Sending out an APB for Legion, benson, bxgrl, MM. We need some serious back and forth debating to hit 500,000. If you all divide each long post into 20 short posts, that should do the trick.
“omg11!1! so i got out of the train this morning and this black man was walking toward me so i darted as quickly as possibly across the street and almost got hit by a bus!
:-/”
either this is some sort of inside joke or *rob* is not only a f-ing moron but also a racist.
More offices see bedbug infestations
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Max, a 4year-old beagle being trained to sniff out bedbugs, finds them in a file drawer, in a vial.
Enlarge image Enlarge By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY
Max, a 4year-old beagle being trained to sniff out bedbugs, finds them in a file drawer, in a vial.
BUGGING OUT
The common bedbug officially known as Cimex lectularius is one creepy crawler. But thankfully, the bug isn’t known to spread disease. Some insect insights:
* Adults are about 1/4 inch long
* Eggs can be the size of two grains of salt
* Their feeding time is typically three to 10 minutes
* They reproduce through “traumatic insemination.” “The male uses his spear to go through her stomach,” says Ron Harrison of pest control firm Orkin
* Workers worried that management won’t address any problems and fearful that insects will commute home with them shouldn’t put anything under their desks or on the office floor. Those who are especially concerned should tuck their personal property in a sealable plastic bag, “so they don’t get in your stuff,” says Bed Bug Handbook co-author Larry Pinto.
— By Laura Petrecca
BEDBUGS NOT JUST IN BEDROOMS
Percentage of U.S pest-control professionals who have found bedbugs in the following places:
Apartments/condos
89%
Single-family homes
88%
Hotels/motels
67%
College dormitories
35%
Nursing homes
24%
Office buildings
17%
By Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY
Your abusive boss isn’t the only vermin in the office.
Defying their reputation as a scourge of households, blood-sucking bedbugs are creeping into a growing number of cubicles, break rooms and filing cabinets.
Nearly one in five exterminators have found bedbugs in office buildings in the U.S., according to a recent survey of extermination firms by the National Pest Management Association and the University of Kentucky. That compares with less than 1% in 2007.
“It’s a national issue,” says Ron Harrison of pest control firm Orkin. “Not all of us have to go to work and worry about it, but we all have to be sensitive to it.”
Most cubicle dwellers and corner office executives are blissfully unaware of bug problems. And many wrongly think infestations take place only in the homes of unclean rent controlled folks or in college dorms and the projects. But bedbugs can survive in a multitude of eek-evoking settings, such as offices, movie theaters and libraries.
Concerned about the swelling number of infestations in New York City, publishing giant Time recently brought in bedbug-sniffing dogs. The canines found a few cases, which Time had treated two weeks ago.
The District Attorney’s office in Brooklyn recently discovered that they had the critters, as well, and exterminated over a weekend.
The IRS had bedbugs in its offices in Philadelphia and Covington, Ky. It had exterminators into those offices and is still monitoring the situation.
Adding to physical problems — the bites of bedbugs can itch like crazy — is the mental anguish that comes with an infestation.
When word gets out that an office building has bedbugs, a kind of mass hysteria often occurs, followed by fierce finger pointing about who’s to blame for bringing them in.
Bedbug issues are “a complicated mess,” says entomology professor Michael Potter of the University of Kentucky. “In my career — and I’ve dealt with just about every critter that bothers people — this is the most complex.”
Commuting in
Once bedbugs settle into corporate digs, it’s tough to get them out.
The apple-seed-size insects dine on human blood. They hide in crevices and are resilient to many insecticides. They can live for a year without feeding, and they replicate quickly. The offspring of two bedbugs that move into an office in September can produce more than 300 bugs and lay about 1,000 additional eggs by January, says Harrison.
They infiltrate the workplace through various routes, such as on the suitcases of frequent travelers or on the purses, laptop cases and gym bags of employees who have infestations at home. They can also be brought in by office visitors, vendors or maintenance staff.
“Bedbugs are hitchhikers; they travel with people and with items that travel with people,” says National Pest Management
Whether or not we hit 500,000 today depends on DIBS’ lunch plans: if he has a nooner, we won’t hit it until the weekend or early next week.
I have a legitimate lunch meeting….gone from 12:00 to 2:15. Additionally I will leave the office at 4:00 to catch the train but be back logged in at 4:20.
Some thug wannabe was staring at me on the subway this am (4/5) train. I sweetly, soundlessly mouthed the words “what are you staring at?” he continued to stare, I stared back….then sweetly mouthed the word “asshole”.
I think that puts me at about 7 or so posts today.
CGar, Go Master your Domain!
quote:
Holy cow: 499,300. Hope 500,000 doesn’t happen over the weekend!
OMG! blatant shilling to get weekend posts and threads lol
*rob*
Sending out an APB for Legion, benson, bxgrl, MM. We need some serious back and forth debating to hit 500,000. If you all divide each long post into 20 short posts, that should do the trick.
