Bed bugs brought into U.S. by illegals?

[froggy]

Bed bugs brought into U.S. by illegals? - National Watchdog Politics | Examiner.com

 

[dilloduck]

Anchor insects

 

[WillowTree]

Anchor insects

snort!

 

[RDD_1210]

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?

 

[froggy]

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!

 

[beowolfe]

Why don't we wait until we're sure who brought the bed bugs back before we run off half cocked. What if they came will legal immigrants? Then all of your border mess would be a wasted effort.

 

[nia588]

nonsense. Whats next? Lice brought in by illegals as well.

 

[RDD_1210]

What if......it's the illegals who are hitching the ride on the backs of these bed bugs??? We could be thinking about this problem all in the wrong way.

 

[Douger]

Do the bedbugs communicate in Spanish or English?
Arabic ? Italian ? It has to be a brown language.

 

[RDD_1210]

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!

How about a toxic cloud of bug spray lining the border to kill off all those damn bed bugs.....and mexicans before they can even get in.

 

[beowolfe]

Do the bedbugs communicate in Spanish or English?
Arabic ? Italian ? It has to be a brown language.

A brown language? Is that like a black church? Something to never be found.

 

[ForestGirl]

And before ya know it, we'll be clothing, feeding, schooling and medicating all the bed bugs brought here. Ovomit will annoint a bed bug czar and then the demturd politicians will try to get them all registered to vote. And lots of jobs will be created to have little, itsy, bitsy ballots printed.

 

[syrenn]

There was a time in this country that every immigrant was given a medical exam before being allowed to enter.

Ellis Island - Medical examination

 

[R.C. Christian]

You people realize the pesticide used to get rid of these things is now illegal so their numbers have been allowed to grow right? May have no connection to the invaders, although I'm sure the pesticide is legal in Mexico which would be an interesting irony.

 

[editec]

The most recent outbreak of bedbugs started in the deep South, NOT in the Southwest.

Clearly then we ought to be blaming all Southerners, right? (that's sarcasm, BTW)

Jesus! the distortions of reality some people will go through to evoke ire against illegals is amazing, isn't it?

As if we needed any more reasons to want them gone?

Bedbugs have always been in the USA, folks.

The outbreak has nothing to do with illegals.

I'm informed that once you get these bastards in your home you might as well burn your house down.

DDT was about the only thing we ever had to surpress them and since we cannot use that, this pest is back with a vengence.

 

[Bullfighter]

If you spray the trucks that come in from Mexico with psticides, you kill off half of Mexico's population! Hmmm?

 

[Ravi]

Bed bugs brought into U.S. by illegals? - National Watchdog Politics | Examiner.com

Maybe you should set up stations to delouse them. Idiot.

 

[topspin]

don't let them in your bed.

 

[bills_whippet]

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.

 

[editec]

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.

It seems logical that as the climate is changing, we can expect the resurgence of a variety of pests.

I don't know enough about Cimex lectularius but this might be informative

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]

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