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Has anyone ever said "Don’t let the bedbugs bite!" to you before you’ve gone to bed? <\/p>\nHas anyone ever said "Don’t let the bedbugs bite!" to you before you’ve gone to bed? <\/p>\n
My grandparents used to say it to me when I used to sleep over at their house as a kid. I always thought that they were being cute and bedbugs, like the boogieman, lived in the land of make-believe. Today I find bedbugs very real—I’m sitting at a friend’s apartment while the exterminators spray my place for bedbugs.<\/p>\n
It seems my neighbors had some bedbugs stowaway in their luggage on an overseas trip and my apartment complex is spraying to ensure they don’t take over the building. Bedbugs<\/a> are nasty creatures. During the day they live under your bed and\/or floor board and at night they come out to feast on your blood. <\/p>\n These pests were thought to have been eradicated with the use of DDT<\/a> in the 1940’s, but during the the last decade bedbugs made a comeback. The most likely cause of their resurgence is today’s pest-control methods get rid of other pests but don’t kill bedbugs. <\/p>\n The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> says the bugs are not known to spread disease and the best way to treat a bedbug infestation<\/a> is to contact your local exterminator. I had to move my furniture 3 feet away from the wall, take everything off the floor and remove my cats from the apartment for the exterminator. I consider that a small price to pay to keep bedbug infestation in the land of make-believe.<\/p>\n Have you ever had a bedbug problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Has anyone ever said "Don’t let the bedbugs bite!" to you before you’ve gone to bed? My grandparents used to say it to me when I used to sleep over at their house as a kid. I always thought that they were being cute and bedbugs, like the boogieman, lived in the land of make-believe. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GsT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}