The problem now, Mr. ORDkin, is keeping those bugs in Chicago as it's ranked #1 in the nation for them. These pests aren't being imported to Chicago, they're being exported from Chicago so try something else. The #151 bus route is spreading them all over your city (including your "gold" hotels). Another exterminator refers to the #151 as "the bed bug bus".

If will kill has the knowledge and solution why is Chicago number #1 worst infested! How can claims be made by
Anyone to kill or prevent whdn EPA and CDC have stated there isn't any known pesticide that kills them?
More important most treatments include a pyrethrum that kills humans and pets? Ask questions!

Schools, nursing homes, the weak and disabled! Who advocates for them. They are among the most victimized and threatened by not only bedbugs but landlords!
Stop the suggestion that bedbugs can be avoided by heat and treatments that are known at best just repellent and spread them. Bedbugs have sensors and don't sir still while u heat or spray all kinds of unhealthy airborne contaminants that in themselves more damaging to humans and pets than the BedBugs!

Pesticides have no place in society! The fact is that here in Chicago over the past 4 years people are being eaten alive an the Pest control companies have just spread the problem with their " solution " So please join our fight for safer, more effective bed big Eradication" and not peat control!

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Macko, Wrong again. Dang, you used to mix in a fact here and there within your rumblings. The Republican's banned DDT! "The EPA then held seven months of hearings in 1971–1972, with scientists giving evidence both for and against the use of DDT. In the summer of 1972, Ruckelshaus announced the cancellation of most uses of DDT—an exemption allowed for public health uses under some conditions"

When in doubt just lie, after all it worked for Obama. Reconstruct history,

http://drclarkjensen.com/liberal-news-media-distortions/

Really.

Ok, now the history of it. The beginning of the end for DDT is the outcome of two primary factors. One is a report/book written by a women largely considered the founder of the environmental movement, Rachel Carlson, considered a hero and mentor of the Environmental Defense Fund. This along with a study commissioned by President Kennedy reinforcing Carlson's conclusions fueled and supported the coming debate.

This lead to a series of public hearings and court cases, the most relevant of which was led by the EPA under the guidance of William Doyle Ruckelshaus, Nixon appointee and moderate republican. The Ban is what resulted.

So to answer the question of what has become a silly question of whose fault it was that DDT was banned. The answer is that both Republicans and Democrats had a hand in it.

The irony here is that in today's charged political atmosphere, an event that truly was a bipartisan issue could become the source of a partisan argument.

So again, your both right... and both wrong. Enjoy.

The DDT ban and an increase in international travel are major contributors to the bed bug scourge. Part of the problem is that cash-strapped cities like Milwaukee don’t see the bed bug as a public-health priority; bedbugs aren’t known as disease carriers.

Well McClown...You are "touched"...touched in the head that is. But...hey...you have made the first step towards recovery and that is admitting there is a problem. By recognizing that you are "touched" you have taken that difficult first step. Good for you! Now...find that Dr. that is just right for you and keep working towards the goal of a full recovery. Life is beautiful when you are not mired in bitterness and anguish. Keep your eye on the prize...and make me proud!

DDT is good for you again now? Let's gather up lots of volunteers to send off to Africa and deploy tons of the stuff haphazardly like they used to do here, and then observe the effects over a few years. It should make for a fascinating study.

The article is right that prevention is the best way to control them. They feed on human blood. You can actually starve them or drive them off by just taking simple steps to physically stop them from crawling into your bed. Honestly, not every problem is best solved by brute violence or chemical weapons.

This is a good blog; really it helped me to enhance my knowledge about how to deal with common household pests. The information is apt and well written, thanks for sharing. You can even check out our website http://www.abcpestcontrolsydney.com.au/ for some new information on pest control.

How about returning to the topic of bed bug infestations and avoiding them. The last time I traveled to Europe (Paris), I packed EVERYTHING in tightly sealed zip lock freezer bags before putting them in my suitcase in my bug-free home. My suitcase did not go anywhere near the bed in the hotel room. Everything stayed sealed in those bags and was taken out as needed. And I returned home free of bed bugs. I'm taking another European trip in the Fall and will do the same. As to those who think DDT is safe, eat some and get back to me.

