"dimmit dimmit dimmit, hadda post this shitz?'
Posted on 02/01/2011 10:10:48 AM PST by dennisw
It's been two years since the last national summit devoted to Cimex lectularius. What has - and hasn't changed? Transcript:
Here’s something to watch today… preferably from off shore with very powerful field glasses.
Good morning, I’m Elizabeth Wynne Johnson; this is Power Breakfast from Capitol News Connection.
Today is the start of the second-ever National Bedbug Summit. The two-day event brings together bed bug experts from academia, industry and government agencies. The first National Bed Bug Summit took place almost two years ago. At the time, the country was just beginning to realize the scope of its bed bug problem.
KEMERY We at this point don’t really know how widespread the population is and what exactly the kinds of counter-measures are being taken by people in the industry.
That was EPA spokesman Dale Kemery back in 2009 – on the eve of that first bed bug summit.
ROSSI There’s a lot that has changed in the last two years…
That’s Lois Rossi of the E-P-A Office of Pesticide Programs. She says local, state and federal agencies and groups are better at working together now. She’s part of a Federal Bed Bug Workgroup – which cuts across agency lines from N-I-H and HUD to Commerce and Defense. Rossi says public awareness is a lot higher now, too.
ROSSI I think there’s more general knowledge about the problem and the complexity of the problem, and what it takes to control the problem. I think as far as what has NOT changed – it’s still difficult to control…
In spite of that (or perhaps because of it) the last two years have seen the swelling-up of a quarter-billion-dollar bedbug-busting industry. At this 2011 Summit, the pros will be able to talk about sequencing the bed bug genome and bedbug-sniffing dogs. Earlier this month, the little blood-suckers got their own episode on television on Animal Planet.
AMB [scary music] Woman: “I realized that there were bed bugs everywhere. They were on my baby, on his bed frame…”
Last summer, the pest-control industry came out with a list of the top 15 most bedbug-infested cities: at number nine – you guessed it – Washington, DC.
That’s Power Breakfast from Capitol News Connection.
Bring back DDT.
Can’t justify summits, confrences, commissions, resort hosted collaborations, and billions in research programs if we respond with $12.00 worth of DDT.
Imagine what giant “Welcome to the Bed Bug Summit” signs will do for the occupancy rates, at participating hotels.
Exactly. have you seen these ads that the Hollywood nudniks are now running about “Stamping out malaria?” WTF, you idiots. Malaria probably COULD have been stamped out decades ago. Thank you, Rachel Carson.
"dimmit dimmit dimmit, hadda post this shitz?'
Oooooo! Bed bugs and cockroaches in the same city!
I’m trying to figure out who has the biggest homefield advantage, the bedbugs in DC or the 6-legged insects in the hotels there.
Release DDT, that’ll kill the little bastards. Either that, or suffocate them with concentrated CO2.
I saw triple packs of Bed Bug spray at Costco last week. Disturbing.
Ah, how life does go in cycles. I had to fight these little buggers as a child until DDT came along. Now I have to fight them as I go out the door of life. Seems unfair somehow. Woe is me.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the growing bedbug plague and growing immigration from the third world, both happened around the same time.
2011 National Bed Bug Summit Comes To DC
The DNC is having its convention already?
I saw triple packs of Bed Bug spray at Costco last week. Disturbing.
“All that stuff does is make ‘em horny.” —King of Queens
My Dad says they had bedbugs until they were able to get DDT. After that, no problem. My Dad fought in Germany in WWII. In the spring of 1945 he and fellow soldiers were infested with body lice while fighting their way toward the Rhine River. Every now and then the supply wagons would have DDT in small tin cans. Dad said he would cut the top off the can and dump the whole thing in his bed roll. Then he would crawl in and sleep. No more lice. He is still going at age 85.
Yep, and not only that, the DDT didn’t harm him or millions of kids around the world who had lice and other infestations during and after the war. Most of us have lived long fruitful lives without many medical problems.
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