There has been a great deal of recent news coverage regarding bedbug infestation culminating with a summit last week in Washington, DC sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency. 

US officials are on the warpath against a new plague pouncing on unsuspecting Americans from cellphones, keyboards and mattresses — the humble bed bug now staging a comeback after two decades.

The tiny blood-suckers had all but vanished over the past 20 years, but now pose “the most difficult, challenging pest problem of our generation,” entomologist Mike Potter from the University of Kentucky told a conference.

“In my opinion, we are not going to get out of this thing” until we “allow the pest-control industry to go to war,” he warned.

The two-day meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday, dubbed the first National Bed Bug Summit by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), heard the insects are spreading rapidly, infesting all kinds of public buildings and spaces.

“We’ve never seen anything like this,” agreed Mike Deutsch, an entomologist with Arrow Exterminating, saying bed bug colonies were being found in lamp bases, clock radios, televisions as well as snuggled up in the pages of books.

 It appears that the resurgence of this nasty little critter is directly ties to the elimination of the use of DDT as a pesticide.  As you well know, DDT was outlawed due to the fact that it was determined an environmental hazard and was responsible for weakening the walls of the the egg shells of endangered species like the Bald Eagle. As a result, Bedbugs have been growing in numbers with no real effective pesticide available to kill them. 

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