Most 99,9 % of wingnuts are touched in the head and are trying hard to discredit the cannon fodder and guinea pigs who are refusing to take the Kool Aid, I think the bed bugs like their roach cousins will survive the leaky HANFORD reactor destroying the ecosystem and even the FUKI melt down and the dispersal of the contaminated waste fleet however the DOWNWINDERS on the posts are already starting to act as if it is safe to inhale the poison and ridicule anyone who is a threat to their investment portfolio which is Green Nuclear,clean coal and all fossil and now DDT again!

I met the real McCloud Dennis Weaver in Boulder he would never source a Wyoming Mormon friend of Cheney as a objective non partisan flag waver, the exact Template of the HEAD of HELLIBRTON who was and is exempt from US law and lies about the exemption of 700 companies under Obamacare very pathetic!

A touch a racism is not quite where I thought the DDT/Bedbugs thread would end up.

If McC cites Mormon NEO CON friends of Cheney the unindicted war criminal who has millions of blood of innocents on his KBR HELLIURTON corp of death in 3 wars it started with desert storm, he is immune from laws on trading with or dealing with the enemy, and now the Wars for the 1% proceed.
ROMNEYS original partner in BAIN were the Salvador death squads the assassins of the RC ARCH BISHOP and a dozen maryknoll martyrs, so if there are these harmless misinfo posts by wingnuts i and others will tell the real story, it is the WAR on LIES of the wingnuts. So don't cite lies as facts and I will not cite the facts.

Obamacare will fix all of this.

@Jimmy-- have you been overexposed to the same HILLBILLY HEROIN used by iconic Rush and or inhaled DDT? Take a TYLENOL and Scotch that is one solution( from another wing nut)
Most wingies are mutated TPARTY chicken crapper flag wavers,draft dodger tax avoiders, most also have missing ingredients to the amygla, it usually came from being a down winder and inhaling TESTICLE CANCER BOB'S gift of stronium 90 rather than Tesla's free energy?
right on Steve OBAMACARE part E for all! Then the rest of us could get the Cadillac treatment the AEI sponsored do not work Congress gets and the 18,000 Robme CAYMAN ISLANDERS! ,NEVER heard of bedbugs in their balmy Banksters digs, only here where the KOOL AID drinkers gather!

That's all mutates can do pictures and voices in their empty head! And when the FED'S say" it is a NATIONAL SECURITY issue" denial!! The Engineers and Designers of DDT( oops they are good but did not say that ) of Nuke casks where radioactive anything is stored and are designed to last 500 years and are leaking into the picnic groves wells as it did say it didn't happen! is this listening for Black helo's? there is no worldwide rises in THYROID, BREAST and TESTICLE cancer maybe among aliens right! Wait till u see the next decade! The fear merchants of the Caymans and Fox like to spread LIES and MISINFO resulting in mass fear until it backfires and the truth comes out as it has at Yakima Wash- HANFORD-FUKI both of them have the same safe installation as the infamous Chernobyl
Then our own safe for 500 yr leaky casks RED GATE WOODS - GATE!
Don't despair, unfortunately you are at yer limit, the amygla diminishes even more listening to HILLBILLY HEROIN RANTS and 5 years of obstuctionism has made it worse it is not reversible just keep trying to muck it up the only hope u really have is OBAMACARE for EVERYBODY PART E.

So we as humans have still not figured out we are part of the earth and everything in it..lol.. of course there are bug in peoples beds, and mice in the mattresses too...this is just like lice..There is not a state nor town in the nation that has not dealt with this..bugs come from outside,on your clothes,in your hair,on the dogs...but some how we seem to think that we will not be effected by bugs because we are humans..lol..bed bugs no different than an infestation of spiders,mites,lice...now management of bugs that come into a household will forever be...people need to start getting back to the natural ways of ridding pests..otherwise bugs become immune to the chemicals..Humans do not..the harsher the chemical the harsher the effect on the human...and the bug becomes more adaptive....

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I myself don't have any bedbug stories, but I always do check hotel room beds just in case. One time found a mosquito hanging out but no bedbugs as of yet.

John Roberts - Interesting post.
Though it's obvious that insects, viruses, bacteria, etc. mutate I never really thought about humans not mutating.
On the other hand, b/c we are able to save the lives of so many who would die (disease, mis-developed bodily organs, etc), we are weakening our gene pool.

@Natalie
For u and the robot's information My posts on Red Gate Woods is not subject to censorship on this Public site, THE national security issue was resolved by the remediation etc, everyone needs to comply on FOIA the government and the patch who is censoring what exactly?
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Butch...
I guess you had a little trouble with reading comprehension in school?

