{"id":964,"date":"2011-10-24T11:32:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2011-10-24T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T16:32:10","slug":"the-tides-might-be-turning-for-bed-bug-infestations%e2%80%a6maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/the-tides-might-be-turning-for-bed-bug-infestations%e2%80%a6maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tides Might Be Turning For Bed Bug Infestations\u2026Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s hard to believe that 100 years or so ago bed bug infestations<\/a> were a common household pest.\u00a0 There likely was not a stigma attached to having bed bugs<\/a> creeping around your house back then as there is in 2011.\u00a0 A hundred years ago there were strange ways of killing bed bugs.\u00a0 Some people rubbed their beds down with kerosene oil and some burned sulfur in their homes to kill off the insects.\u00a0 Some people even dragged their bed outside to the nearest red ant hill where hoards of stinging ants would slaughter the bloodsuckers in a feeding frenzy.\u00a0 Those were the good ole days!<\/p>\n

Bed bugs continued to be a problem until the introduction of DDT, the wonder pesticide.\u00a0 DDT was a common household pesticide that was found in grocery and drug stores.\u00a0 It was a favorite among housewives because it killed quickly and had a long lasting residual kill rate too.\u00a0 The love affair with ended abruptly in 1972 when DDT was pulled from the shelves as it was deemed unsafe for use.\u00a0 Since then, the bloodsuckers have quietly made their way back into mainstream America.<\/p>\n

No matter what city you live in in the United States, bed bug infestation numbers continue to climb.\u00a0 Bed bugs of today have proven to be a stealthy bunch of creatures.\u00a0 Studies have shown that they have become resistant to current insecticides that are available which has allowed them to proliferate beyond belief.<\/p>\n

A recent study out of Virginia Tech gives new hope in the war against bed bugs.\u00a0 Despite the current bed bug outbreaks in the United States, the new information discovered could spell an eventual end to the bloodsuckers.\u00a0 Entomologists have found that bed bugs can produce enzymes that destroy insecticides, before it reaches the nerves that are meant to kill them, according to published reports in Popular Mechanics dated October 19, 2011.\u00a0 Scientists are hopeful that this new information will help monitor bed bug resistance worldwide as well as create new strategies for killing existing bed bugs.\u00a0 You may find the article<\/a> with more information about this interesting study here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to believe that 100 years or so ago bed bug infestations were a common household pest.\u00a0 There likely was not a stigma attached to having bed bugs creeping around your house back then as there is in 2011.\u00a0 A hundred years ago there were strange ways of killing bed bugs.\u00a0 Some people rubbed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,18,19,13,8,14,15],"tags":[35,61,60,252,56,54,58],"yoast_head":"\nThe Tides Might Be Turning For Bed Bug Infestations\u2026Maybe - Allison Pest Control<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/24\/the-tides-might-be-turning-for-bed-bug-infestations\u2026maybe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Tides Might Be Turning For Bed Bug Infestations\u2026Maybe - 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