A week after a case of bed bugs was reported in College-in-the-Woods’ Cayuga Hall, another infestation has been identified in Mountainview College’s Cascade Hall.

‘An exterminator has been notified and we are following University procedure,’ said Physical Facilities spokeswoman Karen Fennie.

Binghamton University procedure requires that Residential Life staff inspect the room and call an exterminator if an infestation is detected. The exterminator will then treat the infected room and those adjacent to it, as well as any common or shared space residents use.

According to Fennie, the incident in Cayuga has been resolved, although the exterminator did have to return to the building after a bed bug was spotted in the hallway of the fourth floor after the first treatment.

‘We later did have another report,’ Fennie said. ‘We came back and re-treated the area.’

University protocol also calls for Residential Life to distribute packets containing information about bed bugs and treatment methods to affected students.

According to a source from Cayuga Hall, however, this didn’t happen.

‘[Students] had to go to ResLife to find out what was actually going on,’ the source, who did not wish to be identified, said. ‘No one told [students on the infected floor] anything. [They] went out a few times to go see what they were doing, but whenever they went out, no one would say a word to them.’

The source also said that rooms adjacent to the infected one were not fumigated until the day after the infected room had been treated.

If students suspect a bed bug infestation in their room, they should contact a Residential Life staff member immediately.