Bedbug (insect)

The old saying "don't let the bedbugs bite" has renewed meaning in communities across the country. Locally, Berrien County Health Officer Mike Mortimore said this week the county is forming a task force to deal with bedbug infestation. The group will...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) -- Just looking at bed bugs is enough to make your skin crawl. Residents of Park La Brea Towers in Los Angeles' Fairfax District say they're living with the bloodsuckers. Some say their apartments are crawling with bedbugs and...

CANOGA PARK, Calif. (KTLA) -- Residents at an apartment complex in Canoga Park are fed up, saying their apartments are infested with bed bugs. They live at the Riata Luxury Apartment Homes, located in the 8500 block of De Soto Avenue. Resident Lori...

WEST HOLLYWOOD (KTLA) -- Residents say Park La Brea -- L.A.'s largest apartment complex -- is infested with bed bugs, as well as rats, roaches and other vermin. They say that it's a problem that has been going on for years, and they want action. KTLA...

Forget bed bugs. This time of year, it's lice that dominate. Every summer, as kids head to camp to share beds and hugs, lice attach themselves to unsuspecting hair, causing an itchy, creepy, crawly mess. Lice have been populating hair ever since...

In July 2010, Adarien Jackson's 6-year-old son, Kaden, began complaining of itchy bumps on his ankles. They soon turned into a rash and spread to his back, behind his ear, and on his eyelid. The child's pediatrician and dermatologists tried allergy...

Some residents at a northeast Dallas apartment complex say the place is crawling with unwelcome critters. They say management isn't doing enough to get rid of them. We spoke with a single mom today who lives at the The Quarters on Melody Lane apartment...

GLENDALE — A lawsuit against a Glendale hotel that alleges three women suffered more than 100 bites from “blood-engorged bed bugs” crawling on infested beds soon will go trial, attorneys for the women said. The plaintiffs — Nicole...

Most householders of this generation have never seen a bed bug. Bed bug infestations were common in the United States before World War II. However, with improvements in hygiene and the widespread use of DDT during the 1940s and 1950s, the bugs all but...

Residents and former employees of the Morton House say it's riddled with problems, from bed bugs to bad pipes, but it passes inspections year-after-year with flying colors.   The Morton House is a low income apartment building in downtown Grand Rapids,...

The Franklin County Shelter for the Homeless will reopen Tuesday after an infestation of bedbugs forced its shutdown for almost the entire month of January. After a recent inspection confirmed that the bedbugs were gone, shelter Coordinator Trudy...