Fixes anything with a multitool man.
I’ve been missing the apocalympics content
This would make a good sub name.
“You know what they call bedbugs in France? ‘Le Royal with Bugs’.”
For those curious, they’re called “punaise de lit”, which literally translate to “bed stinkbug”, because technically they are the same family as stinkbugs.
Fun fact, stinkbug is also the word used for thumbtacks. Couldn’t find a reliable source on why though.
New fear unlocked.
We are battling, the city or gov doesn’t do shit
They’ll pay for eradication if you can’t afford to. What else do you want them to do, declare martial law?
Regularly treat public spaces, especially public transportation? You cannot get rid of an infestation if they are on the metro.
There doesn’t seem to ba any in the metro though. There seems to be a lot of hysteria.
I would love that indeed
I’m very impressed to learn that dogs can be trained even to smell bed bugs.
Human can smell them too. They have a sickeningly sweet smell, like rancid raspberries.
You know how in Plague Inc you can spread your disease via the Olympics?
I’m quite worried that will happen with bed bugs. We nearly eradicated them and have had decades of relative peace, but they’re having a hell of a resurgence. I genuinely fear a world where they become as widespread as they used to be.
Time to bring out the big gun (DDT) /s
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Yeah I unironically hold this stance. My original comment is usually followed by a brief rant about how we (as a species) almost did it but banned DDT a little too early. Might be a dumb take but I feel very strongly about bed bugs.
I suspect part of it is cynicism about climate change now, where things are so bad that it feels like using DDT for a few more years wouldn’t have hurt that much. I’m not versed enough about the effects on human health, but there is truly a level of increased health risk I would accept to exterminate bed bugs. They are a blight upon humanity and a return en massé would probably cause ecological/health damage of its own.
Plus high density housing is much more appealing if you can’t get a neighbor’s bed bugs or German roaches. That’s a massive and unavoidable downside to shared buildings. I am thankful to have avoided them so far but the likelihood only grows.
DDT wreaked absolute havoc on bird of prey populations. A LOT of species were on the verge of extinction due to being at the top of the food pyramid, where the DDT levels of all their prey animals added up. Banning DDT when we did was one of the biggest wins ever in bird protection.
Hm yeah, that’s fair. I wonder if limiting it to indoors pests, specifically the big two invasive species, would have prevented that. To my (very limited) knowledge, bed bugs aren’t eaten by many things. Bats? German roaches eat them but we don’t want them either.
I’m not overly attached to DDT though, a public health program of Alpine spraying indoors would probably do the trick. I doubt anyone has the political capital to get it done, but the return of bed bugs will be disastrous
Formaldehyd time!
Otherwise known as, “le what the fuck just bit me?”
I’ve always wondered how is every hotel not infested with these. With so many people coming and going you would think the chances of them being spread would be so high.
Do hotels have processes or protective mattresses that stop bed bugs taking over?
Work at a hotel. We have them occasionally. When a room is found to have them the room is put off market for 24 hrs as are any adjacent rooms either beside or above/below. They’re chemically treated at the beginning of the 24 hrs. This includes destroying ALL linens and chemically treating any fabric surfaces as well. The rooms are “flipped” with every headboard and painting removed from the walls during treatment. The mattresses have bedbug prevention (bedbug covers) already on them but they’re inspected and replaced regularly. At 16 hours the rooms are checked and verified there are no active bedbugs. The rooms are then steam treated for good measure. At 22 hours they’re cleaned with special vacuums to prevent relocation.
If a guest is in the room when they are found then all of their clothing and laundry are heat treated and inspected.
This seems to be the industry standard for large corporate hotels. I work for one of the largest in the world. This is our SOP. It’s expensive but we don’t end up with infestations so it apparently works.
Can you say what hotel.group this is? I want to go there.
I work for Travel and Leisure technically but specifically the Wyndham Resorts would be the line of hotels I work in. Even when I worked for Starwood Luxury Brand hotels it was similar but rather than chemical treatment it was whole room heat treatment which required removing nearly everything from the rooms first.
Thank you for your reply!
That’s some good (and reassuring) information! I would see why you need to be on top of it, it would destroy a brand if it became known as bedbug infested.
Also a good reason to avoid AirBNBs
How are not all AirBNBd infested? is almost a more interesting question.
They are infested, but with stupid people instead.
That’s way more thorough than I would have expected!
I’m guessing it depends on the hotel management.
This is why we avoid Airbnb’s now plus the price is pretty much the same. Much better peace of mind.
After this my main worry is public transport, which has many more people using it every day, and has so many surfaces for them to take over.
I’m itchy just thinking about it…
*starts looking up bedbug repellent
Look into movie theatres. That’s a big culprit as well.
Possibly trains, buses also get treatment on a schedule 🤷♀️
You’d hope so! But of course I went searching and found only ominous articles telling me all the places I could potentially pick up bed bugs, and zero personal repellents.
I already hardly ever go out, this is definitely not helping 😂
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Bloodsucking ravenous bedbugs as opposed to peace loving endearing gnats.
Titles nowadays are useless.
There’s a crowd sourced plugin to rename YouTube videos.
It’s just a pleonasm
Bedbugs hate this one weird trick
Holy crap… please warn us.
I got zapped by the third one not only shocked.
Are Bedbugs Going to Take Over Humanity?
Bedbugs hate this one weird tick
What is it called?
Dearrow. I believe same developer of Sponsorblock.
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thank you!
Unless there are vegan ones, no.
As a New Yorker, whenever I visit Paris or other cities with metros that have upholstered seats, I always have a sense of disgust and fear I’m going to get bed bugs sitting on a seat. I don’t understand why they don’t have plastic seats like we do in the MTA for sanitary reasons.
I wonder if we could make more comfortable seats that aren’t easy warm homes for bugs
When I visited Japan every seat on transit was fabric. Coming from SEPTA in Philly it truly skeeved me out
Comfort, I assume
Try sitting on a plastic seat for six hours, it’s no fun.
On a metro commute you aren’t sitting for more than 90 minutes if all goes well. And paris is pretty small compared to NYC or London.
These suckers can go home with you via your clothes or suit case, then they multiply in your home
Mexico City is infested too.
Bedbugs have been seen in the subway, and this week, the chemistry faculty of UNAM suspended activities to look for bedbugs in the facility.
Mark Rober has a great video on bedbugs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAOTJxYqh8
He finds that Diatomaceous Earth, steam, and heat are the way to go
So what you’re saying is “use Earth, Wind & Fire to get rid of bedbugs”?
Only in September
If you remember
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