Biff, if you came up with a clever pun thread, that might speed things along nicely. ‘course that may also cause *bedbug* to blogicide again too.
“By Butterfly on August 20, 2010 9:41 AM
“omg11!1! so i got out of the train this morning and this black man was walking toward me so i darted as quickly as possibly across the street and almost got hit by a bus!
:-/”
either this is some sort of inside joke or *rob* is not only a f-ing moron but also a racist.
GROSS!
More offices see bedbug infestations
Updated 13h 31m ago | Comments 90 | Recommend 7 E-mail | Save | Print | Reprints & Permissions | Subscribe to stories like this
Max, a 4year-old beagle being trained to sniff out bedbugs, finds them in a file drawer, in a vial.
Enlarge image Enlarge By Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY
Max, a 4year-old beagle being trained to sniff out bedbugs, finds them in a file drawer, in a vial.
BUGGING OUT
The common bedbug officially known as Cimex lectularius is one creepy crawler. But thankfully, the bug isn’t known to spread disease. Some insect insights:
* Adults are about 1/4 inch long
* Eggs can be the size of two grains of salt
* Their feeding time is typically three to 10 minutes
* They reproduce through “traumatic insemination.” “The male uses his spear to go through her stomach,” says Ron Harrison of pest control firm Orkin
* Workers worried that management won’t address any problems and fearful that insects will commute home with them shouldn’t put anything under their desks or on the office floor. Those who are especially concerned should tuck their personal property in a sealable plastic bag, “so they don’t get in your stuff,” says Bed Bug Handbook co-author Larry Pinto.
— By Laura Petrecca
BEDBUGS NOT JUST IN BEDROOMS
Percentage of U.S pest-control professionals who have found bedbugs in the following places:
Apartments/condos
89%
Single-family homes
88%
Hotels/motels
67%
College dormitories
35%
Nursing homes
24%
Office buildings
17%
By Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY
Your abusive boss isn’t the only vermin in the office.
Defying their reputation as a scourge of households, blood-sucking bedbugs are creeping into a growing number of cubicles, break rooms and filing cabinets.
Nearly one in five exterminators have found bedbugs in office buildings in the U.S., according to a recent survey of extermination firms by the National Pest Management Association and the University of Kentucky. That compares with less than 1% in 2007.
“It’s a national issue,” says Ron Harrison of pest control firm Orkin. “Not all of us have to go to work and worry about it, but we all have to be sensitive to it.”
Most cubicle dwellers and corner office executives are blissfully unaware of bug problems. And many wrongly think infestations take place only in the homes of unclean rent controlled folks or in college dorms and the projects. But bedbugs can survive in a multitude of eek-evoking settings, such as offices, movie theaters and libraries.
Concerned about the swelling number of infestations in New York City, publishing giant Time recently brought in bedbug-sniffing dogs. The canines found a few cases, which Time had treated two weeks ago.
The District Attorney’s office in Brooklyn recently discovered that they had the critters, as well, and exterminated over a weekend.
The IRS had bedbugs in its offices in Philadelphia and Covington, Ky. It had exterminators into those offices and is still monitoring the situation.
Adding to physical problems — the bites of bedbugs can itch like crazy — is the mental anguish that comes with an infestation.
When word gets out that an office building has bedbugs, a kind of mass hysteria often occurs, followed by fierce finger pointing about who’s to blame for bringing them in.
Bedbug issues are “a complicated mess,” says entomology professor Michael Potter of the University of Kentucky. “In my career — and I’ve dealt with just about every critter that bothers people — this is the most complex.”
Commuting in
Once bedbugs settle into corporate digs, it’s tough to get them out.
The apple-seed-size insects dine on human blood. They hide in crevices and are resilient to many insecticides. They can live for a year without feeding, and they replicate quickly. The offspring of two bedbugs that move into an office in September can produce more than 300 bugs and lay about 1,000 additional eggs by January, says Harrison.
They infiltrate the workplace through various routes, such as on the suitcases of frequent travelers or on the purses, laptop cases and gym bags of employees who have infestations at home. They can also be brought in by office visitors, vendors or maintenance staff.
“Bedbugs are hitchhikers; they travel with people and with items that travel with people,” says National Pest Management
Talk to the stick, tramp.
By Biff Champion on August 20, 2010 10:50 AM
Whether or not we hit 500,000 today depends on DIBS’ lunch plans: if he has a nooner, we won’t hit it until the weekend or early next week.
I have a legitimate lunch meeting….gone from 12:00 to 2:15. Additionally I will leave the office at 4:00 to catch the train but be back logged in at 4:20.
Any more questions????
Some thug wannabe was staring at me on the subway this am (4/5) train. I sweetly, soundlessly mouthed the words “what are you staring at?” he continued to stare, I stared back….then sweetly mouthed the word “asshole”.
I think that puts me at about 7 or so posts today.
I am doing my part.