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Transfer Technology International Offers Solution to Bed Bug Infestations in the US - MarketWatch

WESLEY CHAPEL, FL, Nov 02, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Transfer Technology International (pinksheets:TTIN), through their subsidiary, Organic Products International, has a solution for recent discoveries of bed bugs across the US.

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Company touts new weapon in fight against bed bugs.

Bed bugs make appearance in Nebraska

Bed bugs have been making a recent resurgence across the Midwest.

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Even Nebraska is not safe from the bed bug scourge.

How to keep bedbugs at bay during your holiday travels - St. Petersburg Times

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Traveling during the holidays? Don't pack the bed bugs.

TH - Top News Article: Bed Bug Invasion

They're small, copper colored and feed on human blood. If you get them in your bed, it can take multiple visits from a pest-control specialist to be rid of them.

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Cicadas vs. Bed Bugs

You can have your bed bugs. I'll take cicadas any day.

Wouldn't it be great if bed bugs were heard and not seen? Or even heard and seen, but didn't bite?

How about this: cross a periodic cicada and a bed bug and maybe the biting pets will only show up every 17 years. 

While the great Bed Bug War continues, Chicago Cicadas will share news, information and tips related to the insidious BB Invasion. Here's a couple of recent news highlights:

• Pest control company disinfects UW Health administrative office after bedbug outbreak (Chicago Tribune/AP)
• Those pesky bedbugs won't rest (Chicago Tribune)

Early bird cicadas?

Iowa cicadas make unexpected appearance four years ahead of schedule (PhysOrg.com)

 

Sunday Cicada News Roundup

Today's BUZZZZZZZZZZZ....

• The cicada's summer song (The Gazette)
• Cicadas: Listen to the sound of summer (Pocono Record)
• Cicadas Invade Tri-State, Next Big Cycle To Come In 2017, Professor Says, (WLWT-TV, Cincinnati)
• Cicada's Song Doesn't Signal Invasion (WISH-TV, Indianapolis)
• Cicadas provide summer’s soundtrack (SunHerald)

 

 

 

If I wanted a cicada-inspired name for my child, I'd probably just call him "Buzz"

Would you name your child Spiral Cicada? (stuff.co.nz)

Iowa youth builds cicada house for 4H project

What's next? Cicada condos? (WCF Courier)

Sunday evening cicada jewelry news round up

Long after the cicadas are gone, cicada jewelry lives on:

• Dead cicadas make quiet jewelry (UPI)
• Teens Make Jewelry Out Of Dead Cicadas (BostonChannel.com)
• Talkers: Teens make jewelry out of cicadas (Kansas City Star)
• Cape entrepreneurs roll out bug jewelry (Boston Globe)
• Cicada Jewelry: Wing Bling (RedOrbit, Dallas, Texas)
• Cape Teens Sell Dead Cicadas As Jewelry (WBZ, Boston)
• Fashion bug: Teens turn dead cicadas into jewelry (Guardian, UK)
• Teens turn dead bugs into fashion statement (Tampabay.com)