Bed Bug Infestation Is Scaring Millions Of Americans

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15 points·nkurz··5 comments

Getting bedbugs seems like a horrible, sometimes life altering, experience. For people who are moving and are worried if their new home was ever infested, check out http://bedbugregistry.com.

That being said, this article has a weird conservative vibe and ends with a pro-DDT message, not anything education people how to prevent bedbugs. Whenever you quote a url like " http://stoptheinvasionoforegon.wordpress.com " you lose credibility in my book.

I wasn't sure if they quoted that blog seriously, or as an example of bedbug infestations inciting xenophobia. (The xenophobia undoubtedly existed beforehand, but that, as they say, is neither here nor there.)

Make friends with spiders and house centipedes. They are the natural enemies of most every house pest, including bedbugs, and mostly harmless to people. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

We once escaped an infestation by storing all of our worldly possessions in a POD outside in the middle of the summer in Arizona for three days. Then we moved to Chicago.

We kept our mattress sealed up in plastic for over a year because they can live without food for that long (seriously).

Edit: business idea -- bedbug insurance for apartment building owners.

what isn't scaring millions of Americans? But having said that, I know a couple of folks who've fought through infestations in the last few years in Washington, DC.

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