Bed Bugs

Wayne Walker, UF Housing and Residence Education
UF/IFAS Entomology and Nematology Dept.

A Real Pest: With all the talk about bedbugs who can sleep tight? (pdf 71KB) - Talking Stick article, May / June 2006
Bed Bugs: A Guide for Residence Halls Staff and Residents (pdf 63KB) - March 2006
Bed Bugs Manual (pdf 5674KB) - P. Koehler, R. Pereira, W. Walker, UF/IFAS
Bed Bug Prevention at UF(html) (pdf 745kb) - Kevyn Juneau, IPM Florida
Bed Bug Treatment and IPM: A letter to residents (pdf 11KB)
Bed Bug Control: Fumigation, Steam, Dusting and Labor (pdf 739KB) - Wayne Walker, Ken Glover, Phil Koehler, Ellen Thomas and Eric Hobelmann, Pest Control Technology, January 2008
EPA's National Bed Bug Summit - EPA
Spring Break travel and Bed Bugs: An Advisory from Housing Pest Control (pdf 32KB)
Your Guide to Bed Bugs: Understanding and Control. (pdf 6656KB) - Michael F. Potter, Pest Control Technology, August 2004
Your guide to Mystery Bites: Diagnosis and management (pdf 8957 KB) - Michael F. Potter, Pest Control Technology, June 2006

Presentations

Bed Bug Biology (Power Point 11.8 MB)
Bed Bug Detecting Dogs (Pdf 3.36 KB) - Wayne Walker
- The Power Point presentation is a large file with videos imbedded in the file. To view the videos you must download the videos. Attached is a zip folder with all of the files need to view the complete presentation (Power Point 92.17 MB)
Bed Bugs and IPM can Make Strange Bedfellows (Power Point 5.3MB) - Wayne Walker
Canine Bed Bug Detection (Power Point 8.64 MB) - Phillip G. Koehler
Economic Heat Treatment for Bed Bugs ( Power Point 5.43 MB) - Phillip G. Koehler, Roberto Pereira and Margie Pfiester
Inspection for Bed Bugs (Power Point 2.21 MB) - Wayne Walker
Treatments for Dorm and Hotel Rooms (Power Point 1.77 MB) - Wayne Walker

Videos

Bed Bug CSI (mpg 82.9MB)
Bed Bug Heat Treatment (link)
Bed Bugs Cimex lectularius (mpg 36.7 MB)
Low cost Bed Bugs control - UF Research report (15.2 MB)
The Future of Detection: Bed Bug Dogs (mpg 72.8 MB)
NBC Today: Back to School with Bed Bugs (wmv 34.5MB)

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