The bedbugs are coming

[Marq]

Hospitality industry staff watching for blood marks on sheets would be good, although there's a risk of false alarms

I've just spent a few days in Hospital. Blood on the sheets and bugs in the beds seems to be the order of the day. I don't think they are going to worry about a bed bug problem.

They used to spray the planes down if they stopped over in Nairobi or any other town in Africa, the americans do a search all holes scenario to ward off 'terrorism', so to delouse and do the tourists rolling in wouldn't be far off the mark - quite acceptable, these days.

The problem with bedbugs is that you only notice them once they have moved in, set up shop and created a family. Getting rid of them is like getting a court order to evict unwanted tenants - long winded, expensive, not always successful and demoralising.

[andyb]

Get ready it will happen! Our call outs to bed bug problems have increased big style over the last 12 months, once the value of the GB pound dropped we had loads more tourists staying for short periods in the bed and breakfast places and smaller hotels, many brought in bed bugs, many Brits took them home from the hotels etc, be ready, we have a passive monitoring system we use to aid with keeping our clients within the laws of the UK.