It’s a bedbug’s world now. We’re just sleeping in it.

  • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They already have evolved resistance to the chemicals we use to kill them, hence the resurgence.

    Edit: from todays Morningbrew:

    It’s possible that France really is suffering from a bedbug epidemic. The critters have been making a comeback globally in recent decades after being nearly eradicated in the 1950s using pesticides. Bedbugs have since developed a resistance to these chemicals, and high levels of international travel also haven’t helped.

    However, French exterminators are saying that the public might be overreacting.

    The creator of the pest control website badbugs.fr told the BBC that 75% of bedbug inquiries his company receives are false alarms. Normandy-based pest controller Romain Morzaderc explained to the Ouest-France newspaper that in 99% of cases, other “nasty black insects” get mistaken for bedbugs.