Cincy is top U.S. bedbug city

Online news magazine, the Daily Beast recently published its list of America’s top 10 "Most Bedbug Infested Cities" with Ohio cities claiming three spots on the list.

The list is as follows:

1. Cincinati, Ohio:

"David Ralph Hoffman, owner of Merlin’s Pest Control, says if you don’t know someone who has had a bedbug problem, you don’t live in Cincinnati," the Daily Beast reports. "At Merlin’s they rate their horror stories on a scale of 1 to 10. The worst was an apartment occupied by someone who bragged about the last time he’d had a bath (not recently). The apartment was also occupied by about 100,000 bedbugs, Hoffman says, kept in check only by an equal number of German cockroaches.

2. Columbus, Ohio

3. Chicago, Illinois

4. Denver, Colorado

5. Detroit, Michigan

6. Washington, D.C.

7. New York, New York

8. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

9. Dayton, Ohio

10. Baltimore, Maryland

Comments are closed.