Posted on 09/19/2010 4:47:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW YORK, - New York's spreading bedbugs have struck another high-profile Manhattan store, Niketown, Nike announced Saturday.
Nike's flagship store on East 57th Street was forced to close Saturday, the New York Daily News reported.
"Our primary concern is the well-being of our consumers and sales associates," Nike's statement said. "We are taking all proper steps to eradicate the problem and we expect the store to reopen shortly."
The five-story Niketown, with big-name endorsers like Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter, sells wares ranging from expensive footwear to headbands to T-shirts.
Before hitting Niketown New York, the insects are known to have bitten into the Empire State Building, the Hollister store in SoHo, the Brooklyn district attorney's office, a Times Square movie theater and the Time Warner Center.
A study by the pest control company Terminix found New York had the nation's worst bedbug infestation.
> DDT
Effective and ecologically sound, Rachel Carson notwithstanding.
They have beds in their store?
Thank an illegal alien....
and don’t forget to thank him/her for TB and whooping cough too.
Yes, we need it. Thank you Rachel Carson.
Everyone always mentions DDT when the topic of bedbugs comes up, but bedbugs developed resistance to DDT a long time ago, and are still largely resistant to DDT despite it not being used for so long. DDT would almost certainly prove ineffective at controlling bedbugs on a large scale.
Source on that if you have one? As I read it, DDT is the ultimate insecticide and nothing ever really became resistant to it despite massive usage.
A town full of bedbugs with a cockroach for a mayor.
I believe bedbugs were the exception to the general lack of resistance to DDT, http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3954/1523-5475-25.1.41 that’s one recent study showing that owing to the high levels of resistance, DDT was the least effective at killing bedbugs of 12 insecticides tested.
I believe DDT was not used for bedbugs but rather another chemical was used but is also banned for indoor use. I remember reading about it. I'll look for it...
Post of the Morning ! Well played sir, well played.
Although, DDT resistance appeared within a few years, control remained effective with the other chlorinated hydrocarbons, particularly lindane, and eventually the organophosphate insecticide malathion. By the middle 1950’s, bed bugs had changed from a major household pest to an occasional pest in socially depressed settings or other unusual circumstances. A rare bed bug problem might show up in shelters, prisons, youth hostels, or cabins but almost never in homes or hotels.
The present grief is a direct consequence of banning those classes of chemicals.
Did the EPA create the bedbug revival?
The debate isn’t over long-banned DDT, since modern bed bugs have developed a tolerance for that chemical. But in the pre-1996 regime, experts say, bed bugs were “collateral damage” from broader and more aggressive use of now-banned pesticides like Malathion and Propoxur.
US grapples with bedbugs, misuse of pesticides
Ohio authorities, struggling against widespread infestations in Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and other cities, are pleading with EPA to approve the indoor use of the pesticide propoxur, which the agency considers a probable carcinogen and banned for in-home use in 2007. About 25 other states are supporting Ohio's request for an emergency exemption.
Thank the Federal gov’mt and the EPA for this one...
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