tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21462935.post115921159513716674..comments2023-09-05T07:13:28.953-04:00Comments on Bugged Out: DDT DebateBugged Outhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07608000523109252337noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21462935.post-49648668121681917752011-10-26T13:14:51.067-04:002011-10-26T13:14:51.067-04:00I can't speak for my entire Pest Control Seatt...I can't speak for my entire <a href="http://greenchoicepestcontrol.com" title="”Pest" rel="nofollow">Pest Control Seattle</a> team , but we receive an overwhelming number of calls from people dealing with bed bugs and I believe that the legalization of DDT would help these poor people out immensely!Greeniehttp://greenchoicepestcontrol.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21462935.post-31847046015600702392007-10-30T21:47:00.000-04:002007-10-30T21:47:00.000-04:00GOT BED BUGS I agree that ddt has gotten the axe ...GOT BED BUGS I agree that ddt has gotten the axe and now due to that we are seeing bed bugs on the rise around the usa. I got them and I don't know where but, I have gon through 4 times of moving furniture around emptying drawers and such so they can spray. That translate into 8 sprayings--The first and then the second which I get to move everyting again and I still have the bugs from the end of last winter and here I am many months late and still have bed bugs. If I could find some ddt I would buy it and spray it myself. I have what is tremed as "Bed Bug Physcosis". I wake up everymoring looking for the dark spots of regergitated blood. I also actually feel like something is crawling on me and there is nothing there. I am at my wits end. The agency has them to come and spray but, I think that the need 3 or for sparyings on a reqular basis to insure that they get the adults and the little one that have hatched and the ones that they have laid eggs to get the new ones. It is my own private hell. I have so many scars on my body because, it is an itch that you just can scratch enough until it bleeds leaving scabs on my legs, arms and torso. I'm looking into having someone to can and spary for 4 or 5 times. I am disable and I can't afford it but, if I have to eat peanut butter and jelly for a couple of months then so be it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21462935.post-81370213718477855542006-12-17T20:33:00.000-05:002006-12-17T20:33:00.000-05:00I read that 6 million African children died of mal...I read that 6 million African children died of malaria in the time the world kept the governments there from spraying DDT. As the OP said, now its being used again to good avail. I understand that bed bugs aren't quite the life or death issue that malaria is, but I am still in favor of carefully bringing it back as you say. If those who say it is useless and BBs are now resistant, then fine, let's verify that. But if it works, it can be used with caution. In past decades, it was used with reckless abandon (spraying from moving trucks and planes), and this is much more DDT being used than would ever be needed for cautious indoor spraying.http://Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21462935.post-83649324764807474642006-12-08T08:50:00.000-05:002006-12-08T08:50:00.000-05:00Without DDT we are going to see bedbugs crawling u...Without DDT we are going to see bedbugs crawling up the walls of schools, hotels, stores and of course most apt. bldgs. and homes...Banning DDT was wrong. It was and is the most effective , least costly pesticide on the market. Those who don't want to bring it back are socially irresponsible. It was used incorrectly and deposed of incorrectly..that was the problem..Human error ! Not the product. When used as an indoor residual spray it is the best of the best. Alarmist's love to scare us..saying it will create super bugs or that the bugs are immune to it. This is not the truth. DDT is being used now in Africa and it is killing off mosquitos and bedbugs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21462935.post-1159763814991977212006-10-02T00:36:00.000-04:002006-10-02T00:36:00.000-04:00I am with you 100% on the DDT issue. In fact, in N...I am with you 100% on the DDT issue. In fact, in Nigeria, DDT has begun to be judiciously applied to the inside of homes to help control malaria.<BR/>DDT became the target of overzealous environmentalism in the late 60s. Think about all the other crap out there that is till being used without any hooplah.<BR/>The amount of disease and duress (bedbugs) that can be eliminated with the use of DDT far outweighs any ban on the stuff. If it isn'y used on food crops, it does not readily make egress into the food chain.<BR/>Give me a bedful of DDT instead of bugs any day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com