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"Bedbugs invade America!" yelled the title on a supermarket tabloid. "Tiny, Evil and Everywhere" screamed the Washington Post. "Bloodthirsty bedbugs Stage Comeback" thundered National Geographic News.

Read the news and you get the impression that bed bugs have invaded our shores in force and are chomping their way to Main Street USA. Until five years ago, reports of bedbugs were virtually nonexistent in the United States while the bloodsucking insects began to emerge in houses, apartments, hotels and dormitories across the country is fueling a frenzy media. Chastise fellow journalists, David Segal's Washington Post noted in an article in February, "more than 400 articles have wriggled into print, all making roughly the same point: The bloodsucking creatures are back, and number that amount to a scourge. " Segal argues that "the scale of the swarm" has been exaggerated, perhaps foolishly so. ... "The bugs are back" is so perfect a trend story that seems hand-forged by the gods Trend-history. This is what happens when you combine a nasty scary, Primal Fear and soft statistics. "

In the March issue of pest control professional, editorial director Frank Andorka this objection to the history of Segal: "Of course, many reporters are rooting for the bedbugs: It's great copy - a cryptic, bloodsucking insect that feeds on people when they sleep and are difficult to control. what could be a better story than that? But only because it is a good copy does not mean the stories are not true. "

So what is reality? Bed bugs are a real threat or is it so hyped media. Some journalists argue that feed the paranoia of a population delirious panic. Others point to very real statistics that show an increase of 70% reported bed bug infestations in the United States over the past five years. In a national survey conducted for the Professional Pest Management, University of Kentucky entomologist Michael Potter found, "A huge 91% of respondents reported their organizations had encountered bed bug infestations in the past two years. Only 37% said they encountered bed bugs more than five years ago. "pest control company that for decades has not received calls about bedbugs are suddenly dozens of receipt. In large urban areas, it is not uncommon for companies to field 100 to 150 complaints of bed bugs in a week, according to a survey from National Pest Management Association.

After the elimination closely by DDT-based pesticides in the 1950s, bedbugs (Cimex lectularius) are increasing. A global scourge throughout human history, bed bugs, fleas and lice used to be regular bedmates night. Your mantra bed grandmother - "Sleep tight, do not let the bedbugs bite!" - was anchored in the reality of the pre-Second World War, life where bed bugs were frequently found in beds throughout the United States in the 1930s, people wallpaper their bedroom with wallpaper to arsenic laced to kill bedbugs. metal bed frames, considered less likely to harbor bed bugs, were the rage. Twice a year have been completely disassembled and cleaned beds to keep bed bugs from a distance. Until the properties of the destructive insects of DDT were discovered during the Second World War, no effective pesticide is to eradicate bedbugs. Development of insecticides containing DDT after the war allowed America and most industrialized countries to eradicate bedbugs.

Discovery of DDT cancer risk to humans and deadly threat to wildlife has led to its ban in the 1970s. In the mid-1990s, reports of infestations of bed bugs began to surface in the United States, Canada, Australia and Western Europe. In the absence of effective pesticides fatally available, bed bugs have multiplied and spread. "Since the mid-1990s, the number of reported infestations have almost doubled each year," said Clive Boase, author of a study of bed bugs published by the Institute of Biology in London. Bedbugs i.