Continuing from Tuesday…

The LSG SkyChefs facility in Denver reportedly prepares about 35,000 airline passenger meals per day for many different airlines.  The Denver kitchen facility has now been downgraded from “approved” to “provisional”.  This means that they are still open for business, but they only have one chance to clean up their act upon re-inspection.  If they don’t, the Denver facility will be shut down. Re-inspection is scheduled for the beginning of January so holiday travelers are not quite out of the woods yet.  For everyone’s sake, hopefully the disgusting bugs and germs will be gone soon.

Too bad the workers couldn’t see the cockroaches and take care of them BEFORE the Food and Drug Administration’s visit. Nobody wants roaches in their food people!  Just hire a pest control specialist to get the job done!  It should also be noted that airlines are now making passengers pay for their food instead of receiving it for free.  You would think with the extra dough they are collecting, a pest control specialist would be standard procedure…I’m just saying!  The FDA allows the public to view the LSG SkyChefs report, or any other report online, at any time.

Residents in New Jersey and New York City that have a bed bug infestation would be wise to get the infestation professionally taken care of as soon as possible. They won’t leave if you shout at them.

It takes bed bugs only two weeks to grow up. Each female is able to lay about 500 bed bug eggs. The babies then grow up and all the females can lay 500 eggs and the cycle repeats and soon it becomes a major bed bug infestation. Major bed bug infestations are difficult to eliminate and the bed bug pest control treatments become expensive.

One bed bug exterminator treated a house for a homeowner that didn’t get pest control treatments for eight months. The pest control expert had to drill holes in the walls and bed bugs were living in the light fixtures and all over the house. New Jersey and New York City bed bugs make lousy pets; the wise choice is to get rid of them as soon as they are spotted.

With many schools still out of session and all of the hustle and bustle of the holiday season still in full swing; thinking about what you might be eating on an airplane is not likely a high priority during this time of year.  Holiday travelers will not be happy to hear that the food they might encounter could have come in contact with something more than plastic covered hands.

The Food and Drug Administration’s findings at the Denver kitchen of the LSG SkyChefs facility are deplorable to say the least.  Live and dead cockroaches, ants and flies have been found in the kitchen cart wash area, repack area, silverware station, hot kitchen, pots and pans ware washing room, dish machine wash area, and inside the machine loading area.  Some of these areas notated had the exact amount of cockroaches that were found listed on the report.  Some had the lovely abbreviation of “TNTC” instead.  This stands for Too Numerous to Count!  Those wonderful FDA inspectors also found evidence of contamination in the hot kitchen area of Listeria Monocytogenes; which can really make you sick with fever, muscle aches, nausea or diarrhea.  Yeah!

Please check back on Thursday for the conclusion.

Bed bugs don’t care if they live in fancy New Jersey or New York City hotels or lower priced hotels. The fact that people are continually moving in and out of hotel rooms increases the chances that somebody unknowingly brought some of the odious insects with them.

Paying big bucks to stay at a hotel room won’t guarantee you won’t be attacked by the blood sucking New Jersey or New York City bed bugs. Also, there is no guarantee that an expensive hotel won’t try and hide a bed bug infestation or try to save money by not paying for bed bug pest control services for all the rooms recommended for treatment by a bed bug expert.

Although experts suggest you take off the sheets at a hotel room and look for tiny blood spots and bed bug fecal matter they also state that a proper inspection may require taking apart the bed and looking inside the mattress which is impractical and probably impossible for hotel guest to perform. A bed bug monitor is a valuable asset.

Citizens of New York City and New Jersey and all over the nation may have questions about bed bug ethics. For example, a person stays at a friends house. The friend claims they spent days fixing up the guest bedroom and it’s now the best room in the house. While sleeping in the fabulous room the guest ends up getting attacked by a gang of bed bugs that were hiding in the mattress.

Should the guest stay quite about the attack in order to not harm the host’s feelings? Should the guest throw a fit? Perhaps tell the host it’s no big deal, at least the attack wasn’t performed by angry wolverines.

Obviously the guest needs to inform the friend that the bedroom has bed bugs since other people including the friend are at risk of a bed bug attack. The guest should speak up immediately and not wait until they can go home and send an email or a text message. If the friend quickly hires a bed bug pest control expert the extermination will be significantly less expensive.

