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Biodiversity Wednesday: Bed bugs attack!

Posted on October 27, 2010September 29, 2010 By Andrew Thaler
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Biodiversity Wednesday: Bed Bugs

Posted on October 13, 2010October 13, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 1 Comment on Biodiversity Wednesday: Bed Bugs
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Bed Bugs: better bitten than smitten

Posted on October 11, 2010October 14, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 7 Comments on Bed Bugs: better bitten than smitten
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Common bed bug Cimex lectularius

Bed bugs, the nasty nocturnal nursery rhyme nightmares than are making a comeback throughout the northeastern United States. Infestations, previously relegated to the status of urban legend in much of the developed world, are on the rise due to a combination of more frequent travel, pesticide resistance, and the end of the ‘better living through chemistry” era when DDT was a perfectly acceptable thing to spray into your baby’s crib. They’re mean, nasty blood suckers that have risen over the summer to become the scourge of hotel managers everywhere. Except, they’re really pretty harmless. Most people don’t even have a reaction to the bite, they are shockingly poor vectors for disease, and, when you get past the blood sucking, they’re rather cute as far as bugs go. There is one rather disagreeable feature about these critters, and it’s the reason we should all be thankful that we’re only bitten by them.

Traumatic Insemination.

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