Posted on 07/05/2025 7:48:37 AM PDT by george76
Chicago, long infested with crime and poverty, keeps crawling ahead of its rivals to remain the champion of one more side effect of its decline.
Pest control company Orkin said that the deep-blue Democrat-dominated city is top in the nation in bed bugs for the fifth consecutive year.
Orkin bases its list on data from metro areas where the company has been called in to provide bed bug treatments between May 15, 2024, and May 14, 2025. Both residential and commercial calls are counted.
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Although Chicago remains on top, Orkin noted that Hartford, Connecticut, crawled onto its list of the top 50 metro areas in America for the first time, debuting at number 35, up 48 places from 2024.
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Peoria, Illinois, which did not make the top 50 list last year, joined the itchy 50 at number 33.
Following Chicago, the rest of the top 10, in order, included: Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit; Los Angeles; Indianapolis, Indiana; Washington, D.C.; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Columbus, Ohio; Champaign, Illinois; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Metro areas making double-digit increases in the ranking included Cedar Rapids, Iowa, up 19 places to come in in 20th place; Omaha, Nebraska, which rose 10 places to 26th; South Bend, Indiana, which rose 10 places to 27th; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which rose 14 places to come in at 34th; Boston, which rose 10 spots to be 47th; and San Diego, which rose 10 spots to be 49th.
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Bed bugs are some of the most resilient pests in the world, making them extremely difficult to control if brought into a home or hotel,
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What makes bed bugs especially challenging is their growing resistance to certain treatments, which is why early detection and proactive prevention are so critical
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You can heat up and spray bedbugs to rid yourself of the pests.
Democrats are much harder to get rid of.
LOL! I can believe that. A lot of drivebys are caused by people trying to take out the bed bugs.
Gee, I wonder why.
Chicago is once again ranked first = the most rat-infested in the United States.
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Sounds like one of Egypts 10 plagues......only 9 more to go for chicango
You’re #1!
ROFLMAO at that headline!
I feel sorry for those bedbugs having to live among so many democrats.
Following Chicago, the rest of the top 10, in order, included: Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit; Los Angeles; Indianapolis, Indiana; Washington, D.C.; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Columbus, Ohio; Champaign, Illinois; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Champaign, a city I have some familiarity with. Interesting. Yet another reason never to go back.
My friend, who owns a pest control company, said, that bedbugs are great travelers. You can find them at Ashley Furniture, at Dillard's or at the Hyatt.
One wonders if anyone might be investigating potential co-infestations of T.B and/or scabies?
I dont think Indianapolis is a sanctuary city but it is high on the list.
Here’s an article about using an alternative treatment for bedbugs. Note the source.
From 2012.
https://www.clordisys.com/pdfs/articles/bedbugs.pdf
One of my renters left bedbugs in the unit...and a full bottle of Oxycodone under the bed.
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“and a full bottle of Oxycodone under the bed.”
if you knew how to safely find a buyer, you could sell that bottle for enough to pay for the bedbug treatments ...
***Bed bugs are some of the most resilient pests in the world,***
DDT ain’t out of style.
OH WAIT! It IS out of style. Almost made bed bugs an endangered species till Rachel Carson came along.
Bed Bug-Infested Chicago Tops Gross List of Cities with the Worst Democrat Problems
Bedbugs not the murdering of black men BY black men
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