Beware of Bed Bugs
Overview about Bed Bugs for Local Student Tenants
Read information sheet (pdf) with the following topics:
- What are Bed Bugs?
- How to Identify Bed Bugs
- What to Do When Infested
Additional Resources on Bed Bugs
Environmental Health & Safety:
“Bed Bug Information (Identification, Biology, and Control)”
- http://www.uos.harvard.edu/ehs/pes_bedbug.shtml
- Put forth by Harvard University’s Department of Environmental Health & Safety, this website is a comprehensive resource for bed bug information. In particular, this website provides high resolution pictures of bed bugs and bed bug eggs as well as detailed information regarding: How to prevent bed bug infestations, recognizing bed bug bites, how to identify and collect bed bugs, bed bug biology and behavior, how to control bed bugs, and answers to frequently asked questions.
Harvard School of Public Health:
“Bed Bugs: Biology and Management”
- http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/bedbugs
- Put forth by the Harvard School of Public Health, this website is easy to navigate and provides useful information regarding bed bugs in the form of answers to frequently asked questions.
- This website also provides a “management scheme” (flow chart) for dealing with bed bugs, and also provides a “Bed Bug Specimen Evaluation” form. This form is pre-addressed to the Harvard School of Public Health’s Laboratory of Public Health Entomology, and provides detailed instructions for how you can submit suspected bed bugs for lab evaluation for a payment of twenty dollars ($20.00).
Illinois Department of Public Health:
“Bed Bugs Prevention and Control”
- http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/pcbedbugs.htm
- This resource is much less comprehensive than either of the Harvard websites, however this website is important because its existence illustrates the fact that the Illinois Department of Public Health considers bed bug infestations to be a serious public health matter. The information on this website is much more general in nature than the information provided by either of the Harvard websites, but this website provides basic information regarding bed bugs in general as well as general advice for “managing bed bugs.” In addition, this website refers visitors to contact the Illinois Department of Public Health, Division of Environmental Health, for more information regarding bed bugs.
