15 Million Families Infested with Bedbugs Last Year
 

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The fucking bugs are moving in according to tonights tv show: Bedbug Apocalypse on Animal Planet.

15 million families infected last year........many from stays at hotels with at least 25% of the hotels having infestations. Now also in movie theaters, subways, and department stores that take returns of infested items.

Incredible.:Oh crap

guess the race?

I just watched that myself ..... Fucking nasty. Makes me cringe when thinking of staying in hotel rooms.

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They are pesticide resistant and will infest all races.

Super heating the rooms is the only way to kill them.

How the hotels get rid of them?

Most seem to be using toxic chemicals. The best way to eliminate the bugs is to wrap the entire building and heat it to over 120 degrees for a day. This is very expensive.

They use dogs to sniff out the bugs, flash freeze with carbon dioxide, and use heat by wrapping the entire structure and heating to 140 degrees.

Let's say you own a nice hotel and have a bed-bug problem anyway. You pay a fortune to get your hotel back to a clean state. Then a guy that stayed in my nasty hotel the night before checks in and his luggage has bugs from my place.

Gets to be a real no win situation. Mean while that customer has now taken the problem home with him.

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I did not know that they are so many.

In these tough times it will get worse.

I had em in my dreads before :rasta

poor people and people who travel a lot seem to get them the most. i've never known any 'normal' people who had them, mostly poor.

Yeah. Bedbugs run credit checks before they suck your blood.

haha, bed bugs are atttacted to poor.. i've had them and i'm not poor, fuckers ate the crap out of my legs, binned the bed and totally gutted the room before putting it all back together, it was the only way.

I'm really surprised I've never picked those little bastards up somewhere. Got lice while traveling in the Dominican Republic, but that's it.

Probably some good business opportunities related to this epidemic.

I am grossed out just reading this! How do you know if you have them?

Do you feel like hundreds of tiny bugs are eating you?

You'll know....

We went to a 5 star Hotel a few years ago and found bedbugs. When we went down to complain and ask for another room, the chick at the counter gave us a hard time. When we asked to see the manager he not only gave us a sweet upgrade to a huge room but let us stay for free for the whole weekend.

Hotel's have an obligation to provide very clean rooms. If you ever find something like this, complain right away.

Ugh... <skin crawls>
They reckon you should vaccuum your matress once a week or something to keep them down, right? hmm... might do mine daily now! 8)))

They said one breeding pair of bug can produce 250,000 bugs within a year.

:1orglaugh dont let the bed bugs bite!

Every time I stay in a hotel I always check the bed...

Mexico: 4 out of 5 times the first room and 2 out of 5 the second room has them.
Vegas: Venetian, Luxor, Mirage, big named hotels 1 out of 10 I find them... fucking amazing shit!
Small town hotels traveling US: 2 out of 5 times....

Sometimes we book campgrounds so we can sleep in a tent just because it is so fucking epidemic.

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how do you check for them?

Aside from more wide-spread human travel and more transient population, the biggest reason beg bugs is becoming an epidemic is the way pesticides are used.

From my understanding, these days exterminators tend to rely mostly on baiting methods whereas in the old days, parameter control was more widely practiced... frequently spraying pesticides along walls and other areas beg bugs might attempt to cross with the emphasis of not killing them directly, but rather keeping them out and let nature do the rest.

I mention all of that because there's a folklore that banning DDT was the reason for bed bugs making a comeback - not as simple as that, it's mostly due to the way pesticides are used that changed in recent decades...

Even in the heyday of DDT, many bed bugs were already very DDT resistant, but still sought to avoid contact with it, hence the illusion that DDT was the answer when in reality any decent pesticide used as parameter control was effective.

In short, look at how exterminators deal with pests these days - notice they rarely spray much, but rather rely on baiting / dealing with the problem afterwards, instead of proactively spraying regularly to keep pests out.

Ron