Bed Bugs Found in Duluth, Minnesota Apartments

DULUTH, Minn. — Residents of the Tri-Towers Apartment and Senior Complex in Duluth's Central Hillside have been reporting bed bug infestations, the Duluth News Tribune reports.

While the building had never dealt with an infestation, local, state and national entomologists say bedbug reports are becoming more common.

At Tri-Towers, a Section 8 building run by the Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the bedbugs got inside when a resident brought in an infested mattress from another building, according to Rick Ball, executive director of the HRA.

The resident discovered that the mattress had bedbugs and threw it into the garbage area outside the building, but did not tell anybody.

Another resident later saw the mattress and brought it back inside the building. When the bugs were later discovered, the resident told management, Ball said.

Ball did not know how many units were infested.

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