bug sheets
Posted on 11/15/2011 6:45:48 PM PST by daniel1212
Questions:
What is the difference in response to this past and current plagues, and what is the balance between health concerns for mammals and the need to deal with insects?
So whats the problem? You got bedbugs?
The quality of your METHAMPHETAMINE.
It kinda does beg the question doesn’t it?
Nuke the site from orbit it’s the only way to be sure.
IBTZ??????
Sulfur, which when burned gives off sulfur dioxide gas, is the oldest known insecticide, when brimstone was used as a fumigant up to 3,000 years ago.
Hell is bedbug free.
Outlawing DDT was the major reason they are coming back.
Hey great link, had no idea this site existed.
That certainly plays some part but mainly from uncontrolled immigration would be my guest. Also culturally and socially because basically people are becoming slobs.
We collected clothes to give to the poor and homeless, and some came with them, and so now i have experience.
Quality greatly varies, and there is some other problems, but you can express conservative viewpoints.
I forgot about that liberal possibility, although i have seen global warming being suggested as a reason for the resurgence. Seriously!
That and increased clutter, and regulation:
Dr. Michael Potter, a professor and urban entomologist at the University of Kentucky, stated, “What made this problem pretty much go away for decades was the availability of very effective, long-lasting insecticides that were cheap, affordable and available not only to pest control companies but to consumers over the counter,” he said. Having conducted a study comparing older pesticides to those used today, he found that insecticides in two families, organophosphites and carbamates, are especially effective at eradicating bed bugs. While some of these compounds can be found in insect traps or spot treatments, most are no longer permitted for use by pest-control professionals in North America.
...carbamates, which include carbofuran, aldicarb (Temik), chlorfenapyr (Propoxur), carbaryl (Sevin), and bendiocarb (Ficam). Carbamates typically degrade faster than organochlorines, and some of them can be just as lethal, while others are seen as less toxic. The use of such is restricted by the EPA, and which has banned the highly toxic carbofuran, while the manufacturer of bendiocarb has voluntarily cancelled its registration, which can cost up to $100 million in order to obtain EPA approval.
bug sheets
You missed the money quote - DDT does not move to mammals.
We are killing our kids with the new bug poisons.
1) Modern bedbugs are immune to DDT
2) Immigrants (both legal and illegal) and tourists from the third world are the reason bedbugs are back.
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