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Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs.

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On 12/2/16, 4:47 PM, in article
5842082e$0$43118$b1db1813$19ace300@news.astraweb.com, "benj"
<benj@nobody.net> wrote:

> On 12/2/2016 3:15 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> On 11/30/2016 6:02 PM, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>>> Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs.
>>> The following has worked for me, 100%.
>> 
>> Some real science behind bed bugs:
>> 
>> https://youtu.be/uFK0t9DHu1Q
>> 
> And note the bad news. Virtually nothing reasonable kills them
> effectively. Moist poisons only kill on contact which makes them
> ineffective. Might as well just spray with 91% isopropyl alcohol. Works
> as poorly as most things. Sprays you buy in stores (Lowes, home depot
> etc.) don't work because bugs have developed immunity to it. There are
> better things you can buy from pest control places but is still rather
> ineffective. The younger they are, the harder they are to kill. Nothing
> but DDT kills the eggs. Heat will work in a car infestation if you turn
> the heater on on a hot summer day. Try it in a house and you only melt
> down all your candles while the bugs are back in the walls laughing at
> you. Diatomaceous earth will kill them IF they walk through it. Bad news
> they are like ants and leave a trail so once they find a safe pathway,
> they never stop coming. Sticky sheets will trap them, but since you are
> the bait, you'll have to stick them all over you. There are traps to see
> if you have bugs. They attract them with pheromones and CO2 and they
> can't get out of the slippery plastic. Bed bugs do not have sticky feet
> like flies.
> 
> Usual advise is get pest control. This will cost thousands and if
> internet reports are any indication, they will be equally ineffective.
> The best is a treatment of powdered silica gel. It's a little more
> effective that diatomaceous earth, but not much. Note that if bites
> don't bother you at first, after a while you develop an allergy to them
> and then they itch just like poison ivy. These bugs are so nasty and
> resistant they have literally driven people insane or out of their own
> houses for years.
> 
> This is the science and shows the kind of disasters listening to Libs
> (Like author of Silent Spring) for your science will cause. Libs are
> idiots and have flunked every science course they ever took. They think
> fantasy is science. Enjoy your future life, growing tulips, tending
> windmills and fighting bed bugs.
> 
> Sleep tite and don't let the bed bugs bite!
> 
> PS. Note that because bed bug bites don't spread disease, public health
> departments refuse to deal with them saying that they aren't a public
> health issue.
> 
> Pest control just cleared a building downtown using cyanide. Taped up
> all doors and windows cleared out people and went at it. This was
> standard treatment in WWII.

You made a discussion of bed bugs political.

Wow.


-- 
"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The
foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them
as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God." --
Leviticus 19:33-34

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Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2016-12-02 15:15 -0500
  Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-12-02 18:47 -0500
    Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-12-02 16:52 -0700
      Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-12-02 19:05 -0500
        Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. flatfish+++ <flatfish@linuxmail.org> - 2016-12-02 19:17 -0500
          Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2016-12-02 17:27 -0700
    Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-12-02 21:34 -0800
    Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-12-03 10:19 -0800

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