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NY Times tells a "grim" tale ... why don't they mention deltamethrin?
Bedbugs feed only at night; in the wild they feed on the blood of birds and small mammals, and within human-inhabited areas they feed upon domesticated animals as well as man. They retreat to their hiding places during the daytime, using up to several days in which to digest their food<ref>http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/bedbugs/</ref>. When hiding they are generally found in curtains, furniture cushions, within dressers, or inside bedding and mattresses, hence the name.
Bedbugs feed only at night; in the wild they feed on the blood of birds and small mammals, and within human-inhabited areas they feed upon domesticated animals as well as man. They retreat to their hiding places during the daytime, using up to several days in which to digest their food<ref>http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/bedbugs/</ref>. When hiding they are generally found in curtains, furniture cushions, within dressers, or inside bedding and mattresses, hence the name.
==Control==
Bedbugs can be killed easily with insecticides like deltamethrin.
==Environmentalism==
Environmentalists like to spread despair about bedbugs, hinting that evolution always makes them impervious to each new insecticide which people use to put down outbreaks. A typical examples is "[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/science/31bedbug.html?_r=2 They Crawl, They Bite, They Baffle Scientists]" in the August 30, 2010 ''[[New York Times]]''. The article lists half a dozen chemicals which don't kill bedbugs, while (carefully?) omitting any mention of effective chemicals.
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