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To: AnotherUnixGeek

[Actually, bed bugs are an American problem, not a Third World problem. The Third World isn’t controlled by environmentalists who have gotten DDT and other effective pesticides banned - they will spray down their planes, hotels, etc. and kill the bugs. Bed bugs have become a real problem in American 5 star hotels and now apparently in planes because we have banned DDT.]


I have acquaintances from Third World countries who did not even know what a bed bug was, let alone had a clue what they looked like. Their ignorance about this nook of the insect world remedied by coming to America. I always tell them - don’t say we never gave you anything.


49 posted on 07/21/2018 10:45:54 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
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To: Zhang Fei

YES. The handling of those chemical can cause cancer, however we have gloves and other gear that keeps the chemicals work on the bugs. Bedbugs are up more than 300% in past few years, and it is due to filth and importing of them from airplanes, hotels, and other places infested to government agencies, other hotels/motels, and into places set up to hold illegal immigrants.

Diatomaceous Earth is a natural product (ground up shells) that penetrates the majority of bug shells, and works on all types of bugs, spiders, and creep things. In the garden or the home, just vacuum up each week, and replace for a month, and bug free! Hard to do in a Hotel... white powder looks suspicious. LOL


50 posted on 07/21/2018 10:52:58 AM PDT by Ambrosia (Born in NC, then PA, NY,WV, NM, SC, and FL & back God/Freedom=Priority!)
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