California library is using dogs to find hidden bed bugs.

Lover of bites and books.

Who knew bed bugs were such fans of literature? You always figure they're just traveling around hotels, when in reality they're lovers of the literary scene.

The Buena Vista Branch Library in Burbank, CA, has taken to using trained dogs to sniff out hidden bed bugs in its building. The apparent infestation has been going on longer than officials care to admit, so they've taken to using dogs to sniff out the visitors.

"[The department of public works has] tried various techniques, various kinds of sprays and deep cleans, but they're just really hard to get rid of because they could be hiding in books, the carpet or in the [seat] cushions," library services director Elizabeth Goldman told the Los Angeles Times.

"That branch is extremely busy, so there's always warm, welcoming hosts for the bugs sitting in all the chairs," Goldman continued.

Warm, welcoming host. You've probably never been called that while entertaining friends for dinner, but you can now be called it as a bed bug's dream date.

"All was well for about six months, but then, in May, a patron who was sitting in one of our comfy brown chairs had a very strong reaction to some bug bites," Goldman said.

Goldman needs to get into used car sales, because she's somehow selling the appeal of the library despite--you know--bed bugs. Case in point? A "strong reaction to some bug bites" is usually not how one defines a "comfy chair."

In the meantime, the dogs continue their search.

Delaware bedbugs are voracious readers.

Delaware libraries have a small (heh-heh) problem, in that returned books are increasingly showing presence of bedbugs.

According to the city of Wilmington's library system director, Larry Manuel, it's not a crisis necessarily so much as "one here, one there – we're not talking about hundreds."

Bedbug infestations tend to show up in increasing rates at travel locations, where guests get caught in a hotel, motel ("...Holiday Inn!"), or Trader Vic's Travelodge Emporium type location that might not have been properly disinfected. Libraries, on the other hand, have largely remained safe from the scourge.

Things took on a new angle in the Delaware libraries bedbug wars when in the town of Selbyville a chair was found infected. The chair was removed and the building was treated by an exterminator.

The real question here? Considering that bedbugs only subsist off blood, all affected books were Twilight, right?



Source Story: USA Today

The term "computer bug" was coined because of reasons you expect.

Try it on a MacBook, pal.

So the story goes, Grace Murray Hopper----a Naval Reservist, a distinguished mathematician, designer of the first compiler (picture computer programming that allows systems to talk one another), and the writer of the 561-page manual on the Mark 1, an early computer that was a neat and tidy 51ft long and 5 tons in weight----found a moth physically inside her computer, which I can only assume was roughly the size of most baby grand pianos.

Mathematicians are pretty literal when coining phrases. Let's leave it at that.