Has anyone here managed to cure a bed-bug infestation? We have one, but our reading is not turning up much useful stuff beyond "Find some DDT and use it", which we can't, being banned and everything.

Thants!

8/23/2007 3:24:10 PM

blame the liberals and environmentalists.

8/23/2007 3:26:55 PM

Don't use DDT!!! (even if you could find it!)

Look up the local pest control, and call them and ask what to use. If no help, call an entomologist. If that don't work, buy a new bed! LEAVE THE DDT ALONE!!

8/23/2007 3:31:14 PM

Use the DDT. Kids could pour it in their cereal and eat it with no problems.

Kids used to run behind the DDT trucks and play in the mist.


It's harmless. The fucking environmentalists wanted to ban it, so now we have human misery visa vi malaria all over the place.

8/23/2007 3:33:57 PM

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"Don't use DDT!!! (even if you could find it!)"

It's safe when performed by trained professionals.



[Edited on August 23, 2007 at 3:41 PM. Reason : .]

8/23/2007 3:37:04 PM

Thants!

8/23/2007 3:37:48 PM

Yes,

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"if used properly"

. Not many people know how to do it right, and we all know that hardly anyone reads all the instructions.

And DDT was banned because it was softenng the shells of eagle eggs, therefore endangering the species.

If there is a better, easier to find, safer way - then why not use it?


I'd like to know where you would fnd a trained professional to put down a banned chemical for you!

[Edited on August 23, 2007 at 3:43 PM. Reason : ]

8/23/2007 3:41:28 PM

weird...they had a discussion on bed bug infestations this morning on npr. apparently they are becoming more rampant. it seemed like the best thing to do is call an exterminator.

8/23/2007 3:42:26 PM

I'd contend that there isn't a viable alternative to it.

Nothing gets people out of their seats like a DDT.

8/23/2007 3:43:22 PM

We contacted a couple pest control companies, only one said he could take care of it, for $700. But the mattress must be thrown away because the treatment he must use is poisonous to humans.

8/23/2007 3:44:38 PM

yeah, DDT is pretty much what allowed the U.S. to get rid of bedbugs in the first place. did you just get back from an international trip? I hear that dealing with this problem now is a nightmare, and if I had it, I would have no problem contracting with the underworld to find some DDT

8/23/2007 3:46:14 PM

LoneSnark, since you've already called a pest control company, I really suggest calling an entomologist.

^Exactly right.

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"In the U.S., most people under a certain age have never seen a real, live bed bug. Thanks to strong insecticides such as DDT, bed bugs were largely eradicated in the U.S. However, DDT has since been outlawed, and the pests are coming back. The rapid growth of international travel and a generally more mobile population, more and more people are getting their unfortunate chance to meet these tiny biting creatures. "

[Edited on August 23, 2007 at 3:49 PM. Reason : ]

8/23/2007 3:48:29 PM

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"I'd like to know where you would fnd a trained professional to put down a banned chemical for you!"

In freestyle it's only banned if you don't grab his arm in the lock.

8/23/2007 3:48:55 PM

on NPR they said that bed bugs had basically been eradicated in the 1950s but they started coming back in the 1990s.

8/23/2007 3:50:55 PM

THANKS ENVIRONMENTALISTS!


SOOOO APPRECIATE YET ANOTHER PIECE OF HUMAN MISERY YOU'VE EXPOSED US TO. BUT MY GOD! SAVE THE EAGLE EGGS!

8/23/2007 3:53:26 PM

Wow, just wow...

8/23/2007 3:56:22 PM

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060801-ddt-malaria.html

start from "From Miracle Pesticide to Notorious Polluter" at the bottom of page 1

I'd use DDT in a minute

8/23/2007 4:00:36 PM

Seriuosly, the science is out on just how "polluting" DDT is.


What is true is how many humans die each year from malaria:

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"Malaria is one of the planet's deadliest diseases and one of the leading causes of sickness and death in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization there are 300 to 500 million clinical cases of malaria each year resulting in 1.5 to 2.7 million deaths."

Fucking eagle eggs.

8/23/2007 4:05:51 PM

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"Fucking eagle eggs."

FTW

8/23/2007 5:57:30 PM

so.. fleas.. right?

[Edited on August 23, 2007 at 7:21 PM. Reason : .]

8/23/2007 7:15:51 PM

I'll take "eagle eggs" (as per your example) over human comfort any day. You are perfectly welcome.

8/23/2007 7:30:06 PM

it's not comfort you bastard. It's lives.

8/23/2007 7:31:16 PM

I will take eagle eggs over the remote possibility of someone contracting malaria all the same.

8/23/2007 7:33:48 PM

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"1.5 to 2.7 million deaths."

8/23/2007 7:35:10 PM

Thin out the herd.

Dude, if you have ever bothered to read anything that I have said you will not be at all surprised that to me nature > humans since humans are so hellbent on disassociating themselves from it. Plus, as Snarky has already stated there is a way to rid bedbugs even if it is expensive.

8/23/2007 7:48:24 PM

^ I don't care enough about you to read and remember your words.


But I think the motherfucker who will take a fish, or an eagle egg, and value it above a human life, will cause me to further not remember your words.

8/23/2007 7:53:21 PM

Your loss.

Sorry to hear about your problem LoneSnark.

8/23/2007 8:01:08 PM

Technically, there are other ways to knock down numbers of mosquitos that carry malaria too, but everyone wants the easy way out, by spraying DDT.

So, don't use DDT, spend the money to use other methods of getting rid of bed bugs, and do what it takes to safely knock down mosquito problems.

And seriously, Oeuvre, don't pretend like you care about malaria that much, troll.

8/24/2007 12:21:58 AM

Not me, my roomate.

That said, not a single eagle egg would be harmed by indoor spraying. By the time the house was bulldozed and put into a landfill, the DDT would have broken down.

At the very least you "might" value human life equally to animal life. I could imagine that. But how can you conclude that an animal no longer deserves to live just because it has intelligence? That is far more stupid than concluding an animal doesn't deserve to live just because it is not intelligent.

I wonder how many animals would be killed in the implementation of the expensive options. Making a bed is intensive, both in artificial materials (chemical plants, refineries, etc) and resource harvesting (spraying crops, monoculture farming, etc). Might it be better to indoor spray DDT in one house than knowingly wipe out a swath of nature? Just saying.

8/24/2007 12:31:25 AM

I missed the argument about the intelligence of animals...

Again:

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"If there is a better, easier to find, safer way - then why not use it?"

[Edited on August 24, 2007 at 12:45 AM. Reason : ]

8/24/2007 12:40:18 AM

There are better pesticides then DDT.

You need to refocus your search on commercial grade chemicals.

8/24/2007 1:19:51 AM

^^ intelligent animals = humans.

Re-read what he said, because, like always, he's right on point.

8/24/2007 8:24:04 AM