click image to see larger size

It’s important to think of the problems that arise in bed bug control — as it is actually practiced every day in this city — honestly, without idealism and without any unwarranted do this, do that, success! affect.

Not everything is as simple as the dog decisions above. The thornier problems (what can you do when HPD doesn’t write a violation because there were no bed bugs on your mattress?) yield pretty complex decision paths: all the choices are grim.

All of which is to say, a follow-up on this soon.

These pages may be of related interest:

1. A one-sheet for communicating with your neighbors
2. The bed bugs on the mattresses that no one is responsible for
3. Don’t look for bed bug free hotels, learn to inspect, but what if we could read official reports of bed bugs in room 104?
4. Bed bugs make the home page of the NYC Department of Health
5. Going back to check to make sure they’re all dead (plus items from the CoP)