Spring Break
Pesky guests bug dorms
By Jessica Mickley
Issue date: 1/30/08 Section: News
College Ambassadors were not the only ones who welcomed Jessie Lamotta to campus her freshman year. Lamotta had to deal with pesky bed bugs as well, following a trend that an increasing number of residents have run into on campus in the freshman dorms, especially Cromwell Hall.
Jessie Lamotta, now a junior history major at the College, was pestered by bed bugs on Cromwell 3 from move-in day to sometime in October during her freshman year.
"My roommate woke up with little red bumps on her body, and I found little blood stains on my bed sheets," Lamotta said. "Also, at night when we pulled our sheets back, the bugs would scurry and hide."
"The doctor (at Health Services) said that my roommate and I had scabies and that we should stay away from other students and not transport any of our belongings to other rooms," Lamotta said. She and her roommate were given body cream to wash with twice a day.
Bed bug adults are small, brownish insects, just under a quarter of an inch long.
Sophomore elementary and early childhood education major Nicole Foderaro got a glance of the bugs when she had a run-in with the frustrating critters her freshman year.
"The bed bugs we saw were of a reddish tint because they had just fed. There were also a few clear ones.?They were pretty small, about the size of the head of a pin, if not smaller," she said.
Foderaro's roommate developed "weird red bumps on her shoulder, arm and chest."
The room across the hall had a particularly bad case.
"Theirs was so bad that one boy was covered from head to toe," Foderaro said.
Even after Foderaro's room was initially treated, the problem was not fixed.
"Afterwards, we had two more cases of bed bugs before the problem was resolved," Foderaro said.
Cooper Pest Solutions, the extermination group that deals with the College's pest problems, maintains a Web site titled "Bed Bug Central."
"This pest that was virtually non-existent just a few years ago is now affecting colleges and universities nationwide," Cooper Pest Solutions' Web site says.
Jessie Lamotta, now a junior history major at the College, was pestered by bed bugs on Cromwell 3 from move-in day to sometime in October during her freshman year.
"My roommate woke up with little red bumps on her body, and I found little blood stains on my bed sheets," Lamotta said. "Also, at night when we pulled our sheets back, the bugs would scurry and hide."
"The doctor (at Health Services) said that my roommate and I had scabies and that we should stay away from other students and not transport any of our belongings to other rooms," Lamotta said. She and her roommate were given body cream to wash with twice a day.
Bed bug adults are small, brownish insects, just under a quarter of an inch long.
Sophomore elementary and early childhood education major Nicole Foderaro got a glance of the bugs when she had a run-in with the frustrating critters her freshman year.
"The bed bugs we saw were of a reddish tint because they had just fed. There were also a few clear ones.?They were pretty small, about the size of the head of a pin, if not smaller," she said.
Foderaro's roommate developed "weird red bumps on her shoulder, arm and chest."
The room across the hall had a particularly bad case.
"Theirs was so bad that one boy was covered from head to toe," Foderaro said.
Even after Foderaro's room was initially treated, the problem was not fixed.
"Afterwards, we had two more cases of bed bugs before the problem was resolved," Foderaro said.
Cooper Pest Solutions, the extermination group that deals with the College's pest problems, maintains a Web site titled "Bed Bug Central."
"This pest that was virtually non-existent just a few years ago is now affecting colleges and universities nationwide," Cooper Pest Solutions' Web site says.
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Stephen Tvedten
posted 1/30/08 @ 4:48 PM EST
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