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Parasites

Bed Bugs, Fleas and Ticks

Bed Bug	Flea	Tick

Guidelines to Prepare for Bed Bug Extermination, A Pictorial of Real Life Bed Bug Infestations , and Bed Bug, Their Eggs, Feces, & Skin - What do they look like, and General Guidelines to Prepare for a Spray Treatment.

Rodents: Mice and Rat

Mice	Rat

Crawling Insects

Ants

Pharaoh and the Little Black Ants	Fire Ant	Pavement Ant
Carpenter Ant

Cockroaches

German Cockroach	American Cockroach	Brown-Banded Cockroach

Spiders	Sow Bug, Pill Bug or Potato Bug	Centipedes

Silverfish and Firebrat	Earwigs

Powder Post Beetle	Millipede

Flying Insects

House Fly	Bees	Wasp & Hornet

Pantry Pests

Carpet Beetle	Spider Beetle	Indian Meal Moth

Please, see the Pantry Pest document at Grains Canada.

Outdoor or Garden Pests

Crane-Fly (Leather Jackets)	Caterpillar

City of Toronto
City of Toronto's Public Health
Public Health, City of Toronto (416 338 7600)- Fact Sheet on Bed Bug Infestations - Rights and Responsibilities - NOV. 2008

PEST NEWS

QPM.ca Reported: July 2010
Wasp and Bed Bugs related infestations are seasonally being reported.

QPM.ca Reported: October 2009
This year was one of the worst on record for Wasp related infestations.

QPM.ca Reported: April - May 2009
Ants and Wasp related Pest problems are on the rise unusually strongly- as reported around the GTA.

Bed Bugs spread misery, not disease, study finds

U.S. researcher allays health fears as pests spread to `weird places'

CHICAGO – Bed Bugs may be a growing nuisance, lurking in mattresses and other hiding places until emerging to seek blood for their meal, but their bites do not appear to transmit disease, researchers said yesterday.

Resistant to many pest control efforts, the hardy pest is spreading to hotels, homes, subways and movie theatres.

"Five-star hotels are just as susceptible as little cheap ones. People bring them in with their stuff. The real problem is people taking them home ... because they're so difficult to get rid of," said Jerome Goddard, a Mississippi State University entomologist who wrote a report with a colleague on the topic in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Goddard said there has been an "explosion" of bedbug infestations.

"It started in hostels and hotels, but now it's in apartments and dormitories – in houses," he said. "And it's started to get in really weird places like movie theatres and subways ... ships, ferries, all kind of places."

Many people do not notice the bites and have no skin reaction. But some develop itchy bumps or ugly blisters, and a rare few have allergic reactions like asthma attacks.

Goddard sought to dispel suggestions he found in some earlier studies that Bed Bugs might transmit blood-borne diseases like the plague, yellow fever, hepatitis or HIV. In the past, hepatitis was found in Bed Bugs in Africa. But in previous animal experiments, Bed Bugs fed tainted blood did not infect chimpanzees.

"At this time there's no evidence they're transmitting human diseases. That should allay fears," Goddard said.

Before their re-emergence in the past decade, Bed Bugs largely disappeared from developed countries for 50 years, coinciding with wide use of the pesticide DDT.

But getting rid of infestations now is difficult, Goddard said. The bugs can live up to a year without feeding and have developed resistance to some insecticides. "It's not related to sanitation. It's related to people going around," he said, noting Bed Bugs usually hitch rides in travelers' luggage.

Source: http://www.thestar.com/article/611553