Whereupon the US government with infinite foresight began to invest in the development of alternatives.

Use insecticide sprays containing dichlorvos, permethrin or malathion around cracks and crevices in your home. Lawn and garden insect control sprays may contain these insecticides. However, professional inspection and extermination may be best.

Think about that. Among other things, it’s telling people to go look at their garden sprays. It’s irresponsible and bad.

But enough about Mayo. Let’s consider this Kolb et al. article.

The malathion reference in this particular paper is cited. The source is a 2004 article, a review. That article itself cites “dichlorvos, permethrin and malathion” as effective, this time citing two other articles, one published in 1981 and another in 1993.

Malathion went bye-bye in 1991. Saying that malathion is effective against bed bugs in a 2009 article is what I would call pretty bad. It’s almost as if these authors that keep dragging malathion from the dead can’t spend two minutes getting acquainted with reality and must instead regurgitate what has already been published. If it can be cited, it must not be true.

I hate this. As you may be able to tell.

It’s 2009 and we’re deep in all this bed bug shit and these people don’t know that malathion is gone? And pyrethroids have been particularly effective? In the eighties maybe.

Sorry for the rant!

Thanks for your comment. I’m fine now, really.

BTW, perhaps the phase-out Malathion angle as contributor to the resurgence is worth more exploration.