How Many Eggs Do Bed Bugs Lay?
Do you know whether you have ever come across a bed bug? You most likely have not. Not yet, but the odds that you will are growing every day. This is because bed bugs are experiencing an explosion in their numbers and mankind is fairly powerless to stop them at the moment, although a number of people are working on it. You see, the difficulty is that bed bugs are pretty much tolerant to every insecticide that we have. They were almost wiped out in the West in the Forties and Fifties with the widespread use of DDT, but the ones that survived and the ones that have been carried into the country are resistant to insecticides. Scientists are working on pesticides that will be effective against bed bugs, but there is no light at the end of the tunnel yet. So, we are stuck with a growing population of bed bugs. How do you acquire bed bugs? Normally, you just pick them up and take them home or someone does it for you. It is thought that foreign travel and immigration are primarily responsible