Posted on 09/21/2010 7:33:58 PM PDT by PROCON
too funny.
one of my Tea Party friends spoke at this event today.
we met working for Dr. Miller-Meeks for Congress.
LOL!
No expert but i have read a lot. DDT has limited effectiveness, and Pyrethrins are mainly used instead, but resistance is increasing. Propoxur is sppd to be most effective, but is a pesticide and neurotoxin banned in the 1990s out of concern for its effects on children.
70-90% Alcohol kill’em on contact, but has no residual effect. Food-Grade Diatomaceous Earth works slowly. Best to really pray in Jesus.
See http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2011509,00.html
http://www.bedbugbattleplan.com/content/view/42/33/
http://www.bedbugcentral.com/bedbugs101/topic.cfm/biology-
The cost of having a product registered is now estimated to be around $ 100 million.
This cost naturally limits the number of products that make it to the marketplace. In addition, there has been a 10 to 15 year trend in reducing the number of pesticide products that receive registration for use in the indoor environment. In short, it is very hard to get new pesticides registered that are labeled for indoor use (as opposed to agricultural use).
However, throughout this trend of limiting indoor pesticides, we were bed bug free. Like the EPA, many people have concerns about applying chemicals where children sleep or play. But, if bed bugs should become as big a problem as they were at the beginning of the 20th century, the public may demand that the federal government register products that are effective against bed bugs. We will just have to wait and see. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12133597/
I'm not an entomologist, but at least I looked it up.
Here is an article abstract from some entomologists in which they say that DDT had the least effect on bedbugs of 11 pesticides they tried, and that even a solution that was 10% DDT could not even kill half the bedbugs.
Apparently these scientists suspect that the bedbugs are spreading from chicken-processing plants.
ha ha you got me. But well they give the lice a aspirin and then the specialists pick them out of your hair.
I’m starting to hear about breakouts here in Kansas/Missouri as well. Friend had to vacate new apartment due to infestation from upstair apartment. Exterminators tried spraying; but told her that extreme heat was the only guarantee.
businesses that can cure your hair lice.
I didn’t know they were sick?
“2010 North American Bed Bug Summit”
Sounds like something that should be run by the cockroaches at the UN.
WE are a compassionate people. Lice have rights (under Sunstien they also have lawyers). So the slaveholders (previously known as infested) of the lice pay for the licensed, certified and state approved specialists — in the free market mind you — to remove the innocent lice (once sedated and given aspirin) from your head (the ACLU is looking into this wholesale deportation of lice — but have not filed yet). Of course you will pay the piper ... uhhh picker.
Yep, I’ve seen the literature from “La Schnozza” the
indigenious lice organization, they state that they were
here long before man developed consciousness, and that
we should just “bugger off”.
I think in Apartments, one reason that they spread is that people throw out theri bed bug infested stuff, clothes, bedding, furniture, then another person comes by, and sees it, and says, “oh, that’s a perfectly good looking couch”, and spread it that way.
You may be right. Recycling may be the death of us.
A friend’s daughter who lived in NY City said that nobody buys furniture, you can collect it on the streets when people move out.
Interesting. Being a nonsmoker, I am always leery of second-hand furniture, especially when it is displayed outside as at a yard sale. I figure it is difficult to determine whether the furniture has embedded smells from tobacco, human or pet urine or other sources. I thought New Yorkers were pretty cynical and untrusting people. Guess not when it comes to furnishing your pad.
Forgot to mention a true story. My husband bought some ancient audio equipment on eBay. When it arrive, being near Christmastime, I decided to just wrap it up as a present, as is, still in its mailing packaging. A few days later on Christmas morning he opened it and we nearly fell over from the cigarette fumes. He had a major chore cleaning that antique up. (For the uninitiated, tobacco smoke forms a noxious coating on the warm electronic parts exposed to it.)
Hitch a ride on clothes to and from apartments or they just go through outlets to the other side of the wall.
A while back on of the networks did an expose of bedspreads in hotel rooms. They used some kind of ultraviolet light that showed up stains that were not visible to the naked eye. I don’t want to get into details but there was a lot of nasty stuff on those bedspreads because they were not even washed between visitors.
They’d walk. If you can stick a playing card in a crack an adult bed bug can crawl through it. If you can stick a piece of notepaper in a crack a baby bed bug can crawl through it. Or, they can go from host to host. I’ve got bugs. I go into someone else’s apartment. Bingo - they’ve got bugs.
I talked to my friend last night. When you go to a hotel room, take a flashlight. Leave your bags, etc. in the hallway. Go to the bed and kneel down next to the headboard. Look at the crack where it attaches to the wall. Look in the crack for bedbugs (they’ll hide there during the day). They’ll be dark reddish-brown, about 2 mm x 1 mm. Look for eggs - they’re waxy-white, about 1 mm and ovoid. They may be single or in clusters. Look for fecal deposits. They’ll be about 1 mm in diameter. Use a wet tissue and wipe them. If they don’t come up, it’s the antiquing effect that is used sometimes on furniture. If they do wipe up, it’s bed bug feces. Leave the room immediately, check your clothing, go down to the desk and ask for another room.
If you suspect after you’ve been in the room that you’ve been bitten, put all your clothes in a bag. Put that in your suitcase and put the case in a bag. Check yourself and the clothing you’re wearing carefully and go home. Take the clothing bag out of your suitcase outside (and out of your car). Close the suitcase bag back up. Dump the clothes directly in the washing machine. Don’t worry about the water temperature. That’s not what kills the bugs. After you wash them, put them directly in the dryer and dry them on high heat for an hour. THAT’S what kills the bugs. Leave your suitcase in the bag. If you’re going to use it before a year is up (these guys can live a long time between meals) then you’ll need to treat it with either insecticide or heat - I didn’t ask for details on that.
They’d walk. If you can stick a playing card in a crack an adult bed bug can crawl through it. If you can stick a piece of notepaper in a crack a baby bed bug can crawl through it. Or, they can go from host to host. I’ve got bugs. I go into someone else’s apartment. Bingo - they’ve got bugs.
I talked to my friend last night. When you go to a hotel room, take a flashlight. Leave your bags, etc. in the hallway. Go to the bed and kneel down next to the headboard. Look at the crack where it attaches to the wall. Look in the crack for bedbugs (they’ll hide there during the day). They’ll be dark reddish-brown, about 2 mm x 1 mm. Look for eggs - they’re waxy-white, about 1 mm and ovoid. They may be single or in clusters. Look for fecal deposits. They’ll be about 1 mm in diameter. Use a wet tissue and wipe them. If they don’t come up, it’s the antiquing effect that is used sometimes on furniture. If they do wipe up, it’s bed bug feces. Leave the room immediately, check your clothing, go down to the desk and ask for another room.
If you suspect after you’ve been in the room that you’ve been bitten, put all your clothes in a bag. Put that in your suitcase and put the case in a bag. Check yourself and the clothing you’re wearing carefully and go home. Take the clothing bag out of your suitcase outside (and out of your car). Close the suitcase bag back up. Dump the clothes directly in the washing machine. Don’t worry about the water temperature. That’s not what kills the bugs. After you wash them, put them directly in the dryer and dry them on high heat for an hour. THAT’S what kills the bugs. Leave your suitcase in the bag. If you’re going to use it before a year is up (these guys can live a long time between meals) then you’ll need to treat it with either insecticide or heat - I didn’t ask for details on that.
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