Brooklyn’s ‘Bed bug queen’ offers history, perspective and advice for your next infestation

via Twitter Brooke Borel, a science reporter living in Park Slope, knows a thing or two about bed bugs. The “Bed Bug Queen,” as Business Insider called her, Borel has had bed bugs three times in New York City, and those experiences led her to write her first book, Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World, which came out last year. In their review, Library Journal said it’s “For anyone who wants to replace their fear of bed bugs with knowledge.” Since it’s now the fall, the time a lot of people move in and out of apartments, hunt for sidewalk furniture and start wearing bed-bug attracting coats everywhere, we spoke to Broke to hear more about what she learned going deep on New York’s most feared pest. Let’s start at the beginning. How did you get so fascinated by bed bugs? The first time I had bed bugs was 2004 in… Read More

Brooklyn’s ‘Bed bug queen’ offers history, perspective and advice for your next infestation : Brokelyn