Some of the most widely used commercial chemicals to kill bedbugs are not effective because the pesky insects have built up a tolerance to them, according to a team of researchers from Virginia Tech and New Mexico State University. Millions …
Potential jurors at the Tulsa County Courthouse got an extra-long lunch break after one of them brought bedbugs into the building. The Oklahoma jury room was temporarily evacuated Tuesday after a fellow potential juror spotted the critters. Exterminators were called …
A class action lawsuit has been filed accusing the city of Des Moines of not properly handling an extended bedbug infestation at a housing complex. The Des Moines Register reports the lawsuit was filed Wednesday. It claims the city’s public …
A Vermont couple who reached a $450,000 settlement with the state after saying their home was made uninhabitable when it was sprayed for bedbugs with a banned pesticide is now suing their insurance company. Neil and Patricia Whitney of Rutland …
The contraption seems so simple, yet so clever, like something The Professor might have concocted on “Gilligan’s Island.” Researchers at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have devised a bedbug trap that can be built with …
Hundreds of residents from two Des Moines, Iowa apartment buildings may move forward with a class action lawsuit over a bedbug infestation in what may be one of the nation’s first class action cases against apartment owners and managers regarding …
A county prison in central Pennsylvania will furlough some work-release inmates because of a bedbug infestation. Officials on Tuesday said the York County Prison will furlough about 90 male work-release inmates for three days so exterminators can spray infested areas …
Bed Bugs have infested a low-income North Dakota apartment building that is home to the elderly and the disabled, and residents aren’t happy. Henry Towers resident Brian Neal tells the Minot Daily News that he can’t have visitors, and he’s …