So, I guess our earlier DDT post was too lighthearted. Please bear with us; we’re learning. This is actually a very serious subject. I hate to see people in our bed bug community wasting their precious resources of energy and time on the idea that DDT could once again be a [...]
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Posted in bed bugs, history, tagged 1940s, bed bugs, bedbugs, DDT, Harry Katz, history, May Berenbaum, pesticide resistance, Time magazine on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In the coming days we’ll describe some of the challenges we face in the fight against bed bugs and the solutions we believe should be considered.
Something that we want to get out of the way at the outset, though, because it hovers over every news report and clouds every discussion of what we as a [...]
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I’ll try to share you with you what I’m reading from time to time. No particular reason.
You may have heard of the Report of the Committee on The Eradication of Bed-Bugs?
Report No. 72, UK Ministry of Health, 1933. (Not to be confused, I suppose, with the UK Medical Research Council’s Bed-Bug Committee and its [...]
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