Sleep tight -- don't let the bedbugs bite

Bedbugs, the houseguests nobody wants, are back in growing numbers across the USA, and booting them from your bunk can be a lengthy, costly process.

Sixty years after near-eradication, the little bloodsuckers are infesting homes and hotels from New York to San Diego. Why the outbreak? Increased world travel and changing pest-control practices.

"The bugs had become a myth," says Richard Cooper, an entomologist who runs a family pest control firm in Lawrenceville, N.J. "They were the monster in the closet. People don't believe they're real."

They're real, all right. If they've gained a toehold - or wherever they find bare skin to bite - they won't leave your house unless you unleash an all-out effort.

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fortunately they only liked one of the beds in the room we had for a brief stay in Florence. They are aggressive little critters. I 'll give them that.

NO Bedbugs!

Couldn't believe it when we got up COVERED in red splotches that did not itch--just unsightly.