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More bedbugs found in Longmont library ( Colorado )
Longmont Times-Call ^ | 08/29/2011 | Scott Rochat

Posted on 08/29/2011 4:32:50 PM PDT by george76

Exterminators were back in the Longmont Public Library on Monday morning after a weekend visit by a “bedbug dog” found nine infested chairs, including two that were treated last week.

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The pests were initially spotted Aug. 18. An exterminator on Aug. 19 found five chairs had been infested and used carbon dioxide to freeze the insects. On Sunday, two of the treated chairs caught the attention of Macaroni, a beagle-mix trained to sniff out living bedbugs, indicating that the insects had either survived or been brought back into the library.

The library has not closed and the treated chairs have not been taped off or swapped out.

“Yes, we are staying open,” Anderson said in an email to the library staff Monday. “Bedbugs are present in our society and anyone at anytime could walk through our door and reinfest the chairs. So, we can’t close until the problem is taken care of, because the problem will continue as long as patrons from infested homes are visiting us.”

(Excerpt) Read more at timescall.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: bedbug; bedbugs
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1 posted on 08/29/2011 4:32:54 PM PDT by george76
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In the case of public libraries, I’m more inclined to think that it’s the bedbugs who are bringing in the people.


2 posted on 08/29/2011 4:40:32 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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3 posted on 08/29/2011 4:45:07 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Cedar Cide.com

the cure !


4 posted on 08/29/2011 4:45:54 PM PDT by advertising guy (if a politician from either party was to say hello to me, it should be law I can shoot em)
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Those things are tough to kill.

I had one between my fingers and I squeezed as hard as I could and when I dropped it, it continued to scurry away.

I’ve read using a steam cleaner is also a good way to kill them because the steam is at almost 100 degrees hotter than they can stand.


5 posted on 08/29/2011 4:48:16 PM PDT by Jonty30
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To: george76

Public libraries serve as lounges for homeless people. Here in San Diego the city is wasting a ton of money building a new Taj Majal library in the downtown re-development (skid row) district. It will make a nice home for the street people and their bed bugs.


6 posted on 08/29/2011 4:48:58 PM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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Cedar Cide.com

the cure !

is that a picture of the White House ? If so,pest control’s not working


7 posted on 08/29/2011 4:49:28 PM PDT by molson209
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To: george76

Maybe they’re coming from the turkey plant.


8 posted on 08/29/2011 4:51:24 PM PDT by Track9 (Make War!!)
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To: molson209

think it is a library but who knows


9 posted on 08/29/2011 4:55:11 PM PDT by advertising guy (if a politician from either party was to say hello to me, it should be law I can shoot em)
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To: Jonty30

I work in the Pentagon, and the building guys strongly advocate steam cleaning as the best way without tossing around alot of toxic fumes (which everyone hates). My guess...without DDT around...every single house in America will have a steam cleaner within five years.


10 posted on 08/29/2011 5:02:17 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: george76

Yet another reason for me to never visit a public library.


11 posted on 08/29/2011 5:12:45 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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You’d think the Pentagon would have phasers or something from the black project to deal with them. :)


12 posted on 08/29/2011 5:17:30 PM PDT by Jonty30
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They used the planet killing carbon dioxide to freeze kill the bugs but you could hear the Ozone screams form northern Colorado. /s


13 posted on 08/29/2011 5:23:30 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: pepsionice

I hope we regain sanity and bring back DDT.


14 posted on 08/29/2011 5:41:10 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: george76

How about having the bedbug-sniffing dog check out the “patrons” before letting them into the library?


15 posted on 08/29/2011 5:50:37 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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I understand that bedbugs are nearly impossible to control once they move in, but I wonder how effective DDT would have been on them.

Mark

16 posted on 08/29/2011 5:52:20 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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Cedar Cide.com the cure !

That stuff really works. I had a run-in with the little critters a couple of years ago. One application with a fogger and the problem was solved. 100% non-toxic to pets and humans, but if you spray a small amount on a bedbug it is dead literally in one second. The only ingredients are cedar oil and hydrated silica (the main ingredient in toothpaste).

17 posted on 08/29/2011 6:09:08 PM PDT by Ranald S. MacKenzie (It's the philosophy, stupid.)
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The last time we got a case of bedbugs was in a Saguache CO, hotel in 1954.


18 posted on 08/29/2011 6:43:25 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name. See my home page, if you dare! NEW PHOTOS & PAINTINGS)
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Oh the little buggers were constant companions of my childhood. Periodic dragging of beds, mattresses & springs into the yard for a good spraying and cleaning. They always came back.


19 posted on 08/29/2011 7:37:56 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Ranald S. MacKenzie

it was used in Kuwait. Iraq, and Afghanistan by our soldiers too


20 posted on 08/29/2011 9:37:49 PM PDT by advertising guy (if a politician from either party was to say hello to me, it should be law I can shoot em)
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