The University of Colorado has handled an onset of bed bug infestations in its campus housing units over the past year, with most of the critters concentrated in family housing apartments.
CU officials this year have treated 37 family housing and Bear Creek apartment units for bed bugs and another five of its 2,900 dorm rooms. There was also an episode in the Engineering Building.
“Right now, the problem is more centered in our family housing than anywhere else on campus,” said CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard.
The university — to address the infestations — has purchased “Thermal Remediation” equipment, spending about $45,000 on the technology. The equipment heats up rooms to at least 120 degrees, drawing out the hard-to-see, mostly nocturnal, bugs and incinerates them.
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