Original Article on Crains New York

The coming of summer, and with it warmer weather, could spur a new frenzy of bedbug activity. But the real estate community is biting back. Property owners, pest control experts and entomologists gathered Wednesday morning at the Real Estate Board of New York for an informal seminar on bedbug regulation and detection.Bedbugs are not new, but complaints are rising, said Dan Margulies, executive director of the Associated Builders and Owners of Greater New York Inc. He noted that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development found some 82 violations in 2004, a number that skyrocketed to over 4,800 last year. Indeed, last summer's much-publicized infestations of retailersincluding Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister and Buy Buy Baby, as we...(read more)