In case you missed it, The New York Times’ City Room Blog published a story on Friday evening, “Even Health Dept. Isn’t Safe From Bedbugs.” It seems New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which is an agency that helps set bed bug policies for NYC and influences other agencies’ actions, discovered a bed bug
We’ve written about trends pushing humanity to consume insects as a source of protein. Do we now have to worry about rats on the dinner menu too? We thought eaing rats was just a joke from Mel Brooks’ “History of the World Part 1.” (Go to the 30 second mark in this segment satirizing the
We move from Butterfly to Firefly in our ongoing series of Insect Music posts. Here’s an unusual duet that we’ve came across in our Insect Music research. Enjoy Tony Bennett singing his classic Firefly with Kermit the Frog on the Muppets Tonight show in 1996. Oddly enough, it’s only 4 years but decades removed from
The new season of The Office began last week. Our colleagues really enjoyed its return, even if they watched a huge Giants win before staying up extra late to see their favorite sitcom on their DVRs. In contrast, some critics are already out with their knives, ready to slice the show’s final season to pieces. We’re not going
We found this recent article written by a NYC co-op board president in Habitat magazine really interesting. He explained what happened when a neighbor in his New York City co-op decided to use a radiant heat treatment to solve bed bed bug problems. To treat bed bugs with radiant heat, a pest control company needs to
Sorry we didn’t publish this sooner, but The New York Times offered some really good advice on how to deal with residential pest control issues. Two small comments on the article: 1- Regarding its bed bug treatment advice, we know carbon dioxide freezing is a superior method to anything else mentioned because it is safer,
“Crazy as a Bed Bug” is an old expression that (according to the website Why Do We Say It) owes its origin to the almost insane antics of a bedbug crawling around on a mattress. Its motions are zigzag, its direction uncertain. Thus, it would appear that the bedbug’s “craziness” was more along the lines
Welcome to our latest Insect Music Friday posting. This week we’re moving from Boll/Bo Weevils to Butterflies- specifically, Crazy Town’s hit from 2000, which was memorably used in the opening credits of the Jack Nicholson / Diane Keaton movie “Something’s Gotta Give.” Yes, we recognize that for some reason our Insect Music series keeps bringing us
A Manhattan woman concerned about bed bugs emailed us, “How soon can Roscoe come?!?” Bell Environmental can be there right away to perform your canine inspection. First, who’s Roscoe? Roscoe the Bed Bug Dog is a beagle who works for leading bed bug and pest control company, Bell Environmental Services. Roscoe is a scent hound
David Allen Coe’s famous song “You Never Even Call Me By My Name” explains that the perfect country western song has to talk “about momma, or trains, or trucks, or prison or gettin’ drunk.” So his friend went back and added a verse to his song with the lyrics: “Well, I was drunk the day