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LJ
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Fri Nov 7 2008 15:35:38
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I found this really interesting article in Pest Control Technology Magazine today and thought others might enjoy it too. http://pct.texterity.com/pct/200808/?pg=63
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LJ
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Fri Nov 7 2008 15:39:36
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ADD: for some reason my link goes to the third page of the article, despite having saved the link on the first. Go back two pages for the beginning of the article. Sorry!
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History is the best guide to the future that confronts us.
The conditions that existed with bed bug infestations in the late 1930s are a glimpse into our near term future.
I saw Dr Potter's presentation on historical perspectives at the NPMA conference last week & found the slide show to be rather enlightening.
The old time bed bug poison labels were an interesting nostalgic journey into the past. The use of cyanide and mercury was commonplace in the early days & people actually died while trying to eradicate bed bugs from their homes. The government published do it yourself instructions for the public on how to fumigate your house with cyanide gas.
We have spent the last sixty years forgetting the lessons of the past.
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hatesbedbugs
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Fri Nov 7 2008 18:45:19
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I hope it the BB dog proves to be of value to you. They can be a very wonderful tool.
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LJ
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Fri Nov 7 2008 19:55:51
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I agree Doug. I spent a lot of time wondering what people did during the pre-DDT era. My grandmother ran a boarding house on Sherbourne St. here in Toronto during the dirty thirties, its still a boarding house mecca today. I was trying to remember some of the stories my mom told me about helping out at the boarding house, looking for clues. They did laundry in a wringer washer and hung bed linens out to dry in the sun. No hot dryer. But mom did tell me about having to iron all linens before they went back on the beds, bet that would fry the little buggers. Closets and blanket boxes and anything in storage was accompanied by moth balls. She told me that they used kerosene for head lice and other pests. Can't remember much more than that. During the early '60's my sister's girlfriend, who was not very clean came to stay for a month with our family and brought some creepy critters with her. After a weekend in the city with us, we went to the cottage for two weeks and upon our return and Sunday night bath ritual I went to bed first and was immediately attacked by many, many bed bugs. I remember yelling to my father that there were bugs in my bed. I distinctly remember him gravely muttering "shit" and nothing else. He stripped us naked, hauled the beds into the backyard, got the DDT from the garage, sprayed beds, mattresses and cracks in the bedroom and we were all back in our beds late that night. Unimaginable by today's standards. Wish I did have a bb sniffing dog, hatesbedbugs, my dog is just a snuggle-bug. Thats her in my avatar with my flowered cats-eye glasses on!
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LJ
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Fri Nov 7 2008 20:45:42
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Sorry hatesbedbugs and Doug, I just now realized that the dog to whom you'd referred was Doug's!
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death2allbbs
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Fri Nov 7 2008 20:56:43
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Hi, LJ. Actually, there was a similar thread posted about a month ago which had a link to the same PTC article that you referred to:
http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/ddt-was-only-a-short-interruption-for-bedbus-in-the-united-states (See the 11th post.)
However, discussing the history of these creatures is always interesting.
BTW, that was an interesting story about your bed getting infested during the early 60s. Although, sometimes I wonder why these insects even exist in the first place. However, that's a topic for another thread. ;-)
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LJ
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Sat Nov 8 2008 10:35:35
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Oops - didn't mean to be redundant. I'll go back and read them later, I love the historical stuff. I'm not the best at scanning all the information right now because I'm stressed and overtired. Guess we can thank our fellow cave-dwellers the bats for sharing all those years ago, death2allbbs!
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I enjoyed it, too. I didn't notice it last time, so thanks!
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LJ
I love your avatar.The glasses really make it work.
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death2allbbs
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Sat Nov 8 2008 13:44:22
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LJ - 2 hours ago »
Oops - didn't mean to be redundant. I'll go back and read them later, I love the historical stuff. I'm not the best at scanning all the information right now because I'm stressed and overtired. Guess we can thank our fellow cave-dwellers the bats for sharing all those years ago, death2allbbs!That's okay, LJ. There's a lot of information here at this forum and it's kind of hard to keep up with all of it or know what's been discussed already. Also, as far as the bats go, it's been debated as to whether or not human beings ever lived in caves. Plus, even if they did, I don't quite understand why bat bugs, the theorized ancestors of bedbugs, even exist...or at least from a creationist's point of view. ;-)
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LJ
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Sat Nov 8 2008 20:33:35
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Thanks Doug! It captured her goofy disposition perfectly :) Your dog looks like a cutie too. Would you consider opening a thread explaining your dog's training? Did you do it yourself? As a fellow dog lover, its really interesting to me. Death2allbbs, thanks for understanding. Guess they exist just because they do it so well - heathen POV :)
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madNalberta
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Sun Feb 8 2009 17:56:06
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My mother remembers when she was about seven, my gramma and grandpa got bed bugs. She doesnt remember much of the treatment except that they hauled the mattresses out and pour boiling water on them. Thats it. It mustve been a hell of a job tho. It wouldve been around 1955 and Gramma and Grandpa had nine kids, on a farm. Crazy stuff.
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losingit
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Posted 9 months ago
Mon Feb 9 2009 12:34:54
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I talked to an older woman who used to be my neighbour about bbs and she said that her mother got the big leaves of a fern plant and placed them between the mattress and boxspring and that took care of it!
As an aside, she said that in the 70's a neighbour of theirs had a massive roach infestation and a few of them got together and started spraying (god know with what) all over the house and there were 100s of roaches were running out of the house.
I lived in that house many many years later and never saw anything other than a wasp or an ant.
Ah the good old days...
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