Bedbugs

MANHATTAN -- Park Avenue's Waldorf Astoria was sued for $13,000 last week by a Nassau County mother who alleged that her 6-year-old daughter picked up bedbugs from the highbrow hotel, the Wall Street Journal reported. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

Mr. OWENS: The thing about the bedbugs is that they don't carry disease. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, the absolute insanity of a member of Congress remaining completely silent on one of the most critical causes of unemployment and instead focusing on bedbugs is staggering. ❋ Surya Yalamanchili (2010)

The once ubiquitous annoyance of bedbugs is completely alien to most Americans, thanks to their almost total eradication through the use of DDT. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The only good news if you have bedbugs is that they don't spread disease. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Experts say the resurgence in bedbugs can be attributed in part to the use of less powerful pesticides since DDT was banned in the 1960s. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"There's a certain cuteness to the word bedbugs," he adds. ❋ Melanie Grayce West (2010)

And she needed clarification on that, so that she knew it meant she didn't have bedbugs, which is what she was worried about. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mr. Calandrino, who started a Web site called bedbugs-nyc. com a few weeks ago in response to the growing number of cases in New York. ❋ By TANZINA VEGA (2010)

In the stairwell, the smell of urine is overpowering and at the bottom of the stairs, there's a rat hole, just one variety of the vermin -- such as bedbugs, cockroaches and mice -- that crawl throughout 119 East 19th. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Between reveille and retreat turn out the cook and the cook's police for all objects found in the slum, such as bedbugs, lizards, cockroaches, snakes and other insects not on the bill of fare. ❋ W. E. Christian (N/A)

[39] The first father named above was afflicted by a grievous plague of vermin [_chinches_ -- literally, "bedbugs"], seemingly after a request that he might suffer his purgatory on earth. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)

Look closely for evidence of pests such as bedbugs, mites and roaches that can hitch a ride in upholstered items or the nooks and crannies of wooden furniture. ❋ Unknown (2010)