on all the airlines and it was fairly cheap. After some research, the majority of their claim is correct and the technology does support the studies.

 

Just an idea and something I thought of when I came across your post.

 

It seems like the epidemic is getting worse and I'm having secong thoughts about staying in hotels this spring and summer.Has anyone here had a problem in NYC?

http://bedbugregistry.com/

[Romann]

A friend of mine has stayed at three Omni Hotels in various states and each time has received a mild rash which was the result of many active bed bugs. I refuse to stay in one now as the rash first hand - not pretty.

 

A couple weeks before I left for SF I made the mistake of taking a gander of bed bug bites from reviewers on Trip Advisor. OH the horror!!!!! I am so paranoid now when I check in. I now pull off the sheet and inspect the mattress and keep clothes off the floor of the room. It is true what Lucky said that it doesn't matter who much you pay for the room.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[JT Brooklyn]

Bed Bugs

 

It seems like the epidemic is getting worse and I'm having secong thoughts about staying in hotels this spring and summer.Has anyone here had a problem in NYC?

http://bedbugregistry.com/

Unfortunately they are definitely a problem in NYC! Even in Hgh Price Hotels such as the Waldorf! They definitely are non discriminating RICH or POOR!

You know they are a problem when there's a Bug Company Advertising on Cable with their DOG who tracks the little critters down in your house!

 

BUT they at least are not as common as the Indestructible ROACH!

 

Upon Leaving a well Reviewed "Working Guy" on Daddys..

I read a notice in his Vestibule Notifying the Tenants that there was an outbreak of the Critter's in the Building Next door!

 

Naturally that's the last time for a visit from JT! YES..The Notice went up while I was getting it UP!

[Guest TNT Ted]

Unfortunately they are definitely a problem in NYC! Even in Hgh Price Hotels such as the Waldorf! They definitely are non discriminating RICH or POOR!

You know they are a problem when there's a Bug Company Advertising on Cable with their DOG who tracks the little critters down in your house!

 

BUT they at least are not as common as the Indestructible ROACH!

 

Upon Leaving a well Reviewed "Working Guy" on Daddys..

I read a notice in his Vestibule Notifying the Tenants that there was an outbreak of the Critter's in the Building Next door!

 

Naturally that's the last time for a visit from JT! YES..The Notice went up while I was getting it UP!

 

Didn't I read that you're moving to Florida soon? Yikes!! Better take along lots of Raid. Except down there they're called palmetto bugs.

[JT Brooklyn]

Ted.. No Problem in Fla we have Larger Critters that eat them !

[+ glutes]

bed bugs continued...

 

S.F.'s bedbug battle a war without end

C.W. Nevius - sfgate.com

 

Saturday, May 2, 2009

 

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Bedbugs.

 

"I am covered in itchy red welts," she said in an e-mail, "and drained to the core from six months of insomnia, paranoia (I wake up every morning at 3 a.m., searching my sheets for signs of them feeding on me) and incessant itching."

 

Beckheyer had their apartment sprayed six times. But they were still getting bitten, so they finally paid for one last treatment to make sure their belongings were clean, and then moved out.

 

Before you extend sympathetic wishes to the poor folks who are infested with bedbugs, here's a piece of advice - better check your mattress.

 

Like the rest of the country, San Francisco is experiencing a bedbug boom. Dr. Johnson Ojo of the Department of Public Health said bedbugs are popping up everywhere, from "low-income housing to high-priced hotels."

 

It's an all-out war on the tiny, creepy, blood-sucking predators. And the bugs are winning.

 

Ojo has put together a citywide policy that covers all the basic steps: Hotel managers who learn of an infestation must immediately set up a pest-control spraying, and residents are encouraged to follow specific instruction on washing clothing and showering with hot water.

 

Yet many who deal with the problem regularly think that current methods are no more than stopgap measures. Faced with a growing epidemic, the city needs to start thinking beyond the idea of squirting insect spray and hoping for the best.

 

"I feel like there has not been enough research on alternative methods," said Jeff Buckley, director of the Central City Single Room Occupancy Collaborative, which works with 5,000 to 7,000 people each year who live in supportive housing. "I know for a fact that one hotel (in the Tenderloin) has had 14 sprays in the last two months."

 

That's not necessarily because the hotel is doing a poor job of attacking the pests. Bedbugs are everywhere, particularly in supportive housing. But it is an example of the scale of the problem and how hard it is to solve. Consider, each of those 14 treatments is actually three consecutive sprayings per room, two weeks apart.

 

And the bedbugs keep coming back.

 

"In terms of nonroutine maintenance, bedbugs are at the top of our list," said Richard Heasley, executive director of Conard House, which provides supportive housing in 525 units for clients with chronic mental illness. "It is the single most frustrating problem we have to deal with."

 

If you thought bedbugs were eradicated long ago, you are not alone. Arthur Slater, an entomologist who directed UC Berkeley's pest management program from 1973 to 2001, said he hardly gave bedbugs a thought.

 

"When I started in '73, bedbugs were something your father might know about," he said.

 

Slater said there are two major factors in the bedbug upsurge over the past 10 to 15 years. The first is cheaper air fares, which allow regular travel from countries where bedbugs had never been controlled. The second factor is complacency.

 

"We are not prepared to put out the resources to do it well," he said.

