I’m fortunate not to have any bed bugs in our house but I swear to God every time I turn around there’s some story in the news about bed bugs, where they’re turning up, how they’re impossible to get rid of, etc… Now everywhere I go I think I see bedbugs. We’re hearing how they’re shutting stores and offices in NYC due to outbreaks, how they are showing up in movie theater seats, apparently in cars now, etc,.
I can’t stand the thought of travelling and staying in hotels. What about taking an airplane? If you’ve done everything you can to avoid bedbugs/check for them when in a hotel what about the douche-bag whose luggage is lying up against yours in the overhead bin? What if their luggage is full of bugs, can they spread to yours?
Is this the plague of 2010 or is it just another case of the media fear mongering? Is there no way to get rid of these fucking bugs? Is it a new mutant strand that’s immune to all chemicals known to man used to get rid of bugs? This ain’t Starship Troopers… break out the DEET and zap these crawlers.
There’s a time and a place to be environmentally friendly, health conscious, etc. Find some fucking spray/poison or whatever and start killing these little bastards before they start to spread disease (if that’s possible).
My condolences to those that are facing this problem right now. I heard it’s a bitch to deal with. —Gross
This article appears in Oct 7-13, 2010.
OMG, they could also have the EBOLA MONKEY in their ready to pounce…
They could have a KING COBRA!
OR A BLACK WIDOW!
you don’t know! HOW CAN YOU SLEEP!!!!!!
You don’t even have a problem and you are freaking out…
sounds like media fear mongering to me.
take it down a notch and breathe.
I’m with zZz on this one.
Tin foil hat locked and gamma ray gun loaded.
I’m ready.
Actually, bed bugs are a huge problem in some areas lately. But rather than listening to the mainstream media about it (who always blow things out of proportion and almost always get their facts wrong) get your information from non-mainstream media sources.
Here’s an interesting audio interview with the Bug Girl from one of my favorite podcasts that has some helpful tips, and might set your mind at ease about a few things. But be warned, it will make you itchy.
http://c4.libsyn.com/media/19482/skepticas…
I wonder how many people realize the number of insects are around them at any time or for that matter the number that on personally on them including after having a shower? I also how many of these people just love to go camping or hiking in the woods.
Also, here are some links to Bug Girl’s website that have some helpful and random information about bed bugs:
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/…
http://www.ipmctoc.umn.edu/Travellers_prev…
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/…
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/…
My bro came back from NYC last week – when he and his wife checked into a hotel, they told them to keep their suitcases closed and to bag the clothes that they wore that day. It’s a pretty serious problem there, even at the 4 and 5 star places. That’s what you get for housing skanks like Lindsay Lohanjob and Parasite Hilton.
haha, when me ma visited new york when she was wee, my nana used to rip the sheets and mattresses off the beds. any sign of bedbugs they booked it
Bedbugs were what caused my girlfriends sister to move from the apartments just off Wyse road. She threw out her living room funriture, matresses, box springs, throw rugs…. not nice.
THey were found last week in the hotels at the Halifax airport…it is a common problem there.
I got no problem with bugs UNLESS those bugs feed off my blood, raise welts, & itchy bumps , those I have a problem with. Something that lives in your bed & waits for you to sleep so it can feed….my skins crawling just thinking about that !
My sister never sleeps under the covers at a hotel because she imagines all the jizz thats been shot on it – I think that might be a tad overkill.
My buddy lived on Windsor St. near Hood and the building was full of ’em. Surprised the furniture didn’t shimmy across the floor. And there’s that highrise on Brunswick near the trade mart that’s called Bedbug Central. I think we actually had some bitches on that place ions ago.
these fuckers are almost worldwide now. major thing going on here folks. not just the slums have them now. you can find them in some of the nicest, most expensive homes around. and the ants are almost as bad this year. i have been invaded by the little red fucks, and just about everything to kill them has worked, so far. thinking of burning the place down next, that’ll learn em hey.
Just say thank you to the people who had d.d.t. banned!!!
Thank You – to the people who banned DDT
Could be worse…they could be zombie bed bugs…..brains, brains, BRAINS!!!
I’m so worried about getting them as the caveman that lives in the basement apartment of my building likes to bring home souvniers he finds in the garbage and leaves his blankets outside sometimes for some reason…he also leaves his 90’s walkman outside on the steps but no one’s taken it yet. He really doesn’t understand a lot of things..
Oh and what’s annoying is when I move out I have to pay to get my apartment sprayed for fleas because I have an indoor cat but people who bring in garbage from outside don’t have to spray anything… Whatev I signed the agreement, it’s just annoying that it doesn’t apply to all possibly disease-ridden things that are brought into that building, just my kitty.
The bed bug resurgence doesn’t have much to do with the banning of DDT.
However, bed bugs are now proving resistant to the other equally powerful and toxic insecticides that exterminators have been using against them for years. That fact, and the increased mobility of populations in the last few decades, are two of the most important factors in the resurgence of bed bugs.
We had bed bugs two years ago. We managed to get rid of them eventually, without calling in the exterminators with their chemical bombs, but we did lose a few box springs and pillows before the war was over. We live in a single family home, so we weren’t faced with the bugs migrating throughout a large building and launching a counterattack. Our methods probably wouldn’t work in an apartment building. The little bastards will roam a considerable distance looking for ‘fresh meat’ and walls and floors won’t stop them.
They mostly ‘hunt’ and feed at night – mostly.
Just like those ‘xenomorphs’ in that movie. In fact, while all this was going on over the course of five months, my son wouldn’t shut up.
His favourite quotes:
“That’s great. That’s just fucking great, man! Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We’re in some real pretty shit now man! Game’s over man, game’s fucking over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?”
and of course, when he found out how bed bugs get around
“They’re coming outta the walls! They’re coming outta the goddamn walls! We are FUCKED!”
Thank you Pvt. Hudson and good night.
lovin all these movie quotes “i say we grease this rat fuck son of a bitch right now”
Dirty bugs for a Dirty city.
Bed Bugs are making a comeback because we have had to switch to less toxic chemicals. Decades ago these little bastards were almost extinct.