“Eight people share a two-bedroom apartment in Leslie’s family. . . . Recently, they had to get rid of three beds and a sofa infested by bedbugs — ‘My kids were eaten alive!’ Most of them have been sleeping on the floor until donated beds arrive, but ‘we

(tags: bedbugs hawaii hawai’i kamehameha housingproject affordablehousing low-incomehousing replacingfurniture furniture poverty)

The landlord used traditional sprays and aerosol bombs. Fagerlund is correct that aerosol bombs don’t work with bed bugs. (I am skeptical about his claims that “There is no reason to use toxic pesticides on insects like bedbugs.”)

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