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Bugpocalypse: Massive army of bed bugs attacks Cincinnati
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evil solrac v3.0
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Loki said:
they fed on blood and blood only. they will drop down on top of you from the ceiling if they sense you. they are worse then the zerg!
evil solrac v3.0
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Loki said:
well, if you stop using the poison that was most effective against them, in time they will come back. also here in the city you know we are getting more tourist then ever. so more chances for them to travel and spread. I just can't get over the fact that they don't need to eat for six months.
evil solrac v3.0 said:
That's not true, because as far as I know, the pesticides haven't been in use for years, yet their resurgence hasn't been cyclical at all. It's only been in the last year or so that it's been an issue. There may be a scientific reason (e.g., something to do with their life cycle/lifespan and hence the timeframe in which they can develop resistance etc.), but I'd like it to actually be presented.
evil solrac v3.0
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Loki said:
it's been more than a year just from recollections I've seen in the local news. but all it really takes is one household and it spreads. it's like wildfire.
CrayzeeCarl
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You people are scaring me. I hope I never experience this.
The Take Out Bandit
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BertramCooper said:
Ohio is a State of masochists and / or idiots. We suffered huge job losses and Cleveland in particular got fucked hard by the recession (posting from former ground zero of the foreclosure crisis), and on election night one of the last States to tally it's votes was Ohio.
Unfortunately all the boogeyman campaigning worked and promises of the gays destroying the family unit (hey, how about all the baby's mamas and deadbeat dads that are doing their part in Cleveland) and turrism scared the rubes into choosing poorly.
So yeah, if you don't want to pay attention to the history of job loss and the huge negative impacts economic recessions have on the area; then it's good to be butthurt over someone calling a spade a spade.
lunarworks
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Travel. Humans are more mobile than ever before. Someone brought them from a place that never managed to eradicate them, and they gradually spread from there. Now they have a foothold, and the spread is going exponential, with no simple way of exterminating them.Loki said:
Even high-priced, swanky hotels have problems with them. They had to sweep the hotel a lot of world leaders were staying in for bedbugs before the G20 started here last month.
vas_a_morir
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Fuck me... why of all cities it had to be Cincy.
BertramCooper
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But how does that make Ohio more culpable than other states similar (or larger) in size? Texas almost always votes Republican in presidential elections and they have double the electoral votes we do. So why are you giving Ohio so much flack for it? We don't control the temperature of the nation's political climate - we're just the thermometer.The Take Out Bandit said:
What the fuck are you even talking about? There's not a coherent thought in here at all.
Poor leadership at the state level has had a bigger negative impact on our state than presidential leadership. We had two terms of Taft, a moronic Republican governor, and now a term from Ted Strickland, a spineless Democratic governor. The General Assembly is split between the parties and can't come to a consensus on anything. With solid state leadership, we could have handled the recession far better than we did.
So yeah, Ohio has a ton of internal problems, like countless other states. I won't deny that for a second. But you were ignorantly blaming Ohio for somehow fucking over the nation, which is complete bullshit.
CrayzeeCarl said:
Let me make it even worse. In my situation the infestation wasn't even in my apartment. It was my neighbour who had them and at night they would spread out across then entire floor, tenants in every unit on my floor were getting bites and could do nothing about it since the bugs weren't in their place.
For the record, he got the infection from travelling, not from being messy.
Father_Brain
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Goldrush said:
...which costs thousands of dollars and which many of us can't afford.
I just found bedbugs in my room yesterday.
The Take Out Bandit said:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is pretty important.
Then again, you have a phd in playa hating or some shit I don't even know.
(I live in Ohio. I live, specifically, in Dayton. It really does need nuked.)
((P.S. California is way worse, and you smell funny to boot.))
(((P.P.S. Actually, I bet you smell nice. I'm done being creepy now.)))
GregLombardi
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I experienced this when I lived in NYC.Sinatar said:
My downstairs neighbor had them and we got them. It was so unbelievably horrible. The only solution is to move out immediately.
The ultimate key is going to be traps designed to catch them through some non-poisnous way, but that is complicated.
Bed bugs find people by "smelling" carbon dioxide, which animals emit as they breath. An effective mechanical trap could emit a "scent" of CO2 to attract the bugs to it rather than sleeping victims, and kill them through some means that that won't be overcome by natural selection (squashing, electrocuting, etc.). Some companies are testing traps like this, but I don't know how effective they are.
The problem is that CO2 isn's something you want to be emitted everywhere, so use of these traps would have to be limited.
Bed bugs find people by "smelling" carbon dioxide, which animals emit as they breath. An effective mechanical trap could emit a "scent" of CO2 to attract the bugs to it rather than sleeping victims, and kill them through some means that that won't be overcome by natural selection (squashing, electrocuting, etc.). Some companies are testing traps like this, but I don't know how effective they are.
The problem is that CO2 isn's something you want to be emitted everywhere, so use of these traps would have to be limited.
fallengorn
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We should send out hormone-jacked wasps to kill them.
Anerythristic
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Goldrush said:
Oh thats good, I live in S. Florida , so that means just turning off the AC for four hours.
Mosquito traps that use CO2 as the "bait" have been around for a while, so hopefully that will give the researchers a head start. But you are right that you have to be careful with CO2 indoors.Yaweee said:
Do bed bugs fly? Or would the traps need to be placed on a surface, roach-motel-style?
Heating a room to 150F doesn't sound like it should be that expensive. Just rent one of those bazillion-BTU propane heaters like they use to heat warehouses. Like this. Sure, that's an even faster road to asphyxiation, but if one was sufficiently desperate, it seems like it could be a workable, if ghetto, option.
I suppose the trick is getting the floor hot enough, without setting the ceiling on fire.
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