The mighty bed bugs and humanity

[timewerx]

Not a long time ago, a few months ago, I had a severe bedbug infestation.

Don't ask how could thousands of bedbugs, literally!! could infest just that one mattress!! To make things short, I tried clothes iron, bug spray, called an exterminator. Nothing worked.

Eventually, I tried an old friend's remedy - take out all the bugs from the mattress and cover it entirely then sealed airtight with garbage bags taped together and then sleep on top of it with a loose sheet! So I did it, sleeping on that noisy mattress with plastic and loose sheet, a little uncomfortable but unbelievably, it did the job!!

After a few months, with the still hundreds of bed bugs still running around, they slowly starved to death - apparently, they can't live on the garbage-plastic covered mattress I sleep on and they didn't bothered to climb on it.

Imagine that! That harmless, non-toxic plastic bag killed an entire colony of bedbugs by simply keeping them away from the food-source - me!


We heard all the stories about bed bugs, how mighty and resilient they are but could easily be stopped by a harmless garbage plastic.....

I think the same can be said about the mighty and resilient humanity. Just take a little money out of the circulation, and down the economy comes crashing and we start killing each other for resources, and starting world wars so much for our all-mighty civilization. It doesn't take much nowadays, to rock the system and take it over in one night. Hitler is probably drowning in envy if he knew about our times, how much easier it is nowadays to destroy everything with the help of information technology....

....A puny plastic bag wiped out an entire beg bug colony. Humanity destroys itself with its greed. It makes the bed bug a little smarter than us!

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Not a long time ago, a few months ago, I had a severe bedbug infestation.

Don't ask how could thousands of bedbugs, literally!! could infest just that one mattress!! To make things short, I tried clothes iron, bug spray, called an exterminator. Nothing worked.

Eventually, I tried an old friend's remedy - take out all the bugs from the mattress and cover it entirely then sealed airtight with garbage bags taped together and then sleep on top of it with a loose sheet! So I did it, sleeping on that noisy mattress with plastic and loose sheet, a little uncomfortable but unbelievably, it did the job!!

After a few months, with the still hundreds of bed bugs still running around, they slowly starved to death - apparently, they can't live on the garbage-plastic covered mattress I sleep on and they didn't bothered to climb on it.

Imagine that! That harmless, non-toxic plastic bag killed an entire colony of bedbugs by simply keeping them away from the food-source - me!


We heard all the stories about bed bugs, how mighty and resilient they are but could easily be stopped by a harmless garbage plastic.....

I think the same can be said about the mighty and resilient humanity. Just take a little money out of the circulation, and down the economy comes crashing and we start killing each other for resources, and starting world wars so much for our all-mighty civilization. It doesn't take much nowadays, to rock the system and take it over in one night. Hitler is probably drowning in envy if he knew about our times, how much easier it is nowadays to destroy everything with the help of information technology....

....A puny plastic bag wiped out an entire beg bug colony. Humanity destroys itself with its greed. It makes the bed bug a little smarter than us!

You can buy cloth mattress covers made to seal in bedbugs. They aren't expensive and you won't put up with the noise or the 'feel' of plastic. Also, covering just the mattress won't help if the bedbugs are hiding in other places like behind electrical switch or outlet plates or cove base. In that case you would want to place a 'sticky' substance or Vasoline on the legs of your bed, and make sure no bedding touches the floor while you sleep.

 

[durangodawood]

 

[timewerx]

You can buy cloth mattress covers made to seal in bedbugs. They aren't expensive and you won't put up with the noise or the 'feel' of plastic. Also, covering just the mattress won't help if the bedbugs are hiding in other places like behind electrical switch or outlet plates or cove base. In that case you would want to place a 'sticky' substance or Vasoline on the legs of your bed, and make sure no bedding touches the floor while you sleep.

Wow, I didn't know they exist!

I eventually found the bedbugs in other places in the room apart from my bed, well, they are all dead. Died of starvation.

None of the bedding touches the floor, I took care of it with wires. As for the legs of my bed, I did nothing to it but for some reason, the bed bugs won't bother to climb up. There is no toxic substance in the legs and frame I'm aware of, the bedbugs used to live in it before I used plastic wraps. Maybe the plastic garbage bags has chemicals that are toxic to the bed bugs.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

....A puny plastic bag wiped out an entire beg bug colony... It makes the bed bug a little smarter than us!

Non-sequitur; if one human with a puny plastic bag can wipe out an entire beg bug colony, how does that make the bed bug smarter?

 

[timewerx]

Non-sequitur; if one human with a puny plastic bag can wipe out an entire beg bug colony, how does that make the bed bug smarter?

Well, we don't need anyone else to destroy ourselves. In such sense we are worse than the bed bugs.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Well, we don't need anyone else to destroy ourselves. In such sense we are worse than the bed bugs.

That doesn't make bed bugs smarter. Humanity has developed the capacity to destroy itself because it is so smart. Being smart is a two-edged weapon.