Comments on: Don’t let the (rebounding) bedbugs bite

By: Allbedbugs

Allbedbugs — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:11:38 +0000

Interesting article, good to see active research and experiments are being done in efforts to eradicate these pests once and for all.

By: Bed Bug Killer

Bed Bug Killer — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:46:17 +0000

I got bed bug 1 year ago and moved 4 times!

Finally got rid of those bed bugs. I go crazy about bed bugs.

Got sleepless night from these bed bugs. ohh..I hate them!

This is what I’ve learned:

1. Wash all your cloth in HOT water ( above 68 Celsius)
2. After washing, put your cloth in the dryer for at least 20 min (HOT)
3. Put all your cloth in a plastic back with zipper (no air can go inside)

4. Vacuum your mattress and bed frame
5. Steam vacuum your mattress is better
6. Spray your mattress 12 hours before your sleep with beg bug spray
7. Put double tape around those four legs of your bed
8. Move your bed away from the wall (so bed bug can not reach your bed through the wall)

- Do this at least for 1 week until your mattress is free of bed bugs

Your mattress is maybe free of bed bug, but you are not finished yet. Bed bugs are still hiding in the tiny holes or carpet. Especially those tiny eggs. They are almost invisible.

9. Vacuum your house
10 Vacuum your house
11. Seal the vacuum bag and throw it away immediately
12. Put a lot of double tape around your house
13. Organize your furniture
14 Put all furniture outside under the sun (must be hot temperature)
15. If you are in the summer, then spray bed

There are more steps, but I can write anymore here…

By: UofRgrad

UofRgrad — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:53:48 +0000

I was in an expensive hotel in Boston on a business trip. It was in the fall and no rooms were available anywhere because so many people were there for the fall colors. I looked as far out as Worcester and south all the way to RI. The one room that was available for $600 a night in 1999 was available for one reason only. I didn’t figure it out until years later. I kept waking up to this pinching feeling on my legs. In the morning I saw what looked like tiny streaks of blood on the sheets. I couldn’t see any marks on my skin to speak of. It seemed like it must have been a bad dream except for the marks on the sheets. Years later I read about the resurgence of bed bugs and linked the two. I consider myself very lucky that I didn’t take them home with me.

As for the resurgence taking so long – I believe the problem started to fester as more people from countries where bedbugs are endemic started to travel to the US. It takes awhile for the numbers to get big enough to be noticeable, but by the time they are noticed there are so many that the increase becomes dramatic.

By: Bedbug Food

Bedbug Food — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:49:52 +0000

I agree with Ed; every other source I’ve read attributes their comeback to the over-prevalence of DDT, causing them to become immune. Anything to help get rid of these things is much needed – shelling out hundreds of dollars to exterminators was the last option I, and many other poor college students that I know, had. Also, I believe these things are spreading all over the country. I’m in Orlando, and they’re becoming quite common here. Two of my TV shows (30 Rock and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia) have made bedbugs a main point of their episodes in the past couple of weeks. That has to say something.

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ideonexus.com » Blog Archive » Science Links for Moonday, 20091109 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:02:24 +0000

[...] With bed bugs making a comeback, researcher Changlu Wang is working on new, environmentally-friendly ways to get them back under control. [...]

By: Ed Darrell

Ed Darrell — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:23:13 +0000

Hmmmm. Some bedbugs were immune to DDT in the late 1940s, and by 1960 DDT was known not to be effective against them at all — so exterminators switched.

DDT wasn’t banned until 12 years later.

37 years after the ban on spraying DDT on cotton in Texas, bedbugs proliferate. That’s a helluva lag time, either for the cessation of use of DDT against bedbugs in 1960, or from the EPA’s change in registration for the stuff in 1972.

And, since bedbugs were already immune to DDT, why do you blame the ban on DDT for their resurgence? Shouldn’t it be blamed on the overuse of DDT?

By: Anders

Anders — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:37:53 +0000

I had bed bugs in mu room for a period, and it was probably one of the most terrifying experiences in my life. Waking up with ten of those bastards dug deep into my chest is something I will never forget!

An efficient way of getting rid of them would be much appreciated :)