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Short takes 2/2

This most recent iteration of the blog at New York vs Bed Bugs is near the end. I am writing one additional post that deals with landlord/tenant issues. A good way to be alerted to the last few posts is to subscribe to the site feed or subscribe to receive posts via email.

2011 National Bed Bug Summit public docket

Take note of the public docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0190 for this year’s national bed bug summit (this seems to be the same same docket for the 2009 summit) so that you can view any summit materials that are posted there, like the presentations and discussion outcomes, and submit a public comment to EPA. I encourage you to comment.

Toronto Bed Bug Workshop, March 15-16

The workshop is called Getting Rid of Bed Bugs / Keeping Them Out! – Sustainable Elimination through Integrated Pest Management. Details and registration here. This is the agenda (PDF).

A one-sheet for communicating with your neighbors

I hope you are not organizing your building to fight bed bugs all by yourself. But I know that you may be.

As a follow up to the letter to building management discussed recently:

Hunger folds and a reminder about the law

Updated below.

Last night the Museum of the City of New York hosted a bed bug program. I’m very grateful to the museum and especially its director of public programs, Ryan J. Carey, for thinking of this problem and asking us to participate in discussing it. But unlike last year’s lecture at the NY Entomological Society, I don’t think I can offer a good recap (participation not being a good vantage point for observation). What I remember distinctly is that Lou talked about the hunger folds of bed bugs (conveniently expandable for taking in lots of blood), and that a certain gentleman from London said something terrible: that “whoever brought them in” should be responsible for eradicating them.

2nd national EPA summit agenda

A draft agenda (PDF) is now available at the EPA summit page.

“found 7 of them put them on the sticky tape, and here is what I got”

This photo set at flickr is very interesting — is this what happens when photographers are exposed to bed bugs? It seems intuitive that we would all reach for what we know best, even at a time like this.

Government of Ontario bed bug website

The provincial government of Ontario bed bug website that was announced as part of the new funding push to fight bed bugs in the province is now live: bedbugsinfo.ca. See The Star, our brief note and do take a look at The Star again today on the criticism by some stakeholders of the Ontario funding action as too limited.

Fines for Article 151 violations and a new player

Remember Article 151, the revised pest prevention and management section of the New York City Health Code?

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NYC

NYC Department of Sanitation rule requires bagging of mattresses and box springs set out for collection. Rule in effect December 3 with full enforcement beginning January 3, 2011.

HPD streamlined the registration page for its free online bed bug course and now offers on-site community classes for non-profits and tenant groups. More details here. Classes are also scheduled at HPD offices on February 29, 2012 at 6 pm.

Department of Health bed bug guide: Preventing and Getting Rid of Bed Bugs Safely (PDF)

See a list of NYC bed bug resources and the NYC page.

Review of NYC laws -- see also the bed bug disclosure law which came into effect later

FY 2010 NYC bed bug statistics update - New York vs Bed Bugs (PDF) See also: a look at the bed bug data from the 2009 Community Health Survey

Christian Swinehart’s BDBGS! a NYC bed bug map visualization

The Bedbug Registry - NYC map