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.
One other factoid my buddy turned up was that 1/6 of all homes have bed bugs. So maybe you are in the luckier 5/6. I’m not even sure all wild areas have them. If they cannot hide well enough during a cold freeze, they die.
My family had gas stoves and never won the lottery.
I ditto this one.
I’ve found the opposite is true in my circles. The key to keeping bed bugs away is ..
... Cleaning the house.
I live in a relatively new farmhouse (it’s only 100 years old) and believe me - I can show you some sort of rodent or bug in under 10 minutes of looking. (wolf spiders are my common find. I hate spiders.) and I can sweep my floors in a continous loop for eternity and still sweep up piles of dirt (As someone in a 100 year old house can agree) but we’re good to go.
I run electric stove, but I run coal heat.
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.