• How to Avoid Bed Bugs While Shopping

    I live in New York City, which is currently being slammed by a bed bug plague of biblical proportions. Since we don't have a pest control Moses to magically eradicate the gross little things, I've developed my own case of bedbug paranoia: buying protective covers for my mattress, inspecting my clot…
  • Bedbugs and Daniel Faraday on Jeopardy.

    As I've written about before, my legs, and to some degree arms and torso, are covered in itchy spots during the summer. Bed bugs were the likely culprit, but I just couldn't get my mind around the implausibility. Bugs that come from beds (I haven't slept in any other bed than my own in years, nor ha…
  • Dear bedbug.

    If you would like to go on living, you will have to stand up sometime.
  • Would You Pay a Dog to Sniff Out Bedbugs?

    As you may have read in my previous post, I've had a few issues with bedbugs and have been trying some natural remedies to get rid of them, which seem to be working, by the way. But there is one new, very natural, remedy to detect them that will save you from the most common way of detecting them,…
  • Get Rid of Bedbugs for Less!

    As a child, I heard the phrase numerous times “don’t let the bedbugs bite.” I assumed however, that bedbugs were some fantastical creatures or simply any bugs in the bed. Growing up in Florida, I’ve frequently been feasted on by mosquitoes while sleeping. However, as yet another hazard of the rel…
  • May 3, 2009

    Back from Kagoshima and two days of cutting back the jungle in Grandma's garden. We sent the tigers to the zoo. We both got et up by bedbugs this time, and hubby doesn't even have the decency to itch. He has all the spots but isn't scratching. I am not as bad off the as the first time and the ove…