Published August 25, 2010
We’re obsessed with pests this summer. The tick, the mosquito carrying EEE, the Asian longhorned beetle and now, the bedbug.
Mother and child bedbugs (Virginia Tech Department of Entomology via AP)
The pest control company Terminix has released its annual list of “top” U.S. cities for bedbug infestations, and Boston comes in at No. 11. Not sure if that stat qualifies for the 19 reasons Massachusetts is awesome. (New York, Philadelphia and Detroit are the top 3, respectively).
Bedbugs were almost eradicated from the United States following World War II, but increasing international travel and other factors have allowed these pests to regain a foothold in the United States.
Maybe we should blame the bat.
I was this close to moving into a building in Cambridge with a bedbug infestation. The broker never told me that.