This article and accompanying video in the Chicago Tribune this morning couldn't be more timely given our visit from Sara from Smithereen yesterday and her discussion about the city's growing bedbug problem.Describing them as "dastardly pests" the article mentions of furniture picking from alleys and used furniture sales through Craigslist is one mode of spread through the city.
And the causes?
"Entomologists say the resurgence in bedbugs is the result of tougher restrictions against the use of toxic pesticides such as DDT, which was banned in 1972, increased travel to Third World countries and the bugs' growing resistance to modern insecticides."
wow = yikes
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