 

Slater, who is now a pest-control consultant and freelance bedbug expert, is among those who think there are better treatments than spraying insecticides. He is an advocate of a treatment where large heaters are brought into a sealed room and the temperature is raised to more than 120 degrees for 24 hours. That not only kills the bedbugs but also their eggs, which are the real problem in the bugs' rapid growth.

 

Ojo is willing to consider heat treatment for the city, but he points out that it is expensive and requires technical expertise.

 

"It is promising," he said. "But it has never been tried on a large-scale basis."

 

Well, this might be a good time to give it a try. San Francisco has been ahead of the curve on the bedbug issue, but so far that's only meant that the city realizes what a difficult and pervasive problem it has become.

 

Buckley wonders if the city couldn't persuade a researcher at one of the Bay Area's medical facilities to do some work on alternative methods. Besides heat treatment, Slater said, there have been some promising results from the use of concentrated orange oil.

 

All worthwhile ideas.

 

But until they can be given a try? "I'm still checking my mattress," Buckley said.

[Guest RianB]

but I'll still remain more worried of getting something like scabies while staying at a hotel.

 

Which is why I always carry a can of permethrin and dump the top sheet on the floor...especially in sobe!

[Lewis H]

Seems like bit of an annoyance...but I'll still remain more worried of getting something like scabies while staying at a hotel. The bug bites you and leaves. When you check out of the hotel, the chances are that they won't be going with you.

 

Actually, that's the reason they're said to be spreading so much: they crawl into your luggage and travel with you. Bedbugs don't actually just stay on beds, they get into clocks, cracks in the wall, furniture, etc. and can travel 20 feet for a blood meal. The current "epidemic" is bad because when you get a bedbug infestation, you pretty much need to wash ALL your clothing as well as really break down and inspect ALL your furniture. People have been known to have infestations for years despite trying all sorts of methods to get rid of them, at much expense and mental anguish.

 

http://bedbugger.com/

 

You can get a sense of how much stuff can get infested by their recommendation of the Packtite system, which, even if on the floor, might in itself get infested. It totally makes you think places just crawl with these horrid little critters!

 

http://bedbugger.com/2009/03/29/what-is-a-packtite/

[Guest zipperzone]

I was happy not to bring any new friends home with me, and satisfied that my hotel is not one of the 118 in its area to have bedbugs. Even the Westin Times Square makes the list, so it doesn't necessarily matter how much you pay!

 

Just curious - say you were staying at a VERY high priced hotel and awoke in the AM to find you had been attacked by said bedbugs.

 

What would you EXPECT the management to do when you complained? And, what do you THINK they would do?

 

I have a picture in my mind of a hunk standing at the front desk, pulling down his underwear so all can see his bites - would probably never happen while I'm standing there, damn!

[Lewis H]

If it's in NYC, the last thing a high-end hotel would want is news getting out to the public that they had bedbugs. I would ask for a different room in a different floor, and inspect the room/bed first but I might even ask for a refund of sorts. I would imagine they would fear review sites like Yelp spreading the word of their infestation.

[+ Tygerscent]

Good night sleep tight Don;t let the bed bugs bite~

 

Never had a problem with bed bugs in NYC. I did see water bugs crawl up out of a sink once~ Those are nasty little fuckers! Big cock roaches that swim around in your water pipes!

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[+ Tygerscent]

Ted.. No Problem in Fla we have Larger Critters that eat them !

 

Ya... like the homeless! Haaa Haaa Haa! or is it the other way around and them the gators get them all`?

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NYC: Last week in July

[MsGuy]

The NYTimes reports that verified infestations of bedbugs in NYC escalated from 82 in 2004 to 4084 last year, nearly doubling in the last year. That's rental properties only and does not include hotels, condo's, colleges or private residences. Given how many Americans travel into and then out of NY every week on business, the City must be infecting every nook and cranny of the country. Creepy.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/garden/11bedbug.html

[Kippy]

Bedbugs in this country were eradicated in the 1950's by the wonder chemical DDT. Every housewife in the 1950-60's had a can of some derivitive insecticide from DDT under her kitchen sink. Our visitor/immigrant infusion from third world countries in the last 30 years and the abolition of the chemical DDT has brought back the current bed bug infestation. I know the greenies will freak-- but I say fuck 'em-- "Better living through chemistry!!"

 

Peace,

 

Kipp

[KMEM]

Napalm or no, vive la DuPont!

 

Best regards,

KMEM

[AdamSmith]

These histrionics are enjoyable but, as noted by rian and implicitly by KMEM, it is a simple thing to go online and order a can of permethrin spray which will dispatch these creepy-crawlies right smack.

[GoodFella69]

permethrin

 

I spend 12 nights in hotels around the country each month and can also highly recommend using permethrin for use in protecting yourself from bedbugs. I keep a bottle of the non-aerosol "pump" form in my travel bags at all times.

 

http://www.campmor.com/wcsstore/Campmor/static/images/8900/56624.jpg

[Romann]

Double protection!

 

Agreed!

 

Another option that I'm considering purchasing is the UV Disinfectant Wand coupled with this spray could be very effective.

 

Thank you for that spray info!

[Guest countryboywny]

I spend 12 nights in hotels around the country each week and can also highly recommend using permethrin for use in protecting yourself from bedbugs. I keep a bottle of the non-aerosol "pump" form in my travel bags at all times.

 

http://www.campmor.com/wcsstore/Campmor/static/images/8900/56624.jpg

 

How can you spend twelve nights each week?