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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you know they were bedbugs?  [/quote]

I don't know for sure.  I looked very briefly.  But I know bed bugs reside In library books.  What else do you think they could be?  I'd love for them to be something else.[/quote]

I've had bed bugs.[b] I do not think you had them in your library books.[/b] [/quote]

Think again, Toots - http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/23/bed-bugs-found-in-books-at-hamden-library/[/quote]

Just because a library in NY has bedbugs does not mean that the larvae OP found in her book are bedbugs. Before she goes announcing it on DCUM, I suggest she make a better attempt of identifying what she has. I'd put money on the odds that what she found are book lice or something other than bedbugs. [/quote]

Yes and no. It's not only New York, there have been several library cases all over North America with frequency of reports rising. It's a logical possibility, and one that libraries should really begin addressing. (As an aside, I work in a university library, and one where the nearby dorms have had occasional bedbug outbreaks, no less, and I don't believe there's been much discussion about checking library furniture and dealing with books returned from undergrads in infested dorms-- but there should be!!.) So even though there haven't been any acknowledged cases in our area (that I know of), it's kind of a problem waiting to happen. Sadly, OP's assumption is quite plausible.

On the other hand, there certainly are other kinds of insects she may have found. I hope the library is taking this seriously. They certainly must have pest identification resources available to them through their county affiliations and ought to be sending these specimens out right away.

But yeah, the sense of security we've all had is probably misplaced-- because all it takes is one infested household returning a book.[/quote]

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