Posted on 08/17/2011 1:00:43 PM PDT by markomalley
Just as students head back to college and families finish summer vacations comes the latest bad news from pest control companies: Bedbug infestations are getting worse and becoming more common in some places, including dorms, hotels, nursing homes, hospitals, office buildings, and schools and day-care centers.
According to a survey released Wednesday by the National Pest Management Association and the University of Kentucky, pest control companies say there has been double-digit growth in infestations in the past year.
About 54 percent of pest companies reported treating bedbugs in college dorms, compared with 35 percent in 2010; 80 percent reported treating hotels, compared with 67 percent the year before, and 36 percent report treating schools and day-care settings for the bugs, more than triple the 10 percent in 2010.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
My mom said they use to put the bed posts in cans and fill them with kerosene I think it was. Doesn’t sound exactly safe when you consider they also heated with fire places.
Meanwhile we've got animals sneaking in our southern border from messyco. I wonder if there's a correlation?
My wife says they do the same in her native country and it works. Also keeps snakes, etc., away.
Their just doing the biting that American bugs don’t want to do.
We should get the names of the EPA lawyers (Like the ones who shut down the farms in the San Jacinto valley) and give them some of nature’s little creatures to sleep with...
“but they’ve since developed resistance.”
Not true, although people like yourself are swallowing this farbrication.
Just telling it like it really is.
Is DDT being made anywhere in the world today? Just wondering.
Just the thought of smelling kerosene all night peeeu...lol I can see why it would work though.
There may be claims of that but it isn’t true. DDT works well on bed bugs.
Yep, this is what happens when a first-world nation allows millions of third-world immigrants to walk across the border unchecked.
Guess it would be preferable over getting bit all night long.
DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide under the Stockholm Convention, but its limited use in disease vector control continues to this day and remains controversial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT
there is an answer I’ve bought and used it CEDAR CIDE
it’s a process of extracting cedar oil and fogging it in rooms....kills not only bed bugs but lice, flies and all their larve
it was invented and cubby holed for the soldiers in Iraq and afghanistan
100 % biodegradable too
CEDAR CIDE.com
I actually kind of like kerosene/diesel/jet fuel. Pretty good hand lotion in a pinch. YMMV.
The same article's claim that Clinton's EPA banned 2 pesticides useful against bed bugs was easier for me to believe. Can you confirm that part?
As a Dermatologist I'm tasked to identify itchy folks who need to contact their exterminator. I can calm them, but it's up to the exterminator to cure them. Alas differentiating bedbug bites from other insects' isn't an exact science. I haven't seen a lot of cases here in the Iowa Quad Cities.
I did receive confirmation of another case from a patient yesterday. He said the exterminator told him the increase was due to them being imported by immigrants, especially from Africa, who weren't very sensitive to their bites. I have no idea whether that very non-PC third hand claim is correct. Personally I'd been blaming Clinton and the liberal EPA. Increased travel by people clearly aids bedbug's spread; Obama and his liberals crashing the economy might actually reduce the spread by reducing travel. However Obama's 40 vehicle motorcade, less the one drunk secret service agent, spent last night in town. If I find an uptake over the next month I'll blame them.
Enjoying that bipartisan globalism?
“Stop the hitchhiking bug.”
Thank you for your response.
I will answer it tomorrow. I didn´t sleep too well last night and need to turn in early....
It gets a tad complicated, which I need to research again (with pleasure), because I need to update myself on the subject.
One thought, though, before I turn off. This DDT thing could all be put to rest by taking a room full of bedbugs and spraying the room and bugs with DDT. I bet not one bug would be found the next day. But the naysayers don´t dare.
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