{"id":605,"date":"2011-04-27T11:07:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2011-04-27T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:07:13","slug":"bed-bugs-used-during-wartime%e2%80%a6what-a-weird-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/bed-bugs-used-during-wartime%e2%80%a6what-a-weird-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Bed Bugs Used During Wartime\u2026What A Weird Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Take yourself back to the 1930\u2019s and 1940\u2019s.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to imagine living in a bed bug<\/a> infested world.\u00a0 American\u2019s did however.\u00a0 They were the pest to avoid, and the pest that everyone was well informed about.\u00a0 Back in those days, it was typically the housewife\u2019s job to rid the home of the pesky bloodsuckers that stuck in the night.\u00a0 There were home remedies, chemical cocktails, and strange rituals used to try to eradicate the pests from coast to coast.\u00a0 Just like today, nobody was immune to the bite of a bed bug<\/a>.\u00a0 Just like today, they were master hitchhikers.\u00a0 Nobody was immune to bringing the bloodsucker home.<\/p>\n

With a bit of luck, and thanks to the widespread use DDT, American homes basically seemed to be through with bed bug infestations<\/a> in the 1960\u2019s for the most part\u2026although we know that the pesky critters were never really gone from America\u2019s landscape.<\/p>\n

American\u2019s may have had their fill of the antics of bed bugs<\/a> so many years ago, but American scientists were looking for a way to put these pesky nuisance bugs to work\u2026rather, they wanted to send them off to war!\u00a0 Did you know that bed bugs were once considered for use in the Vietnam War?\u00a0 According to an article from Sunday, June 5, 1966 by The Miami News, scientists at the Army\u2019s Limited War Laboratories in Aberdeen, Maryland were looking for a way for United States bed bugs<\/a> to help fight the Viet Cong!<\/p>\n

According to the article, the \u201ccombat bed bugs\u201d that were used by the scientists were about the size of a thumbnail and a noisy species to boot.\u00a0 Scientists were not looking to make the enemy scratch themselves into surrendering, although I must admit that\u2019s pretty funny to imagine.<\/p>\n

The combat bed bug was found to make a \u201cyowl\u201d when they \u201csense the nearness of human flesh.\u201d Because they are a noisy species, scientists wanted to place these giant combat bed bugs<\/a> near enemy lines.\u00a0 The idea was that when guerrilla forces would move into ambush position, the bloodsuckers would be used to sound the alarm to American troops.\u00a0 Scientists at Aberdeen were working on a sound amplification system that would make their bed bug cries audible to human ears .<\/p>\n

As the saying goes\u2026all\u2019s fair in love and war.\u00a0 If the US Army did use giant thumbnail sized bed bugs to root out the Viet Cong\u2026I hope they left them over yonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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