By Avery Johnson
The Wall Street Journal

People in the hotel industry are waking up to the fact that they are hosting some nasty guests. In the past few years, Cimex lectularius — the bedbug — has been making a small but alarming comeback.

Hotels are particularly vulnerable because the bugs travel in luggage and clothing and because hotels have so many people sleeping in their beds.

A survey of insect-control companies in 2004 by Pest Control Technology magazine found that hotels accounted for the biggest proportion of reported infestations — 37 percent.

Tidbit on your pillow might not be a mint, continued