AoW - Team Diamond Lake -OOC

[renau1g]

My wife used to work for a non-profit that provided group housing for sufferers of mental illness (usually depression) and they had montly exterminator bills to get rid of bedbugs. Those things are tough to get rid of.

 

[fireinthedust]

seriously! And they don't go away. You have to nuke them, seriously nuke them.

The problem I'm hearing about is the bugs that are becoming immune to the toxins used in sprays. (shuddering commencing in 5... 4...) Could just be a rumor.

I remember hearing about Bed Bugs as something that had vanished long ago. They suddenly re-appeared in my consciousness three or so years back. I knew about lice, but "bed bugs" were from that "nighty night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite" rhyme.

Sleep tight seemed to refer (IIRC) to beds held up by chords that needed tightening to be comfortable. Could they have been to hold up sheets, rather than mattresses, so bed bugs could be removed during an infestation? Rather than making a mattress that is expensive, that just gets thrown out when the bugs inevitably come back?

Another rumor: eating onions acts as a natural bug spray, as bugs are less willing to bite someone who eats lots of onions. Don't know if I believe that one...

 

[renau1g]

Hmmmm I know the reason that the bugs are coming back is that DDT-spray is now banned in US/Canada, which is super effective at killing the buggers, but also is hell on the environment (including the near extinction of the bald eagle).

So...a nice catch 22...I've also heard they are resistant to most chemicals used right now and high temperature steam is one of the best ways to do it, but very time consuming and expensive.

 

[fireinthedust]

and if it isn't dry heat, the wet steam will make mould pop up wherever you spray (so trade one problem for a host of others).

I thought certain centipedes ate bed bugs(?), but I have little proof... other than my having not killed the eyebrow-bugs in my apartment, and not seeing bed bugs despite my job. Circumstantial, at best.

 

[HolyMan]

I have always thought of keeping spiders in my place. So they could catch the bugs that come out night. It happens every summer leave the window open (even with a screen) and at night in comes the bugs.

HM
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[HolyMan]

Update for this schedule for oh I don't know 24 hours I guess.

Just need to know Jules and Aira's whereabouts in the chamber. If nothing I figure they might stay with light. Although the green glow doesn't make it totally dark.

HM

 

[s@squ@tch]

Just a shout-out -- I just got back into town after a week in Disney World, so if you missed me last week, well, there you go.

 

[HolyMan]

NP s@s hope you had a great trip. This isn't going anywhere unless people drop of the planet.

HM

 

[fireinthedust]

How was Disney World?

 

[s@squ@tch]

Stressful for the parents, great for the kids.

Great weather, until last day, and got to see all sorts of people wearing clothes that they should not have left their rooms in.