Posted on 10/23/2011 7:15:22 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Thank you!!!
Also nothing like a little Chloradane to keep ants out of the house.
There is nothing new about toxins.
I do not know, but I have heard that Fleabaggers at Occupy Portland have an outbreak of scabies.
It turns out that isn't necessarily true.
Birds' eggs started to thin long before DDT.
DDT, Eggshells, and Me Cracking open the facts on birds and banned pesticides
It wasn't banned for "human health concerns" as the article says either.
How about that stuff Ricky the Exterminator uses? I think its made out of Chrysanthemum oil. Kills the heck out of wasps. All natural.
The Richmond bugs had demonstrated strong resistance to a class of insecticides known as pyrethroids—the agents of choice for exterminators.
Does washing the linens in super hot water and soap still kill them?
It’s a good thing that those bed bugs, from millions of years ago, didn’t figure on the vacuum cleaner in their evolutionary development.
The insecticide is not new..
Pyrethroids are just a little bit of tinkering with a natural compound found in a pyrethrin Chrysanthemum.
The compound existed in nature already.
Don’t bring anything that you had into a hotel room into the house until it has had the 140 degree treatment.
Most insecticides are based on naturally occurring toxins. It was just a small trait some had for a long time that probably didn’t matter much, but then the age of insecticides came on and that small trait kept a small number alive, and they bred, and now 60 years later we have bed bugs that are resistant to most insecticides.
Hot washing will kill them.
Unfortunately when daylight comes they scurry between the stitching in the mattress to snooze the day away.
It’s not evolution.. it’s man made selective breeding.
Just like dogs from wolves .
It’s not selective breeding, that involves deliberate action. We chose the most mellow wolves as companions and bred them into dogs. We didn’t chose the bed bugs that were resistant to toxins, we just failed to kill them, that’s evolution.
Well... I can tell you that here in Illinois, since the ban ... we DO have the eagles back.
Correlation does not equal causation. The second article I linked shows that there was very little correlation between DDT use and the thinning of the egg shells of raptors.
Just unintended consequences.
We still selected the survivors.
Also the bed bugs are still bed bugs.. They aren’t on their way to being giraffes.
Different traits among the species isn’t a new species.
Humans come in a variety of hues.. pinks, browns and sallows...They are still humans.. The genetics regulate the outward appearance.
Just a different trait in the same bug.
Actually bedbugs like wood. The most important factor isn't material (fabric vs wood) but distance from places where people spend time hanging out. Bedbugs are lazy and will stay very close to where their food hangs out. They only move away from beds, sofas and chairs when the colony has gotten large enough to push them out further. Dressers in hotel rooms tend to be just a foot or two from the bed.
The safest place would probably be the the closet area on top of one of those folding racks. Up off the carpet and also the furthest distance from the bed.
Does it kill eggs? Hatched bedbugs are not hard to kill if you can get to them, it's the eggs.
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