{"id":13992,"date":"2016-09-22T14:11:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/brooklyns-bed-bug-queen-offers-history-perspective-and-advice-for-your-next-infestation\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:11:33","slug":"brooklyns-bed-bug-queen-offers-history-perspective-and-advice-for-your-next-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/brooklyns-bed-bug-queen-offers-history-perspective-and-advice-for-your-next-infestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn\u2019s \u2018Bed bug queen\u2019 offers history, perspective and advice for your next infestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via Twitter Brooke Borel, a science reporter living in Park Slope, knows a thing or two about bed bugs. The \u201cBed Bug Queen,\u201d as Business Insider called her, Borel has had bed bugs three times in New York City, and those experiences led her to write her first book, Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World, which came out last year. In their review, Library Journal said it&#8217;s\u00a0\u201cFor anyone who wants to replace their fear of bed bugs with knowledge.\u201d Since it&#8217;s now the fall, the time a lot of people\u00a0move in and out of apartments, hunt for\u00a0sidewalk furniture\u00a0and start wearing bed-bug attracting coats everywhere, we spoke to Broke to hear more about what she learned going deep on New York\u2019s most feared pest. Let\u2019s start at the beginning. How did you get so fascinated by bed bugs? The first time I had bed bugs was 2004 in&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn\u2019s \u2018Bed bug queen\u2019 offers history, perspective and advice for your next infestation : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/brooke-borel-bed-bug-queen\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via Twitter Brooke Borel, a science reporter living in Park Slope, knows a thing or two about bed bu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":13993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-13992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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