They were all over San Antonio and Austin hotels last year. Guess they’re moving north with their hosts.
Someone needs to invent a robot to irradiate apartments, hotel rooms and hospital wards. That would kill the unwanted critters.
They are spreading everywhere and are almost impossible to get rid of. Get them in one apartment and every apartment will get them.
This is self-inflicted. The EPA has banned all the pesticides that are effective in eliminating them. I am surprised there is no black market.
***Bedbugs live on the blood of mammals. They eat while you sleep. ***
And that is when you kill them! Or at least you used to!;-D
DDT applied as a 5-percent oil-based spray
or 10-percent powder was so effective that all
the bed bugs in a room could eventually be
eliminated by thoroughly treating the bed
and nowhere else, since the bugs eventually
had to crawl onto the bed to feed. In practical
use, other locations in the room were also
thoroughly treated to hasten eradication.
One application normally did the job — in
contrast to the multiple treatments required
previously — and what we are experiencing
again today.
Next day, we left it out in the sun on a 95 degree day and ran the heater for several hours. The temp went up to 175. Shut the heater off and hours later it was still over 160. Kept it closed until the next day. Nothing was damaged, but I can't see any living thing surviving that.
So far, no bedbugs. I'm so happy Mrs. RWA did a careful exam of the bags. I wouldn't have. She's a champ.
These are coming from Mexico on the backs of Mexicans, folks.