I'll restate what I wrote: bacteria, viruses, insects adapt (to DDT, whatever) in a sense becoming stronger (or at least resistant), humans do not adapt.

And, we humans are actually weakening our gene pool b/c those who would o/wise not survive to child-producing years, due to whatever genetic misfortune are now being saved by science and producing children. This assumes their misfortune is in their DNA and being passed to their children.

Butch... the DDT statement was obviously just to rile people up. I have numerous colleagues who get their thrill by going on to blogs such as this, saying idiotic things (e.g., we need DDT) and watching how many people respond.

Yep it did that, and yep I know u have numerous colleagues who plant this kid of virus or even better and more sophisticated malware on PC and in many kind of places for a response of course! So much for FOIA. to get one's jollies off, tell yer colleagues to give me back my mailbox.

And speaking of misfortune being passed down in DNA did Bob and LW have anything to do with you and or your geneticists colleague thrill seeking on mutated humans or viruses brought on by the leaky casks here or wherever?

@Mr Roberts my snarky comment u sound like an alien was not meant for u it was for Terry the middle of the roader who sees the best in everything evil sorta like the Obama appointments one pro environment the other u cannot be more opposite than having Monsanto in the cabinet, and now we know why he and his new Sec State like the phony corporate AG are moderates. OBAMA is the best SOCIALIST the Roundtable ever had what would the market be with a ROBME in the WH?
LOOK at the TERRY ALIEN POSTS i did not articulate the response to what u said and then the #*** have done their best to edit and plant viruses and malware on my PC , THAT IS more than a bit annoying and something in his and your interpretation of my post on these related subjects, like Yakima,Fukishima and Red Gate woods, too bad we can't share the experience I have every intention of finding out just how much freedom there really is on the internet these days.

MR ROBERTS i also have the same regard for chemicals and Big Pharma and more young people also do, which is bad news for the Cayman islanders and Obama Roundtable, DDT it seems is one of the false flag reactions the scum like patches and his colleagues run on these blogs to get off on it diverts the attention away from serious issues like abortion and the other things that occupy the congress and moron TPARTY state house they are concerned about the loss of cannon fodder and guinea pigs how can they wave the flag if there are not enough cannon fodder! screw them with he chem's!

Hey Chicago! You're a big city and have a BIG bug problem.

When I first moved to Chicago, I couldn't believe how must dust my 3rd level apartment accumulated within one week. After about 2 months, I discovered that it wasn't dust - it was DIRT! Black, filthy, soot covering everything. I also realized I had to clean my dogs ears much more frequently. This was in fancy "Andersonville". Hey, it's the city. Nevermind the glass shards everywhere while trying to walk your dogs in this "green" city that doesn't even have a bottle return law.

This BIG bug problem is further slowing your "condo" sales and even their rentals. It's being HIDDEN by "associations". Worry about that "da man" right now and forget about Bishop Tutu, Republicans and "green" rooftops. Clean up your own backyard first.

You're no different than that yuppie wannabe Mom in tony Lakeview East complaining about the cigarette smoker on the corner 2 blocks down while she's jib-jabbering on her "smart" phone totally oblivious that she's blocking the entire sidewalk with a stroller and..........at a bus stop with lil' Biff Jr. surrounded in a cloud of CTA #36 exhaust. Just plain stupid too.

@Truth great job, Clean up! these rat pol's are only listening to the AIPAC and CAYMAN ISLAND lobbyists the soot and dirt everywhere are only a sample of what it will be when the BP REFINERY comes on line and starts refining the tars from th Dakotas and Canada,read Roberts post on the bugs and solution.
It is all about the money the new congresswoman of the 2nd Dist has not won but assuming ---the first thing she does is go to the AIPAC DINNER to get her marching orders aka more money for Israel, the 2nd dist is not a disaster it is a blighted health hazard in many places and Kelly is guaranteeing the Zionist state has her support it is the dirt and soot problem, it is every problem nothing else matters so the dirt debris piles up and Rahm is now on the long list of POTUS in 16,the son of a IRGUN terrorist is not into cleaning up Andersonville or So Chgo he has to be clean the wailing wall and make it safe for jews, Fundy charlatans and predators alike to pray the dummies never wake up! .

McCLOUD i find it hard yer concern is over any millions of Africans, more like the millions lost by DOW, roundup and the other Chemical poisoners if their poison saved a million lives( hardly) they did not count the 100 million of species INCLUDING HUMANS that are gone or mutated! U must be a colleague moron of patch61!