My family, for many generations, have had gas stoves and NEVER has anyone of my immediate family members had ANY bedbugs; NOT EVER! And FYI....I live in the middle of the woods.
Me too. I don’t even know that bedbugs are in the woods. They’re picked up when you visit places where other people either have an infestation or from public spaces that have been infested by people who have picked them up from another public place, or have them at home.
Sounds awful, but the uptick is probably due to illegal immigrants flooding the borders, bringing them in, just like they have brought all the diseases with them that we got rid of decades ago.
And I might be wrong, but I've always been under the impression that bedbugs were not something that mostly bedeviled rural or exurban places; rather that they were a thing more common in big cities; especially places where immigrants gathered.