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Anchor insects
Maybe in addition to a fence to keep illegals out, we should be stringing up a series of those electric Mosquito lamps and Citronella candles at the border?
Think bigger!
Do the bedbugs communicate in Spanish or English?
Arabic ? Italian ? It has to be a brown language.
Maybe you should set up stations to delouse them. Idiot.
As someone has said already, bedbugs are native to our continent, and just about every other continent in the world. The use of DDT nearly wiped them out, but with less harsh pesticides, and more rainfall, they have been breeding in areas where people simply don't have the means to control them, or ignore the problem until it is eating them limb from limb basically.
Main article: Epidemiology of bedbugs
Bedbugs occur around the world.[47] Rates of infestations in developed countries while decreasing from the 1930s to the 1980s have increased dramatically since the 1980s.[28][29][47] Previous to this they were common in the developing world but rare in the developed world.[29] The increase in the developed world may have been caused by increased international travel, resistance to insecticides, and the use of new pest-control methods that do not affect bedbugs.[30][48] The fall in bedbug populations after the 1930s in the developed world is believed to be partly due to the usage of DDT to kill cockroaches.[49] The invention of the vacuum cleaner and simplification of furniture design may have also played a role.[49] Others believe it might simply be the cyclical nature of the organism.[50]
The common bedbug (Cimex lectularius) is the species best adapted to human environments. It is found in temperate climates throughout the world. Other species include Cimex hemipterus, found in tropical regions, which also infests poultry and bats, and Leptocimex boueti, found in the tropics of West Africa and South America, which infests bats and humans. Cimex pilosellus and Cimex pipistrella primarily infest bats, while Haematosiphon inodora, a species of North America, primarily infests poultry.[51]