Posted on 09/22/2010 11:37:30 AM PDT by JoeProBono
ROSEMONT, Ill.- The first-ever North American Bed Bug Summit, which opened Tuesday near Chicago, attracted a sellout crowd to hear experts on the tiny biters, organizers said.
That appears to be one more sign that bed bugs, once almost routed in the United States by pesticides, are back in a big way, the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald reported.
"Ten years ago we got about one call about bed bugs a year, and now we get at least one call a day," Melaney Arnold, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Public Health, told the newspaper.
Organizers of the two-day event at the Hyatt hotel in Rosemont put together a panel of 14 entomologists and other bed bug experts, WGN-TV, Chicago, reported.
Curt Colwell, an entomologist with the state of Illinois, said until recently the only bed bugs he had seen were dead. He said one problem in dealing with their comeback is a lack of hard information, including what percentage of the bed bug population has become pesticide-resistant.
So how many bugs signed up! ;-)
Gee. One can only wonder why there is this serious infestation of bed bugs.
Head lice are making a big comeback as well!
Wonder what’s going on South of the Border?
Are they the old "Mexican Jumping Beans"???
MEXICO. The gift that keeps on giving!
DDT witout it this problem becomes bigger.
It's coming North of the Border.
If only we could get rid of all the parasites in this country.
The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’ meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.
There is another pesticide, propoxur, that IS effective but has been banned for indoor use by the EPA.
CAPTION THIS PING!!!
Are there bugs in your bed, comrade?
Call the FBI!
I don’t want to hear that about head lice! I contracted lice from my daughter many years ago when there was an epidemic at her school and I couldn’t eat/sleep well for days! I was freaked out because when we got home from the nurse’s office with the shampoo the nurse recommended, and after using, it my mother in law started raking through my hair with the little comb, I actually saw more than one of these little buggers still alive (after the shampoo)and wriggling it’s legs! I was so paranoid I kept doing the treatment every day for a week, because I was still itchy and thought they weren’t being killed, I lived with a towel wrapped tight on my head as if to “seperate” these creepy crawlies from myself. Bedbugs aren’t nearly as bad because they supposedly don’t “live on you.”
If you are like me and find a lot of bugs creepy and wouldn’t want “one” crawling on you, try having them living on your head ewwwww.
My niece had a terrible time with lice - the shampoos did nothing, nor did olive oil. But the one thing that did work (folks swore by it online) was to dye her hair. There is something in the dye that repels lice big time and keeps them away for a long time.
I think our choices are DDT or bedbugs.
Just like in Africa, the choices are DDT or malaria.
They get malaria, though, because we are all so “green.”
“The fact is, bed bugs started showing resistance to DDT as early as 1948 in Hawaii, and reports from the 1950s and 1960s, as well more recently, tell us that bed bugs were not killed when spraying with DDT was done”
OK, the other banned pesticide, then!
I still can’t believe how the Africans die and suffer in droves in Africa, and can’t get their hands on DDT.
I think I read an article about a year ago, where one African nation was starting to use it anyway.
Carl Massicott, with Advanced K9 Detectives, leads his beagle dog Radar on a demonstration of how they sniff for bed bugs, during a visit to New York. Pest control company Terminex released a list Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 of the 15 most bedbug-infested cities, and New York, Philadelphia and Detroit have scratched their way to the top.
Not mentioned is the fact that the bed bug reinfestation has coincided directly with the increase in illegal immigration. Facts are stubborn things. Sometimes they are also itchy things.
I also got head lice from my kids many years ago. After spending an ENTIRE day washing 2 kids hair and picking nits, I went to the bathroom to get ready to go out to dinner with the fam and watched a bug run through my hair. I stayed home, skipped dinner, and worked on my own hair, which happened to be long enough to sit on. Then I changed every bed, stored stuffed lovies and fumigated the house. I was not going through that again!
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