PORTLAND - If you thought bedbugs were just the stuff of bedtime rhymes, talk to Ralph Blumenthal. Blumenthal, operations manager of Atlantic Pest Solutions in Arundel, went about three decades without getting a call about bedbugs. Now he's getting several calls a week from people all across Maine complaining about the bloodsucking insects.
"Bedbugs, for all intents and purposes, had been wiped out," said Blumenthal. "In the last four or five years, the problem has really taken off."
The common bedbug _ a flat, oval quarter-inch insect that feeds on the blood of humans and other animals _ is making a comeback in Maine and across the country.
In Portland, municipal building inspectors and public health agents have gotten 30 calls this year about bedbugs from tenants in various apartment complexes, up from just five complaints in 2004.
Source: www.cbsnews.com
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