[neverdem]

AP
Unfed bugs are 1/4 to 3/4 inch long. They are brown or red-brown in color and the upper surface of the body appears crinkled. Recently fed, they are engorged with blood, dull red in color.

Bloomberg wants to be president after he presides over an epidemic bedbug infestation!

[Crazieman]

DO: Search old warehouses for DDT and eliminate your bedbugs for good.

[digger48]

Thank you Rachel Carson. Chalk another one up for Ecological Hysteria

[mewzilla]

On a pestiferous NYC note, from March....

Health Commissioner: Rats Are Not A Health Risk

Run, Bloombug, run!

[Kozak]

Uh I beg to differ.
From eMedicine

“Mortality/Morbidity: Bedbug bites can create considerable anxiety and localized and occasionally systemic reactions. Sometimes, if the bite reactions are intensely pruritic, scratching with excoriations may be complicated by impetigo.

* Bedbugs may be a vector for hepatitis B and, in endemic areas, for American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease).

* Anaphylactoid reactions are well described. One case of an anaphylactoid reaction occurred in a 41-year-old businessman in a first-class urban hotel in America.

We have lots of immigrants from South America who carry Chagas disease.

[azhenfud]

I would like to know if there’s a link in their custodial/janitorial services and their hiring of questionably documented personnel.

[dandelion]

Three words:

D... D... T...

[DeLaine]

Cloverfield!

[dforest]

Geesh, even the bedbugs are getting that uppity uptown taste.

Maybe they like sucking on that rich blood.

Kind of having some odd fun here.

[Man50D]

A surge in global travel and mobility in all socioeconomic classes, combined with less toxic urban pesticides and the banning of DDT

Didn't all the so called experts warn us years ago DDT was bad? So much for sleeping tight!

[Revolting cat!]

I’ve been itching and scratching for a week and I’m not even in New York!

[neverdem]

DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass)

[rellimpank]

---"climate change", no doubt--all Bushes' fault---

--although that doesn't explain the infestation my folks hired man brought to the farm in 1943---I can still remember my mother and grandmother doing a complete housecleaning--

[andyk]

Louis Sorkin, an entomologist at the Museum of Natural History who keeps a colony of 1,000 bedbugs in his office and lets them feed on his arm.

That is just plain disgusting.

[rwgal]

May I add one more DO?

Get the heck out of there......

Meadow Muffin

[Cicero]

"That's not good enough," said City Councilman Gale Brewer (D-upper West Side.) "It's great that we're not smoking as much, and great that we're not eating trans fats, but we need to focus on bedbugs in the same aggressive manner."

Brewer wants to create a Bedbug Task Force . . . .

I love it when liberals tackle this sort of problem!

[Steamburg]

This Blue state epidemic will be coming to Denver soon with the Dem’s National Convention. Just one more step toward becoming a true metropolitan blue zone.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

A surge in global travel and mobility in all socioeconomic classes, combined with less toxic urban pesticides and the banning of DDT created a perfect storm for reviving the critters, which had been virtually dormant since World War II, experts say.

Once again, WE reap what the environmentalists sow.

[Tribune7]

I think they should put up a statue of Rachel Carson right in front of Gov. Spitzer's pop's apartment.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Prolific reproducers and hardy survivors, they can thrive in penthouses, flophouses or any environment where they can locate warm-blooded hosts, said Louis Sorkin, an entomologist at the Museum of Natural History who keeps a colony of 1,000 bedbugs in his office and lets them feed on his arm.

Makes me think of that entomologist who tried to pick up Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

[Hot Tabasco]

There ain't no bugs on me,

there ain't no bugs on me,

there might be bugs on some o' you lugs

but their ain't no bugs on me........