Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have a great holiday and welcome your loved ones back home for a joyous holiday. After having a joyful airport reunion picking up relatives and friends, you may want to take one extra step before letting them enter your home. That’s right: Parents welcoming college students home for Thanksgiving and
Watch out! Burglars are posing as bed bug exterminators New York City. Incidents were reported in Brooklyn this spring and in Manhattan this summer . As if the fear of bed bugs wasn’t trouble enough! Some helpful advice: 1. Be careful and safe when anyone unexpected knocks on your door. 2. Pest control companies should
Trained bed bug detection canines are the most accurate tool available for detecting these well-concealed insects. Dogs are proven to be 95-98 percent accurate in university studies, whereas a trained person is at best 40 percent effective at finding bed bugs when there are low-level infestations. An experienced inspector can search a room for hours
The Thought of Unwanted Pests or Pesticides Should Bring Nightmares Worse Than You Ever Experienced as a Child! Spiders, Ghouls, and Goblins are not the biggest scares that people will encounter this time of year! Consider the real terrors that your office and sensitive areas face from unwanted pests: •The consequences can be devastating: Studies
Hi I’m Roscoe the Bed Bug Dog. I’m guest blogging again today! I recently came across this posting on Craig’s List. I’m flattered by the seller’s mention on Craig’s List and the invitation to sleep over on a cozy couch in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Glad the seller has such a comfy, well-maintained, futon but I
Every restaurant wants growing buzz, but not like this! New York’s rodent problems are growing while Health Department inspectors now post grades online and prominently in restaurant windows. Among the most frequent health violations in restaurants are signs of mice and insects. See the news about: •Number 7 restaurant in Brooklyn •Bobo in Greenwich Village
These are three emails from bed bug victims that we received this week: •“I live in a small room with a bathroom. I have had bedbugs twice in this building and they have moved me out of my previous rooms and treated my items with sprays and chemicals. Plus I ended up throwing away many
While the Chinese calendar may state that 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit, in our and many New Yorkers’ experiences, it’s definitely the Year of the Rat! We discussed how rodents are a growing problem in our recent blog post. Strange but true tails tales abound and are growing: the latest: a woman was
This year and especially this summer complaints have grown about New York City’s Rat and Mouse problems. The construction of the 2nd Avenue Subway and lean city budgets just make problems worse. A recent Channel 11 story showed rats taking over NYC Tompkins Square Park where toughened, veteran squirrels are terrified of their distant cousins.
New York State requires landlords to tell new New York City renters if a building has or had bed bug problems in the past year.Bed bug inspection from the leading pest control company, Bell Environmental This law is positive as it requires landlords to be more aware and transparent about problems, makes landlords more likely