Suu VS Bedbugs, the epic battle.

[Suu]

I'm on the Bedbugger.com forums and they have been a great help! I'll check it out.

[Suu]

I really want to buy a Packtite, but there's no way I can afford it right now. However, that will be the life saver for my costumes and fabric once I do.

Ugh...

[the last yatto]

http://www.ziploc.com/Products/Pages/BigBags.aspx

[Suu]

Yep, after the heat treatment, everything is going in those.

[Suu]

So, if I am reading correctly, the banning of DDT because of the thinning of egg shells is smoke that was blown up asses by the EPA, same thing with the banning of Ficam from the UK. Interesting...

http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-billions-of-bed-bugs-are-biting.html

I'm doing a bit more due diligence on this though.

And then of course, this week was the Bedbug Summit in Chicago with the EPA, and the EPA apparently sat there and twirled their hair vacantly like, "Well, chemicals hurt the environment, hmmmkay? So you like, can't use them. Deal."

Now, I'm sure once someone very important in the EPA get's bedbugs, suddenly things will be very different. Like Dickless here.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Where did you read that? After the discontinuation of DDT, raptor populations came back. So did bedbugs, sadly. Apparently we can have eagles AND bedbugs, or we can get rid of bedbugs and also have no eagles.

Or we can change our lifestyles to be less hospitable to vermin.

I wouldn't trust anything read on the blog of a guy who has a product to sell.

[Cain]

Given his analytical prowess in other areas (just look at his top post), trusting him does seem to be quite a leap of faith.  He also says in the comments that:

There was no danger to the bald eagle or other birds. In time studies refuted that nonsense. It belongs in the same catagory as the lies about the Spotted Owl being endangered.

The movement to ban DDT and the environmental movement in general began in response to Rachel Carson's pack of lies called "Silent Spring." She has the deaths of millions from malaria on her hands and I hope there's a special place in Hell for her.

So yeah.

[the last yatto]

Who knew there was adoption centers for vermin and bunnies
http://www.rabbitadoption.org/rehome.html

[Suu]

I -DID- say I was doing more due diligence.

[Suu]

Week 2:

I'm getting pissed. My landlord keeps putting off my 2nd inspection/spraying. I washed my sheets yesterday and refuse to put them back on my bed until treated, so I've been crashing over my friends' house in Warren for the past 2 nights, simply because I anticipated treatment that didn't happen Sunday OR yesterday.

He said he'd call me today. Still nothing. I have to go to work tonight so I NEED to know if I can come home or if I'm going out to East Bay again, this makes the difference between 1st cut and closer.  I want my sheets on my bed, I want to sleep in my own bed...doped up on Benedryl and using myself as bait for the bugs (I know, I know...it's gross) so they crawl through the DE and chemicals.

I haven't seen any in a few days, save one Sunday that I shot with the Rest Easy. It didn't die, but it got stuck on the wall and convulsed for a while. I was going to leave it there for the landlord to see, but when he cancelled the spraying I grabbed it and flushed it.

Still no sign of them anywhere in my clothing or fabric. I had to go through my art supply bins because I lost my ink pens that I need to work on MSY, and saw nothing in them...Then I had to spend money on more pens because I have no idea where my other ones ARE BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS DISPLACED AND I'M A WALKING BUNDLE OF STRESS WHO CAN'T GET ANYTHING FUCKING DONE.

And to make matters worse, I washed a few loads of laundry with full fragrance Tide because I wasn't paying attention. I am now a walking ball of dry, itchy skin on top of older bug bites and paranoia. *twitch* Free and Clear Purex has now been purchased, and I have to rewash my clothes for my sanity.

I'm only giving myself another month here, with or without GS having a job. I'm moving. And when I do so, I'm buying a new bed, and fumigating the rest of my belongings from within my efficiency in a Pod with Vikane. It's going to cost me about $500, but it's 99.9% effective, and New England Pest Control (see also: Big Blue Bug) guarantee it. Half a G is well worth keeping my thousands of dollars worth of costumes.

[Kai]

 

I wish I had seen this thread earlier.

Is there any way you can clean your precious items and immediately remove them from the premises? Your costumes, for example, can you heat wash/dry them and then get them out to somewhere else? The idea is to remove items you know are not infested, getting everything down to the bare bones so it's easier to control them, and so you know your things now at risk are no longer at risk.


As for DDT, what Nigel said was the truth. A pro-DDT nutter is as bad as an anti-vaccine nutter.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Just jumping in on the DDT thing... Sjaantze was very active in Raptor care during the 90's including a long stint at the World Bird Sanctuary. She seems convinced that the data supports DDT as being a Very Bad Thing for raptors... esp those that eat fish. Most of the people claiming its bunk base their argument on early studies on quail and chickens who don't respond to DDT (well DDE actually) in the same way as raptors.

[Suu]

I wish I had seen this thread earlier.

Is there any way you can clean your precious items and immediately remove them from the premises? Your costumes, for example, can you heat wash/dry them and then get them out to somewhere else? The idea is to remove items you know are not infested, getting everything down to the bare bones so it's easier to control them, and so you know your things now at risk are no longer at risk.


As for DDT, what Nigel said was the truth. A pro-DDT nutter is as bad as an anti-vaccine nutter.

This is getting done to the fabric and costumes within the next week or so. They fucked my hours at work so I'm running low on time in which help can be arranged to perform such an undertaking.

The clothes and art supplies, well...I can live without most of my clothing, and art supplies are cheaper than bolts of velvet.

[Suu]

Definitely getting treated tonight! That means off to Warren I go again, that means I can't close at work. Oh well.

[Kai]

You could probably clean your art supplies individually and you would get any eggs. I mean, it would be work but I'm sure it would be more expensive to scrap them and buy new.