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Ohio's Bedbug Battle Escalates with EPA Crisis Meeting
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| Aug 18, 2010
| Nina Burleigh
Posted on 08/18/2010 11:18:46 PM PDT by george76
For reasons still unknown, bedbugs really seem to like the state of Ohio. The problem is so dire in Cincinnati that some people with infested apartments have resorted to sleeping on the streets.
Cincinnati created a Bedbug Remediation Commission in 2007 and, like other local and national governments around the world, the city is trying to mobilize strategies to control infestations of the resilient insects, which can hide in almost any crack or crevice and can go a year or more without eating. On Aug. 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a consumer alert about off-label bedbug treatments, warning in particular of the dangers of using outdoor pesticides in homes. The Ohio Department of Agriculture has mounted a more unusual response to the crisis: it petitioned the EPA for an exemption to allow in-home use of propoxur, a pesticide and neurotoxin banned in the 1990s out of concern for its effects on children
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: bedbug; bedbugs; cincinnati; epa; ohio
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:18:50 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Don’t let the bedbugs bite.
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:42:04 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: SIDENET
Don’t let the bedbugs bite.No kidding!
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posted on
08/18/2010 11:56:53 PM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience.)
To: george76
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posted on
08/19/2010 12:00:32 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: george76
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posted on
08/19/2010 12:17:36 AM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: Grams A
DDT I believe they are resistant to DDT
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posted on
08/19/2010 1:47:10 AM PDT
by
Politically Correct
(A member of the rabble in good standing)
To: Slyfox
Is that one from Texas?
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posted on
08/19/2010 3:00:12 AM PDT
by
Razz Barry
(Round'em up, send'em home.)
To: Slyfox
MAJOR sand flea Haus! What do you catch with that?
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posted on
08/19/2010 3:06:58 AM PDT
by
poobear
("The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes." -- Thomas Paine)
To: george76
3 Letters: DDT. Legalize it again and all the nasty bedbugs will go away. One of the biggest screw ups(and outright lies)of the enviro campaign was the banning of DDT.
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posted on
08/19/2010 5:48:15 AM PDT
by
calex59
To: calex59
17 more letters:
diatomaceous earth
To: Politically Correct
I believe they are resistant to DDT.”
I thought only the econuts were resistant to DDT.
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posted on
08/19/2010 8:00:55 AM PDT
by
Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
To: I Buried My Guns
Splain Yoself.
What is it about this type of dirt? Where is it found?
(No, I don’t have bed bugs. Just curious)
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posted on
08/19/2010 9:02:25 AM PDT
by
CTOCS
(I live in my own little world. But, it's okay. They know me there....)
To: CTOCS
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posted on
08/19/2010 9:07:09 AM PDT
by
EBH
(Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
To: george76
For reasons still unknown, bedbugs really seem to like the state of Ohio. The problem is so dire in Cincinnati that some people with infested apartments have resorted to sleeping on the streets. Homelessness isn't increasing, they "choose" to live that way when O is king. < /sarc >
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posted on
08/19/2010 12:51:58 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
To: poobear
Found in the body cavity gully in the memory foam of Rosanne Barr’s bed.
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posted on
08/19/2010 12:53:14 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Those who support the construction of the WTC mosque oppose Christian missionaries working abroad.)
To: Razz Barry; poobear
I’d like to think of it as a bed bug terminator, born and raised in Florida.
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posted on
08/19/2010 1:02:57 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: Slyfox
;D!
What the hell was that anyway!? Bed bug terminator? That thing could eat my dog!
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posted on
08/19/2010 1:19:07 PM PDT
by
poobear
("The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes." -- Thomas Paine)
To: a fool in paradise
That would grow them big. ;)
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posted on
08/19/2010 1:20:06 PM PDT
by
poobear
("The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes." -- Thomas Paine)
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