Over the past year, we've seen a rise in bedbug cases across the country.
People go to places like New York City or Los Angeles and stay in hotels that have bedbugs. The bedbug gets in their luggage, and they take the little buggers home.
If you have bedbugs, you have to call in a pest company to get rid of them.
In the valley, there’s a man who has been training dogs to save time and money by using them to sniff out the pests.
Dogs help sniff out bedbugs in Phoenix public housing
Dogs help sniff out bedbugs in Phoenix public housing Canine detectives discover infestations as incidence increases
Emily Gersema - Apr. 7, 2011 10:30 AM The Arizona Republic
The management company of a city-owned senior housing complex near downtown Phoenix recently took an unusual step to check the units for bedbugs.
McCormack Baron Ragan hired a Phoenix company, Cimex K9, to lead a dog that is trained to point when it finds bedbugs. The dog was used in the apartments of the Senior Living at Henson Village complex near Buckeye Road and Eighth Avenue.
The Canine Nose Undercovers Letting the bedbugs bite? Go to the mattress with a well-trained sniffer.
by Mara Bovsun - July/August 2011 issue of AKC Family Magazine
Yet again, the human race is under siege and, yet again, we’re calling on our dogs to pull us from the brink of disaster. The enemy this time is a tiny insect, about the size of an apple seed. In scientific circles, the proper name is Cimex lectularius. To the rest of us, that’s bedbug.
While life in the Valley has its nuisances like scorpions and black widows, we can be grateful that our area has not had to face the dreaded, blood-sucking bedbug. Yet.
Bedbug populations have been coming back in a big, big way. According to the CDC, “The United States is one of many countries now experiencing an alarming resurgence in the population of bedbugs.” Awesome, right?
How Dogs Can Stop the Bedbugs' Bite
