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Back to School, Back to Basics: What Every Student Should Know About Bed Bugs and Cockroaches This Move-In Season

Financial Post · September 1, 2026 at 1:45 p.m.

Toronto, Ontario, Sept.

01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Move-in week means students settling into dorms and shared rentals, usually with a secondhand couch, a mattress someone gave them, and a pile of cardboard boxes.

Abell Pest Control says that mix of people, furniture, and boxes is often exactly how bed bugs and cockroaches show up in student homes.

Sometimes they travel in with someone's stuff.

Other times, they were already in the room, left behind by whoever lived there before.

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