{"id":1634,"date":"2010-08-04T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2010-08-04T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:50:07","slug":"bytown-beds-are-bugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2010\/bytown-beds-are-bugged\/","title":{"rendered":"Bytown beds are bugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Byline: Doug Hempstead<br \/>\nPublication: Ottawa Sun<br \/>\nDate: Friday July 30th, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawasun.com\/news\/ottawa\/2010\/07\/30\/14881451.html\">http:\/\/www.ottawasun.com\/news\/ottawa\/2010\/07\/30\/14881451.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good night, sleep tight \u2014 don\u2019t let the bedbugs bite&#8230; or the earwigs, or the carpenter ants.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa is in the heart of bedbug country, according to Carleton biology professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jeff-dawson\/\">Dr. Jeff Dawson<\/a>, who described this as a \u201cpeak year\u201d for the pests, brought about by weather and an increase in international travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re an ambush insect, nasty critters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Dawson said it\u2019s the female bed bugs who come after you while you sleep \u2014 sucking blood meal to feed their eggs. You don\u2019t notice they\u2019re doing it because they actually inject you with a sort of anesthetic first. When you wake up, you\u2019ve got red, extremely itchy welts.<br \/>\nGetting rid of them can be difficult, the only thing they don\u2019t like is cold \u2014 and can go years without eating. One solution is the expertise of someone like Paramount Pest Control owner David Saunders, who said trouble is brewing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suggest people put $1,000 aside in a dresser right now because you\u2019re going to need it,\u201d said Saunders. \u201cOttawa has a problem.\u201d<br \/>\nThat problem, he said, is primarily bedbugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve done 18 calls so far today,\u201d said Saunders at noon Friday. \u201cI do about 100 calls a week. I\u2019d say every third house in the city either has bedbugs or they know someone who does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0One would surmise, then, it would be easy to get one of the infestees to talk to \u2014 not so, said Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s Ottawa\u2019s dirty little secret,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He\u2019s called 11 clients, asking them to \u2014 even anonymously \u2014 talk to the media about the problem. No dice.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s even tried to persuade them with offers of free or discounted services, which can cost between $700 to $1,500.<br \/>\nInstead, Saunders said people demand he go to great lengths to be discreet. Even though he drives an unmarked vehicle, he said people ask him to drive right into their garage so they can close the door behind him. He\u2019s also been asked to park down the street and carry his tank of spray in a garbage bag.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cOne couple asked me to come at midnight and they\u2019d stay in a hotel,\u201d said Saunders, who believes this type of secrecy is adding to the problem \u2014 which effects everybody, no matter their income or hygiene.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve done embassies, homes in Rockcliffe,\u201d he said, adding a recent client brought bed bugs back from Hawaii after a stay at a five-star hotel, another who came back from Vancouver\u2019s Olympic Village.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Jean-Guy Albert, a program manager at Ottawa Public Health said the city only gets involved when a mediator is needed between landlord and tenants.<br \/>\nHe said the city usually is asked to help in 60 to 70 cases per year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"&#109;&#x61;&#105;&#x6c;&#116;&#x6f;:&#x64;o&#x75;g&#46;&#x68;&#101;&#x6d;&#112;&#x73;&#116;&#x65;a&#x64;&#64;&#x73;u&#110;&#x6d;&#101;&#x64;&#105;&#x61;&#46;&#x63;a\">&#x64;o&#x75;&#103;&#46;&#x68;&#101;&#x6d;&#x70;s&#x74;&#101;a&#x64;&#64;&#x73;&#117;n&#x6d;&#101;d&#x69;&#97;&#x2e;&#99;a<\/a><br \/>\n\u2013 with files from Justin Sadler<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Also Appeared In<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ottawa Sun &#8212; Fri, Jul 30th 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byline: Doug Hempstead Publication: Ottawa Sun Date: Friday July 30th, 2010 Source: http:\/\/www.ottawasun.com\/news\/ottawa\/2010\/07\/30\/14881451.html Summary Good night, sleep tight \u2014 don\u2019t let the bedbugs bite&#8230; or the earwigs, or the carpenter ants. Ottawa is in the heart of bedbug country, according to Carleton biology professor Dr. Jeff Dawson, who described this as a \u201cpeak year\u201d for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bytown beds are bugged - 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