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Historical bed bug question
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bugbuster
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Posted 9 months ago
Sun Feb 15 2009 13:05:08
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In the pre-DDT days, when bed bugs were a way of life, how did people deal with them? Did everybody just live with them and accept them as part of life as many New Yorkers accept roaches?
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Well if we had DDT today they probably would be resistant to the product. In all of the research I have done and read about they killed them any way they could. They would spray their mattresses with kerosene and hang them in the sun. Set there bed posts in kerosene tubs so they couldn't crawl in.(Mind you do not do this!) They would use fumigants and products we no longer have access to today. While I love to take the greener approach to pest management and practices bed bugs warrant us visiting some of the products that are no longer available and possibly re-registering them. The false hood is that these products were removed because they are unsafe. For the majority of the manufacturers it was a expense of proving there product vs the overall profit it could generate if the expense was to great they just let the registration expire.
We used dusts and aerosols and fumigants until they were extinct in the United States for the most part. We still are not sure why they have become such a problem now? Where they came from, how they were spread? We do know that they are resistant to many products we have today especially some of the strains here in Cincinnati. So be careful when someone from another part of the country tells you how to take care of them. Each area is different and the bed bugs are different too.
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