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A new report in the Journal of Medical Entomology has confirmed our worst fears: Big Apple bed bugs have developed nerve cell mutations that make them almost impervious to pyrethroid toxins, such as deltamethrin, commonly used against them. Toxicologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Korea's Seoul National University have conducted extensive tests on the resilient bastards, and it appears that New York City bed bugs are now as much as 264 times more resistant to deltamethrin than easier to kill bugs in Florida. Of course, Florida is where bed bugs retire to suck blood in their old age, so it figures they'd have a higher mortality rate there. But up here, they've totally gone rogue, and the Times editorial board is calling for "a task force to figure out how to stay ahead of an army that seems to be growing every year."
Mutant NYC Bed Bugs Impervious to Toxic Attack
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It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
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what has bedbugs got that i don't got
the only reason these f*ckers made a come back was because the city banned insecticides. id rather get sick every now and then, then suffer from bedbugs. we're all gunna get cancer anyway.
Psst, here's something you may not realize. Deltamethrin is an insecticide. Bugs develop resistance to insecticides when they're overused. That's what happens. You throw chemicals at a large population of insects and it will kill most of them. But those that don't die pass on their resistance to later generations. It's the same argument against overuse of antibiotics. Despite "ides of march" and his fondness for DDT, mosquitos are developing resistance even to that. His legendarily ill-informed opinion is also wrong about the World Health Organization. They never banned DDT. Countries banned DDT. The WHO has always advocated indoor residual spraying, although even they say their ultimate goal is to stop using DDT.
We're all "gunna" get cancer? The American Cancer Society begs to differ.
good night, sleep tight!
I bet the Dominicans brought them. Who knows what sort of bugs they have in Santo Domingo.
#2 speak for yourself, I am glad they banned insecticides. Bed Bugs are pests but they are part of nature and the natural system. Insecticides are man-made and are harmful, I prefer natural pests over deadly carciogenic toxins.
#4 Your joke is as flat as an all beef patty, not to mention racist and nonsensical (also a total non-sequitur with no logic).
But of course, *you* though it was funny so you just had to share your incredible insight.
End of sarcasm.
Pyrethrins are as natural as an insecticide can get. Obtained from chrysanthemum plants & biodegradable as they break down upon exposure to light/oxygen. They kill cold-blooded animals only. It would be great to switch to DDT for some time, wipe out pyrethrin-resistant generation of bugs, then go back to safer insecticides.
Insecticides are man-made and are harmful,
and awesome.
D.D.T. It's not as terrible as they environuts insist. Even the UN has lifted the ban on it and finally stopping millions from dying of malaria in Africa. Exterminators should be allowed to use it here on bedbugs.
My favorite form of DDT was the one executed by Jake the Snake Roberts.
Who ever said everything natural was good? Hurricane Katrina was natural and so was that rogue Tsunami. You what else is natural? AIDS.
Silly hipsters from Brooklyn made them into what they are today.
eeeewwww
See if your neighborhood hardware has a few old cans of Flit left. Get some of that good Flit in there.
This is how the world will end, not with a bang, but will all of us so skeeved out that we scratch our bedbug bites until they become infected and fester and we shrivel up, giant scabby hulks.
"New York City bed bugs are now as much as 264 times more resistant to deltamethrin than . . . bugs in Florida."
264 times? Is this even possible?
Thanks for the close up photo of the bed bug. May I toss my cookies now?
There's no need for chemicals... this non-poisonous powder Diatom Dust kills them.. We tried everything before the dust and nothing worked. It was awful! We think someone next door had them and they came through the walls.. The powder is just messy but works like a charm. It eats through their outer layer, dehydrates them and they die..
http://www.tallmanscientific.com/Diatom-Dust-XR.php
yeah that powder stuff is the way to go, you build a little wall of it around your room or bed or apartment and if they walk thru it they die.
#8 Hurricane Katrina was made worse by the human element (the situation that is) and AIDS is (like Cancer) quite a profitable business (especially in Africa) and there are other factors to consider.
#19 now that's the way to go, natural solutions.
Good, great, excellent :|
Ammonia (Windex) kills the bugs pretty much on contact, as do extremes in temperature (heat and cold). However, virtually nothing kills the eggs, including insecticides. Resorting to any insecticide will eventually cause resistance and will only perpetuate and exasperate the bedbug problem. Diatomaceous earth (the dust of dead diatoms) is the only thing that works. You can buy it online or in plant stores. It's safe to humans and pets and cheap. It's abrasive to the bugs--they walk through it, get cut open and eventually die from dehydration. Mix one cup of earth with a 20 drops of essential oil (juniper, tea tree, etc.) in a plastic bag. Sprinkle it on bed frame slats, floor door cracks, across bookshelves, on box frames, inside mattress covers, in dressers, in floor moulding cracks. Let it sit a week on the floor then sweep/wash the floor and reapply. Do not bring used furniture or used books into the house. When you go to a hotel, keep your luggage in the bathroom--be sure to bring garbage bags with you and wrap your luggage in the the bags. Try to use canvas luggage, and wash it as soon as you get home. I had bed bugs last year and (knock on wood) they are now all gone, but not before throwing out $2,000 of furniture and steam cleaning all my carpets. I still spray my floor mouldings with ammonia and put down diatomaceous earth. Good luck.