A bedbug-sniffing dog has found the presence of bedbugs at the United Nations building. Shoot, the bedbugs have basically a freeway to the White House now! This must be Ahmadinejad's doing. We give Iran backpackers, and they give us bedbugs?

First it was our beds. Then our offices. Now, our wallets. Yes, the New York bedbug menace has begun to affect the city's tourism industry, with fearful, parasite-phobic travelers canceling trips. No, tourists, don't! That means the bedbugs have won!

Every year Tompkins Square Park hosts the annual Halloween Dog Parade. There's always some really great costumes, and this year was no different: Antoine Dodson, bedbugs and iPads were all represented. BuzzFeed editor Matt Stopera has some good ones.

Taiwan's Next Media Animation have tackled the great American bed bug epidemic in their latest video. Watch as Fox News "Red Eye" host Greg Gutfeld is savagely attacked by a bed bug guest on his show, while others watch Glee.

Forget bedbugs. Those are old news. The new news? The new, terrible news? Stink bugs. And that's a scientific name. Creatures that emit a foul odor when scared have been increasingly found in New York lately. We're moving.

To the list of surprisingly highbrow NYC places with bedbugs, you can add Lincoln Center. The creatures have been spotted in the David Koch Theater. Borne in on hems of trollops' gowns, borne out soon enough to gallop about town.

The Waldorf might have bedbugs. Yes, that Waldorf, the schmancy hotel that invented a salad, where rooms cost $730 a night. But the itchy menace has penetrated every vaunted institution in America! No building, palace, or visiting dignitary is safe!

One heroic, honest—too honest Barron's staffer announced that he had bedbugs in his apartment building. Now the entire Wall Street Journal headquarters are on edge. Fearmongering company email, below.

The Great Bed Bug Epidemic has been widely covered, but now our nation's capital is under threat from stink bugs. They smell like sweaty feet and are multiplying fast! According to a specialist, "this is going to be biblical." [WaPo]

The 2010 North American Bed Bug Summit is under way in Rosemont, Illinois, where some 400 exterminators, entomologists, researchers and hoteliers have gathered to discuss bloodsucking insects with experts. Bed bug hysteria has officially reached its apex.

The New York bedbug attack continues: The 57th Street Niketown has been closed due to an infestation.

New York's bedbug panic is no longer confined to the hoi polloi: The superhuman cyborgs who work in Google's Gotham uber-office have found bedbugs at work. Google is infected. Repeat: Google. Is. Infected.

South African scientists gave bedbugs blood containing the virus that causes AIDS and the virus died, confirming the insects are practically indestructible. Why can't we reverse bio-engineer that process and cure AIDS? It would make all that scratching worth it!

Just as bedbugs have taken over our internet, our media, our tourist attractions, and our movie theaters, we get a new pest to deal with: raccoons. Yes, raccoons, where you live. Christ. What infernal vexations must we fight off next?

The increasingly important festival is in scramble mode after a customer at the main venue for their 9/9-9/19 movie party complained about bedbug bites. How'd they get there? Well, the Degrassi kids were just in New York. Filthy teens.

In the mood for some bedbug-related fearmongering and/or pranks? Check out BedbugRegistry.com, where users catalog close encounters with the bloodsucking kind. Let us explore this terrorizing website and see whose lives we can ruin with it. Update: Bedbug Registry responds.

If you've been feeling phantom itches lately, here's something to comfort you: If you don't live in Ohio, it's possible you don't have bedbugs. If you do live there, you're fucked. Three Ohio cities make the top ten infested list.

In your fearmongering Monday media column: vicious rumors of bedbugs at Elle, a mass exodus from the New York Observer, Sidney Harman has some ideas for Newsweek, media job moves afoot, and Philly wants to tax bloggers.

Sorry, we're trying to be more copacetic about bedbugs. But, they've invaded the Empire State Building! Towering symbol of modernity? New York icon? Bed bugs don't give a bed bug fuck. They're taking it down, from the bottom up.

First they invaded where you sleep. Then they invaded where you work. Now they are invading where you go to forget the miseries of the world for a few hours. Bedbugs have been found in a New York movie theater.