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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 08:59 PM Original message |
Why are Bed Bugs Spreading at an unprecdented rate? |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:00 PM Original message |
In NYC. Maybe the heat? nt |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. Climate change? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. This town's in tatters? n/t |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. They all moved... |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:09 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. great minds etc n/t |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
17. Now I really regret I didn't take a picture of the large bill board in Times Square |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:08 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. But they're only uptown! |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. That's only when they're uptown. |
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jgraz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
3. Mostly because they've become pesticide-resistant |
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itsrobert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:04 PM Response to Original message |
4. Because hotels are not changing bed spreads as often |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. Because we're no longer a God-fearing nation with a 21% tax rate for the $1 million bracket |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:32 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. I blame Reagan |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
6. Because DDT is outlawed in the US |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:13 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. DDT was banned in 1972 |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:32 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Yeah, I saw that info in some of the articles I Googled |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 06:53 AM Response to Reply #10 |
35. We have a winner! |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:27 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. If I were a fequently traveler I might buy one |
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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 07:04 AM Response to Reply #6 |
36. Insects started showing resistance to DDT in 1959 |
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pipoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:22 PM Response to Original message |
11. In nearly every city |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
15. There is more business travel to places like China that have bed bugs. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. I had a bed bug infestation in college. It's NOT a joke at all! |
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Scatterheart (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. Lived in NYC over a year, never had them... |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:01 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I agree! |
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Maru Kitteh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:04 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Good God. Why did I have to read this before bed? |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:05 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. wow. i really didnt want to read your post. |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:07 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. The largest I killed were 3/8 inches long! |
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Scatterheart (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. The only small blessing about seeing them |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
19. Because they ran out all the Mexicans who were hard working folks that changed sheets full of . |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Filth has nothing to do with bed bugs. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:30 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. Ackefuckingty |
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Ross K (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
20. NOTHING TO DO WITH CLIMATE CHANGE! |
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GreatCaesarsGhost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
27. Rush Limbaugh moved out and they had to find a new host. |
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Ross K (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 11:44 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. I would think that bed bugs had more self-respect..... |
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Marie Marie (709 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-28-10 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
30. I have been reading about this growing infestation |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 06:37 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. this is my problem. the older i get, the harder time i am having sleeping in hotels |
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demigoddess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
32. they started putting microban in all those things and now |
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Maine-ah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 06:51 AM Response to Original message |
34. my guess is perhaps an extinction of other bugs that eat bed bugs |
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Scatterheart (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 07:31 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. They have no real natural predators. |
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melm00se (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
38. Population density |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
39. I think it's connected to all the GOP sex scandals. |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-29-10 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
40. I refuse to stay in a NYC hotel now, much to my travel detriment. No DDT = More bedbugs. Simple. |
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