“Those Disturbers of My Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (1730)

True story: taking low doses of ivermectin for a few weeks will end the reproductive cycle of bedbugs, since the eggs produced are sterile/never hatch. It won't stop the feeding in the meantime , however.

You weren't joking:

> There were significant reductions in C. lectularius population size and fecundity in insects that fed on blood obtained from human study subjects up to 96 hours after they have consumed a single oral dose of ivermectin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901371/

Umm, works for scabies too, also an insect infection https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/ivermectin/ Interesting.

As they can survive a long time even without food, it may not be a solution even in theory.

I'm reading this through a smear on my screen which is the result of a spider that crawled across my face.

perfect timing

Mark Rober made a video about bedbugs and methods of fighting them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8

What are the conditions required for the letter s in words to be replaced with f (in the document)?

First? Except maybe Pliny in 77AD?