A common bedbug engorged with blood after feeding on a human arm.
Posted on 08/07/2006 2:19:17 PM PDT by kingattax
ATLANTA — After waking up one night in sheets teeming with tiny bugs, Josh Benton couldn't sleep for months and kept a flashlight and can of Raid with him in bed.
"We were afraid to even tell people about it at first," Benton said of the bedbugs in his home. "It feels like maybe some way you're living is encouraging this, that you're living in a bad neighborhood or have a dirty apartment."
Absent from the U.S. for so long that some thought they were a myth, bedbugs are back. Entomologists and pest control professionals are reporting a dramatic increase in infestations throughout the country, and no one knows exactly why.
"It's no secret that bedbugs are making a comeback," said Dan Suiter, an associate professor of entomology at the University of Georgia.
Before World War II, bedbug infestations were common in the U.S., but they were virtually eradicated through improvements in hygiene and the widespread use of DDT in the 1940s and 1950s.
Bedbugs are tiny brownish, flattened insects that feed exclusively on the blood of animals and humans. Their bites may cause itchy red welts or swelling
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A common bedbug engorged with blood after feeding on a human arm.
lol...good one
Found in all of Clinton's favorite sleazy motels....except the one's with the mirrors on the ceilings..
Before World War II, bedbug infestations were common in the U.S., but they were virtually eradicated through improvements in hygiene and the widespread use of DDT in the 1940s and 1950s.
Uh, we banned DDT and hygiene, so they're back.
Here's a couple of clues:
For starters, how clean did chambermaid Maria Illegal leave that hotel room so you could have some memories of the trip ?
Just wait.
Bush's fault.
Stories like this make me glad that I don't travel or go any place for vacation.
Bedbug infestation, liberal infestation. Parasites of a feather.
First off, this could have happened in any Hotel/Motel in the nation. All it takes is one carrier to stay in a room and the infestation begins. I'm a Hotel General Manager who opened up a new Hotel 4 years ago. Within a year we had our first and thankfully ONLY case of bed bugs infestation. A general contractor had stayed in the room for about 3 weeks before complaining about minor bites, which he thought he was getting at the job sight. In a few days the bites got worse and we identified the problem. We immediately shut down the room, threw out all the furniture, pest control service came in and took care of the room. Took about a week, but it killed the bed bugs and thankfully we've had no further instances since.
I think the "absent from the U.S. for so long" might be the real myth.
Toward the end of an extended stay at a YMCA some twenty years ago (let's just say I had hit on some hard times) I noticed several bedbugs crawling on the mattess one night and, upon stripping off the bed linen, found tons of them camped out along the piping on the mattress seams. I spent a large portion of the night squashing them (not to be too gross, but it was kind of like squishing zits)and the Y bug-bombed the place a few days later, but since I moved out shortly afterward, I never found out how bad the problem was or if the bombing helped.
It ain't racist, it's the truth. I have been in a number of hotel/motel properties in the last few years that were in a deplorable state (including some that were previously in good nick). The new management *koff koff* have imported their culture of uncleanliness as they bury every nickel the place takes in.
We have the massive influx of 3rd world immigrants to thank for many things in addition to the return of bed bugs, including the rise in TB and the rise in exotic GI illnesses related to poor hygiene practices (certain forms of hepatitis, the diarrhea/fever illness passing around waterparks, etc.).
I am absolutely not a racist, this is simply a fact. The left, including the CDC, will remain P.C. in their approach even if they and all their families come down with TB, GI illness, and bedbugs. P.C. is eventually going to affect the health of us all, maybe even ultimately in the P.C. way we seem to be dealing with the M.E. and Islamofascism.
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