Snipped from Examiner.com.

Yes, bedbugs be gone, but at what price? Oh how nice it would be to be rid of the little critters! Well, bedbugs may soon be eradicated or least controlled.

Something noteworthy has happened in the quest to eliminate bedbugs. Finally. But there’s a catch…

First, some background: There is hardly anyone whom you know who doesn’t know someone who has battled bedbugs. The stories they have to tell sound horrible, the sleepless nights (they attack around 3 a.m.), the bites, the itching; it’s almost enough to drive anyone insane. They will tell you how they cleaned their bedroom, replaced their carpets with bare wooden floors, even to replacing their mattress after not having found any bug spray on the hardware or drugstore shelves that will kill the bedbugs.

This is not only an American problem, house to house, hotel to hotel. It’s now a worldwide problem, and it is not just a matter of cleanliness. There are many bedbug solutions and sprays offered for sale from many online markets which, heavens however, don’t work. Home remedies like spraying about bleach don’t work either. Sorry, but pest control sprays and methods leave the bedbugs unharmed. “Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite” doesn’t cut it anymore. Bedbugs will and do bite.

Go ahead and google “bedbugs” and you will find 1,700,000 hits. Read several of these presented references to learn about bedbugs, just what they are and can do to humans. Little vampires, that’s what they are; they track you down and suck your blood.

Bedbugs were eliminated from our cities some 50 years ago. And now they’re back and, good Gawk, boy are they back!

In the U.S. the National Pest Management Association reports a 500 percent increase in bedbug numbers in the last few years.

In the 1930s the U.K. Ministry of Health stated, ‘In many areas all the houses are to a greater or lesser degree infested with bedbugs.’ But infestations quickly receded once synthetic pesticides such as DDT were introduced following World War II. By the 1980s bedbugs were almost nonexistent in Britain, in the U.S. and many other developed countries.’

– NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.COM

Well, as I said, finally something has occurred that may cause bedbug to be nonexistent in the U.S. At least, it promises to lead to their demise. Good news? Well, yes and no. (Cerebrl, hold onto your hat. Cerebrl has had many posts in blog4brains.com attacking the polluters, the companies who have caused health problems by releasing harmful chemicals and things like lead and mercury into our environment.)

Unfortunately or fortunately, DDT that once controlled the bedbugs has been banned because of its harm to humans. (We all still have a portion of DDT in our bodies.) My point here is that pest control sprays containing chemicals like DDT will probably be back. Back in use to off the bedbugs. Why?

The Environment Protection Agency has called for its first-ever bedbug summit (two day conference). It seems to me that 1) a decision must be made whether to re-introduce harsh pesticides. Or else let the bedbugs live. Same old, same old. 2) there will probably be an attempt to find a balance between offin’ these bedbugs and at the same time not causing harm to humans (and future humans. Remember DDT?)

Dina Cappiello, AP, reported on this story in examiner.com. Here’s a portion of her news story:

Faced with rising numbers of complaints to city information lines and increasingly frustrated landlords, hotel chains and housing authorities, the Environmental Protection Agency hosted its first-ever bedbug summit Tuesday…

The EPA, out of concern for the environment and the effects on public health, has pulled many of the chemicals that were most effective in eradicating the bugs in the U.S. At the same time, the appleseed-sized critters have developed a pesticide resistance because those chemicals are still in use in other countries.

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