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Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs.

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Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 5:31:22 PM UTC-8, benj wrote:
>> On 12/1/2016 5:58 PM, nuny@bid.nes wrote:
>> > On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 5:50:41 AM UTC-8, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> >> nuny@bid.nes wrote:
>> >>> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 3:02:12 PM UTC-8, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
>> >>>> Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs.
>> >>>
>> >>> (poison snipped)
>> >>>
>> >>>   You are still an idiot.
>> >>>
>> >>>   Look into the physics of how food-grade diatomaceous earth kills any
>> >>> insect yet is harmless to mammals (if not inhaled). It's also much cheaper
>> >>> and ecologically totally safe.
>> >>
>> >> I think there's more around because of the fad created to use only
>> >> cold water for washing clothes.  Washing bedding in hot water is a
>> >> good thing.
>> >
>> >   People used to hang bedsheets to dry in the sun, too. UV kills bedbugs and their eggs really well.
>> >
>> >   Try that nowadays and your friendly neighborhood HOA will fine you.
>> 
>> Yup. Some suburbs around here have strict rules that all clothes hung 
>> outside must be behind the house and not visible from the street. Same 
>> goes for all campers and RVS that must be parked behind the house. And 
>> you thought that YOU owned your own house.
>> 
>> Bedbugs can take heat, however. It takes like 120 degrees to kill them. 
>> They can also survive below zero temperatures. Most things that kill 
>> them are contact killers (like isopropyl alcohol or diatomaceous earth) 
>> so they tend to not be so effective because bugs crawl back into cracks 
>> and worse like ants follow the same path over and over through a 
>> minefield. The only really effective safe killer is DDT which is now 
>> banned. DDT had eliminated bed bugs from the US but now there are major 
>> infestations in a number of places. I heard that some people in NYC have 
>> started buying illegal DDT from drug dealers!
> 
> 
> Hmmm!  I wonder what DDT is going for on the streets these days?  I wonder.  Could that old can of it that I remember be hidden in one of my boxes of packed away stuff I recovered from my storage locker?
> 
> What about Chlordane?
> 
> Double-A

Chlordane is nasty stuff.

I have a friend that fucked himself up with gross misuse of chlordane
and has permanent neurological damage among other problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlordane#Health_effects

 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 17:01 -0800
  Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-12-01 13:53 +0000
    Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 14:58 -0800
      Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-12-01 16:30 -0800
        Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-12-02 13:19 +0000
          Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-12-02 07:54 -0800
      Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-12-01 20:31 -0500
        Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-12-02 11:23 -0800
          Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-12-02 19:49 +0000
            Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. Julian Alewine <lliian@lliianenpo.org> - 2016-12-02 20:20 +0000
              Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. Julian Alewine <lliian@lliianenpo.org> - 2016-12-02 20:46 +0000
            Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2016-12-02 12:31 -0800
              Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-12-02 20:49 +0000
                Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-12-03 11:06 -0800
                Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 09:39 -0800
              Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-02 18:06 -0600
                Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2016-12-02 19:46 -0500
      Re: Eliminating Bed Bugs. jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-12-02 13:19 +0000

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