Rita Price The Columbus Dispatch @RitaPrice
Growing awareness and earlier treatments might be slowing the bed bug rampage in central Ohio. But that won't quite be cause for celebration at the 10th Annual Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force Summit, a public forum dedicated to providing all the latest research and guidance on the maddening, tenacious, blood-sucking pests. "What we ideally want to see is a decline," said Susan Jones, an Ohio State University entomologist and member of the Central Ohio Bed Bug Task Force . "To plateau at a really, really high level is not good news." After years of high rankings on lists of the nation's most bed bug-infested cities, Columbus — somewhat surprisingly — didn't crack the top 20 in the latest compilation from exterminating company Terminix , which bases rankings on the places where it performs the most treatments. (Orkin, however, still put Columbus at number 5 on a list it released in January.) Ohio's ot...
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