Posted on 09/14/2010 11:32:23 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
ST. LOUIS — Ten years ago, if pest control companies treated one home a year for bedbugs, it was unusual. But Joe Wells, a heat specialist and bedbug supervisor with Rottler Pest & Lawn Solutions in St. Louis, said he'll treat eight residences this week and next for the pesky blood suckers. He uses blasts of heat hot enough to warm an Easter ham. A resurgence of the bedbugs nationwide in recent months has become a bane and a boon. A bane for those who must live with the uninvited guests; a boon for those trained to get rid of them.
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Even the best hotels in Vegas are dealing with this problem. Luxor, Wynn, Ceasars Palace,etc. P.C. Police won't allow anyone to say international travellers are a big part of the problem.
Also thanks to the illegal aliens who brought them back to our country. And thanks to those who encourage them to come.
I wonder, is this deliberate vandalization? Maybe some sort of low level terrorist attack? Either that or eco-freaks who want to give the bugs a nice place to stay. Or welfare thugs?
This is so revolting.
When you go into a hotel, put your luggage on a hard surface and strip down the bed to the mattress. Look along the seams and look for flecks of reddish-brown (excreted blood).
I think I will start travelling with an LED flashlight, and a black light. It’s an icky world out there.
Immigrants are not big on cleanliness.
Of course not. Which is regretful. Pity that the government has totally abdicated responsibility for taking care of its citizenry beyond welfare and being politically correct and paranoid about snacks.
It makes sense.....These eco-freaks hate our life style. These bugs have been found in movie theaters, restaurants, train stations and airports. Just about anywhere that has heavy public use.
nature fills every void in temporary cycles. if you don't believe me, ask the 500 crows that recently took up residence in my neighborhood. i have learned to enjoy waking up at 4am with them every day... kinda.. it is fabulous to watch them fly in at twilight and occupy every tree within sight.
these things come and go naturally; japanese beetles, jypsymoths, yellowjackets, headlice, woodboarers.... it goes on seasonally. when it ends we end. no one bitches when the grouse, pheasant, deer and bass get huge and overpopulate for a season or two.
I wrote to Pittsburgh officials suggesting that the city honor one if it’s natives with an annual Rachel Carson Bedbug Festival. Have not heard back from them yet...
Don’t use a blacklight in your hotel rooms. There are things you just don’t want to know if you plan or need to to travel regularly. A blacklight will show you the disturbing truth that ickiness is the norm not the exception.
they used to dynamite trees with crows.
My neighbor a frequent world traveler, brought them back about a year ago. Soon his kids brought them to my house and soon I had bedbugs in my kids room. Nt knowing what was going on, my daughter all biten up was taken to the doctor and promptly diagnosed with chickenpox...2-3 weeks pass, still diagnosed chicken pox, mild ongoing case because she had the vaccine, so they said. Then my son started getting bit and my neighbor fessed up and said he had them and I should check. I found them.
While he took the exterminator approach. I took the insane (dynamite the trees!!!!!) get everything out of the room into black bags on the deck in the 100 degree heat over the summer, burn the mattress and wood frames they were sitting on. All done one worknight evening till four in the morning, stuff went out the window... The next day I sprayed the whole room down and do it once a week for four weeks. The kids slept in the living room on new airmatresses. Those little vampires are horrible creatures. My neighbor spent 1900 bucks thus far on extermination. Mine seem to be gone now, been about three months. (knock on wood) He still has them and his kids don’t sleep over anymore, we have some campouts in the back yard though.
I might live with crows, but bedbugs no way.
scared the crap out of the crows; i know this to be fact because i had to scrape it off my windshield every day. my outdoor cat even had a dried turd on its head.
in any case the expended rocket bodies were landing on my roof. the police were called and a report filed. my neighbor is well aware that the next rocket he shoots my way will result in a nasty interpersonal encounter.
the crows remain. they were never here before and will be gone in their own time.
I wonder what would happen if it were eco-freaks. Lynchings in the street I wager just to start. Besides, it’s so widespread I have to wonder if whether or not some sabotage is at work.
Supposedly bedbugs have become somewhat resistant to DDT. The real problem was the banning of a couple effective pesticides by Clinton’s EPA in the 90s. Those the greenies still allow don’t work great against bedbugs. So we can hope lots of greenies live in or hold meetings in bedbug ridden NYC and reap what they’ve sown.
"International Travelers" in overloaded 4WD's.
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