The grey squirrels in one New Jersey County are having a blast this holiday season…again.  For the fourth year in a row, grey squirrels are noshing on the LED light bulbs that are decorating Fredericton in New Brunswick County.  For some odd reason, the squirrels like all of the colors except the red ones though.  County officials thought that this year they had outsmarted the squirrels when they installed larger LED lights.  These lights were no match for the taste buds of the grey squirrel though.  They like the new ones just as much as the old ones.  The squirrels are seen daily sitting up in the trees eating every bit of the plastic bulbs…except those pretty red ones of course!

Squirrels are wonderful to watch while frolicking out in the yard and up in the trees; but they can become quite menacing if they decide that your house or attic would be a good nesting spot.  Besides being messy houseguests, for some reason they like to nibble on electrical wires.  Many times, their chewing has caused homeowners extensive damage and even fires.

If you have squirrels in your attic or walls, you should never try to remove them yourself.  It is always wise to call a professional pest control expert who is trained in squirrel removal.  Stern Environmental Group provides 24 hour emergency squirrel removal service and always uses humane squirrel trapping methods.  Give us a call today.

New York City is regarded as one of the country’s leading bedbug battlegrounds. However, the horrible insects live in New Jersey and all over the nation. Hershey the bed bug detection dog primarily works in Cincinnati but has recently been asked to sniff around for the odious insects in Toledo, Ohio.

Hershey was asked to inspect an apartment complex. The janitor was skeptical of the bed bug sniffing dog until Hershey went immediately to a vile of bed bugs that his owner hid in the room as a test. Hershey has been trained to only find live bed bugs. Thus, if you want to see what a dead bed bug looks like don’t call Hershey. The dog has been trained to sit down whenever he smells a bed bug. Sometimes he fakes sitting down just to get the humans excited. Well, perhaps not.

After Hershey was done inspecting the Toledo apartment complex his owner estimated that 40 percent of the units were infested with bed bugs. The nation needs more dogs that have Hershey’s bed bug sniffing skills. The nation also needs more cheese puffs.

In continuation from Thursday…

I read a story a few days ago about some residents who are renting mobile homes at an RV park in Bakersfield, California.  Residents have complained to management about bed bugs biting them for months, yet nothing has been done to eradicate them.  Instead they have been told to buy a can of Raid to get rid of the bed bugs.  Sorry Charlie, bad advice there!  The pest control officials mentioned in the article (it is unknown if they are providing services to the RV park) say that you have to throw out any infested belongings, re-carpet, and fumigate to get rid of the bed bugs.  Again, not the best bit of information given out to the public.

There are many different treatment options available for people who are suffering with a bed bug infestation.  The most important things to do are educate yourself so you are well informed, and hire an experienced bed bug expert who can eradicate the bed bugs for you correctly!  New Jersey and New York residents, give Stern Environmental Group a call.  We are the bed bug experts!

A bed bug problem in Morristown, New Jersey has spawned a lawsuit. A tenant in a senior housing complex has filed a lawsuit claiming she has been evicted from her residence due to complaining to the mayor about a bed bug infestation in her building.

The lawsuit also states that the plaintiff was defamed by the executive director of the Morristown Housing Authority who allegedly stated to the media that the plaintiff was the source of the building’s bed bug problem. The plaintiff claims that the Director of the Morristown Housing Authority was “livid” and told the plaintiff that “she had bed bugs and they came from her.” Oh my.

The plaintiff is seeking punitive damages and unspecified compensatory damages. Perhaps there will soon be a bed bug specialty taught at the nation’s best law schools. Perhaps lawyer business cards will have the caption “bed bug lawyer” followed by “if bed bugs make you itch I will make you rich.” Oh my. Bed bugs are a big problem in New Jersey and New York City which keeps the bed bug pest control experts very busy.

In many cities the housing authorities will not help people that claim they have been attacked by bed bugs until they can deliver an actual bed bug. The bed bug may be delivered dead or alive. However apartment tenants often have a difficult time capturing a bed bug since they are often attacked while they are sleeping.

A person could take a couple of weeks or a few months or even a year to finally catch a bed bug and meanwhile the odious insects have infiltrated a large number of apartment units. Perhaps a bed bug pest control expert has a better chance of finding bed bugs, especially if he is accompanied by a bed bug detection dog.

Housing authorities and apartment managers should be trained in detecting bed bug bites on humans. If the skin irritations reasonably appear to be created by the blood sucking work of bed bugs then perhaps the prudent thing to do is to invite a pest control expert to examine the dwelling for bed bugs. In the long run it could save a lot of money.