“Don’t let the bedbugs bite” isn’t just a cutesy phrase at Texas A&M.
 

It’s a serious warning.
 

The bite-sized bloodsucking beasts have invaded campus. AllHeadlineNews.com reports:

Dan Mizer, associate director of residence life at Texas A&M University, which has dealt with bedbugs in the past, explained the bedbug campus invasion to more foreign travel by students, a larger bedbug population, new rules that discourage widespread fumigation and maybe tougher bugs more resistant to pesticides.
 

A&M spent $37,000 in 2007 to bring in bedbug-sniffing dogs. This fall, Mizer said, the university will tap a Minnesota firm that will heat the rooms overnight to 130 degrees to kill the insects, but will not harm the residents' belongings.

Bedbug-sniffing dogs and sweating out the perpetrators? The war on bedbugs is replacing the war on drugs.

But the Aggies aren’t the only ones with the parasite problem. Ohio State and the University of Florida have both admitted to bedbug outbreaks.

With this announcement, college students across the country are breathing a sigh of relief now that they know that’s where the itching is coming from.