Elizabeth Ladzinski
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — Bedbugs — the blood-sucking creepy crawlers that wreaked havoc in the city last summer — are expected to return in even higher numbers in 2011, experts said, according to the Daily News.
"I firmly believe that this year is going to be worse than last year," said Jeffrey White, a research entomologist for bedbugcentral.com at a bedbug seminar on Wednesday, the News reported.
The bugs are at their worst during the months of July, August and September, according to White.
More than 400,000 New Yorkers reported bedbug infestations in 2009 — almost 7 percent of the city's population, according to the Health Department.
Department stores, movie theaters and even the Empire State Building didn't escape the wrath of the bugs last summer.
