Yet another parasitic accomplishment by the Windy City ...
Note: Los Angeles and Washington DC round out the top three.
Posted on 01/14/2016 1:56:22 AM PST by Zakeet
Bedbugs have apparently taken up a long-term residency in Chicago based on a new report from pest control company Orkin.
Chicago topped Orkin's "Top 50 Bed Bug Cities" list for the fourth year in a row. In all, fourteen cities in the Midwest made the list, more than any other region, according to Orkin. The pests were spotted in multiple cities in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky.
Orkin based its findings on the number of bedbug treatments employees conducted between January and December of 2015, according to the pest control company. The list includes both residential and commercial treatments.
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Here is the complete list of the top bedbug cities, according to Orkin:
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
Yet another parasitic accomplishment by the Windy City ...
Note: Los Angeles and Washington DC round out the top three.
I’d say it also leads in cockroaches.
Especially the two legged kind.
Had bb infestation in a building I owned. BB company told me that bb are common world wide and it is just American hyper-cleanliness that made them a problem in the States.
I spoke with several friends who are world travelers both in first and third world countries and they all told be this was balderdash. No people of any country consider bb anything but a problem to be eradicated. Including sub-Saharan African nations.
There might be a correlation between the number of bedbugs and the number of shootings.
And rats, ‘rats, and gats.
Another great accomplishment of the eco Nazis.
EPA has banned use of the more effective pest control chemicals. No surprise they are back.
DDT usage had bedbugs wiped out of the US in the 1950s and, apparently, that was too good for them.....
I see WashDC jumped to 3rd 11 places...boy if theY or Capitol got an infestation the commentary and jokes would be endless.
Of course one could make the case that those inside the 495Beltway are the bedbugs and WE are the host. After all they are in bed with everyone and suck the lifeblood out of us for their existence.
When vagrancy laws were done away with, so many bums piled into the Tulsa OK County Library that it had to close for a while due to a bed bug infestation.
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